Toppenish’s one-year turnaround

YAKIMA, Wash. — With every leap forward Toppenish’s boys soccer team has taken this season, Uriel Gonzalez will always remember the first step his Wildcats took that started it all. “Last year, honestly, we didn’t have a very good season even though we were young. We barely made it to district and lost at Ellensburg,” [...]

Will Pan Am soccer frenzy bring out fans in Hamilton?

When the Pan Am folks announced last week that we’d be hosting all the soccer games at the new Ivor Wynne Stadium, more than a few people looked at the numbers, started doing some rudimentary math and began scratching their heads.

Girls’ soccer: George Mason beats Clarke County, claims home-field advantage in region tournament

The third time George Mason Coach Jenn Parsons met Clarke County’s girls’ soccer coach at midfield pre-game to shake hands this week, it was “pretty weird,” she said. On Tuesday, the Mustangs led, 3-1, in the regular season finale when the game was called in the 27th minute due to lightning. Because a full half wasn’t completed, the teams started all over again on Wednesday — a game George Mason ...

Even Better the Second Time

In early March of this year I attended the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.  When I wasn't watching panels or digging up stories I was hanging around my friend Simon Gleave, Head of Analysis at Infostrada Sports.  During one break he prompted me for some book recommendations, and I dutifully whipped out my iPad to run through the range of titles I had on my Kindle app.  At that point ...

Soccer Capsules: Gabriel scores to help Union tie FC Dallas

FRISCO (AP) — Gabriel Gomez scored in the 56th minute to help the Philadelphia Union tie FC Dallas 1-1 on Saturday night. Blas Perez scored for Dallas in the seventh minute.