A few things...

Ohhhhh Ajax, you're killin' me...

#1 - I got fresh FC Dallas catch Heath Pearce on the phone today. The goods are here.

The club also put him on camera after Wednesday training...


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#2 - In case you missed it, my new MLS Club Ladder is up.

#3 - SI super-scribe Grant Wahl talks with Everton/U.S. keeper Tim Howard.

#4 - The Crew won at Saprissa in the CONCACAF Champions league! Nice job!

#5 - Dylan Butler brings us the story of NYRB teen signing Georgi Chirgadze, a Georgia native from Brooklyn.

#6 - There will be no more Taylor Twellman this season (so sayeth the Nicol) and almost certainly no more Darren Huckerby in San Jose.

# 7 - MLS Talk's Eric Altshulte asks: which has the better starting eleven - the USMNT's 2002 World Cup side or the current bunch?

#8 - A few Prem news bits:

- Adebayor gets three-match ban
- Lucas Neill joins Everton

And finally, idiot bookmakers Paddy Power have agreed to remove proposition betting on which Liverpool player will have his home broken into next. Over recent years, several Reds have been burglary victims, sometimes with wives/girlfriends home at the time. The club raised hell when they found out and Paddy Power came to their senses quickly.

We can sit here all day and count the ways such betting lines are hideous, but it's over, so let;s just try to forget the ugliness of it.

#9 - Canada international Julian de Guzman talks about joining Toronto FC.





- Greg Seltzer