american-soccer-news.com - 8/25/2008
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The week that was in Major League Soccer could portend a paradigm shift in the league’s power structure, at least as far as the 2008 season is concerned. Three teams–Columbus Crew, DC United and the New York Red Bulls–notched 3-0 victories to suggest a numerically-symbolic start to the new era.
Story and Pics: Beckham, front and center - Olympics - London handoff celebration at Closing Ceremony
mvn.com 8/25/2008 — August 24 --- MVN Soccer: Details on the London portion of the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, which was capped by David Beckham at the end of a stirring rendition of "Whole Lotta Love" with Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis. --- Beckham stood on top of a double-decker bus, which had transformed during the celebration and symbolically 'kicked' the Games to his native city as 2012 host...
OUTGOING: Sasha Kljestan to Monaco?
mls-rumors.net 8/25/2008 — No clever play on words in this post. They seemed lost on someone who seems intent on finding fault with us at every turn in our post about Marvell Wynne. (IP) Anyway.... Could "Emo" be on the mo to Monaco? (hehe) This comes to us from a notable US ...
A Few Words With New Galaxy Signing Eddie Lewis
insidesocal.com 8/25/2008 — Headed out to Galaxy training today largely to see how new signing and former UCLA Bruin Eddie Lewis was doing after that ghastly looking head injury in Guatemala last week.
Turns out the 34-year-old Cerritos native was just fine - albeit with a ...
After loss to Red Bulls, Dynamo go from wow! to wow...
blogs.chron.com 8/25/2008 — The Dynamo have us going from one wow to another. They beat then-Western Conference leader Real Salt Lake 4-3 in a wild one. Wow! They crushed Chivas USA 4-0 for consecutive win No. 4. Wow! They followed that resounding win...
Osorio's edict produces results —
Major League Soccer News 8/24/2008
Three Sundays ago, Juan Carlos Osorio issued a stern edict to his team -- win or else. That was before a critical match against D.C. United with the Red Bulls in the basement of the Eastern Conference and entrenched in a five-match winless streak.