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Great stuff from Bob Ley and ESPN Outside the Lines on South Africa and their World Cup preparations.

One western side isn’t taking a backseat this summer. The Colorado Rapids are actively perusing a couple players in hopes to bring on to help their lack of depth going into the second half of the season. Currently the Rapids sit forth in the west and 8th overall, which would be good enough for a…[continue reading]

U.S. President Barack Obama is presented with a soccer shirt by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, signed by the Brazilian national soccer team, during the G8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy. (photo by Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP Photo) Love the look he gives here. Classic.

The second half of the season is getting under full swing this weekend. Plenty of good games all over the place to discuss as we head closer to the All-Star break later this month. Some very important clashes in each conference this weekend could really reshape the standings after Saturday night. Most of the 15…[continue reading]

Man I love me some The Price Is Right. I suppose this is more of stuff we will see from part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC Drew Carey on his TV game show. (Props to Dave for the email and link). Anyways, the showcase at the end was a heavy VIP package to the great…[continue reading]

Editor’s Note: Geoff Reid appears on WVHooligan each week. Today he talks about the US Open Cup and how important it should be. Feel free to leave Geoff your comments below. Growing up the other side of the pond, the FA Cup was a way of life where at some point we all could have…[continue reading]

From this video it sure sounds like it (3m in). Currently FC Dallas holds the top spot in the allocation order. Buzz Carrick from 3rd Degree wants it done, can you blame him? I wonder if Dallas would really pass on him if he came back to the league. I also wonder if he’d be…[continue reading]

I feel like we’ve been around this over and over again but it looks like soccer will most certainly be coming to the Rose City in 2011. The Oregonian reported yesterday that Portland mayor Sam Adams and Commissioner Randy Leonard reached a tentative $31 million deal with Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson to renovate PGE…[continue reading]

I guess I’m on some PR distribution lists here. Usually I don’t do much with these kinds of things but I figured some would care that want to meet Jozy Altidore (he’s a good kid by the way). Anyways, next week he will be in Santa Monica signing autographs. See the details below if you…[continue reading]

Thanks to Behind the Badge for the video, here are some behind the scenes footage of DC United midfielder Santino Quaranta. For those who missed it or are living under a rock, Quaranta scored his first international goal for the US last night in the 2-0 win over Honduras.