Dubai Sevens: Day 1 Match Results

Below are the final Day 1 Match Results:
Match 1: New Zealand-41 Scotland – 5
Match 2: France-26 Arabian Gulf-0
Match 3: Fiji-31 Argentina -19
Match 4: Australia-28 Zimbabwe -21
Match 5: Samoa-24 Kenya-19
Match 6: Wales-22 USA-7
Match 7: South Africa-31 Canada-5
Match 8: England-27 Tunisia-12
Match 9: New Zealand-64 [...]

IRB Sevens: 2007-2008 Campaign Kicks Off In Dubai

The 2007-2008 IRB Sevens World Series kicks off tomorrow at the location of the 2009 Sevens World Cup, Dubai. Sixteen nations will be involved in the Dubai tournament and I believe most of the nations involved will have an equal shot at winning the tournament.
Here are the Groups & Opening Day Fixtures:
Pools:
Pool A: New [...]

U.S. Soccer: Nowak Calls U-23’s To Training

U.S. Men’s U-23 head coach Peter Nowak has called 22 players to Carson, Ca to begin training for 2 upcoming friendlies versus the Chinese U-23 squad. For the U-23’s, these matches will serve as a warm up prior to the CONCACAF U-23 Championship to be held in March. The top 2 teams from this tournament [...]

Champions League: Stayin’ Alive

Liverpool kept their hope of advancing to the knockout stage of the Champions League alive last night after a 4-1 thumping of Porto at Anfield.
Fernando Torres scored twice for the reds, while Steven Gerrard & Peter Crouch added goals to seal the deal. Group A is now pretty tight as Porto remains on top [...]

NCAA:Notre Dame Advance To Round of 16

The Fighting Irish men’s soccer team advanced to the Round of 16 in the Men’s NCAA Division 1 soccer tournament by defeating Oakland University last night 2-1 at Alumni Field. Notre Dame will take on Santa Clara, who defeated UCLA. The game will be held at Santa Clara this Saturday at 10pm ET.
Joseph Lapira netted [...]

NCAA: Irish Host Oakland Tonight

The Notre Dame Men’s soccer team returns to action tonight at Alumni Field as they play host to Oakland University in the 2nd Round of the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Soccer Tournament.
The Irish are 12-4-5 on the season while Oakland enters with a 12-6-3 record. For the Irish Men, this year marks their 7th straight [...]

AP: Celtic Nations To Hold Cup Tournament

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) – A soccer tournament among Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will start in 2009 and be held every two years.
The Football Association of Ireland said commercial arrangements and match dates for the Celtic Cup are still being completed.The FAI said in a statement late Monday that the home and away games [...]

Champions League: Freddy Adu Hits The Big Stage

Freddy Adu has played real well lately for Benfica. Although the American still comes off the bench, he seems to be finding his stride in European soccer. Could today be Freddy’s “coming out” party in front of the world? I have a feeling Freddy will have a big match today as Benfica hosts AC Milan [...]

Champions League: Ronaldo Leads Man U

Cristiano Ronaldo scored during injury time to lead Manchester United to a thrilling 2-1 win over Sporting Lisbon in Group F action. The win vaults Man U to the knock out stage of the competition.
In other action (and I’m covering it cause I gotta prop teams Americans play for), Rangers suffered a crushing defeat to [...]

Welcome To The New Page!

We’ve still have a few bugs to work out. If you visited this blog via http://trygol.blogspot.com then…welcome. Please bookmark this new page. As you can see, all your rugby news is on the left side of your screen, while all your soccer needs are on the right side of the screen.
If you look at the [...]

Site Update: Two New RSS Feeds

I’ve added 2 more news feeds so you can get your …well… news on. Since this is my blog, I’m going to promote MY TEAMS. Seems only right. Anyways, I’ve added an RSS news feed from Fulham FC’s official website as well as a feed from a great Chicago Fire blog. Hope you enjoy them [...]

Guinness Premiership Standings

I’ve found myself covering more soccer than rugby lately. I hope to change that in the future, especially with the 7’s World Series about to begin. I haven’t even watched much rugby since the end of the Rugby World Cup. This blog was mainly set up to cover USA Rugby and once the Super League [...]