In a surprising move, the Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League announced yesterday it was declining to exercise their option to extend the contract of head coach Brian Haynes. A month after Haynes’ Silverbacks lost the NASL Soccer Bowl 1-0 to the New York Cosmos, the league’s 2013 coach of the year now […]
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Dallas Buyers Club is a drama of the AIDS crisis
Dallas Buyers Club opens Friday Although a compelling film in many ways, Dallas Buyers Club straddles a cinematic middle ground without fully committing to a single storytelling focus. The long-languishing screenplay is based on the real life of Ron Woodroof, a Dallas electrician and rodeo aficionado whose hard-living lifestyle is upended when he contracts HIV […]
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Sixth Senna: New York Cosmos win NASL Soccer Bowl 2013 over Atlanta Silverbacks 1-0
The Carolina RailHawks aren’t in Atlanta for this weekend’s North American Soccer League championship, the self-explanatory Soccer Bowl 2013. But Neil Morris is there to provide his observations on the occasion and Saturday’s match between the New York Cosmos and Atlanta Silverbacks for Triangle Offense. ATLANTA—After finishing their regular season by losing five of their […]
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The big tent party: NASL holds 2013 Soccer Bowl awards banquet
The Carolina RailHawks aren’t in Atlanta for this weekend’s North American Soccer League championship, the self-explanatory Soccer Bowl 2013. But Neil Morris is there to provide his observations on the occasion and Saturday’s match between the New York Cosmos and Atlanta Silverbacks for Triangle Offense. ATLANTA—Midway through last night’s 2013 NASL Soccer Bowl awards banquet, […]
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Chillin’ at the Holiday Inn: New York Cosmos meet media on eve of NASL Soccer Bowl 2013
The Carolina RailHawks aren’t in Atlanta for this weekend’s North American Soccer League championship, the self-explanatory Soccer Bowl 2013. But Neil Morris is there to provide his observations on the occasion and Saturday’s match between the New York Cosmos and Atlanta Silverbacks for Triangle Offense. ATLANTA—It took me 19 hours to reach Atlanta from North […]
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Soccerware: Carolina RailHawks complete 2013 campaign with 2-1 win over San Antonio, Clarke to return as manager in 2014
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—It’s as if 2013 came full circle for the Carolina RailHawks during their regular season finale against the San Antonio Scorpions Saturday night in Cary. The crowd of 6,015—the largest home attendance since the RailHawks’ win over the LA Galaxy on May 29 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup—was reminiscent of […]
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USL PRO terminates soccer franchise with Phoenix FC Wolves owners
The USL PRO soccer franchise formerly held by BDR Sports, LLC, doing business as the Phoenix FC Wolves, has been terminated by the United Soccer Leagues (USL) after just one season, according to a termination notice transmitted to the BDR Sports yesterday. The termination notice, attached below and provided to Triangle Offense by a source […]
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RailHawks get the monkey off their back, defeat Atlanta Silverbacks 4-0
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARY—With two games left in the Carolina RailHawks’ 2013 campaign, there was only one NASL opponent they had not defeated this year: the Atlanta Silverbacks. In their three previous matchups, Carolina had lost once and tied twice. But the June 29 draw is undoubtedly the most impactful and memorable outcome. Carolina’s failure […]
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Tom Hanks’ new maritime adventure, Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips opens Friday Early in the modern piracy drama Captain Phillips, the title character drives to his local Vermont airport where he’ll pick up a flight for Oman and a freighter bound for a trip around the treacherous Horn of Africa. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) tells Andrea (Catherine Keener), his wife, about how the […]
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Watching another league: Did a misguided tweet betray the NASL fall season’s most pressing problem?
“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”—Princess Leia, Star Wars A couple of weeks ago, Bill Peterson, commissioner of the North American Soccer League (NASL), told Pieter Brown of the South Florida-based weekly podcast Ultras Alive that Peterson resisted publicizing pronouncements about the league’s disciplinary process […]