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Reigning NPSL Champs vs. Number One Contenders Tonight, the Cosmos begin their playoffs with a match against the Elm City Express. From here on out it's win or go home.
In their final match of the regular NPSL season, New York finished unbeaten and untied with a 4-0 victory over Kingston Stockade FC, led by a hattrick from Bledi Bardic. Despite their regular season success, the Cosmos know that none of that matters without a successful playoff run.
The job gets done toge...
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One last tune up before the playoffs In their final match of the 2018 NPSL season, New York Cosmos B will face Kingston Stockade FC.
In their last match, the Boys in Green played in one of their closest matches of the season against Hartford City FC. A second half goal from Captain Danny Szetela was all that separated that kept New York undefeated in with a game left to go. Darwin Espinal added another goal to his spectacular season in the match as well. The Cosmos official si...
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Two matches left until the playoffs Today Cosmos B approach the end of their NPSL Season when they match up against Hartford City FC.
The Cosmos continued their steamroll season last week against reigning NPSL Champions Elm City Express. Woteck Wojcik and Darwin Espinal kicked off the scoring in the first half. Danny Stezela’s penalty kick and goals from Bledi Bardic and Ivan Berterame put the Express away in the second half.
You can't strike a ball much better....
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Will the reigning NPSL Champions dethrone the Cosmos? This weekend the Cosmos kick off at Hofstra against The Elm City Express.
In their last match, the Cosmos remained undefeated against the Seacoast United Mariners, winning 4-2. For New York, Neeskens opened the scoring and Bardic grabbed New York’s second. Newcomer Jalen Brown, nycomos.com’s featured player this week , scored the go-ahead goal in his first start and Darwin Espinal capped off scoring with a late penalty kick...
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As if you need more soccer to watch this weekend The World Cup may be starting this weekend, but the Cosmos keep marching on with their NPSL campaign. They may not be heading to Russia, but tomorrow they will be traveling up to Maine to face the Seacoast United Mariners.
Who is your pick to win #2018FIFAWorldCup ? @NYCosmosB players and staff share their favorites in the tournament: https://t.co/wykXXMzh1C pic.twitter.com/trU0V6qNqw — New York Cosmos (@NYCosmos) June 14, 2...
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The end of an era. Six months ago, we set out with a goal to educate and inform; celebrate and enlighten; criticize but always constructively so while working to advance both the game and overall health of the EA SPORTS FIFA/FIFA Mobile/soccer (football) gaming communities. We can say with a strong sense of self pride that we accomplished what we first aimed to.
After almost 400 posts, the founding FUT Nation editorial team has been afforded an incredib...
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Not the sexiest of TOTS, but a high chance of pulling a blue. The fourth major EA SPORTS FIFA 17 Team of the Season focuses on France’s top league, Ligue 1. EA’s broken up usual release partner Serie A (aka “Calcio A”) in this year’s FUT cycle, as predicted by many FIFA influencers after Team of the Week was loaded with Serie A players. Serie A TOTS is expected in a couple of weeks.
France champions Monaco are predictably very well represented in this w...
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Eredivisie TOTS | EA Sports FIFA
There are some absolute gems. Last Tuesday, EA released the Eredivisie and Pro League ‘Team of the Season’ (TOTS) squads. To mark the occasion, I decided to put together an Eredivisie squad, and put it though a division run.
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Eredivisie TOTS
My approach was simple. I kept sniping Eredivisie TOTS players, and either putting them into my squad for a couple of games, or listing them up for some instant profit. I started with the chea...
From FUT Nation
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FIFA 17 Ultimate Team's biggest event of the year is here. FIFA 17 Ultimate's Team's biggest event of the game's life cycle is upon us.
"Team of the Season", better known in the FIFA community as TOTS, is an action packed month of weekly releases of super charged player cards from most of the world's top leagues.
While the likes of Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Robert Lewandowski are venerable locks, some of the more intriguing selections will be the likes of RB Leipzig’s Naby Keita and Na...
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The one we've all been waiting for. In our fourth TOTS Prediction, we look to Spain and La Liga, a league that has no lack of quality or big names. With Real Madrid winning their first league title in five years, they make up a fair amount of the TOTS, with some of the regulars from Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, and others joining in as well.
Note: All stats are taken from Transfermarkt and WhoScored and are accurate as of May 30th.
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Quite a few nice cards in this bunch. On Wednesday, EA announced what could be their last batch of ‘Man of the Match’ items for the 2016-17 season. The batch contains eight items, including a ‘Record Breaker’ card and two purple ‘Hero’ cards.
#RecordBreaker @CH14_ + #MOTM @MATUIDIBlaise + #MOTM @S_Kagawa0317 + #MOTM @mertesacker ! All available until June 7. #FUT pic.twitter.com/GORuwdymZ1 — EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) May 31, 2017
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Grazie Totti. We’re getting a little bit sentimental in this week’s Team of the Week. EA Sports have released their 37th TOTW and the most notable card in the bunch is an 83-rated Hero Francesco Totti card. If they could, they would probably make it a legend card. There’s no doubt that once he officially hangs up the boots (assuming they have his rights) he’ll be turned into one of those beautiful white cards. The Italian legend played his final match for...
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The boosts (and price) leave some to be desired, but he’s still a beast. N’Golo Kante’s class on the pitch in real life is undisputed. Anyone who watched the Premier League each of the past two seasons (this past FA Cup aside) understands why Kante’s reigned supreme as football’s most influential talisman.
Console FIFA players too know the magic of Player of the Season (and now TOTS) Kante. The former SBC and then packable purple then blue respectiv...
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Brown used the downhill to put himself in contention and the final straight to showcase his mile speed. Coming into the 2016 Footlocker Boys’ race, the only thing we really felt comfortable saying we knew is that we didn’t know how this race would play out at all. With as many as 10 boys in possible contention for the win, we expected that the race would be close throughout, but had no confidence to claim to know who would emerge from that group.
In the early ...
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She led wire-to-wire and held off last year’s third place finisher Nevada Mareno to claim the win. California sophomore Claudia Lane has been known this season for her front-running strategy. The question for her coming into today’s Foot Locker championship was not whether she would attempt to run from the front, but how it would play out for her against this group of talent.
Lane took the lead from the gun, which, historically, has not been a great strategy o...
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The winner of the boys’ race could challenge Casey Clinger for the national No. 1 ranking. Welcome to Footlocker in the age of NXN. Earlier, we looked at how the girls’ race might play out Saturday and concluded that, regardless of who wins, it will not be the best girl in the country. To a lesser extent, the same analysis holds for the boys. With Casey Clinger winning NXN last weekend, Saturday’s Footlocker winner will, at best, have to share the number one cro...
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With the top girl in the country racing NXN, Saturday’s competition will be open. With Brie Oakley having won last weekend’s Nike Cross Country Nationals by a stunning 28 seconds, Saturday’s Footlocker race will not truly crown the top high school girl in the country. According to tullyrunners.com , Oakley had the best speed rating in the country by seven points—the equivalent of 21 seconds on a typical 5k cross country course. There’s next to nothing any of the...
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A race between Dathan Ritzenhein, Alan Webb, and Ryan Hall sets the stage for the next decade of American distance running. Every fall, the high school cross country season gets a moment of exclusive access to the spotlight with the Footlocker Regional and National Cross Country Championships. Though in recent years, Nike Cross Country Nationals have threatened to overtake Footlocker in both attention and competitiveness, the latter’s history as the premier high school race in the country keep...
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Jordan Hasay emerges from a field of three returning champions to win her second Footlocker title. Every fall, the high school cross country season gets a moment of exclusive access to the spotlight with the Footlocker Regional and National Cross Country Championships. Though in recent years, Nike Cross Country Nationals have threatened to overtake Footlocker in both attention and competitiveness, the latter’s history as the premier high school race in the...
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The 12 meetings of the Diamond League will culminate in two championship meets. The IAAF announced Wednesday that the Diamond League will operate under a new format beginning in 2017. The new structure will feature two championship meets at the end of the circuit in Zurich and Brussels that athletes must qualify for based on performances in the first 12 meetings on the circuit.
In recent years, Diamond League prize money was awarded based on cumulative points ...
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Edward Cheserek and Futsum Zeinasellassie trade leads throughout the race. Every fall, the high school cross country season gets a moment of exclusive access to the spotlight with the Footlocker Regional and National Cross Country Championships. Though in recent years, Nike Cross Country Nationals have threatened to overtake Footlocker in both attention and competitiveness, the latter’s history as the premier high school race in the country keeps it in the top s...
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We're real angry about stuff this week. Sorry for all the yelling. On this week's episode:
0:00 "Let me show you this terrible [thing]" is the worst part of Twitter 26:00 An idea about what we might talk about, going forward 27:48 Men ruined everything 42:43 The COPS marathon that almost was
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We talk about (and spoil) "Civil War!" And talk about the tyranny of Lyft and Uber! On this week's episode:
0:00 Reminder, change comin' 2:00 Bill went to a concert! In a Lyft! 18:15 Civil War was good! 37:30 I would also like to complain about some aspects of Civil War! 55:50 There were some trailers!
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Some important podcast news and talk of intentions. Plus, catching up on Thor 2 and Jessica Jones. On this week's episode:
0:00 change a'comin' 6:15 Intentions: Do they matter, and why not? 26:16 People write advice columnists with some weird stuff 30:54 Thor 2: Was it good, and why is Pete wrong? 44:50 Jessica Jones is real good you guys
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Below you will find a collection of tweets and videos (or photos when I couldn't find video) from various sources from around the internet. At a minimum, we have had our eyes on the winner! These are presented in the order of points earned in Derby preps. This page may take a bit to load because of all the video, so stay patient. Enjoy!
This is Gun Runner breezing 4 furlongs in :50.40. https://t.co/oyhnrQdYjw
— Kentucky Derby (@KentuckyDerby) May 2, 2...
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