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The United States Men's Soccer team beat Costa Rica tonight by a final score of 3-0. Two of the goals were scored by Landon Donavan including a rocket into the top left corner in the sixth minute. Brian McBride finished up the scoring near the end of the game with a garbage goal off a blocked shot from Clint Dempsey. This was a solid win for the United States heading into their next match with Panama on Wednesday.

Originally posted at Northern Michigan Detroit Sports Blog

It was good to see the Pistons bounce back and respond with a dominating performance. And as usual with the Pistons it started with defense. Rip slowed Wade early and it allowed the Pistons to build a lead they would never give up.

The Tigers lost to the Rangers, but a bigger loss was losing Pudge with a hand injury. Not sure on his status yet. Pena was moved to Toledo and Chris Shelton called up. Shelton has been spectacular for Toledo so far this season, while Pena has been a big disappointment. A nice article below about Carlos Guillen and what he means to the Tigers.

And what's this? Another NHL article? Just another update on the labor situation and their upcoming meetings. I'm not holding my breath.

Rip roarin', Hamilton does it all as Pistons tie series at 2-2 - Freep article by Mitch Albom

Tigers lose Pudge in 8-2 loss to Texas - Freep article by Gene Guidi

Guillen is the Carlos to be concerned about - MLive article by Danny Knobler

Tigers option Pena to Toledo - MLB.com article by Jason Beck

Hope surrounds upcoming NHL talks - Article from the Canadian Press

You might be wondering why no one posts on this site anymore. Truthfully, I don't know why no one is posting. I have not felt like posting here, and Jeremy at sportspig has not posted here. Brian Foley has also not posted in a while but he is not a Detroit Sports guy so I don't expect him to post much. As for Dan Joseph, I hope he did not die or something, no joke, I have not seen him online almost a month and he has not posted on his home site in a month. Maybe he went on a really long vacation or something happened but wherever he is, I wish him the best of luck. He was a great writer and hopefully nothing bad happened to him.

I don't know the future of this site but I still want to run it. I just need to figure out what happened to my writers. Check back later to see what is going on.

If anyone wants to write on this site about Detroit Sports just send me an email.

The United States National team had an interesting week. They went to Mexico City to play the Mexican national team and promptly lost 2-1 in a game, which was not even that close. The United States only played with one forward in the first half which diminished their chances in scoring and putting more pressure on a weakened defense. The game was played at over 7,000 feet above sea level which could have hurt the United States fitness level but I always come back to the passive strategy employed by Bruce Arena. On Wednesday evening, the USA team hosted Guatemala and demolished them 2-0 in a game, which was absolutely dominated by Steve Ralston (New England Revolution) and Eddie Lewis (Preston North End). Both of these players attacked the wings well and had at least 5 great crosses to the forwards Eddie Johnson and Brian Ching.

In other news, Landon Donovan the previous poster boy of USA soccer has returned to the MLS after his second failed attempt with Bayer Leverkusen. (Top 16 club in the World). This is a bad move for Landon due to the level of the German League and the relative weak talent in the MLS. If you every get a chance watch a big time European soccer match and compare it with how slow the MLS is and the two leagues are not in comparison to each other.

After the first four rounds of the NCAA Tournament only four teams remain. Those four teams are Michigan State, North Carolina, Illinois, and Louisville.

The tournament so far has been crazy. Of the final four teams left, I think it is most suprising to see Michigan State and Louisville still playing. Michigan State got here by beating Duke in the Sweet Sixteen and then barely beating Kentucky in the Elite Eight(State also beat Vermont and ODU in the first two rounds). I am not a fan of Michigan State at all but they have played great to get this far. I give most of the credit to their head coach Tom Izzo. Izzo is one of the best college coaches of all time and as usual, he has done a fantastic job with the Spartans throughout this tournament. Louisville got here by beating La Lafayette, Georgia Tech, West Virginia, and number one seeded Washington. Most people were expecting North Carolina and Illinois to make it this far so I am not very suprised that they are in the Final Four.

My predictions for the final four is that North Carolina will beat Michigan State and that Illinois will beat Louisville. I think State is good but I don't think they are good enough to contend with North Carolina; however, I never expected them to beat Duke and they did. Illinois is just too strong for Louisville and I think Illinois will easily beat them.

Two Steps does not equal a Travel



I can't put into words how pathetic that call was.