1.   If American sports are played in paradise, soccer takes place after the fall.

2.   Soccer will take center stage.

3.   Soccer took another step toward acceptance in the mainstream sporting scene in the United States Saturday night.

4.   Somebody should tell the players from Northeast Louisiana that soccer is taking the country by storm and maybe they should give that a try.

5.   Soccer has taken off in America.

6.   Yet even Friedel realized that NCAA soccer can only take a player so far.

7.   But for the next six weeks, soccer will take over from the courts.