Sullivan aching to get even - Denver Post Johnson starting, scoring for Burn - Dayton Beach News-Journal Soccer gives Haiti's players an island of peace - Houston Chronicle Injured Convey could leave United - Washington Times Soccer Notes - Richmond Times Dispatch Kirovski earns Player of the Week - Sports Network Beasley voted Rookie of the Year - Sports Network Galaxy plans farewell match (for Cienfuegos) - AP Cienfuegos returns as 'ambassador' - LA Daily News Clanton signs with MLS' Fire - Dayton Daily News Names in the Game - AP MLS notebook: Americans willing to view Adu - Dallas Morning News Falling Real Madrid stars hit MLS - Dallas Morning News Convey Out With Injured Hamstring - Washington Post Added Time: D.C. United should put a cork in its whine - Dallas Morning News Columnist Ron Kantowski: Semi-pro Strikers getting kicks in Summerlin - Las Vegas Sun Happy Cicada killing!
Who knows? Saturday's vote for 2010 World Cup is no sure thing - San Diego Union-Tribune He's happy being on defensive - KC Star
On this date..... 1996 - San Jose Earthquakes draw a Spartan Stadium record 31,728 fans for a game against Los Angeles. 2000 - Colorado Rapids' midfielder Seth Trembly misses the team's game against the Miami Fusion to attend his senior prom. Today's Birthdays William Sunsing is 27 Paul Dougherty is 38 Thomas Dooley is 43 George Carlin is 67
Is star light blinding MLS disciplinarians? - Chicago Daily Southtown Frank Klopas to be second 'Ring of Fire' inductee - Chicago Daily Southtown Now, I always liked Klopas, but I kinda wanted the ring to be reserved for the true legends that the club has had. Up to now, I think there's only been one.
Well, according to the rules of the Ring, you have to elect a new member every year and new members are chosen exclusively by current ones - and you'd have to say there are only a few deserving candidates right now, Klopas being one. Personally, while he's a great choice, he did a lot more for Chicago soccer in general than the Fire specifically but I understand the reasoning and the other current deserving candidates should soon follow suit.
Thanks-- I didn't know they had to put someone in every year. I can't say a bad word about the guy-- I just think Nowak is really in a company of one and I wish there were some way to recognize him for that.
Trembly: tempest in teacup - Rocky Mountain News Crew not only MLS team having trouble scoring - Cbus Dispatch Italian Clubs Targeted for Match Fixing - LA Times San Jose-MetroStars goalfest a classic - KC Star Brown achieving his goals - Boston Herald Conway will get a shot in goal - Mercury News Sporting Club of Portugal at Earthquakes - Mercury News Metros defense has plenty to fix - Herald News Don't write off NBA, NHL just yet - South Coast Standard Times (small, random MISL reference) England coaching concerns cloud U.S. players' futures - USA Today (maybe posted yesterday?) THE LIST -MOST DIFFICULT SPORTS - Star-Telegram (surprised baseball was so low...)
well i have a problem with this list- Sport Score 1. Boxing 72.37 2. Ice hockey 71.75 3. Football 68.37 4. Basketball 67.87 5. Wrestling 63.50 6. Martial arts 63.37 7. Tennis 62.75 8. Gymnastics 62.50 9. Baseball/softball 62.25 10. Soccer 61.50 honestly, how could football be that hard to play? the list is based on: endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination and analytic aptitude. all of which are need but come on, a linebacker needs to be strong, but endurance? they get a break after every play, nerve??? flexibility? is kickboxing considered martial arts? if so, how is that not ahead of boxing? oh, and of course soccer would be last when one of the deciding catagories are hand-eye coordination!
From DMN: "Three ESPN2 contests featuring Freddy Adu and D.C. United averaged 290,000 viewers. While that number remains relatively small in the universe of national sports, it represents a 73 percent increase over ESPN2's 2003 viewership. ABC's season opener featuring Adu drew a 1.3 national rating (about 1.4 million viewers). That was 30 percent higher than last year's season opener on ABC." Another example how the Freddy investment is paying off nicely for MLS.
Yeah I only wish people would stop talking about the "anti-Adu attendance trend,' which I'm not convinced exists like he's some gimic. I
Cicadas? Then did you mean to include this column from Tony Kornheiser? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18901-2004May11.html?nav=headlines "In times like these, I really envy Jerry Stackhouse. He's down at the beach, getting that eight-day week rental, and avoiding the onslaught of cicadas. Too bad he didn't take that guy Nowak with him so Freddy Adu can play the full game. (By the way I fear for Freddy Adu's safety during the cicada invasion. Adu may be just young enough and small enough that he could be carried off. Then where would MLS be?) D.C. United really ought to use the cicadas to its advantage. The team should have "Cicada Day," where the first 5,000 fans through the turnstiles get a bag of cicadas. And then the next 5,000 fans get two bags." I realize we should be beyond including articles for simply mentioning Freddy Adu, but I like this bit because I tried to get my son's U-8 team to use the nickname "Leesburg Fighting Cicadas". Too bad they shot me down for "Fire Breathing Dragons". Silly kids.
Okay cicadas are absolutely crazy. I lived in Missouri for a year and rest assured we didn't have anything like that ********e here in New England. People joked about them and I was like, yeah whatever, bugs who cares. Then they started to come around and I felt like i was living out The Stand.
Re: 5-12-2004:If anybody slams me against the boards, I'm going to pee all over mysel Calloway reverses Wynalda's story - San Jose Mercury News
Surely your sarcasm font is off. I didn't even play football at a high level and the pounding your body takes is unbelievable. Endurance? Uh, yeah. Good riddance to Ranieri and the Riverhawks. That was a brain-dead organization for years that was a giant wart on the A-League. And there was a way to honor Nowak - Peter Nowak Day last year, at which he became the first Ring of Fire honoree, and had his number run up the flagpole. Not retired, because we don't do a lot of that, and especially to the #10, but everybody knows it's a big deal. And I don't know what else they could do outside of naming it Peter Nowak Stadium at Bridgeview. And I love the "He said, she said" on the Wynalda thing.
You know, Kenn, if you don't stop posting these funny little fake items from threesixone, nobody's going to take you seriously.
for some reason i couldn't edit, but my point being is that football is soo 'departmentalized' that guys are there do only certain things. honestly, when i compare it to rugby- rugby is similar but i think it is much harder overall. they have to do more than as a whole in comparision to football players. actually when you compare the two- endurance- football, constant breaks in play (not in rugby, or soccer). strength- football players are incredibly strong, i give the nod there power speed- soccer and rugby as a whole i think have faster players than football agility- how do this measure this flexibility- see above nerve- seriously, how could they measure this? hand-eye coordination- again, as a whole, more rugby players need this compared to football players. and this all being said, i am a big football fan, i know its hard, i've played it, but i think its too high on the list.
True Kenn-- but you're not quite getting the point. It's not about what "more" they could do for Nowak. That's done-- and I think it's enough. BUt if next year, you choose to put David Vaudreuil in the Ring of Fire, doesn't that cheapen the honor to Nowak's contribution to the club?
Well, that would, but if they put Jason Moore in, that would do the same thing. Both are equally likely. Vaud was my favorite player, but he's not going in the Ring of Fire. You just have to trust that the people involved are going to make good choices (not that they have a huge pool to choose from when the club's only been around for seven years and many of the guys are still playing) and that how you choose to remember Nowak is really the most important thing. As for playing football, all of those "degree of difficulty" things are one thing, but the sheer brutality of the sport ratchets that up incredibly. So, you get a "break" of 30 seconds after each play, and a few minutes when one team has the ball and the other doesn't. (a) American football requires a great deal of skill (especially at the so-called "skill positions" - granted, it's not like being able to do magical things with a soccer ball at your feet, but different skills) and (b) the fact that you're getting the living hell beaten out of you every thirty seconds, for three hours, once a week for five months make it a very difficult game to play. Not saying more or less so than any other sport, because hitting a 98 mph fastball is incredibly difficult to do, as well, but the pounding a football player takes, in addition to the things he has to do while being pounded, make football more difficult to play than you're giving it credit for.