[MLS REWIND: Week 29] Who needs Clint Dempsey andEddie Johnson when you have Obafemi Martins and Lamar Neagle? With Dempsey andJohnson sitting out for much of the game, Martins and Neagle scored in the first half to give the Seattle Sounders a 2-0 win over Real Salt Lake before 55,107 fans at CenturyLink Field. The […]
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HBO show will examine Sounders' phenomenon
By Paul Kennedy and Mike Woitalla Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel recently examined the charges that Chivas USA owner Jorge Vergara ordered changes at the MLS club that were allegedly intended to benefit only those of Mexican heritage. The HBO show is back with a decidedly different lookat another MLS club. On Tuesday, it will […]
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Real Salt Lake puts on another clinic
[MLS REWIND: Week 27] Real Salt Lake again showed off its attacking weapons, getting agoal and two assists from from Joao Plata, a golazo from Javier Morales (bicycle kick) and goals from Luis Gil and Alvaro Saborio (his team-high 10th of the season) as it blitzed the Portland Timbers, 4-2, to open up at leasttemporarily […]
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Newcomers take to Real Salt Lake approach
[MLS: Playoff Push] Once again among the championship contenders, Real Salt Lake heads into the final part of the season atop the overall standings with 41 pointsyet embroiled in a tight playoff race. REAL SALT LAKE: Record: 12-8-5 First 10: 4-4-2 Last 10: 5-3-2 THE STORY SO FAR. RSL has adjusted well to the offseasondepartures […]
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What They're Saying
“He’s always been Landon, you know? I think that time away really gave him back his legs and his mentality, and he really found his passion back for soccer. He was in a zone [during Gold Cup],and it’s continued. It was good to see it on the American side, but bad to see it when […]
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Best and worst of MLS advance to final
[U.S. OPEN CUP: Semifinals] It will the best of MLS against the worst as Real Salt Lake will face D.C. United in the final of the 100th edition of the Lamar HuntU.S. Open Cup. Real Salt Lake will play in its first Open Cup final and host Oct. 1 after beating the Portland Timbers, 2-1, […]
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Real Lake Salt and Timbers eye first final
[U.S. OPEN CUP: Preview] Real Salt Lake and the Portland Timbers, who are battling for MLS’s Western Conference lead, play in the first of three meetings over thenext 24 days when they meet Wednesday at Rio Tinto Stadium, where the largest crowd ever for a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinal is expected. Real Salt […]
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Unprecedented demand for USA-Mexico tickets
By Paul Kennedy and Ridge Mahoney Demand for tickets to the USA-Mexico World Cup 2014 qualifier on Sept. 10 in Columbus was, not surprisingly,unprecedented in U.S. national team history as more than twice as many requests for tickets were made than could be accommodated for the game, which is sold out. The seating capacity atColumbus […]
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Lennon and Saucedo lead RSL AZ
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: U-15/16s] Real Salt Lake AZ finished the regular season with a 21-7-6 record, good for second place in the Southwest Division, just twopoints behind division champion Chivas USA. It beat Frontier Division champion FC Dallas, 6-3, in the deciding game to win its playoff group and edged Texans SC Houston, 1-0, in its […]
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RSL AZ and Solar Chelsea move into final
[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY: U-15/16s] Real Salt Lake AZ and Solar Chelsea SC will play for the 2013 Development Academy U-15/16 title Saturday at at BBVA Compass Stadiumin Houston. RSL AZ beat Texans SC Houston, 1-0, to edge Albertson SC, a 2-0 winner over the Houston Dynamo, on goal difference, while Solar beat De Anza Force, 3-0, […]