Friday Football: HDC Lights & More
While we and 200 million others await the results of today's World Cup draw (turn on ESPN2 or Univision right now if you haven't already) chew on these soccer-related items:
*Southern California Edison has fixed a piece of equipment that left 25,000 soccer fans shivering in the dark for almost 40 minutes during two power outages at Home Depot Center during last month's the MLS Western Conference Championship.
*The Cal State Dominguez Hills women will play in the NCAA Division II title game live at 10 a.m. Saturday on CBS College Sports (Channel 613 for those of you with DirecTV, BTW).
*For the second consecutive year, three players from the South Bay - Palos Verdes Estates' Christen Press of Stanford and Rolling Hills Estates' Whitney Engen of North Carolina and Rolling Hills Estates' Jenna Belcher of UCLA - contest the College Cup today. Stanford plays UCLA at 2:30 p.m. today on ESPN2; North Carolina-Notre Dame follows on ESPNU at 5 p.m.
*Finally, listen to Galaxy goalkeeper Josh Saunders on his MLS Cup experience and more here.
Updated: Freddy Adu just tweeted - "OMG OMG OMG OMG the world cup draw. Mad exciting. How anxious is everyone right now lol"
About 100 Percent Soccer
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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