mercurynews.com - 11/21/2008
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For those who caught local sports team owner Lew Wolff's interview during the quarterly baseball meetings in New York this week, a clarification is in order. No, not about his call for a one-game series in the first round of the baseball playoffs. Wolff, owner of the A's and the Earthquakes, ...
web.mlsnet.com - 11/15/2008
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(from MLSNet.com) The 2008 expansion side put up
a good fight (though missing the playoffs), with a...
good foundation for the future. --- San Jose finished their comeback season with 33 points, far eclipsing the marks set by Real Salt Lake, Chivas USA, and Toronto FC in their inaugural campaigns...
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EARTHQUAKES Season in Review
web.mlsnet.com - 11/16/2008
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(from MLSNet.com) A capsule of highlights. --- The
return of the Quakes included previous winning manager Frank...
Yallop and 2008 Newcomer of the Year Darren Huckerby; video accompanies the season summary posted at http://ballhype.com/story/earthquakes_season_in_review/
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Video: EARTHQUAKES Season in Review
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Center Line Soccer —
... boxes. “I think the need is to satisfy families and to be as close to the action as possible, so the less walk up to the top — we’re talking about this every day. The intimacy is what we’re trying to create, both for baseball and for soccer.” He didn’t mention a specific capacity, but it was widely assumed that the target size was still 18,000. Fortunately, today Elliott Almond of the Mercury News clears up the resulting questions about the Earthquakes stadium in his article, “ Clearing up Earthquakes stadium questions .” (Not the most imaginative headline but very much on ...
2009 MLS Changes
Climbing the Ladder —
... 2) Two conferences for 2009. If they aren't going to go to a single table with 15 teams, then why do it in 2010 for 16? Odds aren't looking good for that. Especially since Lew Wolff just revealed that he has an agreement with MLS for David Beckham's Galaxy to visit SJ twice a season for the first three years. How could a 30 game single table work under such a circumstance? ...
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Bleacher Report - EPL 11/22/2008
When David Beckham decided to hop across the pond for one last run at greatness with AC Milan, no one batted an eyelash stateside.
Sure, that could very well be because 95 percent of the population was unaware of it, as "soccer" in the United ...
