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After Saturday's 1-0 win in Atlanta, the Rhinos are six points clear of 8th place Minnesota and sitting in a relative tie for 3rd with Charleston in the USL 1st Division standings. If Sports Club Stats.com is correct, the Rhinos have a 98.5% chance of making the playoffs. The really cool thing is t...

I have been really busy this week, so I'm goijng to have some quick one liners from the big news stories of the week: - The Rhinos acquire Alen Marcina from Minnesota at the deadline - Letting Rey Martinez go and adding Alen Marcina is a net win for the Rhinos, IMO. No let's hope Marcina can get an...

D&C.com D&C.com - Notes Devo's Direct Kicks The Atlanta Silverbacks looked like a shell of the team that Came to PAETEC Park on August 3rd and came away with a 4-3 win. Ansu Toure has been traded to Miami FC, Macoumba Kandji, the 2nd leading scorer in the USL 1st Division, was out with an injur...

Carolina RailHawks.com Well, it didn't take Rey Martinez long to find a new team. Five days after the Rhinos announced that the popular forward/midfielder was let go, he was introduced as the newest member of the Carolina RailHawks. Rey is traveling with the RailHawks as they face the Minnesota Thun...

USL Soccer.com Luke Kreamalmayer's goal and an assist versus Minnesota on Saturday night landed him a spot on this week's USL 1st Division Team of the Week. Luke was denied the player of the week award as Edson Elcock scored two goals when Puerto Rico went on the road to Seattle and won by a 3-0 sc...

LA Times.com LA Galaxy.com PE.com Sideline Views Yesterday it was made official with Bruce Arena being named the Head Coach and GM of the LA Galaxy. Also of note is that Brighton native Dave Sarachan was named Associate Head Coach. It will be interesting to see how Bruce's run with the Galaxy goe...

US Soccer.com SI.com Prior to the Olympics, people wondered who would step up in the absence of Abby Wambach. After Natasha Kai stepped up in OT versus Canada in the Quarterfinals, you have Angela Hucles scoring twice in the Semifinals as the US dispatched Japan 4-2 to advance to the Gold Medal Game...

US Soccer.com - Match report US Soccer.com - Knockout Schedule SI.com The good luck of the USWNT at the Beijing Olympics continued today when Natasha Kai's overtime goal sent the Americans through to the Olympic semifinals. Today's match was interrupted by a weather delay that lasted over ninety m...

US Soccer.com Big Apple Soccer.com Fox Soccer.com Yanks Abroad Yesterday, everything broke right for the US Women at the Beijing Olympics and they ended up winning their group. Today, everything broke the wrong way and the US Men will not advance out of group play after falling 2-1 to Nigeria and...

Rhinos Soccer.com D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks The Rhinos have officially announced that Kenney Bertz has signed a contract through the 2009 season with a club option for 2010. It will be interesting to see how Coach Tilley adds Bertz into the Rhinos lineup. Will Bertz replace Ross Smith in centra...

Saturday morning it was the US women bouncing back from their horrible opener to defeat Japan 1-0 on a Carli Lloyd goal. Yesterday it was watching the US Men gain a point against the Netherlands in a back and forth affair. Grant Wahl and SBI.net have their post-game takes on what was ever so clos...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Puerto Rico and the Rhinos both need the points on the line when they face each other in Puerto Rico tonight and at PAETEC Park on Sunday. The Islanders are currently one point behind Charleston and Vancouver for first place overall and they have games in hand on both cl...

US Soccer.com SI.com Big Apple Soccer.com Sideline Views If you don't want to know what happened in today's Olympic opener for the US Women's National Team, stop reading now.       OK.   So when I saw on the ESPNews ticker that the USWNT dropped their Olympic opener to Norway by a 2-0 score, my fi...

D&C.com Rhinos Soccer.com Hartford Hawks.com Hartford Informer.com With Ze Roberto on the shelf and Andrew Gregor looking at a one game suspension on Friday night, the Rhinos have added 22yo playmaking midfielder Daniel Antunez. Antunez finished his college soccer career at the University of Hart...

D&C.com - Match Report D&C.com - Notes Devo's Direct Kicks USL Soccer.com Macoumba Kandji was more than a handful for the Rhinos defense last night. Not only did he score two goals (one on a PK), but he drew another PK that former Rhino David Hayes converted for the game winner, but he also had a f...

Over the past few weeks, Vancouver has added defender Wesley Charles, Portland has brought back USL veteran Byron Alvarez, Montreal added midfielder Felix Brillant, and now Carolina has added forward Ronald Cerritos who was recently released by Real Maryland of the USL 2nd Division. It will be inter...

Soccer Insider So, Blanco's temper tantrum during Chicago's US Open Cup loss to DC United has resulted in Blanco being suspended from Open Cup play for two years, at least according to Steven Goff. This is the blow up that the Blanco haters had been hoping for. Personally, I hope this ramps up the C...

USL Soccer.com Danny Earls was named the USL 1st Division Player of the Week for Week 15 thanks to his goal on Friday night versus Montreal. Joining Earls on the Team of the Week is fellow Rhinos Luke Kreamalmayer (game winning goal in Montreal on Sunday) and two former Rhinos in Charles Gbeke and F...

SuperLiga 2008 Schedule Houston Dynamo.com Houston Chronicle The Houston Dynamo and Pachuca will tangle for the second year in a row in the SuperLiga semifinals. Add in the 2007 CONCACAF Champions League semifinal showdown between the two clubs and there has been a nice little rivalry growing. The...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com Montreal Impact.com A few more results like that and the Rhinos may start calling Saputo Stadium their home away from home. It may also revive a rivalry that somemay have thought was on life support. Jeff has all sorts of cool tidbits in his blog entry...

D&C.com USL Soccer.com Devo's Direct Kicks Montreal is coming off a big win in Toronto that gained them a Canadian championship. Rochester is coming off a highly successful road trip that saw them gain their first two road wins of the season and propel themselves into 4th place in the USL 1st Divis...

USL Soccer.com Johnny Menyongar was named USL 1st Division Player of the Week and Scott Vallow, Danny Earls, and Luke Kreamalmayer all earned Team of the Week honors this week. With two big road victories, it wasn't surprising that the Rhinos were all over the weekly honors. Rochester's opponents th...

US Soccer.com US Soccer.com - Conference Call Podcast D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Big Apple Soccer.com Yesterday was the day that Abby Wambach took part in a media conference call to talk about her injury, her rehab, and her wishes for her team going into the Olympics. Abby's long road back to th...

- The Rhinos are tied for 3rd with Vancouver (although the Whitecaps have 3games in hand over the Rhinos). This season is so crazy that the Rhinos are 6 point behind Charleston for 1st and 4 points ahead of Miami FC and Carolina who are tied for 8th. - Steve Guppy was told to leave the bench area i...

D&C.com D&C.com - Fan Reaction Devo's Direct Kicks 13 WHAM.com US Soccer.com - Surgery Successful Grant Wahl's Blog at SI.com The reaction to Abby's broken leg continues to pour in. I loved Grant Wahl's take on the situation that Abby only knows one speed and there is no way that she can "play it...

D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks US Soccer.com SBI.net I get up way too early to watch last night's game live. So, when the news this morning said Abby was out of the Olympics, I ran downstairs, rewound the tape, and checked to see what happened. Thankfully, it wasn't Nicky Spooner v2.0 and the play...

Devo's Direct Kicks Is it breaking news that Ross Smith's toe is not broken? The Rhinos officially did not have a timeline for Smith's return when I asked them  yesterday, but Darren Tilley told Jeff that he hopes that Ross would be available on Sunday when the Rhinos roll into Minnesota to take on...

Soccer America.com It appears that Pat Onstad will get named to the MLS roster for the All-Star game in Toronto. New England Revolution head coach Steve Nicol is also the coach of the MLS All-Star team that will take on West Ham United next Thursday evening at BMO Field in Toronto. He is expected to...

D&C.com - Rhinos Archive Devo's Direct Kicks The Rhinos were able to secure four points with their 1-0 win over Seattle on Friday night and their scoreless draw last evening versus Miami FC. The Cliff's Notes recap was basically that they got the job done versus the Sounders and Miami FC's not so be...

D&C.com Andrew Gregor has a chip on his shoulder. And the Rhinos are gambling that it will make Gregor into what he was as little as one year ago which is one of the better offensively productive midfielders in the USL 1st Division. So, when the Rhinos host the Seattle Sounders as the USL Game of th...