U.S. Soccer announced this morning that the U.S.-Costa Rica World Cup qualifier has moved to ESPN2.

From the ESPN press release:

The broadcast will now include a 30 minute pregame show starting at 6:30 p.m. PT with kickoff slated for 7:06 p.m. PT (8:06 p.m. local).

The game will still be televised live by Galavision.

The programming change prevents potential conflicts with ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball running into the U.S. game’s time slot on ESPN and was made possible by the Women’s College World Series for NCAA softball ending early.

Game details here.

Meanwhile, the U.S. moved up one spot to 14th in the latest FIFA rankings released today.

Incredibly, there is actually a Sol game in Carson tonight.

Why?

And no, I won’t be blogging from there.