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Bayern Munich ended an 18-year drought on Italian soil when the German champion beat Inter Milan, 2-0, Wednesday to go on top in Group B of the UEFA Champions League. Late goals by Peruvian striker Claudio Pizarro and German international Lukas Podolski gave Bayern its first win in Italy since it beat Inter in the […]

Sophomore Graham Zusi is the Soccer America Men's Player of the Week after leading Maryland to a pair of wins. Zusi, a product of Longwood, Fla., was responsible for both game-winning goals in wins over Penn State and ranked Wake Forest. He scored the first goal in the 2-0 win over Penn State, then connected […]

North Carolina's Heather O'Reilly is the Soccer America Women's Player of the Week for the two goals she scored to lead the Tar Heels past then-No. 1 Florida State, 2-1. The U.S. international opened the scoring with a 28-yard blast in the first half and followed that with the game-winner as she sent a bending […]

Junior Maurice Edu headed home his first goal of the season to give No. 3 Maryland a 1-0 victory against Loyola (Md.) on Tuesday. The Terps held possession in the Loyola half of the field for almost the entire match and took 20 shots, but they could only manage Edu's goal, which came in the […]

G Lauren Mason (Purdue) D Carrie Dew (Notre Dame) D Stephanie Lopez (Portland) D Whitney Temple (Loyola Marymount) M Jenny Roehrig (Massachusetts) M Yolanda Odenyo (Oklahoma State) M Donna Mataya (William & Mary) F Heather O'Reilly (North Carolina) F Jess Rostedt (Virginia) F Meagan Snell (Santa Clara) F Treena Ferguson (Mississippi State) (For the week […]

G Tally Hall (San Diego State) D Alex Christlieb (St. Mary's) D Georgios Spanos (St. John's) M Scott Campbell (North Carolina) M Chris Mathews (Air Force) M James Stewart (Yale) F Eric Cervantes (UIC) F Scott Loesser (Richmond) F Ciaran O'Brien (San Diego) F Mike Sambursky (South Carolina) F Graham Zusi (Maryland) (For the week […]

When Coach John Trask took UIC to St. Louis for the Flames' 2006 opening game, he reminded them of the surroundings. ''Take a look at this stadium,'' he told his players of Hermann Stadium, site of the 2006 Men's College Cup. ''You might be here in the final four.'' Indeed, the Flames have emerged as […]

Ft. Lewis, the defending NCAA Division II men's champion, improved to 10-0-0 with a 1-0 win over Regis and a 2-0 victory over Metro State. English star John Cunliffe leads the Skyhawks with 14 goals and eight assists. Ft. Lewis has conceded only one goal in its 10 wins. — No. 10 Carson-Newman won a […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 11 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 11 Riley O'Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Braden Fleak, Wright State, Fr. 9 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 8 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 8 Josh Trott, Holy Cross, Sr. 8 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. […]

Few programs have the support that the BYU's women's program has. The No. 14 Cougars drew a crowd of 3,606 at South Stadium on Monday night to watch them beat Arizona, 1-0. BYU is averaging 2,247 fans for five home dates. Sophomore Katie Fellows scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute on a header […]

Texas A&M will host the 2007 Women's College Cup. It will be the second time the Aggies have been the host school for the women's championship. They hosted the 2005 final four won by Portland. The dates for the 2007 finals are Dec. 7 and 9, 2007. The 2006 Women's College Cup will be played […]

Beginning in the 2007 season and through 2014, Spanish-language Univision networks will broadcast 25 MLS games per season. MLS had games on Univision in 1996-98 and Univision rival Telemundo the following three years, but the league had no national media reach in the important Hispanic community since. Under the agreement with Soccer United Marketing (SUM), […]

With Manchester City, the English Premier League club that includes Americans Claudio Reyna and DaMarcus Beasley, in the midst of a dire slump, its coach somewhat reluctantly accepted a good luck charm from his daughter. ''Before the match my daughter said: 'Beenie the Horse wants to sit next to you by the drinks holder on […]

Positives are hard to find on a team that has lost four of its last five games, but New York Red Bulls have at least one bright spot: 16-year-old Josmer Altidore. Born in New Jersey of Haitian parents and raised in Florida, Altidore has played just 70 minutes this season but has scored twice. On […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Notre Dame (9-0-0) 2 2. North Carolina (10-1-0) 4 3. Florida State (7-1-0) 1 4. Portland (7-2-1) 5 5. Santa Clara (8-2-0) 6 6. UCLA (7-2-0) 3 7. West Virginia (8-0-2) 7 8. Penn State (6-2-2) 8 9. Rice (8-0-1) 9 10. Texas (8-2-0) 11 11. Virgina (7-2-1) 16 12. […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. SMU (10-0-1) 3 2. Clemson (8-0-1) 2 3. Maryland (8-1-1) 5 4. Washington (8-0-0) 7 5. North Carolina (8-2-0) 8 6. Virginia (8-1-0) 1 7. Duke (8-1-1) 4 8. Wake Forest (7-2-0) 6 9. UIC (7-0-2) 10 10. West Virginia (7-1-2) 12 11. South Florida (5-2-2) 17 12. Old Dominion […]

Washington is the only unbeaten and untied NCAA Division I men's team after Virginia lost at North Carolina, 2-1, on Saturday and Clemson was tied by N.C. State, 0-0, on Sunday. The Huskies moved to 8-0-0 with a 3-1 win over visiting Oregon State. UW put the Beavers away early with three goals from Ely […]

Notre Dame moved into the top spot in the Soccer America Women's Top 25 with a 2-0 victory over previously unbeaten Louisville on Sunday. The Irish (9-0-0) got late goals from defenders Carrie Dew and Ashley Jones to subdue Louisville in the Big East match. Notre Dame's game against Cincinnati on Friday had been called […]

Goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann of Reading was beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo but the newly promoted team, which also had American Bobby Convey in midfield, held Manchester United to a 1-1 tie. Two other Americans in the English Premier League, Carlos Bocanegra and Brian McBride, faced a title favorite, but they went down, 2-0, with Fulham against […]

By Ridge Mahoney Chicago and Dallas are officially in the postseason (joining D.C. United, so far) and Los Angeles is on the brink of elimination at the hands of its local rival, which moved all the way up to second place in the Western Conference by doing what the Gals haven't been able to do […]

By Ridge Mahoney Chicago and Dallas are officially in the postseason (joining D.C. United, so far) and Los Angeles is on the brink of elimination at the hands of its local rival, which moved all the way up to second place in the Western Conference by doing what the Gals haven't been able to do […]

Vancouver and Rochester will meet in the USL First Division final Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Rhinos' PAETEC Park (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, live, 7 pm ET). Greg Howes' goal for the Rhinos in the 52nd minute of the first leg was the only goal in the Rochester-Charleston semifinal series. In the all-Canadian semifinal, Vancouver […]

Sept. 23 in Columbus Columbus 1 Houston 1. Goals: Garey (Oughton) 80; De Rosario (Waibel) 54. Columbus – Gaudette, Leitch, Kotschau, Marshall, Burch, Moss, Oughton, Rozental (Thomas, 60), Gaven (Kamara, 71), Garey, Virtuoso (Hendrickson, 80). Houston – Onstad, Waibel, Robinson, Serioux, Barrett, Mullan, Clark, De Rosario, Davis, Ching, Moreno (Dalglish, 81). Yellow Card: Columbus – […]

Once again, Maryland's youngsters came through. Freshman Jeremy Hall and sophomore Graham Zusi scored a pair of late goals for the No. 5 Terrapins to lead them to a 2-1 come-from-behind win against No. 6 Wake Forest on Saturday night in front of a Spry Stadium record crowd of 4,413 spectators. HallÆs goal was the […]

No. 5 Santa Clara came out firing from all cylinders and ran all over No. 3 UCLA, defeating the Bruins, 3-0, Friday night in front of 3,471 fans at Buck Shaw Stadium. Meagan Snell scored a pair of goals in the match, while freshman Kiki Bosio netted her first collegiate goal. ''Coming into the game, […]