July 2008
The Archives
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Patrick Kinmartin
Today’s Guest
To set the tone for this afternoon’s show, here is the recent David Beckham column from Los Angeles Daily News Galaxy writer Scott Wolf, who will be appearing later to talk about various MLS topics. -
Patrick Kinmartin
Olympic Spirit
Unquestionably, this ever-dragging club-country saga is dominating the Olympic headlines. Get past that, however, and there are some other storylines very much worth exploring.
For instance, a major portion of Italy’s next generation about to take over for the veteran regime wrapping up will finally be on full international display. Only three players on its roster play […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Easy To See
Putting the Eastern Conference’s stronghold this season in MLS further in perspective…
*First, the boss stat that keeps coming up: In 54 head-to-head league matchups, the East has won 28 and picked up 11 draws, losing just 15 times (or less than a third of all those games.)
*In all, the East has outscored the West 77-60 […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Today’s Guest
Thierry Heumann, our call-in this afternoon, runs the web site thebaysoccer.com.
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Patrick Kinmartin
Paper Chase
Matt Schwab in the San Jose Mercury News reiterated that the Earthquakes tied themselves up in an otherwise encouraging draw with New York.
Dallas routed the Galaxy, but Schellas Hyndman was the real winner in the Dallas Morning News recap from Diego Aparicio.
Reacting to a scoreless draw against Chicago was pure Wizard-ry in the postgame […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
More With Magee
Unfortunately, because we don’t cater specifically to the New York faithful (although surely we’d love to), not all the pressing storylines regarding enigmatic weapon Mike Magee (above) that were actually covered today over at the Red Bull Offside site had a chance to get brought up during our conversation in San Jose after yesterday’s match.
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Patrick Kinmartin
Musically Inclined
Out at Buck Shaw Stadium in Northern California’s Bay Area for today’s San Jose Earthquakes game against Red Bull New York … this really isn’t meant to be a joke about the two last place teams in MLS playing each other — one of the highlights of the day so far […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Strike 1
As the wheels keep turning on the Ligue 1 transfer front, albeit much more queitly than most other UEFA destinations, Freddy Adu’s swoop for Monaco and Ben Arfa to Marseille have been two of the notable headlines from the past month.
The blockbuster move of the summer could very well be the Rennes pickup of Asamoah Gyan […] -
Patrick Kinmartin
Cuauh And Effect
Cuauhtemoc Blanco’s increasing volubilty as an MLS superstar, strengthened by last night’s MVP showing at the All-Star party with West Ham, makes one wonder how much it is helping drive up Jared Borgetti’s value for being brought in as one of the next to or three designated players to come through the door.
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Patrick Kinmartin
Back Street
With Jonathan Spector on the preseason disabled list, West Ham won’t have their strongest link to the North American game to market the heck out of at today’s MLS All-Star game. Closer to Toronto, sight of tonight’s game, they won’t have youth goalkeeper Adam Street, the future of Canadian shot stoppers. He’s just 17 and has played sparingly even in […]
