Changing Channels: U.S. World Cup Qualifier Tonight Moved to ESPN2
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.
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.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. 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 and follow him on Twitter.
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