Quakes dictate pace in road draw

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Blue collar effort brings a point home for San Jose
Published 6/29/2008 at Center Line Soccer
Blue collar effort brings a point home for San Jose Back near the turn of the last century, poet Carl Sandburg dubbed Chicago the “City of the Big Shoulders” in an ode to the value of the chaotic, sometimes ugly effort it can take to get the job done. To us, it seems likely Sandburg would have approved of the effort put in by the Quakes last night in earning their draw with the Fire. It wasn’t particularly pretty — you’ve got to find the back of the net at least once to earn points for artistic merit — but it was tenacious and effective. Every time a ball came loose, there was an Earthquake there challenging for it. Every time the Fire tried to mount an attack or make the ...