The Battery goes solar

When the Quakes won the Carolina Cup this pre-season, I hope the guys in suits took a good look at Blackbaud Stadium, home of the USL First Division Charleston Battery. The first privately-funded soccer specific stadium in the United States (they opened a month before Columbus’ Crew Stadium did, back in 1999) Blackbaud Stadium is also the first soccer stadium in the country to go green. Read more

2008 Earthquakes season preview

Earthquakes fans are thrilled to have Joe Cannon back in the nets for 2008. Photo: John Todd, centerlinesoccer.com/isiphotos.com.

It has been a long wait for San Jose soccer since that cold evening in Fall, 2005. On October 29, a 1-1 tie saw the Western Conference champs eliminated 4-2 on aggregate in the first round of the playoffs. What made it worse was that the defeat came at the hands of bitter rivals Los Angeles. Some Galaxy players even taunted back, “See you in Texas.” Two months later, the prophecy came true as the team was moved to Houston to become the Dynamo. Read more