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Rhinos Soccer.com At Puerto Rico and at Miami That is a tough road trip of two games in three days. Add in that Miami has the reigning player of the week in Diego Serna and I'd be really happy if they were able to get 2 or 3 points out of these two games. Add in the suspensions due to the Earls and...

USL Soccer.com Western NY FC.com Someone recently posted a question on Joy McKenzie's Facebook page about what is up with WNY Pride, the W-League team that was to play in Rochester this summer. Poking around the internet, I've found some interesting things. First is that the WNY FC.com web page doe...

Ticketmaster.com US Soccer.com Tickets to the game in Rochester versus Canada will range in price from $18 to $150. You do get to keep your US Soccer camp chair for the $150, so it's got to be worth it, right? The really interesting thing is that on the seating diagram, sections 101, 102, and 114...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com Rhinos Soccer.com USL Soccer.com - Scoresheet The Rhinos got off to a rocky start to the 2009 season in Carolina on Saturday evening as they dropped their season opener to the RailHawks by a 1-0 scoreline. Add to that the fact that they will be reduced to 16 healthy p...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com Deadspin.com My Fox Philly.com I wish we could talk about the Rhinos opener tomorrow night in Carolina. I wish we could talk about Pat Ercoli being the new color commentary person on the Rhinos radio broadcasts with Joe Giuliano moving over to the...

Tomorrow the Rhinos will hold a press conference to announce the new naming rights sponsor of the stadium, along with the radio dup for the 2009 Rhinos radio broadcasts. I have no idea who the naming rights sponsor is, other than Sam's hints that it is a local company, and I'm hoping for a company l...

Rhinos Soccer.com Tonight is the final pre-season game for the Rhinos as they take on the University of Buffalo Bulls at 5pm at Rhinos Stadium. It will be interesting to see how many starters play tonight and whether fans get their first look at guys like Tai Atieno and Darren Kenton. News & Notes:...

Carolina-Minnesota Match Report Carolina-Minnesota Scoresheet The Carolina RailHawks defeated Minnesota 2-1 on Saturday evening to open up the 2009 USL 1st Division season. Carolina's Mark Schulte scored the first goal of the season in the 22nd minute, Minnesota's Melvin Tarley was the first player...

Rhinos Soccer.com The Rhinos have signed English defender Darren Kenton to a one year deal. Kenton has played in the central part of midfield and at right back in his career.   It will be interesting to see if this pushes John Ball back into a right outside midfield spot or if he'll be a depth gu...

Devo's Direct Kicks Jeff is reporting that new Rhinos forward Chris Sanders has torn his ACL at practice this week. Given what he had shown through pre-season, I doubt that if Sanders is done for the year that the team will miss him on the field much. The issue now is more about budget space as the...

Devo's Direct Kicks SBI.net USL Soccer.com Jonny Steele said that they were going to play like the score was 0-0. When I turned the game on last night about 15 minutes in, Puerto Rico was playing a bunker with 5 defenders. That doesn't sound like a team that is playing like they need to win to adv...

With MLS and WPS underway and the USL 1st Division opening up the 2009 season on Saturday, I can't wait for the Rhinos season to open up. I know, with snow forecasted for tomorrow, I should be patient. But, I'm not! With a USL 1st Division preview out today (feel free to complain about the Rhinos p...

Seattle PI.com This is going to end up one of two ways: 1) Fredy Montero will go from a star on the rise to MLS's version of OJ Simpson within the span of a month 2) The woman is lying and will make it harder for woman who are really attacked by celebrities to be taken seriously. Either way, this is...

US Soccer.com MLSNet.com Colorado Soccer Now MLS Talk No Short Corners US Soccer.com Youtube Highlights Big Apple Soccer.com Bunky Country There were questions about wether Jozy Altidore was fit enough to go 90 minutes. Well, since he got a hat trick (and could have had another goal or two,...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com Honestly, there wasn't a whole lot here that I didn't know about. The big things moving forward will be selling the suites once their finished and getting a solid naming rights deal done. Rob Clark has to have expectations on what those revenue streams will become. If th...

Saturday's show with Kenney Bertz, Jason Perry, Chris Economides, and Abby Wambach was good. The Rhinos 1-0 win over the Italia Shooters, not so much. The first 70 minutes of the US-El Salvador game was horrible. The last 20+ minutes were great and made the point gained on the road bittersweet...

The Rhinos announced the signings of Mike Ambersley and Nano Short today to bring the number of players under contract to 19. The word I'm getting is that the team will stick with the 19 player roster for a while as opposed to signing another player right now. Here is the positional breakdown: Forwa...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com As expected, the Rhinos took care of business defeating the University of Rochester 4-0. The Rhinos played all of the signed players except for Ze Roberto (recovering from knee surgery) and Tai Atieno (not in town due to national team duty). Newly signe...

The Rhinos have signed midfielder/defender Kwame Sarkodie to a one year deal. Sarkodie played his college soccer at the University of Cincinnati. He made his pro debut last season with the Cleveland City Stars of the USL 2nd Division. After the USL 2nd Division season ended, Sarkodie was signed by...

With Seattle making it's MLS debut and both Vancouver and Portland landing 2011 MLS expansion teams last week, some Rhinos fans are wondering what is the future of the USL 1st Division and the Rhinos? Over the past year or so, I've heard talk off an MLS 2nd Division should FIFA demand a promotion/re...

On Saturday, the Rhinos kicked off the 2009 pre-season with a scoreless draw versus the Cleveland City Stars. I called Devo after the game to give him my quick hits on the match that he put on Devo's Direct Kicks and Rhinos Soccer.com has a recap as well. Since that was covered, I'll go over the...

Picture from Seattle Times Gallery NY Daily News MLSNet.com Seattle Times Notebook Seattle PI.com Sounders FC.com Seattle Times Seattle PI.com MLSNet.com Goal.com MLSNet.com - Michael Lewis Drew Carey predicted a 1-0 Sounders victory. Well, that would have been the final score had Fredy Monter...

MLSNet.com - Sounders FC host Red Bulls in debut The Sports Network - Seattle, New York set to open 2009 season Advantage Played - 3 Questions for Seattle and New York Next Season Sports - It's About All of Us Seattle Times - What to expect from Sounders FC Seattle Times - Be in your seat by 6...

MLSNet.com Vancouver MLS 2011.com It's official. Vancouver has been granted a 2011 MLS expansion franchise. A renovated BC Place will also be the home of the franchise when it makes the jump in two seasons. There are also reports that Portland will be named as the league's 18th team on Friday. SB...

SI.com SBI.net MLSNet.com - Not an expansion team MLSNet.com - Preview Quick Hits - Sounders FC MLSNet.com - Excitement surrounds Seattle's first season Examiner.com - Are you with the band? NY Times blog - Carey Waits for the Other Boot to Drop in Seattle The Oregonian - Former Portland stars...

Since we had John Ball in studio on Saturday, we got one name of a guy that is in Rhinos camp. That player is Kwame Sarkodie who played college soccer for the Cincinnati Bearcats, spent the 2008 season with the Cleveland City Stars of the USL 2nd division, and then signed on with the Colorado Rapid...

It's been a slow news day and I'm tired. We do have a good show lined up for tomorrow with Scott Vallow and Mike Ambersley scheduled to join us with John Ball joining me in studio. Why Ambo? Tune in tomorrow to Sportsradio 1280AM between 11 and noon and find out. Crazy thought of the day  The Rapid...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks The Rhinos have lost defender Scott Palguta to the Colorado Rapids of MLS a little over a week before their first pre-season game. Apparently the out clause in Scott's contract had a March 15th cut off, so Steve Guppy and the Rapids swooped in just in the nick of time. A...

I'm feeling lazy today, so here is the latest from around the soccer world: The Portland to MLS drama drags on - Blue Oregon cracks on Wall Street about the Portland MLS bid. - Portland's mayor is still pushing for the deal to happen. - The Oregonian Editorial Board has the title Nowheresville...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Devo has an article in today's D&C about Scott Palguta heading to Colorado. It doesn't appear that it's a done deal yet, but things don't look good for the Rhinos on the eve of camp opening up. Hey, is that Scott half cut off of the left side or is he just starting out...