Friday Football: Chivas USA ties, Jack Stewart the Incredible Hunk & More
With both its starting strikers hobbled with injuires, Chivas USA tied 0-0 with 10-man Dallas Thursday night.
Here's the Dallas perspective.
Double headers at UCLA's Drake Stadium today and Sunday sees the top-ranked UCLA women's soccer team (7-1-2) open Pac-10 Conference at 5 p.m. against Oregon State (7-3-1), while the men's game follows at 7:30 p.m. against Stanford (4-2-4, 1-0-1), who are unbeaten in their last five games.
UCLABruins.com will host Gametracker live stats and a free internet audio broadcast for both games.
The popularity of user-generated video content on the Web has prompted MLS to hold a competition for the best goal captured on a camcorder. The deadline is Oct. 26.
Finally, Torrance's Jack Stewart, who (formerly) played for Real Salt Lake, is a finalist in Cosmo's Bachelor of the Year contest.
According to his profile, Jack likes women who "kiss me on the lips, then pull away and leave me wanting more.”
Good thing the former South High star ditched the scruffy beard.
Updated 11:30 a.m. - Stewart, who found his first-team opportunities limited this season after several defensive errors, has left the team although he is officially still on the roster.
"He hasn't been training with the team for about 10 days," said club spokesman John Koluder. "We're essentially letting him explore other options."
Updated: I did end up chatting with Jack late Friday afternoon and he sounded none too happy at his treatment by RSL, Coach Jason Kreis et al and his rapid descent down the team pecking order. It all makes his glowing RSL profile sound more than a little gushing in retrospect.
The team essentially fired him in a move that came after MLS rosters were frozen, meaning he couldn't hook on with another team this season.
Stewart is exploring his options as they say: playing in Europe, getting a job with his Notre Dame degree or, um, modeling (no calls yet, he said) are possibilities.
Short term: He was off to Chicago for the Notre Dame game this weekend and New York next week for a Cosmo party.
Jack sounded like he was enjoying the whole Cosmo thing (and no, he has no idea who nominated him) with his mother already fielding calls from women who want his cell phone number.
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Ives at Soccer by Ives blogs that Stewart doesn't even play for RSL anymore.
You are right (and Steven Goff over at the Soccer Insider blog posted the same info Thursday night).
Thanks for the heads up. I've updated the post.-Nick