ABC will show three of the remaining eight U.S. World Cup qualifiers. The TV schedule was solidified with kickoff times for the team’s final two matches being locked down by CONCACAF. In the second-to-last match, the U.S. will face Jamaica at Foxboro Stadium on Oct. 7 at 2 p.m. ET. One month later, it will close out qualifying against Trinidad & Tobago at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET). Both of those matches will be broadcast live and exclusively on ABC. ABC will also show the June 16 match at Jamaica at 2 p.m. ET. The other remaining games: April 25 vs. Costa Rica in Kansas City, Mo.: 6:30 p.m. CT (ESPN2 & Telemundo) June 20 vs. Trinidad & Tobago in Foxboro, Mass.: 7:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2 & Telemundo). July 1 at Mexico in Mexico City: 12 p.m. CT (Telemundo). Sept. 1 vs. Honduras in Washington, D.C.: 10 a.m. ET (ESPN2 & Telemundo). Sept. 5 at Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica: 10 p.m. ET (ESPN2 & Telemundo). WUSA OPENER: The TNT broadcast of the inaugural WUSA game drew a 0.50 rating, which represented 393,087 TV households. By comparison, the first hour of the Chicago-D.C. United MLS game later that night on ESPN2 drew a 0.25 rating, which represented 189,767 TV households. The MLS match moved to ESPN for the second half and drew a 0.45 rating, with 368,013 households. NOTABLE: MLS’s Tampa Bay Mutiny’s new weekly radio call-in show has a new location. “The Tampa Bay Mutiny Soccer Hour,” on WWBA AM 1040 from 6-7 p.m. every Thursday, will now broadcast live from Champion’s at the Marriott Westshore, 1001 N. Westshore Blvd. … Former Dallas Burn head coach David Dir has joined the Colorado Rapids broadcast team along with Amy Freeze and Marc Stout. … Former San Jose Clash play-by-play man Hal Ramey, current Earthquakes analyst John Doyle and sideline reporter Jennifer Thomas, an assistant coach at the University of California, will announce the WUSA Bay Area CyberRays’ games on Fox Sports Net Bay Area and KICU-36. Sideline reporter Debbi Wrobleski joins the WUSA Boston Breakers’ broadcasts on AT&T3. Wrobelski, formerly with NESN, will also host pre-game, halftime and post-game shows for the Breakers.
