Yes, it's back. Once a week this time around. As before, the effort will be to bring you links to things you might not otherwise encounter on your daily scan of the internet, with an occasional mainstream story sprinkled in from time to time.


Less comment, more links. Who wants to put forth any effort on Friday?


An open letter to Landon Donovan

Nicely done, and I chuckled at the #26 joke.


A piece on Denver as a World Cup host city

The story itself is so-so, and gets in some "MLS sucks" shots, but the comments are amusing.


Staffordshire perspective on Chris Birchall's move to LA

Maybe they should change the name of the club to "David Beckham's LA Galaxy" officially.


Union draftee Toni Stahl wants to make soccer big in Finland

Do Finnish soccer fans wonder how good Teemu Selanne be if he had decided to play the beautiful game?


Site for dead MLS stadium project in St. Louis falls into disrepair

I hear the graffiti said "NASL RULES!"


Have a good Friday, everyone.