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Midterms are not fun for any one in the bottom of the class, including sports teams. On Saturday at Buck Shaw, the resurrected San Jose Earthquakes reach this year's halfway point with a key home game against Colorado. Sure, sportswriters love to point out "key games." But there is a time in the season when moral victories for a struggling franchise aren't useful or appreciated anymore and ... [link]

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Cracking The Ozone At High Speed News
Published 7/8/2008 by brucio (noreply@blogger.com) at du Nord
... to make room for them, and possibly others. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ REAL SALT LAKE Marc Connolly at Goal.com has a Q & A with keeper Nick Rimando. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America on their page MLS Confidential looks at coach Jason Kreis' seemingly constant complaints about refereeing. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES Embele Awipi of the Salinas Californian writes that the Quakers are desperate for a win right now. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ...

Fresno Fuego star off to Sweden
Published 7/8/2008 at Center Line Soccer
... . The casually brilliant Andrea Canales talks with coach Frank Yallop and several players about the game, including the controversial “fair play, schmair play” moment that led to the Chivas goal. (Yallop is quoted as saying that “If a team’s attacking, they don’t have to put it out, but I think that in the spirit of the game, he could have done it.”) Finally, our own Embele Awipi weighs in on the match as well as the team’s prospects for the rest of the season in his column for the ...

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