Tuesday Night Bites: Galaxy, WPS & More

A few quick items to finish the day:

*Red Bull New York has sold more than 40,000 tickets for its July 19th game against the Galaxy. Last year you'll recall New York prevailed 5-4 on a Juan Pablo Angel goal two minutes from the end of regulation despite a dominating performance by David Beckham that included two assists before a crowd of more than 66,000.

*The new Women's Professional Soccer (you wondered what WPS was in the headline, right?) league meets the week of Sept. 15 to allocate players from the national team pool to its seven teams. A draft of top international players follows a week later.

U.S. players have given their preference of city to play in, while teams will submit wish lists of players.

Another draft for domestic and international players is scheduled for October, combines on each coast are set for December, with another draft to follow that and then local tryouts.

Clubs will play in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles (presumably at Home Depot Center or perhaps the Track & Field stadium), New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.

The season begins in the first week of April.

*Lastly, a recent survey shows that of the three out of four Americans who have a favorite sport they listen to on the radio, soccer is tops for 11 percent. That's behind football (50 percent), baseball (25 percent) and just behind basketball (15 percent), but ahead of motor racing or hockey.

Not surprisingly, soccer was the top choice for 66 percent of Latinos as well as 20 percent of listeners of all races under age 35.

The survey was based on a sample of 1,000 people and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.