In 2002 in Japan and South Korea, the United States soccer team enjoyed their best World Cup Finals showing in living memory. Inspired by the performances of Brian McBride and Landon Donovan, the US team reached the quarter finals of the competition, this despite being widely predicted by many soccer experts to exit at the [...]

The 2010 South African FIFA World Cup is fast approaching. Fans from all over the globe will be flocking to South Africa to watch their countries compete. Excitement is building as the opening match approaches (June 11th). Football, or soccer (US), is the world’s sport, and mounting anticipation can only be expected. However a high [...]

Reading poker blogs is a great way to pick up some information and some new poker tips for Omaha poker and other forms of the game as well. But, before you start taking advice, you need to determine the value of what you are reading! The first way to determine the value of a poker [...]

Steven Lenhart has reason to whoop it up. Two of them, in fact, for the number of goals the Columbus Crew forward scored in the second half of his team’s improbably come from behind draw with Toluca in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal. With the result from Tuesday’s match at Crew Stadium, the Major League Soccer side now have a fighting chance when they visit the Mexican club in the return leg on March 17.

There should probably not be any dispute with the choice of Nick Rimando as MLS Cup MVP. Perhaps not if we were to name him “playoff MVP” as well. But what about a most valuable player of the whole, long season? It was a long slog, after all. Who deserves the most credit for getting [...]