Cavaliers’ Well-Positioned For Soccer Title Run In 2010
by Michael Phillips (Commentary | Richmond Times Dispatch - December 15)
As the Virginia soccer team gathered at midfield for a team photo with the national championship trophy, a yell came out from the back row. "This one's for U-Hall." more details | go to article

Evans’ Relishes Role As Cavaliers ‘closer’
by Michael Phillips (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - December 11)
If Jordan Evans takes the field late in tonight's College Cup semifinal, that's a good sign for U.Va. more details | go to article

Cavaliers Smoothed Out The Wrinkles
by Michael Phillips (Preview | Richmond Times Dispatch - December 4)
Virginia's attack hasn't always looked like poetry in motion -- for a while, it was more of a run-on sentence. more details | go to article

Jaman Scores In OT
by John Packett (Result | Richmond Times Dispatch - August 19)
Somehow, some way. Whenever Richmond plays the Charlotte Eagles, the Kickers wind up winning. more details | go to article

Kickers Notes
by Jerry Lindquist (Article | Richmond Times Dispatch - May 4)
Richmond leads the United Soccer League's First Division in points and, quite possibly, injuries to key personnel. The good news -- for wont of a better term -- is that Kevin Jeffrey apparently isn't ailing as badly as first feared. more details | go to article

Kickers Get Mileage Out Of Veteran Luzak
by Jerry Lindquist (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - April 22)
He was first-team All-A-League last year. His coach says: "If he was born in a different country, played soccer all his life and had that mentality, there's no question in my mind he probably would be playing on the highest level possible." more details | go to article

Developers Seek D.C. Stadiums
by Jeremy Redmon and David Ress (Analysis | Richmond Times Dispatch - March 12)
If you think a $250 million development in Shockoe Bottom tied to a new Richmond Braves stadium is a big deal, consider this: The money men behind the idea are also hoping to land two stadium-based projects here totaling more than $1.5 billion -- including a new major-league baseball stadium for the Washington Nationals. more details | go to article

Simms Rises To United
by Jerry Lindquist (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - February 24)
A year ago he was unknown, signed by the Richmond Kickers off a February tryout camp. Today, Clyde Simms is in Major League Soccer, a member of defending MLS champion D.C. United. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Simms, a midfielder from Jamestown, N.C., by way of East Carolina University, had agreed in principle to a four-year contract. more details | go to article

Soccer Notes: Setting The Record Straight
by No Author Listed (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - October 6)
(Halfway down in article): Virginia coach George Gelnovatch has been belabored - and a bit miffed - by rumors he's the leading candidate to become coach of the U.S. under-17 national team. That's a full-time position and would mean the U.Va. alumnus, in his ninth season since succeeding Bruce Arena, would have to resign. more details | go to article

Kickers Tripped On One Defensive Slip
by Jerry Lindquist (Result | Richmond Times Dispatch - August 5)
One defensive lapse. That's all it took last night for Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire to beat the Richmond Kickers 1-0 and advance to the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup. Dipsy Selolwane eluded his mark - or someone simply forgot to pick him up - and drilled a header from 7 yards in the 56th minute. more details | go to article

Fire's Leader Is Feeling Heat For Downturn
by Jerry Lindquist (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - August 4)
Considering where he was a year ago and where he is now, Dave Sarachan said, "I should have retired." He was kidding, of course. He isn't going to let a nine-game winless streak get him down. "Do I feel pressure?" Sarachan asked almost incredulously, as if you didn't know him or something. "No." more details | go to article

Kickers' Cephas Scores On His Goal Of Assisting Family
by Jerry Lindquist (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - July 30)
Imagine his surprise and pleasure the other day when the secretary general of his country's national soccer team called McColm Cephas. Then again, it's almost impossible to appreciate, much less understand, what Cephas is going through. more details | go to article

United They Fall In Kickers' Upset
by Jerry Lindquist (Result | Richmond Times Dispatch - July 22)
Celebration time, come on! Kool & The Gang's song blared loud and long over the public address system last night after the Richmond Kickers treated a crowd of 8,776 to a 2-1 upset of Major League Soccer's D.C. United in the fourth round of the U.S. Open Cup. more details | go to article

A Pele For The U.S.? Adu Dazzles In Defeat
by Bob Lipper (Profile/Interview | Richmond Times Dispatch - July 22)
Is it too soon to being talking about Freddymania? The prodigy who does step-overs like an Astaire in cleats? The 15-year-old sensation who's sweeping the nation? Well, Soccer Nation, at any rate. more details | go to article

Major League Soccer Finds Major Selling Point In Adu
by Jerry Lindquist (Preview | Richmond Times Dispatch - July 21)
From the beginning, it appeared to be an act of desperation, financially challenged Major League Soccer pinning its hopes for solvency - possibly survival - on a 14-year-old kid. "I was one of those who said, 'This is wrong.' I thought it was unfair," Eric Wynalda said. more details | go to article