Beyond the 90 Podcast

On the early week edition of The Third Half:

Charleston Battery and El Paso Locomotive continue to impress in league play.

Mark Briggs has the Birmingham Legion moving on up.

The masterclass that is the Bob Lilley special.

Lexington SC can’t be a team managed by a substitute teacher (Tampa Bay Rowdies).

Orange County finally finish their chances.

Monterey Bay disappoint as the Louisville City machine marches on.

New Mexico United finished their chances, Oakland Roots did not.

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

Full match thoughts.

Six matches were played as most of the MLS Teams battled each other. Sadly for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, they were disposed very quickly by the Philadelphia Union.

Two crazy penalty kick shootouts in our nation’s capital and at Harrison, NJ. Big matches in the Twin Cities, Central Florida, and a Texas destruction between neighbors.

The Quarterfinal Draw is this Thursday on CBS Sports Golazo Netwrok’s Morning Footy show at 9:30 AM Eastern.

This will be a short review as we only had two matches to review on Day 1 of the 5th round of the 2025 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. New England Revolution hosting the Chicago Fire for the early evening, then the late match with the San Jose Earthquakes hosting the Portland Timbers.

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On the early week edition of The Third Half:

Miami FC stays unbeaten ways going making 5 in all competitions over first place Loudoun United.

Louisville City keeps dropping points, this time to Hartford Athletic.

What happened to Kendall McIntosh overshadows North Carolina FC’s 4-2 win over Oakland Roots.

We take a look at the 4 blowouts this weekend and what they mean (Charleston Battery 4-0 over San Antonio FC , Rhode Island FC and New Mexico United win 3-0 on the road against Tampa Bay Rowdies and Orange County SC and Sacramento Republic 5-0 over Las Vegas Lights).

El Paso Locomotive can’t keep a clean sheet against Indy Eleven but Andy Cabrera pulls the string.

Colorado Springs Switchbacks make it 2 clean sheets in a row with Herrera in goal. Pittsburgh looking to US Open Cup?

Phoenix Rising keep clean sheet against lackluster Monterey Bay.

Birmingham Legion fight back to earn draw against Detroit City.

FC Tulsa didn’t have to do much in picking up 3 points in Lexington.

As always thank you for listening to The Third Half.

On the late week edition of The Third Half:

We look at Birmingham Legion 0 Rhode Island FC 1. We also review news from the week.

* USL announces a franchise in North Jersey. We look at where they play and the ownership.

* LouCity and Racing Foundation awarded a key grant from US Soccer. We dive into what the grant will be used for.

* The Tampa Bay Rowdies announce a summer reading program for kids.

* Orange County move game to be their game on May 24th for broadcast on KCAL 9.

* We look at signings and the discipline report along with the one game we’re looking forward to this weekend.

As always, thanks for listening to The Third Half.

The quick collapse of the Tampa Bay Rowdies from top three side in the USL Championship at the end of July 2024 to being at the foot of the table ten months later (and looking increasingly uncompetitive) is fully discussed. Is it the fault of ownership? What about injuries? Roster construction? Management?

We go through it all on this week’s podcast.

Another week of USL Championship action is in the book and we deconstruct it all.

On the late week edition of The Third Half:

I’m sure some have been waiting for one but after Tuesday and Wednesday I let loose on the USL and USL Championship and how poor they were in the US Open Cup Round of 32.

USL Dallas has a name. We take a look at the announcements made at their unveiling.

USL’s League Discipline Committee came out with upgrades to red cards and suspensions from last week’s games.

We look at the recent signings around USL and community initiatives from New Mexico United and Sacramento Republic.

As always, thank you for listening and your support of Beyond the 90.

New Mexico United’s ALS Kit

Sacramento Republic’s Mental Health T-Shirt

While there were two snoozers on this second day, we had moments where the USL Championship sides did threaten MLS teams, including the last third division team in AV Alta FC of USL League One. El Paso had a lead, but sadly lost it late in the back end of the second half to Austin FC.

Only the Pittsburgh Riverhounds are the sole surviving lower division side advancing to the next round. But once again, there was plenty of action in this round,`` with a few poor ones.