Akron's game against New Mexico will be televised nationally on Fox Soccer Channel.  Game is scheduled to kick off at 7pm EST.  Do yourself a favor and check it out.  Not only do they play gorgeous soccer, one of our future Sounders is already starting (and playing every minute) as a freshman.  They will also be on FSC on Wednesday, October 5th against UCSB.

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Very nice article profiling the Academy boys.  The author, J.R. Eskilson (also known as the College Soccer Professor) was on hand this weekend when the boys beat Real So Cal 5-0.  He spoke with Sawatzky, Hanauer and Chris Henderson.  Nice little insight into what's going on with the youth teams.  It certainly looks like an Okoli signing could happen any day now, however the Sounders seem to be sending mixed signals.  Word.

In the wake of today's announcement that the homegrown limit has been lifted and roster sizes have increased, MLSSoccer.com has an interesting article talking about the Sounders and their Academy teams.  It looks like the Sounders will be adding some Academy graduates for the 2011 season.  It doesn't say who, but Chris Henderson is quoted as saying they will "add two or three" players.  Very interesting.  Hopefully the success at the DA level will translate to the first team.

ESPN.com is currently doing a promotion to vote for the top player at each position over the last 20 years.  DH is up and Edgar is pitted against David Ortiz and Frank Thomas.  Thomas doesn't worry me.  Ortiz scares the poop out of me.   I'm not sure how long it lasts, but the site does say that the winners are announced July 26th.   It would be a shame if Edgar lost this. 

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Dave Cameron posted an article over at Fangraphs about Carl Pavano's resurgence.  One day later, the "Weekly Rundown" by Brad Evans at Yahoo Sports is, you guessed it, about Carl Pavano's resurgence.  It looks like the guy literally took Dave's article and puffed it up with a bunch of terrible jokes.  Sequencing, stats, everything is nearly identical.

I don't want to get all accusatory, but it seems a tad suspicious, no?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/beltrad01.shtml

It has no sponsor.  It costs 90 bucks.  Can something be done about this?

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