Later this week...

off to QuakeCon! w00t! Hope to pick up some shwag and shtuff...

No more...

Soccer posts concerning my daughters team, except for game recaps, scores, and schedules... Enough said about that!

Go FC!

and, as usual

GL&HF

The big soccer news...

is that my daughter's team will not have to play in Lake Highlands Girls Classic League Qualifying tournament... We are taking another FC Dallas team's bye; the team was unable to make for this year. However, it is a bye into Division 3, U16; my daughter's team is U15, so it will be a challenge week in and week out. Basically, if they don't come to play they will get their respective arses handed to them... ouch!

Go FC!

GL&HF!!!

OMG... Forgot about this...

The Dark Knight!!! Go see it!!! NOW!!!

Oh, but don't drink one of those LARGERTHANLIFE drinks (It's only 50¢ more!!!) to drink while you watch the movie. Nothing worse than having to go, but not wanting to miss a single second of the movie. Yes, it was that good!!!

Soccer updates...

The interesting news will have to wait until tomorrow evening... so we will have to wait and see...

Weekends results from the King TUT tournament:

A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95	A2 SOLAR SILVER A3 FCDY RED SOUTH A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A1 TEXANS WHT WEST	3 - 0 0 - 0 3 - 0 1 - 1	10 4 10 4	28
A3 FCDY RED SOUTH	A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A2 SOLAR SILVER A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT	0 - 0 0 - 0 3 - 0 0 - 0	4 4 10 4	22
A1 TEXANS WHT WEST	A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A3 FCDY RED SOUTH A2 SOLAR SILVER A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95	1 - 1 0 - 0 2 - 0 1 - 1	4 4 9 4	21
A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT	A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A2 SOLAR SILVER A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A3 FCDY RED SOUTH	1 - 1 5 - 0 0 - 3 0 - 0	4 10 0 4	18
A2 SOLAR SILVER	A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A3 FCDY RED SOUTH	0 - 3 0 - 5 0 - 2 0 - 3	0 0 0 0	0

Very mixed results for the expectations we had going in. We should have won all three games we tied; then again, the other teams had good chances as well. I think we out-played all of them, but we were also out-played in several instances of those games. Lucky and unfortunate...

Interesting news on the soccer front...

But... I am not liberty to share it at this time. You will have to come back to get the details... Sorry. It's very positive with just a smidgen of a down-side. Once it's official, I will be sure to post it here.

For now, we have the King TUT (Tune-Up Tournament) this weekend! I'll keep you posted on the results, but here's our schedule with some commentary on opponent.

4:00PM

CRAIG RANCH #11

FCDY Red South vs Texans Wht West

DTWW has one of the best goalies in U15 around, bar none. The last time these two teams played, she scored a goal off a punt and they won 1-0. Pretty amazing...

8:45PM

CRAIG RANCH #05

Tx Spirit Red 95 vs FCDY Red South

This is a late game, so it should be cooler. Don't know much about this team, except that they won the U15 division at FlameFest in June.

11:45AM

CRAIG RANCH #13

Solar Silver vs FCDY Red South

This was previously Blackwatch Navy, one of the surprise teams of last years Qualifying Tournament (new teams rarely make it to the second weekend of qualifying). Now part of the Solar club (heh, Solar System?), they were still looking for 1-2 players as late as last week.

5:45PM

CRAIG RANCH #01

FCDY Red South vs Texas Spirit Wht

Finally, we close with Texas Spirit White. This team has always been competitive, but even my daughter's old team, Sting West was able to hang 3 goals on them in last years qualifier. We will see how each team responds in the last game of a friendlys-only tournament.

See ya on the pitch!

Go FC Dallas!!!

GL&HF...

Ranch Wear Unlimited

A neighbor of mine has just opened up an on-line store for fashionable ranch wear apparel. I told her I would give her site a little shout-out on my bloggy, so here goes... Ranch Wear Unlimited, a Yahoo! store, is the place to find all kinds of really cool outfits and separates for the rancher in all of us, even the kids! And, through the month of July, Susan, the owner, is offering 20% off any order.



Good luck, Susan!

More fund-raising...

Hey, good people of the internets! Our last efforts at internet fund-raising was somewhat successful, but hopefully this will be a better mechanism! We hope so... It will be available in the left ad space after my profile information! Thank you!

Team is set, fitness camp out of the way...

Time for my daughter's new team to get down to business. First up is the King TUT tournament, which is basically a tournament of four friendlies. Here is our bracket (links provided):

A1 TEXANS WHT WEST	A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A3 FCDY RED SOUTH A2 SOLAR SILVER A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95			0
A2 SOLAR SILVER	A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A3 FCDY RED SOUTH			0
A3 FCDY RED SOUTH	A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A2 SOLAR SILVER A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT			0
A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95	A2 SOLAR SILVER A3 FCDY RED SOUTH A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT A1 TEXANS WHT WEST			0
A5 TEXAS SPIRIT WHT	A1 TEXANS WHT WEST A2 SOLAR SILVER A4 TX SPIRIT RED 95 A3 FCDY RED SOUTH			0

Should be fun...

Now, take a look at this bracket (very interesting, to say the least...):

A1 TEXANS RED WEST	A5 ANDROMEDA A3 MUSTANGS FC A2 STING ROYAL A4 ASG GOLD CENTRAL			0
A2 STING ROYAL	A4 ASG GOLD CENTRAL A5 ANDROMEDA A1 TEXANS RED WEST A3 MUSTANGS FC			0
A3 MUSTANGS FC	A1 TEXANS RED WEST A4 ASG GOLD CENTRAL A2 STING ROYAL A5 ANDROMEDA			0
A4 ASG GOLD CENTRAL	A2 STING ROYAL A3 MUSTANGS FC A5 ANDROMEDA A1 TEXANS RED WEST			0
A5 ANDROMEDA	A1 TEXANS RED WEST A2 STING ROYAL A4 ASG GOLD CENTRAL A3 MUSTANGS FC			0

July 1... tryouts begin...

But my daughter is in Florida! Oh, wait... long story, short, she is now with FC Dallas, Red South to be exact. As her agent, I mean parent, I get to go to tryouts without her and pick up all the paperwork. Wow, lucky me!

Go FC!!!