Articles tagged with "management"
Mark your calendars: Draft Party, January 18th
By Melissa | January 11th, 2008I'm starting to wonder if the return of Major League Soccer to San Jose is really an excuse to encourage us all to start drinking ...
Mr. Simpson for Hibs? Mr. Burns for Scotland?
By Ian Rose | January 8th, 2008The title of this blog is as far as I'll go into the coincidence of the two subjects' names being two of my favorite cartoon ...
Finally! a good Moneyball article
By Melissa | January 3rd, 2008Jeff Carlisle over at ESPN wrote an informative and definitely-worth-a-read article on the work to port statistical Moneyball concepts to soccer. He focuses on ...
You can't spell mullets without MLS
By Melissa | December 30th, 2007Ok seriously, I can't take credit for the awesome title. I nicked it off a comment over at Sacha Kljestan's myspace page. Anyhooo, ...
Fisher buys a teeny bit of Celtic, Cochrane does the happy dance
By Melissa | December 21st, 2007Whoa, conspirators get started. Last night, we all learned that Quakes and A's co-owner John Fisher bought 3.24% of Celtic on Wednesday. While ...
Its Combine Time
By Melissa | December 19th, 2007Well, I got that evil, terrible flu thats been going around. If at all possible, quarantine yourself from life immediately to avoid this one. ...
Boys reinstated, Shaw retrofits won't be ready, Scoobies set up their out of office replies
By Melissa | December 13th, 2007The controversy is (almost) over! A story over at Inside Bay Area reports that the High School students benched by the California Interscholastic Federation ...
Quakes stir up controversy... seriously, they do
By Melissa | December 12th, 2007It turns out, a few of the High School players selected to participate in the Quakes' upcoming Combine are in danger of losing their amateur ...
Home Opener is Chicago
By Melissa | December 12th, 2007Its big news day down in Quakes-land and I'm still in the process of digesting it. I'll start off with the stop the presses ...
Tryout Tour wraps, no big party to celebrate?
By Melissa | December 8th, 2007So 33 potential players were picked from the Tour to participate in a Combine at The Shaw from December 20th through 22nd. Our ...
Dear Joe Vide
By Melissa | December 7th, 2007Accept my Facebook friend request! I know my silly attempt at internet friend collecting means very little, but its a fun diversion and you're ...
Cheers and Jeers
By Melissa | December 4th, 2007Cheers to the news that the very first reincarnated Earthquakes match is at home against New York on March 29th. And by at home, ...
The Scoobies go shopping... abroad
By Melissa | December 2nd, 2007John Doyle recently gave an informative interview with American Soccer Daily where he explained whats next for Our Gang. He says the Scoobies used ...
The Scooby Gang
By Melissa | November 30th, 2007I think I should stop calling Quakes management The Frank & Co and instead refer to them as The Scooby Gang from now on. ...
A few moments for Ian
By Melissa | November 29th, 2007Whoever maintains the official San Jose Earthquakes website is a kindred spirit because they posted this amazing picture of Ian Russell alongside the official ...
Russell is assistant coach
By Melissa | November 28th, 2007The band is getting back together! At some point today, while I was out and about, The Quakes announced former midfielder and part-time model ...
Season Tickets go on sale
By Melissa | November 27th, 2007I am slowly but surely inching closer to the days when I can associate San Jose with more than just work-related trips to a co-location ...
Its been a blast Carroll
By Melissa | November 26th, 2007He's been a Quake for a grand total of five days but now he's off to Columbus. Soccer Silicon Valley is reporting Preston Burpo ...
Things we learned from the Expansion Draft
By Melissa | November 22nd, 2007Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone reading this is spending the day stuffing their faces and preparing to drop like flies when the tryptophan coma ...
Notes from the Draft Party
By Melissa | November 21st, 2007The fine folks at Soccer Silicon Valley posted audio of the event so I was able to stay tucked in to my nice warm bed ...
The list
By Melissa | November 21st, 2007Oops - seems there's some false info floating around. 1. Ryan Cochrane (Houston Dynamo) 2. Clarence Goodson (FC Dallas) 3. Ned Grabavoy (Columbus Crew) 4. James Riley (New England ...
Oakland gets the big games
By Melissa | November 20th, 2007Today, the Quakes released their seating chart for season ticket holders and not so subtlety announced games will take place in both Santa Clara and ...
Unemployed? Have tomorrow off?
By Melissa | November 20th, 2007Ssshhhh. I'm at work right now and sneaking this post in. Just got this announcement in my email: JOIN IN THE EXCITEMENT AT THE ...
Digesting the list, part 1
By Melissa | November 19th, 2007Since I last blogged here, I read many many internet predictions, talked to a few fellow soccer-obsessed friends, went to the gym, hung out with ...
Its the list!
By Melissa | November 19th, 2007ALL THE EXPOSED PLAYERS HERE Ok, so my first reaction is: who are these people? Did they even play in MLS this season? Right ...
In the Bay Area, soccer and baseball are intertwined
By Melissa | November 17th, 2007The MLS Board of Governors voted Friday to continue grandfathering players making over the Designated Player salary cut-off. This means that Eddie Johnson, Carlos ...
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