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D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com NASL.com The Oregonian Portland Timbers.com USL Soccer.com The Rhinos almost pulled out another road draw in front of a sold out crowd of 15,000+ in Portland on Saturday night. But for the second year in a row Portland won an early match with the R...

Devo's Direct Kicks Timbers 2010 Preview Part 3 - Defenders Timbers 2010 Preview Part 4 - Midfielders Timbers Fans gearing up for MLS Portland had a really long streak of games without a loss in 2009. And with the team making the jump to MLS in 2011, this year's squad could be even better. Add in...

There is a lot of soccer stuff going on, but not too much Rhinos stuff as they prepare for Portland : - It looks like Bill Sedgewick has the team into yoga.  - NASL.com has some more pictures from the Rhinos-Miami FC game. - Devo takes a look at where former Rhinos are playing in the USSF D2 in...

Rhinos Soccer.com Miami FC.com Devo's Direct Kicks Devo's Direct Kicks - More Analysis Coming NASL.com - Observations from Miami FC-Rochester Pretty much everyone agrees about one thing with the Rhinos performance in Miami on Saturday night: they played a heck of a lot better in the first half t...

Rhinos Soccer.com - Rhinos 2010 Kickoff dinner D&C.com - Troy Roberts expected to lead Rhinos defense Devo's Direct Kicks Miami Herald - Miami FC opens Saturday  Miami Herald - More from Miami FC media day We are a day away from the 2010 Rhinos season. The $1 million question is who is more p...

Rhinos Soccer.com - Rhinos Launch "Fifteen Days of Fun" D&C.com Devo's Direct Kicks D&C.com - Live Chat archive with Devo & Bob Lilley The Rhinos are getting their final preparations together before heading to Miami for Saturday night's season opener versus Miami FC. It looks like a bruised bone...

Rhinos Soccer.com Devo's Direct Kicks I got a chuckle out of the fact that Tino Nunez's wiki page was updated with his status as a member of the Rhinos before the club officially announced the signing today.  The Nunez signing gives the Rhinos 21 players under contract with the season opener in Mi...

MLS Insider MLS Insider Pitch Invasion Grant Wahl @ SI.com Unprofessional Foul It will be interesting to see if the DP rumor mill goes nuts now that teams have 2 slots to play with and can acquire a third one! I'm sure that NY, LA, and perhaps even Seattle and Toronto will start getting linked w...

For those that were wondering, Kick This! will be on the air this Saturday as usual. It's nice to know that we were missed by at least a couple of people when The Pain Clinic took over for a two hour Wrestlemania episode. News & Notes: - The Rhinos have inked MF Jamie Franks, MF Alfonso Motagalvan...

With MLS kicking off over the weekend, here is a Cliff's Notes version of stuff that happened. - Twitter is about the only place where you'd find info on the Rhino's 3-0 win over St. Bonaventure. - The Rhinos Twitter feed also says that they have signed 3 more players and an announcement will be...

Since I was a slacker yesterday, today is going to be chock full of links: - The official match ball of the USSF 2nd Division has been unveiled on-line. - Rhinos Soccer.com has little Q&As with Darren Spicer and Anthony Hamilton up. - It looks like Vincenzo Bernardo is headed to a trial with an...

- The Rhinos have signed Tyler Roselund bringing the total number of players under contract to 17. - WV Hooligan has a nice breakdown of a lot of the specifics around the new MLS CBA. - Here is some more good stuff from Ridge Mahoney on the new MLS CBA. - WV Hooligan is tracking all the player...

Rhinos Soccer.com Valenti Sports The Rhinos had a solid Saturday on and off the field from all reports. First, they beat the visiting Montreal Impact 1-0 in a pre-season game. Given that Montreal has had a much longer pre-season, is undergoing much less change, and the fact that they were taking th...

- Rhinos head coach Bob Lilley- Rhinos GM Pat Ercoli- Joe Valenti of Valenti Sports Tune in to 1280 AM or 107.3 FM at 11:05 AM and call in to 222-1280 to talk about the build up to the 2010 season Also, part two of the traditional Rhinos season ticket trivia contest is under way with weekly qualifie...

Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com Seriously, if they are going to unveil a green jersey for the 2010 season this week, why didn't they do it on Wednesday? Seriously though, the only real complaint I have is the plain Nothnagle box. Nothnagle has a nice logo and I think it would make for an eve...

Loads of stuff is going on. But I really don't have the energy...... But here goes: - The Rhinos signed defender Troy Roberts. A veteran of the league with MLS experience. Hopefully it's just another piece to the puzzle. - The Rhinos dropped Tuesday's pre-season game versus UB by a 2-1 score line....

Devo's Direct Kicks Memo to all trialists: You may not want Devo talking you up before tomorrow's game against UB or Saturday's tilt versus Montreal. Devo was looking forward to seeing former Vancouver midfielder Tyrell Burgess on Saturday and he said as much on Kick This! Then Tyrell is one of si...

USL Free Kicks Scott Schweitzer  is #7 on the list of the top 25 USL-1 players of the decade.  It would have been classic if he were #4 and Demmin ended up at #3. Other Rhinos tidbits: - Here is the place to get more info if you want to be an intern with the Rhinos in 2010. - The Rhinos are moving...

D&C.com Rex's Facebook Page - Photos from Day 1 of Camp Devo and the Rhinos have some nice stuff up about the opening of Rhinos training camp. With the first cuts roughly a week and a half away and the uncertainty about MLS roster cut down day, it will be fun to watch Bob Lilley work as he puts the...

Devo's Direct Kicks Devo is all over the opening day of Rhinos training camp. Not only does he have some quick hits on some of the players, he also has an update on the state of the press box! It will be interesting to see how this team comes together. With so many changes from last season, you coul...

Rhinos Soccer.com There aren't a bunch of big names on the list of trialists that the Rhinos announced this morning. And one name that some fans are already wondering why it's not there is former trialist Vincenzo Bernardo. Rhinos head coach Bob Lilley is scheduled to appear on tomorrow's edition of...

Time is short, so here are some quick hits on the news of the past 48 hrs: - First off, congrats to Scott Vallow for being #10 in the top 25 players in the USL-1 for the decade of the 2000s.  - Steve Donner may be back running a USL soccer club soon. Check out Devo's take on the announcement that...

If you didn't know, I'm a big hockey fan. And since tomorrow is "NHL Christmas" aka the NHL trade deadline, I may be pre-occupied tomorrow. So hopefully today's batch of internet link goodness can hold you over. Rhinos Soccer.com Devo's Direct Kicks Devo, Joe Guiliano, Andrew Battisti, Dave Cielinsk...

3rd Degree.net Today is MLS roster cut down day. So, it will be interesting to see what players are available tomorrow that Bob Lilley and the Rhinos will be interested in at least bringing into camp next week. When Coach Lilley was on Saturday's edition of Kick This!, he seemed pleased with where t...

USMNT Blog - New away kits to debut against the Netherlands US Soccer Store - New away jerseys on sale now Inside Minnesota Soccer Dirty Tackle I know I should be more interested in how the 20 players that Bob Bradley has called up for the match versus the Netherlands. But, I'm really psyched to...

My couch has a permanent imprint of my backside as I've been too busy watching Olympic curling to do much of anything. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. So, what has happened in the last 6 days? Boatloads. Rhinos stuff Having new Rhinos assistant coach in-studio for Saturday's show was both...

The Original Winger US Soccer.com via YouTube The USMNT has some good news on the injury front a day after there was some optimistic news from Charlie Davies. Today defender Oguchi Onyewu took part in some light drills at USMNT camp. Gooch is coming back from a knee injury suffered back in October...

Devo's Direct Kicks Rhinos Soccer.com The Rhinos have 10 players under contract for 2010 with yesterday's announcement Isaac Kissi and Anthony Hamilton and today's news that former Charleston Battery MF Darren Spicer has joined the Rhinos. The funny part is the theme that a lot of the new Rhinos ha...

Portland Timbers.com Ross Smith might go down as the most popular Rhino player ever to suit up for less than 20 league games for the club. Ross obviously has MLS aspirations as he would have signed with the Colorado Rapids if a physical hadn't uncovered his heart problem. So it is of little surprise...