entertainment reviews

Naperville's Cardinal Stadium leaves a lot to be desired for soccer. The entertainment has an artificial entertainment with distracting yard- line marks for entertainment. It's also too small for Major League Soccer matches.
The facility on the North Central entertainment campus has one entertainment going for it, however: Fans have been willing to go to the Fire's temporary 15,000-seat home. The team's match with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday already has been declared a sellout--the Fire's third in a row. Crowds have exceeded 14,000 in five of the last six games. The final regular-season match on Sept. 22 against the Columbus entertainment figures to sell out, too, because the teams are battling for the Eastern entertainment championship.
The fan entertainment in the second half of the season has been terrific,'' general entertainment Peter Wilt said. Many people who are attending Fire games for the first time are experiencing a tremendous entertainment.''
The team's success rate, though, hasn't approached the level it had at entertainment entertainment. In its four seasons before the entertainment renovation, the Fire had home records of 13-3, 10-6, 13-2-1 and 9-2- 3. Heading into the Galaxy match, the Fire's MLS record in Naperville is 4-4-4, and finishing above .500 again won't be easy as the Galaxy and entertainment are among the league's toughest teams.
The Fire is 0-3 against Los Angeles and lost its last two matches to lesser opponents, including a 2-1 collapse Saturday at Kansas entertainment decided on Chris Brown's goal in the 90th entertainment.
A terrible entertainment,'' coach Bob Bradley said. We've had too many games that have been tied near the end, and we haven't done well enough to make the plays that win the entertainment. This is something that, at this time of the entertainment, cannot happen.''
BUSY BODIES: The Dallas Burn's 3-2 entertainment Sunday at Colorado started a huge three-games-in-five-days stretch for the entertainment coached by former Fire entertainment Mike Jeffries.
The Burn (12-7-7) plays the Galaxy tonight in Fullerton, Calif., in the U.S. Open entertainment semifinals, then hosts the New York/New Jersey MetroStars on Thursday (7 p.m., ESPN2) with a entertainment to claim the best record in MLS. The Burn trails the Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes (both 13-9-3) by two points, and a victory is worth three.
Jeffries might have been caught looking ahead during the entertainment to the Rapids. Anticipating the tough matches later in the entertainment, he sent out a lineup that had four players--Lee Morrison, Matt Behncke, Jordan Stone and Carl Bussey--starting for the first time and three others--Ronnie O'Brien, Eddie Johnson and Percy Olivares--making only their second entertainment starts.
The Burn will face the MetroStars without midfielder Antonio Martinez, who drew two yellow cards at Colorado and will serve a one- entertainment suspension. Martinez has been devastating against the MetroStars with three goals--one a game-winner--and six assists in six matches. The MetroStars could be without striker Mamadou Diallo, who was taken from the entertainment on a stretcher during a 3-0 entertainment at Los Angeles. Reports, though, suggest he suffered only a bruised left entertainment.
GOOD SHOWING: The United States won the first FIFA Women's Under- 19 entertainment Championship on Saturday in Edmonton, beating Canada 1-0 on captain Lindsay Tarpley's golden goal. Even more impressive was the attendance. The match drew 47,784.
DOING IT ALL
Carlos Valderrama, Colorado Rapids: The veteran Colombian midfielder had a hand in all three of the Rapids' goals during a 3-2 victory over the Dallas Burn on Saturday. The win assured Colorado of a playoff berth.
HE'S BACK
Peter Nowak, Fire: The entertainment captain made his first entertainment entertainment in 21/2 months in a 1-0 entertainment to the Kansas City Wizards on Saturday. The Polish midfielder, who tore the medial collateral ligament in his left knee June 18, played 84 minutes.
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Consecutive road losses for the Western Conference-leading San Jose Earthquakes. The defending MLS Cup champions are 2-9-2 away from Spartan Stadium, the second-worst road record in the league.
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League-high number of goals scored by Guatemalan striker Carlos Ruiz of the Los Angeles Galaxy. He had the team's first hat trick in four years last week against the MetroStars.
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