[WEEKEND UPDATE] The number of unbeaten and untied teams are down to three following No. 17 Minnesota’s 2-0 loss to Michigan State. No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 7 LSU and No. 16 Oklahoma State all won. For this week’s Soccer America Women’s Top 25 results and schedules …
Monthly Archives: September 2008
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CONFERENCE WATCH: Big 12
With four teams in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 — No. 7 Texas, No. 12 Texas A&M, No. 16 Oklahoma State and No. 19 Kansas — and two teams on the edge — Colorado and Missouri — the Big 12 is one of the strongest women’s conferences in the country. Big 12 teams have winning records against teams from such powerful conferences as the ACC (2-1-0), Big East (3-1-0), SEC (5-4-1) and WCC (3-0-0). Conference play begins in earnest Friday with Texas hosting Texas A&M before what could be a record Longhorn crowd.
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MORNING BRIEFING: UCLA held by Santa Clara
No. 2 UCLA was held to a 0-0 tie by unranked Santa Clara on Thursday evening at Buck Shaw Stadium. ALSO: ACC upset, Tobin Heath hat trick and the rest of the Top 25 action.
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Men’s Top 25
[WEEKEND UPDATE] No. 1 Wake Forest rallied to beat No. 3 Maryland, 4-2, Friday before 6,500 fans. No. 2 Connecticut fell at No. 6 St. John’s, 3-1. For this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 results and schedules …
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MORNING BRIEFING: Phenom Agorsor lost for year
Freshman phenom Chris Agorsor’s first season at Virginia has ended after six games. Agorsor, the 2008 U.S. Soccer Development Academy U/17-18 Player of the Year, has likely torn both his anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments in his left knee.
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U.S. Soccer Development Academy Results
The Schulz Academy improved to 4-0-1 in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy’s U/15-16 age group with wins over the visiting Bridge FA and Virginia Rush. For all of last weekend’s results:
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POLLS: NSCAA/adidas High School Girls Rankings
The Pennington School, No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas high school girls national rankings, improved to 5-0-0 with wins over Lawrenceville (5-0) and Montclair (2-0). For the complete Top 25 …
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POLLS: NSCAA/adidas High School Boys Rankings
Sacramento Jesuit, which took over first in the NSCAA/adidas high school boys national rankings, has earned out-of-state wins over Portland (Ore.) Jesuit (2-0), Albuquerque (N.M.) La Cueva (3-1) and Albuquerque (N.M.) St. Pius (5-1). Last week’s No. 1 Kansas City Rockhurst lost in a shootout to area rival St. Thomas Aquinas before a crowd estimated to be more than 4,000. For the complete Top 25 …
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U.S. Club Soccer National Cup VIII Regional Sites
The 2009 National Cup VIII Regionals return to seven of the same locations as the 2008 event. Once again, the Modesto, Calif., and Pittsgrove, N.J., regionals will be divided into separate weekends for boys and girls. For the 2009 regionals …
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Merger mania hits Florida
The move for clubs to merge and form super clubs is gaining momentum in Florida.
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U.S. U-17 boys national team sweeps matches at Nomads
The U.S. U-17 boys national team swept matches at Southern California’s Nomads in the second of a series of stops at U.S. Soccer Development Academy clubs.
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Dallas powers kick off Academy play
The soccer hotbed missing from last year’s U.S. Soccer Development Academy was Dallas. Indeed, no Texas team took part in the inaugural season, but that has changed. The first games took place last weekend in the Central Conference’s Texas Division.
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What They’re Saying
“The children adore reading it [match reports] and it genuinely thrills them. The local press is an enormous part of the community and we hope these reports encourage these children to read — and maybe read a bit more.”
— A coach in the Hunts (England) Mini-Soccer League, where coaches of under-7 and under-8 teams have been banned from sending game reports to the local newspaper for fear of making games too competitive. The decision, described by one coach as “politically correct madness” is an extension of the English FA’s ban on results being kept at younger ages. (Hunts Post)
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FIFA Fines Croatia For Racist Abuse
The Croatian Football Association has been fined a paltry $28,000 by FIFA for the racist abuse its fans aimed at England striker Emile Heskey during a World Cup qualifier in Zagreb earlier this month.
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Qatar Petroleum Signs Sponsorship Deal With AFC
Qatar Petroleum has signed a four-year, $10 million deal with the Asian Football Confederation, giving the Qatar company main sponsorship rights to the 2011 Asian Cup and AFC Champions League competitions until 2012.
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Cervi On Verge Of Celtic Deal
U.S. goalkeeper Dominic Cervi, who turned down the Chicago Fire to try for a career in Europe instead, has completed a second trial at Scottish champions Celtic and is reportedly close to signing a three-year deal.
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More Bad Decisions Ahead For Newcastle?
The daily online editorial at the U.K. soccer monthly ponders the wisdom of Newcastle United possibly taking on former England and Barcelona manager Terry Venables as its short-term manager. The troubled north-eastern wannabe giant, knocked out of the League Cup Wednesday by the Premier League’s bottom side Tottenham, has also been contemplating a sale to […]
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MLS Gets Better Grade For Diversity
Its teams may not be able to buy a win in Concacaf Champions League play, but at least Major League Soccer is earning higher grades for its gender diversity employment practices. v A report card issued Wednesday by the Miami-based University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport gave MLS a C+ […]
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Hyndman’s ‘Favorite’ Promises More
When Schellas Hyndman arrived as FC Dallas coach this summer from Southern Methodist University, it wasn’t long before he brought SMU’s Brazilian playmaker Bruno Guarda along too. With more than a suspicion of favoritism as Guarda became part of a starting line-up producing few positive results, Guarda’s weekend goal in the 4-1 win at the […]
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Magee Turns His Season Around
New York’s Mike Magee is the team’s longest serving player at just 24 years old. After being tipped as a future U.S. national team star in his teens, he had also disappeared off the radar these past two years thanks to a series of injuries, writes Chris Celletti. Now he’s returned to the starting lineup […]
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Eleven Big Issues Facing MLS
The Web site for the U.S. national team players’ association sets out 11 issues that Major League Soccer needs to tackle in an editorial well worth reading in full. The list starts with player relations and pay, the league not having done “even the little things that a front office worker would expect” for its […]
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NAIA: NSCAA/adidas Rankings
Rio Grande claimed the No. 1 spot in the NSCAA/adidas NAIA men’s rankings following Auburn-Montgomery’s 6-2 loss to Indiana Wesleyan. Unbeaten and untied Martin Methodist remained No. 1 in the NSCAA women’s rankings. For the NSCAA/adidas NAIA rankings …
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Women’s Top 25
With conference play heating up in many parts of the country, Thursday becomes a big night in women’s soccer. Thursday matchups include Florida State-Virginia and Duke-Boston College. A non-conference match to watch: Santa Clara-UCLA. For this week’s Soccer America Women’s Top 25 results and schedules …
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MORNING BRIEFING: Hagen is downright scary
This is quickly becoming the year of the freshman. The women’s ranks have seen an influx of high-scoring forwards, led by Sarah Hagen of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who leads all freshmen with 11 goals.
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SCOREBOARD: Soccer America Men’s Top 25
No. 1 Wake Forest travels to No. 3 Maryland Friday in one of the most anticipated matches of the season (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, 8 pm ET). No. 2 Connecticut also plays at No. 6 St. John’s. For this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 results and schedules …