Los Equipos de la MLS Real Salt Lake y los Colorado Rapids jugaron para el Primer Lugar en La Liga del Oeste de la MLS en la ciudad de Commerce City Colorado en el Estadio Dick’s Sporting Good. El juego fue transmitido en vivo por la cadena ESPN. Hubo 11,414 espectadores en el estadio para este juego que sucedio el 15 de Mayo de 2008.

PRIMERA Y SEGUNDA MITAD

El Juego fue intenso con ambos equipos midiendo fuerzas y bloqueando intentos de goles. Wingert, Williams, Deuchar, y Beckerman intentaron anotar un gol para Real Salt Lake pero fueron rechazado por Coundoul y Kimura. Gomez intento anotar un gol para Colorado y fue rechazado por Rimando. Wingert recibio una amonestacion en los 23 minutos por su conducta anti social hacia un jugador de Colorado. Todo siguio su ritmo hasta que Omar Cummings anoto su primer gol para Colorado y el partido a los 65 minutos mediante la ayuda de Colin Clark y Hercules Gomez. El Estadio en Colorado vitoreaba para otro gol y recibieron otro a base de una penalidad cortesia de Christian Gomez a los 83 minutos. Real Salt Lake no pudo con Colorado y rindio en plena agonia. Colorado logro clasificarse en primer lugar de la Copa de las Monta~nas Rocosas y en la Conferencia del Oeste en la Liga MLS con 12 puntos. El Jugador Prinicpal fue Omar Cummings por sus esfuerzos en la Victoria de Colorado.

OPINION

Real Salt Lake: 3/10
Colorado Rapids: 7/10

RESULTADOS

Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids played in the Battle for the West for first blood and a first place berth in the Rocky Mountain Cup. The Battle for the West took place in Commerce City, Colorado at Dick’s Sporting Goods Stadium before a public of Eleven Thousand Four Hundred and Fourteen. The Battle for the West was transmitted live by ESPN on the fifteenth of May 2008.

FIRST HALF

It was an intense first half with Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids in possession of the game with both teams blocking any attempts at goals. In the heat of the moment, Chris Wingert of Real Salt Lake received a booking for a reckless foul within twenty six minutes of the game. Regardless, Real Salt Lake had many opportunities that were lost such as the one in which Wingert attempted a cross that was deflected by Coundoul, an attempt by Williams to goal although it was far from the net, and Deuchar attempting to head the ball down the net but having it blocked by Kimura. Beckerman attempted another goal but was blocked by Coundoul
The Colorado Rapids attempted to score with Cummings attempting to kick the ball down the net after a corner kick by Christian Gomez only to have it deflected by Rimando. The First Half continued into the Second half with no score.

SECOND HALF

The Second Half continued in intensity with attempts by the Rapids and Real Salt Lake to score only to have near misses. It appeared that everything was going to remain the same and predictable when Omar Cummings with some help from Colin Clark and Hercules Gomez scored the first goal of the game for the Colorado Rapids at Sixty Five Minutes. The crowds at Commerce Park, Colorado were at a fever pitch and this encouraged a goal by Christian Gomez on the basis of a penalty kick at Eighty Three Minutes. It was too late for Real Salt Lake to make up for lost ground as they lost their opportunity to classify for First Place in the Western Conference of Major League Soccer [MLS] or the Rocky Mountain Cup. The Last Few Minutes of the Battle for the West left Real Salt Lake exhausted and in agony while the Colorado Rapids were exhausted but celebrating a hard earned victory.

VERDICT

Both teams have shown themselves to be the best in the field. Unfortunately, Real Salt Lake made many mistakes that cost them any chances for First Place in the Western Conference of the MLS. Of course, the attempts of Real Salt Lake in scoring a goal were the equivalent of crashing a car against a wall with the Colorado Rapids blocking every move. The Colorado Rapids on the other hand were able to break free from any attempted grip by Real Salt Lake in order to give the last twenty five minutes of the game some much needed excitement. The Colorado Rapids were more organized and efficient.

Player of the Match: Omar Cummings

Real Salt Lake: 3/10
Colorado Rapids: 7/10

In a week that has seen tragedy, BBC Sports has just reported that Oscar Pistorius [who is a sprinter that is a double amputee] has won his appeal to compete in the Beijing Summer Olympics of 2008. This is great news and it is hoped that it will encourage more people to compete in Sports in spite of their limitations. I am personally delighted for Oscar Pistorius.

SOURCE:
BBC News Olympics: "Pistorius Elligble for Olympics"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7243481.stm

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Phillies Salutes Advance of Liberty in California

Worcester, Mass., May 15: Libertarian Presidential candidate George Phillies today congratulated Californians on their latest step toward freedom, the legalization of gay marriage in California. "It is wonderful to hear that once again our Courts have defended our Constitutional rights," Phillies said. "Once again, our courts have agreed that separate is not and cannot be equal. To the people of California I say: Thank you for taking another step toward liberty and equality for all. To my civil-union supporting Democratic opponents I have a shorter message: Civil unions are major-party apartheid for GLBTQ people.

The California Supreme Court, ruling on In re Marriage Cases, today found that the California Constitution made clear: If gays and lesbians are allowed a status that is substantially the same as marriage, it may not be given a different name.

"The people of California could have avoided this long and expensive trial," Phillies said, "but their spineless governor, loyal to the conservative philosophy of bigotry, vetoed bills establishing that marriage is for gay as well as straight adults."

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If Rove refuses to testify voluntarily and ignores the subpoenas that will certainly be issued, he should be held in Inherent Contempt of the House of Representatives.

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