[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] Real Salt Lake AZ is the only undefeated and untied team left in the Development Academy under-17/18 age group. It improved to 5-0-0 with a4-1 win over Arsenal FC on goals by Corey Baird, Eric Carbajal, Jose Hernandezand Niki Jackson. Under-17/18 Leaderboard: PPG TEAM (W-L-T) 3.00 Real Salt Lake AZ (5-0-0) 2.78 PDA […]
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Morales the master as RSL rolls
[MLS PLAYOFFS: Real Salt Lake-Portland] After a dour Eastern Conference match produced many fouls, few thrills and no goals, the Western counterpart wentwild. Real Salt Lake midfield maestro Javier Morales burned visiting Portland for a goal and two assists ina 4-2 victory as RSL took advantage of its home leg at Rio Tinto Stadium. RSL […]
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Timbers seek breakthrough against RSL
[MLS PLAYOFFS: Real Salt Lake-Portland] The whirlwind MLS playoff schedule slams to a halt Sunday night, when Real Salt Lake hosts Portland (9 p.m. ET, ESPN)Sunday in the first leg of the Western Conference finals. It will be the 12th postseason game played in a span of 12 days, starting with the play-in round Oct. […]
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Bitter rivals square off in semis
[MLS PLAYOFFS: Western Conference] As if it was scripted, the Western Conference’s fiercest rivals wound up facing each other in the first phase thatconcludes Thursday. The fifth and final Cascadia Cup clash of the season pairs conference champion Portland against bitter rival Seattle, which trails from the first leg, 2-1, and must somehow prevailat Jeld-Wen […]
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Galaxy holds edge heading to Rio Tinto
[MLS PLAYOFFS: Los Angeles-Real Salt Lake] The two-time LA Galaxy got a goal from Sean Franklin at the start of the secondhalf and it held up for a 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake in the first leg of their Western Conference semifinal series. Robbie Keane had open shots ongoal in both halves but could […]
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Galaxy and Dynamo hope to defy odds again
[MLS PLAYOFFS: Sunday Preview] The Galaxy has beaten Houston in the last two MLS Cups, and they are poised again to renew their recent postseason histories. Both are lower seeds in their conference semifinals and haven’t done well on the road, so in their home legs to be played Sunday a solid victory would seem […]
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Good news for soccer, bad news for baseball
By Paul Kennedy If you were a fan of the Red Sox or Cardinals — two teams with huge and loyal followings that extend far into neighboring states — you were probably gluedto your television watching the World Series that ended Wednesday night. But the Wall Street Journal reports that the demographics of World Series […]
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Underdogs rule! D.C. United wins
[U.S. OPEN CUP] Cup competitions are supposed to be all about upsets, and the 100th U.S. Open Cup final produced a doozy. The worst team in MLS, D.C.United, beat one of the league’s elite, Real Salt Lake, on the latter’s home field Tuesday night, 1-0. Midfielder Lewis Neal, whose crucial goallast year earned United a […]
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Real Salt Lake and D.C. United go all-in
[U.S. OPEN CUP: Preview] Despite a long and rich history the U.S. Open Cup is more renowned for what it earns than what it is. An automatic spot in the ConcacafChampions League, one of four places allotted to U.S. Soccer-registered teams, is at stake Tuesday at Rio Tinto Stadium when Real Salt Lake hosts two-time […]
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U.S. under-18 men's national team roster
[NTC CAMP] U.S. under-18 men’s national team coach Javier Perez has called up 36 players for a week-long trainingcamp Sept. 22-29 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center in Carson, Calif. The squad includes three players — Justen Glad, Brooks Lennon and Sebastian Saucedo — from Real Salt Lake AZ’s 2013 U-15/16 Development Academy championship team, […]