Reading about Olsen's goal v Guatemala, I was reminded of a shot he hit several years ago. I have it going off the left post in 2000? vs...
Below are the groups from 2002, with "x"s to left marking the teams that advanced from the group and %s to the right indicating the teams' pre-WC...
Granted that he's not going to come away from the draw swearing his bad fortune like a sailor, but if Lippi really believes the tripe here:...
Starting with Bild's reported pot groupings: A: Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, France, England, Mexico B: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Angola,...
Using FIFA's rankings from November 2001 and November 2005: --The top of the field is stronger this time around: in 2002 there were four of the...
Dear Big Soccer, Reyna, Berhalter, Heyduk, Armas, Ralston 2 - 0 Mexico Eat my shorts. Sincerely, Bruce P.S. -- pay attention and someday you...
I take long showers, have insomniac tendencies and my girlfriend is out of town (which has nothing to do with the long showers) and so I've had...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601442.html The money quote (for my money)... "The movement off the...
Arena, a 9-time WSOP bracelet winner, would be sitting at the final table with 95% of the chips. And the other nine guys around the table, all...
Last year I took a look at MLS Cup winners and noticed a couple trends. First, no team that finished bottom four in either Goals For or Goal...
DaMarcus Beasley was capped for the 1st time on 1/27/01, ~sixteen months before the World Cup. Pablo Mastroeni was capped four months later on...
The US record all-time is currently 184-110-186 -- two games under .500 If we win against Honduras and again in the final, we'd have worked our...
I'm watching Spain v Argentina now and the quality of passing is just outstanding. Both teams look light years beyond what I saw out of the US....
Because Nowak would kill him if he were to pull some of the circus-trick ball-handling he's laid on Argentina whilst in a DCU kit.
The Asian #5 will either be Bahrain or Kuwait. Using ELO's rating points as a measure of the relative strength of the teams that might face off...
I try to follow the YAs, but it's hard to keep up to date with all of them. And if you don't keep up every week it gets tough to keep track of...
I can't count the number of arguments I've read here about "who will replace McBride as the 'target forward' once he's gone" or "do we really need...
This is going back to 1999 I think, but Bruce Arena gave a lecture somewhere in North Carolina and talked about what he saw as the three...
Check out Grand Funk Railroad's 'Mississippi Queen' -- cowbell to make Blue Oyster Cult bow their heads in shame. And for anyone that...
Somewhat related to Loney's article and I haven't seen it posted. J Hutcherson offered his comments on a quote from Garber contained within...
The "best match" thread got me thinking about the related topic of best performance by a player in the US kit... I'll nominate three just to get...
Does anyone have the facts on all this? When will they start? Where will they play? WHO will they play? Can we watch? Will recovering...
Looking into some info relating to Project 2010's goal of being a "contender" to lift the World Cup by 2010, I found some interesting info......
Reading the other thread on Project 2010 a bit ago I noticed that there was a consensus that "consistently reaching the Q-finals" would be a good...
Turns out we're an underdog everywhere...most bookmakers are very close to the following: DC United 17/10 Draw 2/1 Kansas City 13/10 If you...