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December - 2011

All I Want for Whitecaps New Years: More Canadians
Who Are Vancouver's Possibilities in Goal?
The 2011 Official Eighty Six Forever Unofficial Vancouver Whitecaps Awards
Kids Kascadia Kup, First Round: Whitecaps U-18s Beat Seattle, U-16s Lose Big
Attacking the Second Division Myth
Vancouver Whitecaps Sign Midfielder Matt Watson
Vancouver Whitecaps Acquire Lee Nguyen in Weighted Lottery
Whitecaps Interested in Lee Nguyen; Is There a Point?
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Camilo?
Crisis? What Crisis?
Jay Nolly vs. Joe Cannon: The Final Comparison
Paul Barber to Resign as Whitecaps CEO in February
A Statistical Look at the Whitecaps' 2011 MLS Season
Work Still to Do for the Whitecaps at Right Back
The Eighty Six Forever Canadian Players of the Year Ballot
Vancouver Whitecaps Officially Welcome Lee Young-pyo
Vancouver Hosts Montreal For Une Petite Guerre; First Kick March 10
The Lee Young-pyo Latest: [Now] Official, [Finally] Announced... Almost a DP?
Looking Back at Jay Nolly
MLS Re-Entry Draft Stage One Today: Who Will the Whitecaps Take?
A Statistical Look at the 2011 Vancouver Whitecaps Reserves
Cannon, Nolly, Thorrington Removed from Re-Entry Draft List
A Statistical Look at the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency's 2011 USL PDL Season
The Vancouver Whitecaps Best Eighteen on December 1, 2011

November - 2011

Whitecaps Decline Options on Cannon, Nolly, Janicki, Thorrington, Vagenas; Leathers's Contract Ends
Shea Salinas Traded to San Jose Earthquakes for Allocation Money
Report: Vancouver Whitecaps Sign Fullback Lee Young-pyo
MLS Announces 2012 Home Opening Dates: Begin First Kick Speculation!
A Review of the Montreal Impact's Expansion Draft (From Someone who Hates the Montreal Impact)
Another One Bites the Dust: Bilal Duckett Waived by Whitecaps
Philadelphia Union Claim MF Nizar Khalfan Off Vancouver in Waiver Draft
Vancouver Whitecaps Lose Jeb Brovsky to Montreal in MLS Expansion Draft
Vancouver Whitecaps Announce Protected Players for Expansion Draft
When Players and Supporters Communicate Too Much
An Unbalanced Schedule Makes an Exciting Experiment
MLS MVP Went to the Wrong Guy, and That's Okay
Canada - St. Kitts Post-Game: A Quality Win Which Promises Nothing
Canadian Game Day: Men v. St. Kitts and Nevis, 4 PM PST (Something to Prove)
Dwayne De Rosario Is Not MLS's Most Valuable Player
St. Kitts and Nevis - Canada Post-Game: This Team Just Isn't Good Enough
Canadian Game Day: Men @ St. Kitts and Nevis, 4 PM PST (Almost a Friendly)
Ex-Whitecaps Midfield David Testo Outs Self as Gay: Canadian Soccer Must Step Up
Vancouver Whitecaps Waive MF Alexandre Morfaw

October - 2011

2011 Vancouver Whitecaps Award Winners Announced (As Are My Correct Ones)
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Colorado, 4 PM PDT
Big Phil Must Play!
Canada - Puerto Rico Post-Game: Mission 2018
Canadian Game Day: Men v. Puerto Rico, 4 PM PDT
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Would a Canadian League Help Canada?
Canadian Game Day: Men @ St. Lucia, 3 PM PDT (The Trap Game)
Vancouver - Salt Lake Post-Game: Justice Comes In Many Forms (Even Unjust Ones)
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Salt Lake, 6:30 PM PDT
Rotating the Whitecaps: Which Young Guns Deserve a Shot?
Vancouver - Portland Post-Game: Energy Was the Least of Our Problems
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Portland, 1:30 PM PDT

September - 2011

Marc Weber Reports Tom Soehn "Tears Into" Rochat, DeMerit
Looking Forward to the NASL Playoffs
Vancouver - Seattle Post-Game: Missed Chances? Lousy Team.
On the Sounders in the Stadium
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Seattle, 7:30 PM
Looking on the Bright Side of Whitecaps Life
The MLS Roster Freeze Has Come: An Analysis of Tom Soehn's Strategy
Canadian Game Day: Men @ Puerto Rico, 5 PM PDT (What are the Islanders Really Worth?)
Labour Day Trial News!
Canada - St. Lucia Post Game: They Ask "How Many?"; I Just Ask "How?"
Canadian Game Day: Men v. St. Lucia, 5 PM PDT (A Look at Qualifiers Past)

August - 2011

Whitecaps (Inexplicably) Release RB Wes Knight
Whitecaps Tap Winnipeg: Promising Manitoba Prospects Join Residency
Eight Thoughts on the Vancouver - Houston Game
A Relative Rookie's Guide to Appearing on the Radio
Cascadia Cup, Round Two: The Greatest Rivalry Continues
Whitecaps Bring Canadian Midfielder Massih Wassey on Trial
Whitecaps 2012 Season Ticket Prices Announced: Gentlest Slap to the Face Ever
Five Words on the DC United - Vancouver Whitecaps Game
Martin Rennie: Tactics and Strategy
Vancouver Whitecaps Name Martin Rennie New Head Coach
Move an Attacking Player to Left Back: Another Tommy Soehn Positional Brainwave

July - 2011

Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Los Angeles, 4:30 PM PDT
Hey, Ben, How Sad Are You That David Beckham Isn't Playing Today?
Marc Weber Reports Keven Aleman's MLS Rights In Vancouver
Eric Hassli Might Waste Time with the All-Stars? Fine!
Vancouver Whitecaps - Manchester City Post-Game: Nothing Measured, Nothing Gained
Whitecaps Fake Game Day: Men v. Manchester City, 7 PM PDT
Whitecaps Rain Day: Men v. Nobody, 1:30 PM PDT
Dumb Dude Deals Dunfield for Diddly-Poop: Terry Dunfield Traded to Toronto
Whitecaps Add Forward Mustapha Jarju as Second Designated Player
600 Words on the Latest of Many Whitecaps Losses
A Post-Game Rant on the Voyageurs Cup
Whitecaps Voyageurs Cup Game Day: Men @ Toronto, 9:30 AM PDT

June - 2011

Canada Disappointed at the Women's World Cup (But That's All)
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Toronto, 4:30 PM PDT
Report: Mouloud Akloul to Be Released (Not Good News)
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Kansas City, 5:30 PM PDT
The Lamentable Love of Last vs. Last
Tom Soehn is Making His Own Luck
Random Questions for the Philadelphia Union Game
Gold Cup Review: Horror, For Now and For the Future
Canada - Guadeloupe Post-Game: OH THANK GOD
Daily Gold Cup Prediction for June 12
Club and Country Game Day: Canada v. Guadeloupe, 3 PM PDT, and Whitecaps @ Seattle, 7:30 PM PDT
A Brief Sermon to the Converted on Away Support
Daily Gold Cup Prediction for June 11
Cascadia Cup: If You Can't Win, At Least Rise Up
Daily Gold Cup Prediction for June 10
United States - Canada Post-Game: Mental Mistakes
Daily Gold Cup Prediction for June 8
Canadian Game Day: Men @ United States, 5 PM PDT
Eighty Six Forever Gold Cup Preview and Sarcasm-Fest
Real Salt Lake - Vancouver Post-Game: Spiralling, Spiralling
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Real Salt Lake, 6 PM PDT
#MLS4RSL, One Month Later
Club and Country Game Day! Canada v. Ecuador, 4 PM PDT, and Whitecaps Men @ Chivas USA, 7:30 PM PDT
The New Coach Bounce

May - 2011

Western Canadian Round-Up: The Season Begins in Earnest
Teitur Thordarson Sacked: Tom Soehn Takes Over as Interim Head Coach
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Quantity v. Quality
Vancouver - New York Post-Game: What's Gotta Happen?
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. New York, 2:30 PM PDT
A Curse in Disguise: Why We Might Wish New York Had Their DPs
Would Owen Hargreaves Be Good for Vancouver?
Voyageurs Cup Game Day Again: Men @ Toronto, 8:00 AM PDT
The Voyageurs Cup and the Association That's Disgracing It
Voyageurs Cup Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Toronto, 5 PM PDT
So What if We Lose?
Gold Cup: The Whitecaps Not Called
Vancouver Whitecaps Rest Day!
Vancouver - Toronto Post-Game: Awful
Voyageurs Cup Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Toronto, 7 PM PDT
Something to Rile Up TFC Fans
Just Say No to Whitecaps Attendance Woes
Western Canadian Round-Up: (Almost) Everybody's Season is On!
Vancouver Whitecaps 2011 Salaries, and Some Analysis
New England - Vancouver Post-Game: No Justice
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ New England, 4:30 PM PDT
Counterproductive Paranoia in Cascadia
What is This Castrol Index Crap?
Vancouver - San Jose Post-Game: Something's Gotta Give! (No It Hasn't)
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. San Jose, 7 PM PDT
Is the Earth Moving For You Too? Game Day News and Notes
Chicago - Vancouver Post-Game: Not Your Average 0-0 Draw
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Chicago, 5:30 PM PDT
Burn Baby Burn: Whitecaps Game Day News and Notes
The Weakness of Davide Chiumiento
Featuring Formations: Where does Teitur Go From Here?
Vancouver - Montreal Post-Game: 120 Little Heart Attacks
Quick Thoughts on Fixing Eric Hassli
Double Game Day: Vancouver Whitecaps and FC Edmonton, Voyageurs Cup Day Two
Making an Impact: Game Day News and Notes
Has Jay Nolly Lost His Magic?
Whitecaps Residency Open PDL Season with Home Loss
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Writer Writing about Writing
Columbus - Vancouver Post-Game

April - 2011

Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Columbus, 4:30 PM PDT
Crew Job: Whitecaps Game Day News and Notes
The Columbus Crew: One Team, Many Players, No Significance, No Rivalry
Talking Teitur Thordarson
Vancouver Whitecaps Sign Midfielder Peter Vagenas
Montreal - Vancouver Post-Game: A Taste of Jubilation
Edmonton - Toronto Post-Game: Well That's an Anti-Climax
DOUBLE RAINBOW GAME DAY! Vancouver Whitecaps and FC Edmonton, Voyageurs Cup Day One
Nouvelles du jour de match et les notes (That's Game Day News and Notes in Montrealese)
What's the Voyageurs Cup to a Minnow?
Glorious Fight or Glorified Friendlies: Should We Take the Voyageurs Cup Seriously?
The Voyageurs Cup: What's in a Name?
Vancouver - Dallas Post-Game: No Excuses
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Dallas, 4 PM PDT
Dull-Ass: Whitecaps Game Day News and Notes
Figuring Out Jeb Brovsky
What is this Shevchenko-to-the-Whitecaps Nonsense?
Vancouver Whitecaps Release Randy Edwini-Bonsu
Thursday Morning Blitz Chess! Catching up on the West
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Chivas USA, 4 PM PDT
Game-Day News and Notes: No Way, It's Chivas USA!
Making Meaning for the Meaningless Friendly
Vancouver Whitecaps to Announce a Major International Friendly "Coming Soon"
Random Vancouver Whitecaps Stats Facts
The Bench Atiba Harris Club
Do the Whitecaps Have a Problem With Canadian Content?
Houston - Vancouver Post-Game: Ramshackle Team, Ramshackle Result
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Houston, 4 PM PDT
The 2011 Hospital Cup: Inevitable Injury-Related Whitecaps News and Notes
The Vancouver Whitecaps Women Hate Canada
FC Edmonton Game Day: Men @ Fort Lauderdale Strikers, 5:30 PM MDT
Why We Must Hate the Houston Dynamo
Is Jonathan Leathers Lucky or Good?
Vancouver - New England Post-Game: The Real Story Wasn't the Referee
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. New England Revolution, 7 PM PDT
Mid-Week Game Day News and Notes
Ersatz Canadian Kids Game Day! U-20 Men v. Mexico, 7 PM PDT
Whitecaps Midweek Games in 2010: What Do We Learn?
Vancouver's Good Kind of Striker Dilemma: Who Do We Play?
FC Edmonton's Roster: Not So Bad After All?
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Supporters and that 0.01%
Vancouver - Kansas City Post-Game: Ridiculous. Preposterous. Excellent.
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Kansas City, 4 PM PDT
Game Day News and Notes: EVERYTHING IS BROKEN
Ninety Minutes Hate

March - 2011

Has Anybody Seen My Baby Midfielder - Where is Philippe Davies?
Canadian Game Day: Men v. Belarus, 07:00 PDT
Canadian Kids Game Day: Men v. Guadeloupe, 17:00 PDT
Self-Indulgence Sunday: How Is Club vs. Country Even a Debate?!
Philadelphia - Vancouver Post-Game: Lessons Learned
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Philadelphia, 1:00 PM PDT
Whitecaps Not United for the Union: News and Notes
Comparing the Whitecaps and the Union, Position by Position
Omar Salgado Eligible to Play Immediately in Vancouver
Vancouver Whitecaps Fans Can't Travel to Games, and FC Edmonton Fans Can't See Them At Home: Nothing is Ever Easy in Western Canada
Better Know a Whitecap: Teibert Time is Earlier Than We Thought
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Talking Out of Both Sides of My Mouth
Vancouver - Toronto Post-Game: Plan the Parade!
Whitecaps Game Day: Men v. Toronto, 3:30 PM PST
News and Notes for the Big Day
Fears
Whitecaps Sign Four More: Morfaw, Teibert, Sanvezzo, Boxall All Inked
The Whitecaps Should Sign Blaise Nkufo! (They Won't!) (But They Should!)
Self-Indulgence Sunday: Some Soccer Supporters Slightly Self-Absorbed?
Whitecaps Sign Forward Long Tan, Midfielder Blake Wagner
It's Quick News Morning! News and Notes on Minor Whitecaps Developments
Fifteen Whitecaps and What the Supporters Summit Taught Us
Whither Davide Chiumiento?
Seattle - Vancouver Post-Game: Act One Goes to the Good Guys!
Whitecaps Game Day: Men @ Seattle, 3:00 PM PST
Vancouver - Portland Post-Game: Not Quite in Mid-Season Form Yet
Holy Crap It's Whitecaps Game Day! Men v. Portland, 4:00 PM PST
Grievous Bodily Harmse: Whitecaps Trialing Nine-Time Canadian International Kevin Harmse
On Hassli and Designated Players
Vancouver Whitecaps Sign Forward Eric Hassli
Whitecaps' 2011 Television Schedule Almost Ironed Out
Jay DeMerit Named Captain of the Vancouver Whitecaps
KanWNT Korner: Boycott Lifted, World Cup Seemingly Inevitable
The Whitecaps News I'd Like to See This Week

February - 2011

Whitecaps Wrap Up Their Arizona Friendlies: What Have We Learned?
Whitecaps Selling Tickets Pretty Well, Apparently! Just Not If You're a Toronto Fan
Canada Qualifies For Another World Cup (Did I Just Say That?)
Is FC Edmonton Biting Off Too Much in the Voyageurs Cup?
Who Is Camilo da Silva Sanvezzo? (No, Really, Who Is He?)
Kyle Porter's Enormous Will He or Won't He?
So You Wanna Write for Eighty Six Forever? (For God's Sake, Why?)
On Cody Arnoux, Other Rubbish, and No News Being Bad News
Canadian Game Day (Sort Of): Men @ Greece, 7:00 AM PST
Canada's Captaincy Candidates: FIGHT!
Self-Indulgence Sunday: On Reporting vs. Thumbsucking
Canadian Soccer Association Voting on Reform in Ottawa Today
Don't Cry for Us, Carolina: Morace to Leave Canada After World Cup 2011
Ranking the Whitecaps' Strikers, Such As They Are
Canada's Roster for Greece Announced, But Not a New Captain...
Whitecaps Still Have No Strikers; Bring German Midfielder On Trial

January - 2011

Better Know an Ethan Gage: An Englishman's Guide to the Newest Ex-Whitecap
We Have an MLS Canadian Quota, but What of MLS Canadian Coaches?
On Robbie Keane, Andrew Ornoch, and the Vancouver Whitecaps
Canadian Women Finish Second at Yongchuan Cup; End Trophy Winning Streak at Two
Fashion Corner: Canada's New Home Kit, and How They Screwed Up
Whitecaps' Roster Gets a Little More Complicated: Savage Stays Home, and Gage Off to Europe
Whitecaps Trialling Former Kilmarnock and Dundee F.C. Defender Ryan O'Leary
The Whitecaps Many, Many Additions in Review, Part Two: Supplementary and Round-Up
NASL Sanctioning Pulled; American Soccer Shambolic, Canada Pays the Price
The Whitecaps Many, Many Additions in Review, Part One: The SuperDraft
The Great Big Eighty Six Forever Draft Day Open Thread
Robbie Savage to the Vancouver Whitecaps: Someone Tell Soehn It's Not 2001 Anymore
Outrageous Fortune: Who is Denis Hamlett, Vancouver's New Assistant Coach?
2011 MLS Mock Draft in Review: What We Did and Why I'm Brilliant
Can WSA Winnipeg Bring High-Level Soccer to Manitoba At Last?
Ranking the MLS Team Names
Kara Lang, Canada's Second-Greatest Women's Soccer Player, Retires at Age 24

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