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Jeff Carlisle, Center Line Soccer’s senior writer, began his soccer journalism career in 2002 with QuakeMagic.com, where he covered the San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose CyberRays, as well as various college teams. Since 2005 he has written for ESPN.com, covering MLS as well as the U.S. men’s national team. His reporting has included coverage of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the 2007 Copa America in Venezuela, and the last five MLS Cups. Carlisle’s work has also appeared in The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star, and the soccer monthly, “90 Minutes.” |
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Jay Hipps, Center Line Soccer’s managing editor, has covered soccer in San Jose since 1997. His work has appeared on a variety of web sites, including the pioneering but sadly defunct internetsoccer.com. He’s reported from three MLS Cups, two MLS All-Star Games, the 1999 Women’s World Cup, and the 1999 Confederations Cup in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Jay is also one of the founders of both Soccer Silicon Valley and the Soccer Silicon Valley Community Foundation. |
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Joe Santos is a freelance soccer journalist and photographer. He’s covered the San Jose Clash/Earthquakes beat since 1997. He’s also covered the U.S. men’s national team World Cup qualifers as well as the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Joe’s work has appeared both online and in print, including the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, America Online, internetsoccer.com, Espn.com and Soccer America. Joe is heavily involved with the local youth soccer scene serving as a long-time board member, coach and referee for the Castro Valley Soccer Club as well as volunteering on various committees for the California Youth Soccer Association. |
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John Todd is the President and owner of International Sports Images, the official photography supplier to the U.S. men’s and women’s national teams, the University of California Berkeley, and the Maverick’s Big Wave Surfing contest. John was also the team photographer for the Earthquakes from the team’s inception in 1996 until 2005, and acted as team photographer for the WUSA San Jose CyberRays as well. His work has appeared in Time magazine, USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine, and was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution as part of a women-in-sports photography exhibit. |
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Embele Awipi joins Center Line Soccer as a feature writer and on-camera interviewer. He began his journalism career in summer 2002 as the host of The Monterey Bay Sports Scene, a weekly radio show in Monterey. Two years later he became a freelance columnist for The Salinas Californian. In addition to covering the Quakes between 2003-2005 he has written about college football and college basketball. |
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Tim Hanley won three MLS Cups as an assistant coach with the Earthquakes (2001 and 2003) and the Dynamo (2006) and a Supporters’ Shield with the Quakes (2005). Joe Cannon and Pat Onstad were each named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year under Tim’s tutelage, Cannon in 2002 and Onstad in 2003 and 2005. Tim also served as an assistant coach at Stanford University from 2001–2005. Tim played professionally for the NASL Quakes, Edinburgh, Scotland’s Hibernian Football Club, and Servette FC in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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Joe Nuxoll is a veteran software architect, user interface designer, and photographer serving as a technical advisor, game photographer, and blogger for Center Line Soccer. By day, Joe is the Director of User Experience at Navigenics. He previously held significant positions at several top-tier Silicon Valley technology companies including Apple, Sun, Borland, and more than his fair share of startups. By night and by weekend, Joe is an avid soccer player and Earthquakes fan — playing on 4 different teams and holding season tickets to the Earthquakes for all 11 years of their MLS existence. Joe is an avid photographer, so look for him on the sidelines of Earthquakes games shooting away and trying his hardest not to cheer too loudly. |
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Harvey Rañola works both in front of and behind the camera as video producer for Center Line Soccer. Harvey’s introduction to the beautiful game wasn’t the most conventional. He was but a young pup when his father took him to a World Cup match in 1994 and from there he convinced his aunt to buy him a copy of FIFA 94 for his Sega Genesis (instead of a soccer ball, mind you) and the rest, as they say, is history. Nowadays you’ll rarely find his TV tuned to something other than the Fox Soccer Channel or GolTV. He is currently a broadcast journalism student at San Jose State and is a reporter for their weekly news program Update News. He was bit by the soccer reporting bug while spending his free time as a writer and an editor for American Soccer News during the 06-07 season and hasn’t looked back since. |
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Pete Ratajczak has been following soccer since the NASL days. Once upon a time (twice, actually), he was elected to the board of directors of the Professional Soccer Reporters Association. He’ll be providing commentary on the soccer/football/fútbol universe, focusing on the Quakes, MLS, and the U.S. men’s national team. |
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