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The MLS playoffs have begun. Saturday was the day of the Road Warriors as the best teams in each conference were each able to get a win away from home. In NY, DC United got a late goal as Jamie Moreno and Christian Gomez played a beautiful one-two play at the top of the Red Bulls penalty area and G...

Globe & Mail Toronto Sun Canada.com MLS Commish Don Garber was in Toronto this week talking up Toronto FC and discussing a number of areas of concern for fans. Garber was defending the decision to go with a next generation artificial surface, like the FieldTurf at PAETEC Park, saying that without it...

MLSNet.com Here are my choices: Gatorade Rookie of the Year It has to be Chivas USA's Jonathan Bornstein. The 4th round pick out of UCLA played all but two minutes for Chivas USA this season (the most amongst all field players in MLS) and ended up tied for 3rd on the team with 6 goals. MLS Comebac...

Grant Wahl:Note to MLS: Get Beckham My favorite MLS non-story story is popping up yet again. I guess the powers that be have grown tired with speculating on who might be the next head coach of the US Men's National Team, so they've moved on to Beckham Watch 2006. SI's Grant Wahl uses the reports tha...

Heading into this past weekend's action, it was 6 of the 8 teams that would battle to get to MLS Cup 2006 on November 12th at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas were already known. But, that didn't mean that there wasn't a boatload of drama in the battle for the final playoff spots in the East and West...

USAToday.com Daytona Beach News-Journal KC Star In a stunning move, interim Kansas City Wizards head coach Brian Bliss has suspended US National Team forward Eddie Johnson for at least this week's regular season finale versus the New York Red Bulls. Johnson played only 6 minutes two weeks ago in a...

FIFA.com FIFA has announced the list of the 20 nominees for the 2006 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year and Rochester's own Abby Wambach was included on the exclusive list. Abby was joined on the list by teammate Kristine Lilly, Brazil's Marta, Christine Sinclair of Canada, and Mexico's Monica O...

RailHawks soccer team names head coach As expected, Carolina RailHawks managing partner Chris Economides will name ex-Rhino defender Scott Schweitzer as the first head coach in team history this afternoon. Schweitzer was a logical choice given not only his long history with Economides, but also beca...

USSoccer.com Memories of "Mooch" MLSNet.com BigAppleSoccer.com USLSoccer.com USSoccerPlayers.com Yanks Abroad Soccer America: Remembering Mooch Klinsmann offered US and Mexican jobs? USSoccerPlayers.com ESPN.com It appears that Jurgen Klinsmann has been offered the job to head up the nationa...

Heading in to the offseason, the Rhinos can go down a variety of paths in the attempt to both win a title next season and please a fanbase that wasn't exactly thrilled with a squad that finished the regular season with the second best record in the USL 1st Division and made it to their first champio...

Since the season is over and the Rhinos are formulating their plans for the off season, I felt it was a great time to take the temperature of Rhino fans with regards who they would like to see back next season and who they would rather not see come back to the team in 2007. I asked fans to rate 28 p...

FoxSports.com Clint Dempsey beat out Kasey Keller and Brian McBride in being named the US Soccer Men's Honda Player of the Year. Dempsey was the lone US player to score in the 2006 World Cup and has been pushing for a move to Europe ever since he returned from Germany. Clint also has 7 goals and 3 a...

The 2006 season is over. Currently, the team is doing their exit interviews with the players and formulating their plan to build a better team for next season. The question I'm left wondering is do the Rhinos have a plan in place to make the 2007 not only more successful on the field, but also more...

By now everyone has digested the depressing 3-0 loss on Saturday night. After watching the tape (that Bertz offside was really, really close) and mulling it over, here is a few general questions I have today: How can you remove a forward from the 18 that has played in the least 5 matches (starting...

I've stolen ideas for colums before and this feels like the right time to do a Nick Bakay rip off of his Tale of the Tape columns: In one corner we have the home team that has been in this spot five times before, but hasn't been here in five years. In the other corner we have the road team that is...

The person that organizes the largest group and tells Norm that they are part of the SoccerSam.com Pack the Park Group Sales Challenge will receive a replica Juninho DaSilva jersey and a certificate good for 4 club seats to the 2007 Rhinos home opener. Soccer Sam has also added a jar of Salvator...

D&C In a very surprising move, the Rhinos have dismissed back up goalkeeper Patrick Hannigan from the squad less than a week before the USL 1st Division Championship game to be held at PAETEC Park on Saturday evening. The only comment that Coach Calloway would give on the situation was that Hannigan...

Vancouver appeals Sebrango's penalty Whitecaps win on field, losing off it The USL has already said that they won't overlook Sebrango's second yellow card versus Montreal on Sunday for taking his jersey off after scoring the series clinching goal for Vancouver. So, the Whitecaps are now going to tr...

The 2006 USL 1st Division title game is set and it will be the Vancouver Whitecaps heading to Rochester to take on the Rhinos at PAETEC Park. The game will be at 7pm on Saturday, September 30th. Tickets will go on sale today at 10am and you can get them through Ticketmaster.com , at the PAETEC Park...

The Rochester Rhinos have announced season ticket prices for the 2007 season and they have rolled back the prices on a variety of locations. Club seats in sections 106-108 were $600 in 2006 and will be $450 in 2007. Sections 101, 102, and the Supporter's Sections in 131 and 132 will now be priced at...

Hollingsworth suffers broken foot will miss remainder of Battery season The Charleston Battery got some bad news over the weekend when co-leading scorer and 2006 USL 1st Division 1st Team All-League midfielder Ben Hollingsworth broke his foot in the first half of Friday's playoff opener versus Puert...

ENDI.com Apparently the fans in Rochester aren't the only ones that were upset with the way local refs handled a match in which the Charleston Battery were the visiting team. On Sunday, the Puerto Rico Islanders and their fans were upset with the local officiating crew because of some decisions that...

The Charleston Battery earned their first win over the Puerto Rico Islanders last night with a 1-0 win in Puerto Rico to take their first round playoff series 3-2 on aggregate. Charleston is the only road team to win in PAETEC Park and will likely have some confidence heading into Friday night's gam...

In an attempt to stay sharp during their week off before facing either the Puerto Rico Islanders or the Charleston Battery in the USL 1st Division semifinals, the team headed south to take on the USL 2nd Division's Harrisburg City Islanders last evening. The Rhinos took the game 4-0 on a first h...

In the series that the Rhinos will be watching very closely, the Charleston Battery take on the Puerto Rico Islanders starting tonight at Blackbaud Stadium. And while the Battery are the higher seeded team, Puerto Rico won the season series between the two teams going 2-0-2 in their four match...

Just like in her last US Women's National Team game in Rochester, Abby Wambach didn't disappoint the home crowd last night as she had yet another two goal effort in the 3-1 US win over Mexico at PAETEC Park last night. Abby's first goal was a PK that was created when Mexican defender Carmen Pad...

The weather forecast is less than stellar and everyone has their list of excuses at the ready, but tonight is the night that PAETEC Park makes it's US Soccer debut live on ESPN2. If you live in Rochester and want MLS to come here, then I hope that you are at the game tonight. If you want US Socce...

Team of the Week - 21 Scott Vallow's 13th and 14th shutouts of the season earned him a spot on this week's USL 1st Division Team of the Week. Vallow ended the regular season leading the league in games played, minutes played, saves, wins, and shutouts, and he was third in the league in goals aga...

After Aaran Lines picked up his fifth caution of the season, some Rhino fans were wondering if that meant that he was going to be suspended for the Rhinos first playoff game on Friday, September 22nd at PAETEC Park. USL Director of Professional League Operations Steven Thompson says that Aaran w...

The Rhinos now have their list of potential opponents in the semifinals narrowed down to two teams: Charleston and Puerto Rico After the Rhinos went down to Charleston and played the Battery to a scoreless draw, they then had to wait and see how the other matches on the evening played out to see who...