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"Major League Soccer preseason game on March 29 at Wantland Stadium.... A total of 2,621 tickets have been sold for the game between the Kansas City Wizards and the Columbus Crew, with all 216 box seats sold out. Express Sports chief executive officer Brad Lund said 80 percent of the $25 tickets have been sold." Not too bad with more than 3 weeks to go.
I found this article to be a very interesting read. I think the line at the end sums it up about this whole stuation. They are afraid once soccer gets there many people will leave baseball and go to soccer games. Most baseball fans I talk to always say this to me when soccer comes up. Very interesting.
Jim, I got word back on your North Jersey Herald problem. There is a tag in the URL marked < br / > (no spaces). That has to be removed and it will work
ok, this is strange... it's not in there, but when i copied it to another message board... i saw the "< br/ >" that sachin mentions (no spaces) dammit it's not in there when i edit it, but when i put my cursor over the link... i can see it in the url
Portugal is Abuzz with Soccer Excitement - South Coast Standard-Times article explains why we haven't seen a piece from them of late
I think the probem is the space that gets inserted after the question mark. The message board automatically inserts that after the ? in the URL because it thinks that the question mark is the end of a sentence. (and therefore a good place to wrap that string of gibberish to the next line...)
I think the problem is both this and the "< br/ >" which I think comes from the soft return inserted because the link is so long. It's not a good solution, but I think you can quote Jim's post and cut and paste the URL, or if Jim were to post the link without a hyperlink, it could be cut and pasted into word and people could delete the space and the return.
i usually right click on the link and "copy shortcut" then i post it in an aim window and delete the space before hitting enter it was on the espn boards that i saw the < br/ > for the first time, but you can also see it here, provided that you have a browser that lets you read the link when your cursor is over it
It's pretty easy to reach the Soccer pages from www.northjersey.com Perhaps we should link to the main page and the reveal the section (MetroStars, US Soccer or World Soccer), plus the title of the article?
in effect, that's what's done as when you click on the link, it sends you to the north jersey herald's front page it's just that there is something that can also be done to get directly there... i mentioned using an aim window because it's easier for me, but if you post into your web browser, you can edit it the url as well (and the < /br> isn't there, just the space after the '?')
This was actually in the Sunday edition of the Northeast Tarrant County edition of the Dallas Morning News, but I hadn't seen it anywhere else: Southlake: Dallas Burn's future up to council And yes, the Southlake City Council meeting starts 15 minutes from now.
Damn, I wanted to go. I am sure the council would love seeing a drunken Burn fan telling them they better open up more seating. Boy does this Grolsch taste good.
i guess this is also part of the news... http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/1046776328176252.xml?jjournal From the Jersey Journal, on Adu
I sense a little pre-existing animosity between the city and school district. Remember when you used to go over to your friend's when you were little and your friend got in trouble with their parents? You are standing there watching him get spanked and he starts crying and you feel guilty for being there and also because you were in on it. Wanna get away? I bet the Burn feel a little like this, wishing they had just stayed in there safe old home for another year instead of getting in the middle of this one. I know it's a bad analogy, but these daily news threads don't have much of a shelf life anyway.