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MLS has a new trophy for the winner of the MLS Cup. The Philip F. Anschultz Trophy is named after the LA and Houston owner who is also known as Uncle Phil as he has bankrolled MLS to such a degree that it is unlikely that MLS would be where it is at today without him. Luis Bueno's latest at SI.com...

This report from the UK has a picture that confirms that new Seattle Sounders FC Designated Player Freddie Ljungberg is fitting right in as the picture shows him walking into a Starbucks. I wonder if he'll have a Starbucks endorsement deal soon? At SI.com , Arash Markazi wonders if MLS will get mor...

Sounders FC.com It's official. Fredrik Ljungberg has signed on to be Seattle Sounders FC's Designated Player when they join MLS in 2009. Seattle now has four players on their roster with Kasey Keller in goal, Sebastien Le Toux of the USL Sounders, and young Gambian midfielder Sanna Nyassi. It's inte...

Rhinos Soccer.com Devo's Direct Kicks The Rhinos W-League franchise has been sold by Adirondack Sports Club which is owned by Rob Clark and purchased by NY Futbol Club owned by the team's head coach, Peter Amos. I have heard that the deal includes a lease agreement for PAETEC Park and that the team...

- If you have a young goalkeeper at home, there are 4 spots remaining for Scott Vallow's camp on Sunday at TSE. - Luis Bueno and Andrea Canales have shut down their Sideline Views blog. You can still catch them all over the internet with Andrea taking on a big role at Goal.com, as well as writing...

It's been a slow soccer news day, so I'm going to be lazy and throw out the best news nuggets of the day: - Montreal moved through to the CONCACAF Champions League Knock Out stage with a 1-1 home draw with CD Olimpia. And I'm sorry, but I hate Montreal too much to have any sort of USL pride about w...

Rhinos Soccer.com Sam's got a new title as he has been promoted to the President of Business Operations for the Rhinos. I know some people are wondering what this means for Matthew Ford who is the Rhinos President and General Manager, but I have yet to hear anything changing on that side of the Rhin...

MLSNet.com Danny Cepero made his MLS debut over the weekend largely because Jon Conway failed a doping test. But, his debut was memorable when he took a free kick 81 yards away from the Columbus goal, Crew goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum played the ball tentatively, and the Giants Stadium turf created...

With the deadline to throw your hat in the ring for the next round of MLS expansion allegedly being today, you have Ottawa in the mix,  FC Barcelona is working on bringing a team to Miami, and people that frequent Steven Goff's blog would pick Portland and St. Louis are currently ahead with Mont...

I had a rough day yesterday, so heregoes: - Vancouver defeated Puerto Rico 2-1 in the USL 1st Division Championship game on Sunday. Former Rhino forward Charles Gbeke scored both of the Whitecaps goals to give Vancouver their second title in the past three seasons. - The USL announced the USL-1 ho...

Rhinos Soccer.com D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks The Rhinos announced yesterday that 2008 MVP Johnny Menyongar has signed a contract for the 2009 and 2010 season, along with an option for 2011. Re-signing the team MVP would seem to be a no-brainer. But, some people had been talking about potential own...

Devo's Direct Kicks There are some interesting tidbits out of Jeff's latest blog posting after he talked with the Rhinos brass about how they intend to move forward this off season in building the 2009 roster: - Alen Marcina is listed as a free agent. When the Rhinos acquired Marcina from Minnesota,...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks I have a feeling that Puerto Rico's refs could join Montreal's in Rhinos history. Although, after the two red cards on Friday night to Puerto Rico, my guess is that they weren't too happy with the quality of officiating here. Even with having expectations of advancing to...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Tonight, the USL 1st Division Semifinals begin with the Rhinos hosting regular season champs Puerto Rico and Montreal hosting Vancouver. The forecast for this evening is cool, but it does appear that the rain showers that have been hanging around are supposed to have mo...

D&C.com ESPN.com We are almost 24 hours away from the first leg of the Rochester-Puerto Rico USL 1st Division semifinal series at PAETEC Park. It will be interesting to see if Puerto Rico is affected at all by their 2-2 draw with Municipal last evening in Guatemala.    It will also be interesting...

USL Soccer.com Johnny Menyongar and Scott Palguta were named to the USL 1st Division 2nd Team yesterday. The interesting thing is that Menyongar has played as a withdrawn striker for most of the season, but was listed as a midfielder on the team. There were a bunch of former Rhinos on the two teams...

USL Soccer.com Unfortunately, the second leg of the Montreal-Vancouver series will be the Fox Soccer Channel Game of the Week on Sunday. So, you'll either have to tune into My Country 107.3 FM and listen to Don Stevens or click over to USL Live.com to catch the Rhinos and Islanders battle for a sp...

Rhinos Soccer.com D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Charleston Battery.com The Rhinos-Battery Quarterfinal series may have lacked the big score lines of Montreal defeating Seattle 4-3 on aggregate and Vancouver getting past Minnesota 5-4 on aggregate, there may have been more red cards in the other serie...

- Start plastering this flyer for tomorrow's game allover the place!   - Devo has an article up at ESPN.com with a USL 1st Division Playoff Preview. - Jeff also has a piece in today's D&C about Ross Smith and how he is getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. I wonder if he'll get any v...

- It's official - Game 2 versus Charleston will be on Fox Soccer Channel at 7:30pm on Sunday. - Rhinos Soccer.com and Devo's blog have info on Special Olympics gold medalist Eric Byrd who will be honored at Friday's game. - USL Soccer.com has the full Quarterfinal bracket up. - Carolina missed t...

Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com Rhinos Soccer.com USL 1st Division - Final Standings The 2008 USL 1st Division regular season has come to a close and the Rhinos have drawn the Charleston Battery in the first round of the playoffs as the Rhinos finished 4th and Charleston won their tiebreaker with S...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com USL Soccer.com The good news coming out of last night's match is that Scott Palguta and Scott Vallow got the night off, Tiger Fitzpatrick only played 22 minutes, Danny Earls only played 14 minutes, and Steve Guppy only played 8 minutes, and the team...

D&C.com When the Rhinos close out the 2008 USL 1st Division Regular season at Miami FC tonight, all that is really on the line for Rochester is just playing for playoff seeding and the last place Blues are just playing out the string as they have no shot at the playoffs, even if they win their fin...

Here are the WPS USWNT Allocations from today's announcement: Bay Area - Nicole Barnhart, Rachel Buehler and Leslie Osborne Boston Breakers - Angela Hucles, Kristine Lilly and Heather Mitts Chicago Red Stars - Carli Lloyd, Kate Markgraf, and Lindsay Tarpley NY/NJ Sky Blue FC - Natasha Kai,...

With the WPS Allocation less than 20 minutes away, I'm going to go through the interesting links for today: - Check out what Abby is wearing for the Allocation Gala. - Ross Smith was named to the USL 1st Division Team of the Week thanks to his game tying goal against the RailHawks on Sunday. - Rh...

Soccer Insider Steven Goff of the Washington Post is reporting that Abby Wambach will be allocated to the Washington Freedom today. WPS is going to announce at 12:30pm ET today where the US Women's National Team players will be allocated to. And Goff is saying that Abby Wambach will be allocated to...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks USL Soccer.com - Standings USL Soccer.com - Schedule The good news is that the Rhinos had already clinched a playoff spot entering this weekend. So, the fact that Puerto Rico came into Rochester and won 2-0 and then the Rhinos went to Carolina and grabbed a point on...

US Soccer.com Washington Post.com SI.com - AP article The US got goals from Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey in the first 20 minutes last night and they cruised from there. Brian Ching added the knockout punch in the 57th minute and Tim Howard and crew kept the opponent off the scoresheet for th...

US Soccer.com Ridge Mahoney @ SI.com Chicago Tribune on Michael Bradley Chicago Tribune talks to Tim Howard Chicago Tribune on first two results NJ.com I hope that Bob Bradley goes with a more attacking formation tonight and the US blows T&T out of the water in their first home match of the...

USL Soccer.com Matthew's game winning, and playoff clinching, goal on Saturday night landed the Rhinos forward on this week's edition of the USL 1st Division Team of the Week. Former Rhinos Noah Delgado was also on the Team of the Week as he scored the goal in the showdown of first place teams betwe...