MLS Newswire, 08.15: Trades, Optimism, Pessimism

I tell you, I have the self-control of a two-year-old – a drunk two-year-old at that.  That’s why I’m ditching the thee-item limit on these posts.  I have no excuse…
- A noteworthy trade, plus one shock to report: Ramon Nunez is leaving FC Dallas, the team he was tasked with carrying in 2007 before things [...]

MLS Week 19 Power Rankings

I’m going to level with you here: #1-4 are basically interchangeable; ditto with #5-8 and #9-13; my fascination with my collective rankings thing-y is the only reason I’m assigning specific numbers. In truth, I see those three tiers just outlined as a more accurate measure of each team’s relative “power.” And bye weeks? [...]

Superliga: Pachuca edges Houston….[buffering]

Here, courtesy of the Superliga site’s feed and the DSL set-up I have at home, is a re-enactment, edited for brevity, of how I viewed last night’s semifinal between the Houston Dynamo and CF Pachuca. Viewing started around the 47th minute (this is translated from Spanish):
Houston on the ba….Barrett passes up the….
[buffering]
Pachuca on the [...]

UEFA Champions League: Beasley, Adu and fifty more matches for you.

Yesterday’s Games 
 
Rangers 1, Crvena Zvezda 0

A last gasp Nacho Novo strike helped Rangers survive a physical onslaught and leave Ibrox with a 1 goal lead and a firm away goal advantage (in the sense that they kept Red Star to zero). DaMarcus Beasley worked a solid 70 minutes or so getting beaten, punched, and dropkicked [...]

Alves set to sign for Chelsea

Say it isn’t so Dani, say it isn’t so.
It’s reported by AS.com and ESPNSoccernet that Dani Alves is all set to sign with Chelsea for 32 Million Euro plus an extra 4 Million Euro depending on how he preforms this season. Mind you that he HASN’T signed yet for Chelsea, but it appears that it [...]

La Liga Preview—Real Valladolid, UD Almeria, Real Murcia

For the past few weeks I have combed the paella and sangria filled landscape that is Spain to come up with a definitive La Liga preview. For the most part, La Liga coverage in English is a bit difficult to find, so I have had to do lots of digging to figure out what [...]