Beyond the 90 Podcast

On this Wednesday Night Edition of The Third Half:

I break down Louisville City 2 Rhode Island FC 1. Is there a chemistry issue in Rhode Island or do the problems run deeper?

Las Vegas Lights add to their attacking options. Let’s break down the signing of Stefan Stojanovic.

Sacramento Republic’s check off the next step to their new stadium.

And I close with a question to USL regarding the scheduling of the Tampa Bay Rowdies at home the same night the Tampa Bay Sun could have hosted the USL Super League final.

As always, thank you for your support of The Third Half and Beyond the 90.

In this week’s edition of Crossbar Challenged Chris Petley discusses Tallahassee SC, one of the top sides currently in The League for Clubs (TLfC).

In addition to being our podcast co-host Chris serves as President of Tallahassee SC, the club he founded in 2018.

Included this week:

What were the challenges in starting the club?

How difficult is securing a venue and how difficult is moving from venue to venue?

The little things around apparel inventory, concessions and things like that.

Challenges around travel when geographically isolated.

What is the tradeoff between travel costs and level of competition?

And much, much more…

Crossbar Challenged is released on Wednesday’s and features a look independent clubs in the US and discusses the challenges they face from a business and operational standpoint.

After a nearly ten month slog we have arrived at the inaugural USL Super League Final - and it features the two sides we’ve been covering all season, the Tampa Bay Sun and Fort Lauderdale United. We break down the matchup and discuss how we got here in this preview pod.

On this week’s edition of The Third Half:

Loudoun United have picked up their second defining result in 2 weeks. We talk about how they picked up a draw against high flying Charleston Battery.

Louisville City stay unbeaten, but is this a result the Rowdies build upon?

FC Tulsa survive the odds in Sacramento to complete the season sweep against Sacramento Republic.

We speak of the Birmingham, Lexington and Hartford syndromes.

Detroit City’s bunker sprung a leak against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

Miami FC have won more games than they did in 2024. Let’s talk about the Bill Hamid show that was in Rhode Island.

Las Vegas no show in San Antonio.

The Altitude Cup between New Mexico United and Colorado Springs Switchbacks end honors even.

We look at Oakland Roots in Benny Feilhaber’s first game in charge against El Paso Locomotive. Did they look better?

And Phoenix Rising just keep ticking along. Are they starting to look like championship material?

As always, thank you for your support of The Third Half and Beyond the 90.

Crossbar Challenged which will be co-hosted by Kartik Krishnaiyer and Chris Petley is a new podcast from Beyond the 90’ that will take a deeper look at the administrative, operations and business side of running a soccer club in the United States.

On this Monday edition of The Third Half:

I take a group by group look from this past weekend’s Jägermeister Cup action.

Gavin Glinton is out of a job in Oakland. Is the squad really as talented as their front office wants us to believe?

We also look at some late week transfers and take a look at a wonderfully done piece surrounding Forest Lasso.

As always, thank you for listening to The Third Half.

A lot to unpack so far from the USL Championship season.

On the late week edition of The Third Half:

We had goals galore, yet again, in Indianapolis but neither Indy Eleven and Hartford Athletic pick up all 3 points.

FC Tulsa take advantage of a gifted penalty decision to get out of San Antonio with a draw.

We also look at Cameron Lancaster coming home to Louisville City, USL players getting international call-ups and a cool feature from Phoenix Rising that all clubs need to get in on the act for.

As always, thanks for listening to The Third Half.

As the video explains we are facing a crisis in local news gathering journalism throughout the United States. This is something I feel very deeply and strongly about.

Therefore after a period of conversations and discussions, I’ve accepted an offer to join a local newspaper (The Boca Raton Tribune )in my area.

This will complement my efforts here at BT 90 as well as my book writing on Florida History with a book to be published this summer by Casemate in the United Kingdom and another book which I’m currently working on which I hope to have complete by early next year.

BT90 will remain as is with my usual contribution but to create personal bandwidth, I will no longer be updating The Florida Squeeze website regularly (the social media for this site had been handed off years ago). I will continue to host the weekly Florida History Podcast.

In late 2024, USL Dallas announced their intention to add Dallas to their list of USL Championship clubs for 2027. Led by co-founders and long time friends, Matt Valentine and Sam Morton, the club is poised to enter a market that is also occupied by Major League Soccer.

I was fortunate enough to have Matt on the podcast to discuss this exciting USL project. We talk about Matt’s personal history with the beautiful game, the Ownership group behind the club, the vision of the next few years as they work towards their goal of playing in 2027, why Dallas makes sense, and more.