soccernet.espn.go.com - 5/16/2008
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Deep in the bowels of RFK Stadium following last week's "MLS Primetime Thursday" game you couldn't imagine two more different locker room scenes. There was the D.C. United locker room, complete with hanging heads and a sullen atmosphere that bordered on funeral-like. A few yards down the hall, in the visiting Chicago Fire's locker room, you could hear the thumping bass of rap music accompanied ...
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Question: Where is Grant Wahl? The Sports Illustrated superstar has been done covering March Madness since, well, April, and we have not heard a whisper from our A#1 Favorite American Soccer Writer. ~and~ American defender Dan Califf and his club Aalborg won the Danish championship last night with a 2-0 win over Brondby! Huge congrats to him. How is he going to celebrate: "I'm drinking my face off." Next season he moves on to play for Midtjylland. See the Americans in Europe section below for game details. ~and~ How about this for a coincidence! The English & Spanish leagues and their ...
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