8/26 Do you want me to send you back where I found you? Unemployed? In Greenland?

[Wallydrag]

General

Inspirational played as two-way proposition - Daily Pilot (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/pilot/sports/la-dpt-roselli26aug26,1,4341811.story?coll=la-tcn-pilot-sports)

Fire to play Metrostars at National Soccer Hall of Fame induction - OurSports Central (http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3079045&l_id=&t_id=)

A steady climb up the coaching ladder - Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/26/a_steady_climb_up_the_coaching_ladder/)

Coaches make summer camp fun - Ventura County Star (http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/youth/article/0,1375,VCS_135_3138632,00.html)

Flamboyant Lalas goes corporate - USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/mls/2004-08-26-lalas-front-office_x.htm)

City sign 'keeper cover - ITV.com (http://www.itv-football.co.uk/News/story_123561.shtml)

Soccer takes hold in US - Contra Costa Times (http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/sports/9500616.htm)



Fire

Battery's Open Cup run ends in overtime - Charleston Post Courier (http://www.charleston.net/stories/082604/spo_26battery.shtml)

Selolwane send Fire to Cup final - Chicago Sun-Times (http://www.suntimes.com/output/fire/cst-spt-fire26.html)

Fire weather the storm, advances to U.S. Open Cup Final - Chicago Sports Review (http://www.chicagosportsreview.com/chicago/chicagoview.asp?c=120927)

Long night ends with winner by Selolwane - Chicago Tribune (http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/cs-0408260329aug26,1,423000.story?coll=cs-soccer-print)

Weather causes stoppage time - Chicago Tribune (http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/cs-0408260330aug26,1,5342793.story?coll=cs-soccer-print)



Earthquakes

San Jose could lose its pro soccer team - KPIX-TV (http://cbs5.com/news/local/2004/08/25/San_Jose_Could_Lose_its_Pro_Soccer_Team.html)

collegs handing off grades - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/colleges/9500546.htm?1c) Blurb towards bottom about SJ Mayor supporting SSV.

On Soccer: Golden finish or not, it's been quite a ride - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/soc/2760170) Blurb about 'Quakes moving to Texas.



Crew

Crew and Sanneh agree to contract - USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/mls/crew/2004-08-23-sanneh_x.htm)

CIC hammering out agreement with Crew - Columbus This Week Newspapers (http://www.thisweeknews.com/thisweek.php?edition=common&story=thisweeknews/082604/sou/News/082604-News-449476.html)

[cdin]

General

City sign 'keeper cover - ITV.com (http://www.itv-football.co.uk/News/story_123561.shtml)



I wonder who he thinks he is going to play for. All of the current teams are fairly well covered for a starting and a back up Keeper. SLC maybe, but why would they want to use up a SI spot when the will probably be able to draft a good american back up keeper.

[denver_mugwamp]

I wonder who he thinks he is going to play for. All of the current teams are fairly well covered for a starting and a back up Keeper. SLC maybe, but why would they want to use up a SI spot when the will probably be able to draft a good american back up keeper.

We can all think of about 14 reasons why MLS shouldn't sign Ronald Waterreus. I guess that makes it a sure thing, huh?

[helmet]

"Am I going mad, or did the word THINK just come out of your mouth!"

[peledre]

It seems like all the news site are purging are bigsoccer/bigsoccer trick now, I've been running into a lot where it doesn't work anymore.

[Sachin]

www.bugmenot.com

Sachin

[Sachsen]

It seems like all the news site are purging are bigsoccer/bigsoccer trick now, I've been running into a lot where it doesn't work anymore.

Don't forget to try bigsoccer1, either as username or password. Some sites require at least one numeric character in either.

[fillmorejive]

Good article on Alexi. His comment about the players is interesting:

"You're so oblivious as a player to all the hard work that goes on. The players have all the answers. We could solve all the world's ills on a bus ride from the stadium to the airport."

My $.02, I agree. Unless you really are behind the scenes of an MLS team, it is difficult to understand and comprehend the challenges they face on a daily basis. It's not as easy as it seems, as much as some posters here would like to think it is.

[kenntomasch]

Flamboyant Lalas goes corporate - USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/mls/2004-08-26-lalas-front-office_x.htm)

Lalas had finished his eighth MLS season last fall with his fourth league team, the Los Angeles Galaxy. A defender, he'd been a key member of a 2002 MLS championship team, but in 2003 a 9-12-9 season and first-round playoff collapse against eventual champion San Jose triggered changes, one of which was one fewer redhead on the back line.
One=less
More than one=fewer

It amazes and saddens me how many people get that wrong.

[numerista]

One=less
More than one=fewer

It amazes and saddens me how many people get that wrong.

At the moment, the lead on www.mlsnet.com is, "Columbus has a chance to overtake first place".

Would that put them in 0th place?

[Bill Archer]

One=less
More than one=fewer

It amazes and saddens me how many people get that wrong.

I'm deeply troubled as well.


From The Columbus Dispatch, which insists on you paying them $4.95 a month to read their second rate drivel online so I can't link to it, this interesting item:

Things got ugly last night when the American media was kept waiting 90 minutes after the game’s conclusion before being allowed to interview players from the gold-medal U.S. women’s soccer team.

Reporters were yelling and sweating. It looked like a crowd at a tractor pull.

At one point, Phil Hersh of the Chicago Tribune and an international soccer official were screaming at each other in French.


Reporters "yelling and sweating"?

Phil Hersh "screaming in French"?

Just more signs that the Apocalypse is nearing.

[pdolan]

One=less
More than one=fewer

It amazes and saddens me how many people get that wrong.


Use fewer for things you count (like redheads)

Use less for things you measure

Props to Ridge Mahoney for getting it right.

[peledre]

Use fewer for things you count (like redheads)

Use less for things you measure

Props to Ridge Mahoney for getting it right.
Oh Snap!

[kenntomasch]

Use fewer for things you count (like redheads)

Use less for things you measure

Props to Ridge Mahoney for getting it right.
He didn't get it right. You use fewer if it's things you count and it's more than one. If it's things you count and it's one, it's less.

Two fewer redheads.

One less set of footsteps on your floor in the morning.

[kpaulson]

He didn't get it right. You use fewer if it's things you count and it's more than one. If it's things you count and it's one, it's less.

Two fewer redheads.

One less set of footsteps on your floor in the morning.

Well clearly you're both "right"-- pdolan is probably "more" right because he's stated the traditional rule: http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0123.html

But Kenn, the dashing rebel, has the stated the more modern, standard English approach: http://www.bartleby.com/68/20/3620.html

Obviously, this is an important matter to be debated here, especially given that, in the words of the Columbia Guide to Stanard English, "for many conservatives, the use of less where fewer is expected remains a strong shibboleth."

[kenntomasch]

Don't you love our freaking language?

One less thing to worry about, I guess.