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On Friday, the USL Championship will have its first nationally televised match of the new 2021 season on ESPN2’s airwaves. The hosts, Phoenix Rising, will break in their new stadium at Wild Horse Pass as they look to replicate last year’s Western Conference title.
The visiting San Diego Loyal, however, makes the matchup about more than just 90 minutes of soccer.
The last time these two teams faced off was also San Diego’s final regular season game. In it, now-former Phoenix attacker Junior Flemmings directed a homophobic slur at Loyal midfielder Collin Martin the only openly gay active professional in men’s team sports. What followed ended up becoming one of the most widely discussed moments in the USL’s 2020 season.
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The countdown of the 15 most memorable moments in Crew Stadium history based on voting from the Massive Report staff continues. Join the discussion on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using the hashtag #MRStadium.
It happened not once, not twice, not three times but four times. Historic Crew Stadium will always be remembered as the place the Americans beat Mexico. The fourth match between the United States Men’s National Team and Mexico in Columbus on Sep. 10, 2013, was the completion of three words soccer fans in America associate with historic Crew Stadium forever: Dos a Cero (2-0).
SANDY The longest offseason in Real Salt Lake history is coming to a close.
After sitting idle in the opening week of Major League Soccer s 2021 season, the club from Sandy will finally open the season on the road Saturday at Minnesota United FC (6 p.m. MT, KMYU).
A lot has changed since the last time a lot of casual fans likely paid attention to the club. So let s get up to speed with three things to know before Saturday evening.
Who s going to score the goals?
RSL ranked last in the Western Conference a year ago with only 25 goals scored, down from 46 during the more normal schedule of 2019.
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We used to get food after practice and ride out to Jared’s house. Watch AND1 mixtapes, Iverson games. Dead deer high on the living room walls. Satellite television.
Eastbays in the bathroom. In small country towns, kids get creative looking for entertainment. One evening we drew a target on a paper plate. Then someone stood in the yard and held the dish while someone else lit a Roman candle and shot at it. A convoy of pink-orange light sprayed loud out of the stick and the guy holding the plate bailed, ran for the pasture. We’d drag the mini trampoline beside his hoop, throw alley-oops to each other, dunk on each other, get mad at each other. And sometimes we were boring. Drive into Muskogee and putter around the video store, skim preseason college football magazines, slander the