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Messiah won its third straight NCAA Division III men's title and fifth in the last seven years with a 3-0 win over Wheaton (Ill.) in the final on Saturday night in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Josh Sanders scored two goals and Brett Faro added a third for the Falcons, who also beat NYU, 3-0, in […]

VIRGINIA 3 NOTRE DAME 2. Midfield general Nico Colaluca set up senior Adam Cristman twice for goals as Virginia returned to the final four for the first time since 1997. German Yannick Reyering score the third Virginia goal — his third in three postseason games. Kurt Martin scored both goals, the first set up by […]

Kristine Lilly scored on a penalty kick in the 120th minute to give the USA a 2-1 victory over Canada in overtime and capture the 2006 Women's Gold Cup title. The final, played before a crowd of only 6,749 fans at the Home Depot Center, was anticlimactic after the USA and Canada had won their […]

NOTRE DAME 4 PENN STATE 0. Freshman Michele Weissenhofer scored a hat trick in a span of less than 13 minutes and sophomore Kerri Hanks had three assists as the top-ranked Irish extended their unbeaten streak to a school record 25 games and moved into Friday's other semifinal against Florida State. The Irish dominated the […]

Results Quarterfinals Nov. 24 Notre Dame 4 (Weissenhofer 54, 56, 66, Cinalli 72) Penn State 0. UCLA 2 (M.Zerboni 9, Cheney pen. 70) Portland 1 (R.Rapinoe 6). Florida State 2 (Kuralay 50, Edwards 63) Clemson 1 (Franklin 31). Nov.25 North Carolina 3 (O'Reilly 46, Engen 62, Washington 74) Texas A&M 2 (Robinson 30, Martino 55). […]

1110d1 scores Results Quarterfinals Nov. 24 Virginia 3 (Cristman 25, 71, Reyering 35) Notre Dame 2 (Martin 71, pen. 84). Wake Forest 3 (Curfman 43, Lahoud 75, Thompson 83) Santa Clara 1 (Lowry 24). Nov. 25 UC Santa Barbara 3 (Rosenlund 9, 48, 63) Northwestern 2 (North 13, Alvarez 38). Schedule Quarterfinals Nov. 26 No. […]

UCLA overcame a 2-0 first-half deficit to defeat top-ranked Duke, 3-2, in NCAA men's quarterfinal action at Duke's Koskinen Stadium. Sal Zizzo scored the tying goal in the 78th minute and the game-winning goal — on a preplanned play — just 30 seconds into overtime to send the eighth seeded Bruins to the College Cup […]

North Carolina had to twice come from behind before beating Texas A&M, 3-2, before 4,887 fans in the NCAA Division I women's quarterfinals and returned to the Women's College Cup after a two-year absence. The Tar Heels failed to reach the final four in 2004 and 2005 — the only two years in the 25-year […]

How will MLS fare in the offseason rate of exchange, i.e., the players it sells or loses overseas to those it imports? Right away, the league has fallen slightly behind on the American side of the ledger, with EPL clubs Reading and Fulham in the hunt for Eddie Johnson and Clint Dempsey, respectively, and Brian […]

Blackburn's American goalkeeper Brad Friedel made a key save on Feyernoord striker Joonas Kolkka to preserve a goalless tie that sends the English Premier league club to the final 32 of the UEFA Cup. But Thursday's UEFA Cup action was marred by an incident in Paris in which a policeman shot dead a Paris St […]

American midfielder Benny Feilhaber, 21, who played the second half of Hamburg SV's 3-1 loss to Arsenal in Champions League on Tuesday and came close to scoring, could make his sixth Bundesliga appearance when HSV takes on Bayern Munich on Saturday (TV: 9:25 am ET on Gol TV). Hamburg is trying to climb out of […]

NCAA DIVISION I MEN Quarterfinals Nov. 24 No. 2 Wake Forest (17-3-3) vs. No. 10 Santa Clara (13-4-5) No. 4 Virginia (16-3-1)  vs. No. 12 Notre Dame (15-5-2) Nov. 25 UC Santa Barbara (15-7-0) vs. Northwestern (14-7-0) Nov. 26 No. 1 Duke (18-3-1) vs. No. 8 UCLA (12-5-4) NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN Quarterfinals Nov. 24 […]

The early-season form of some of the country's top women's programs was skewed because they were playing without key players. Of the eight 2006 quarterfinalists, six were without players representing the USA at the Under-20 Women's World Championship in Russia for the first two weeks of the college season. Since their return, these 12 players […]

No. 1 and top seed Duke will be favored when it hosts UCLA Sunday afternoon in the NCAA Division I men's quarterfinals at Koskinen Stadium, but it faces a formidable opponent in the streaking Bruins. Indeed, UCLA put on one of the best performances yet by a team in the 2006 postseason with its 3-0 […]