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It’s weird to say that its been another quick week for me here but it has, this week has flown by. Tonight’s links and thoughts may end up being a quickie. I had some things planned for the day and for the week for that matter but I never got around to some of them.…[continue reading]

Thanks to a couple Portland readers for sending this link my way from OregonLive.com. It seems like damage control in Portland has gone into full gear after Wednesday’s comments from Merritt Paulson who said there would be no MLS in Portland without a new baseball stadium. Well now it appears the Paulson is once again…[continue reading]

Big time weekend ahead for Major League Soccer. Four clubs have punched their tickets to the post season dance with four remaining spots left open to possibly all get snatched up this weekend. You can pretty much put a playoff implication on every game this weekend. Either a team will come closer to clinching a…[continue reading]

Its a US men’s national team theme tonight for the evening links and thoughts. Not that there isn’t some good MLS stuff out there right now (more on that tomorrow) but there just happened to be a couple really interesting topics surrounding the US national team that I wanted to touch base on tonight. The…[continue reading]

I guess Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson is just playing some hardball with the city of Portland now. According to Oregonlive.com, Paulson told Beaverton officials that the future of Major League Soccer in Portland hinges entirely on whether he can find a new home for his minor league baseball team. So no new baseball stadium…[continue reading]

A lot of folks have been talking today and yesterday about some green stuff that is getting rolled out in New Jersey. Yes I am talking about the grass that is being installed at the new Red Bull Arena. Yesterday the first pieces of the grass playing surface were rolled out at the team’s new…[continue reading]

In case you were under a rock last night and missed the comeback that the US put on to get a tie with Costa Rica. It seriously was one of the best second halves I’ve seen the US play in a while.

Looks like David Beckham will be back in Italy this winter as ESPNSoccernet is reporting today that a loan deal between AC Milan and the LA Galaxy is nearly a done deal. Negotiations have been going on for some weeks and on Wednesday night Beckham intimated that they were 95% done, although the Milan chief…[continue reading]

After a couple weeks of wondering when Toronto FC would get their home opener announced for next season, the club came out today and announced the date and their opponent. The Reds will open the home portion of the 2010 MLS season on Saturday, April 17 against the expansion Philadelphia Union on their new natural…[continue reading]

I won’t lie to ya, I don’t have much tonight for the evening links and thoughts. Tomorrow it will return with hopefully a good look at the playoff scenarios that are out there for this weekend’s games. I think in all honesty I’m just wanting to watch the US-Costa Rica game tonight and not write…[continue reading]