Santa Clara’s Peter Lowry and Ohio State keeper Casey Latchem, who helped their teams nail down conference championships, are among the players named to this week’s Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week. For the complete Team of the Week for games played Nov. 5-11 …
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NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament Schedule
Play begins this weekend with first- and second-round games in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. All games are Friday-Saturday except in the Texas A&M regional, which will play Thursday-Saturday. BYU, one of four teams in the regional, doesn’t play on Sundays. For all the matchups …
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Broome women claim first national crown in any sport
Two second-half goals by Emily Dixon gave Broome (N.Y.) Community College a 2-1 victory over Gloucester County (N.J.) College in the NJCAA Division III Women’s final on Sunday in Herkimer, N.Y.
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Richland repeats as NJCAA Division III men’s champion
Richland College of Texas won its second straight NJCAA Division III Men’s title and fifth in the last six years with a 1-0 win over Ulster County (N.Y.) Community College on Sunday at the national finals in Herkimer, N.Y.
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Fan power and marching band for new MLS team
Comedian Drew Carey, a member of the ownership group of the Seattle franchise that will field an MLS team in 2009, promised that the team will have a marching band and that he wants to allow fans to buy memberships giving them a vote on club policy, such as the fate of the general manager. “If you don’t like the job he’s doing, if he doesn’t have a winning team, if you don’t like the product, if you don’t think the hot dogs taste good when you go to the stadium, you can just vote him out,” Carey told the Seattle Post Intelligencer .
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Florida woman arrested for stealing from youth league
Central Florida media outlets have reported that a board member of the Big Sun Soccer League has been arrested for engaging in a scheme to defraud the youth organization of more than $79,000. Police say Priscilla Bellcase, 40, allegedly wrote checks to cash, then endorsed them herself or forged the name of another board member to access the funds. The arrest came after a three-month-long investigation by the Ocala Police Dept. Economic Crimes Unit.
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U.S. Soccer to announce new women’s coach Tuesday
The U.S. Soccer Federation is holding a press conference at 3:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday to announce the new coach of the U.S. women’s national team. The Washington Post’s Steven Goff wrote on his Soccer Insider blog on Monday that a source told him Pia Sundhage would be the pick. The 47-year-old Swede, her country’s all-time leading scorer, was most recently assistant coach of the Chinese women’s national team.
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What They’re Saying
“I was out until late in a place where I should not have been. The other day I gave you an excuse, above all to take the pressure off the club.”
— Chris Coleman, the Welsh coach of Spanish club Real Sociedad, who first claimed he was 90 minutes late for a press conference because his washing machine flooded his apartment. Spanish newspapers however reported he’d been at a nightclub the night before until 5 a.m. (The Independent)
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Arsenal puts three past Hahnemann
[AMERICANS IN ENGLAND] Reading goalkeeper Marcus Hahneman was beaten by Mathieu Flamini, Emmanuel Adebayor and Alexander Hleb as the Royals fell, 3-1, to Arsenal, which moved ahead of Manchester United atop the EPL standings on goals scored is now unbeaten in 27 straight games. Hahnemann has conceded 29 goals in 13 games. Only last-place Derby has given up more goals (31) than Reading. Midfielder Bobby Convey started for Reading and played the first 70 minutes.
Arsenal has 30 points from 12 games while Man U has 30 points from 13 games. Each have a goal difference of plus-17, but Arsenal has scored 27 goals to United’s 23.
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Brazil takes Beach World Cup, again
Brazil claimed its second consecutive Beach World Cup on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, with an 8-2 win over Mexico 8-2 in the final. Uruguay finished third by edging France 1-0 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in regulation.
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Italian Officials Ponder Next Steps
The Italian government is proposing to suspend Serie A for several weeks following violence in Rome and Bergamo that was spurred by the shooting death of a Lazio fan by a policeman on Sunday. Additionally, Italy’s anti-hooliganism body wants to see large groups of violent fans — known in Italy as “ultras” — banned from […]
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Robinho Leads Real to Victory, Again
“Someone get that man a colossal caipirinha, a bevy of Brazilian beauties and a bumper box of johnnies!” the Guardian’s Sid Lowe says of Real Madrid winger Robinho. He’s referring of course to the little Brazilian’s penchant for women and late-night partying, which got him into trouble barely three weeks ago. But none of that […]
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Deserving, if Uninspiring MLS Finalists
MLS Cup 2007 will be a repeat of last year’s final, but USSoccerPlayers’ Ian Plenderleith sincerely hopes it won’t be a repeat of last year’s “deadly” final—”deadly” because Steve Nicol’s New England Revolution “killed” it just like his team did the year before, the columnist says. However, are there two teams more deserving of being […]
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Liverpool Owner Hicks in Talks to Takeover Roma
Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is reportedly in talks with AS Roma over a possible a takeover, according to several reports in Italy. Apparently, Hicks has been pressuring Roma President Franco Sensi to sell the club for several months, although the situation has only just been brought to the media’s attention. The 61-year-old Dallas native has […]
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Soccer On TV
The USA faces South Africa on Saturday in Johannesburg for the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup on a weekend that includes European Championship qualifying, South American 2010 World Cup qualifying and MLS Cup 2007.
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NCAA TOURNAMENT: Small-college powers advance
Defending champion Dowling and top-ranked Northern Kentucky both moved into the NCAA D2 men’s quarterfinals. Unbeatens Texas (Trinity) and Loras advanced to the D3 men’s round of 16. No. 1 Grand Valley State got a scare in the second round of the D2 women’s play. D3 women’s powerhouses Wheaton (Ill.) and the College of New Jersey both flexed their muscles.
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Santa Clara wraps up WCC title early
[WCC] Santa Clara clinched its 10th WCC title with a week to spare thanks to a 4-1 win over St. Mary’s on Sunday. Captain Peter Lowry scored the first goal and helped set up two others to lead the Broncos, who repeated as WCC champions and clinched a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
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Secret weapon propels Brown to Ivy championship
[IVY LEAGUE] Opposing teams have derided Brown junior Darren Howerton‘s flip throw as a gimmick, but it certainly has been effective. Canadian Dylan Sheehan headed in Howerton’s flip throw in the 83rd minute of Saturday’s Ivy League showdown between Brown and Dartmouth to break a 0-0 tie and lift the No. 3 Bears to a 1-0 win over No. 23 Dartmouth that clinched the 2007 Ivy championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Men’s Tournament.
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Ohio State takes care of business
[BIG TEN] Last year, Ohio State was one of the hottest teams in the country over the last month and a half and finished 11-7-3 but didn’t get at-large bid to the NCAA Men’s Tournament. This year, the Buckeyes made sure there would be no question about whether they moved into the postseason. They won the Big Ten Championship for only the second time, beating regular-season champion Indiana, 5-4, on penalty kicks after their game ended 0-0.
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Soccer America Men’s Top 25
No. 1 Wake Forest’s 3-1 victory over Virginia on Friday night kept the Demon Deacons at No. 1in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 for the ninth time in 11 weeks and knocked the slumping Cavaliers (1-5-2 in the ACC!) out of the Top 25. All six teams behind Wake remained in the same spot after recording wins over the weekend. For the complete Top 25 …
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TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: Women’s Conference Report
The NCAA Division I women’s regular reason has wrapped up. Champions were crowned in 31 conferences, 28 of which held tournaments. For the results, goal scorers, all-tournament teams and MVPs, they’re all here …
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Soccer America Women’s Top 25
There was no doubt about the No. 1 team in the final Soccer America Women’s Top 25 of the regular season. UCLA beat Washington State, 2-0, and Washington, 3-0, to finish the regular season at 16-1-2 overall and 9-0-0 in the Pac-10. The Bruins have an 18-game unbeaten streak, the longest in the country. For the Final Top 25 …
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American foes ‘combine’ on EPL goal
[AMERICANS IN BRITAIN] West Ham’s American defender Jonathan Spector celebrated his first English Premier League goal but later found out his strike against Derby County in a 5-0 win was credited as an own goal by countryman Eddie Lewis. The 21-year-old Spector moved in England in 2004 when he joined Manchester United. Goalkeeper Tim Howard helped Everton to a 1-1 tie with Chelsea by making an acrobatic save on an effort by Chelsea’s Shaun Wright-Phillips.
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Beckham assists in Minnesota exhibition
The Los Angeles Galaxy again failed to beat a USL team in regulation time for the second time within a week, but at last this time marquee attraction David Beckham made an impact, assisting on Edson Buddle‘s goal in a 1-1 tie with Minnesota Thunder in front of 20,123 fans at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. Last Wednesday, the Galaxy played to a scoreless tie with the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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What They’re Saying
“I’m happy to be here as an assistant coach and to be able to say that I can actually work with Ruud Gullit. Obviously it will be a little bit of a change for me, but it’s something that I look forward to.”
— Cobi Jones, whose first job after retiring as a player will be as assistant coach to Ruud Gullit with the Los Angeles Galaxy, for which Jones played in its first 12 MLS seasons. (MLSnet)