LA Sol Photographs

What can I say, I'm a work-a-holic. If I'm not working on a project I go stir crazy, and all this media I have from making On the Ball leaves me way more content than I could possibly process for the show.

Sooo side projects like this happen:

ReDesign

Working on a new design for the blog. Might just keep it simple-template style. Everything else just gets...cluttered. So if you check in and see something weird, it's probably going to change...

How to Follow WPS 2010 Draft Day via Twitter

The 2010 Women’s Pro Soccer college draft is happening concurrently with the NCAA convention in Philadelphia, PA. Starting at 10am ET, the coverage will begin on Twitter at 9am to follow a roundtable discussion. Scroll to the bottom of this post to find a list of the various twitter accounts you should follow to be in the loop.

Background on the Women's Pro Soccer league 2010 College Draft

16 hours and counting...

The 2010 draft happens this Friday, January 15 @ 10am ET (so 7am for us West Coasters) in Philadelphia, PA, home to the new Independence expansion team.

The Fan Experience

I’m not a short post person. I start with one idea and write my way to 3 others. It’s easy to split them (see my last two posts) but I don’t like the fractured idea concept…I’d rather put it all out in one massive post and let you read or not read it all as you will.

I’ll work on focusing my posts, but for now here are some of my musings on the Fan experience.

The Egg before the Chicken: Crowds and US Soccer

So what is it about soccer that attracts the largest and most passionate crowds across the world and yet only has this slowly growing “handful” in the U.S.? And I know this is a bit misleading as the sport is one of the most played in the US showing it as a quite popular sport to play, but playing is a far cry from following.

UCLA v. Virginia and Great Soccer Culture

Looking at the UCLA v. Virginia game from a few weeks (ok, months) ago, two words sufficiently sum up the game: UCLA dominated. Even when Virginia had the ball, UCLA was only a touch or two away from reclaiming it. More importantly, the Bruin women stepped onto their field knowing they owned that ball. Though this is not Football (you will never get me to talk like this about Bruins and the pigskin), even admitting the obvious talent of last years Bruin women’s soccer squad hurts my Trojan sensibilities. So when I say they were good you know that it is overcoming a lot of collegiate prejudice to get there. The 3-0 score—one goal by Dea Cook to start the whole game off in the 3’ minute and two more by Sydney Leroux in the 41’ and 88’ minutes—reinforces their authority on that field.