Major League Soccer - Source: McBride to Chicago, Barrett to Toronto

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Brian McBride to Chicago?
Published 7/25/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Beautiful Game) at The Beautiful Game
So says Goal.com, who also say the Fire are sending Chad Barrett, a 1st round pick and some cash to Toronto for the old guy.

McBride Trade's Sacrificial Lamb is.....
Published 7/25/2008 by SF (noreply@blogger.com) at The Offside Rules
... Chad Barrett aka the poor man's Wayne Rooney. At least that is what Goal.com is saying this morning. But since there is no writer attributed to this story I'm wondering if a) no wants to put thier name on it for fear of pulling a Trecker, b) whoever wrote it knows they shouldn't have written it or if c) it's even true. I guess we'll find out if it's the latter later today.

The Daily Sweeper (July 25)
Published 7/25/2008 by Tom Dunmore at Pitch Invasion
Whilst MLS tries to expand further within North America, the Premier League is again focused on colonising overseas. North America The MLS All-Stars dispatched West Ham and the ICF 3-2 last night, with the Fire’s Blanco (did you know he’s Mexican? Nice of JP Dellacamera to tell us that at least fourteen times on the ESPN broadcast) playing the starring role. EPL Talk rightly comments that ESPN’s production of the game (especially anything involving Rob Stone) was a severe regression from the standards they set at Euro 2008 back to the bad old days…of 2006 and ...