Labor Day Leftovers: No. 1 USC Loses, Bruins Win, Galaxy Go Down Under (Again) & More
Catching up from the long weekend:
*Top-ranked USC lost 1-0 in overtime to No. 6 Portland Monday in Oregon, the goal coming seven minutes into overtime. The loss dropped the Trojans to 2-1.
USC returns home to host Santa Clara at 3 p.m. Friday and Alabama at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
*In contrast the UCLA women battered Portland State 7-0 Monday, the Bruins' biggest margin of victory since a 2005 9-0 win over Mississippi Valley State. Lauren Cheney started the rout in the 14th minute, Canadian Kara Lang got the second six minutes later. Also scoring: McCall Zerboni, Kristina Larsen, Lauren Wilmoth, Caitlyn MacKechnie and Liz Zadro.
Next up for UCLA is a 1 p.m. Sunday meeting with UC Irvine at Drake Stadium.
*The Galaxy have confirmed a tour down under after the MLS season for the second consecutive year.
*In Rhode Island, Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl interviews the Galaxy's Landon Donovan at a Cuban restaurant over steak chimichurri, sautéed garlic shrimp and maduros ahead of Saturday's World Cup qualifier in Cuba.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook.
What's up with the Galaxy's goalkeeper Steve Cronin? Does he have a broken finger? If so, are we going to go with Wicks or is there someone available on the street right now?
Nick replies: Check the next post for the answers to your questions.