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Jack Jewsbury, KC Wizards

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I had an opportunity to chat with Jack Jewsbury, KC Wizards and Kickapoo Chiefs (’99) earlier this week when he was in town for a Youth Clinic sponsored by Mediacom and Lake Country Soccer. The photo of him with Chad Jaeger, who played for Drury in the mid 90′s and now coaches here with Springfield SC, came after a conversation with the two. Chad noted he remembers Jack when he was coaching youth soccer in the early 90′s and Jack only came up to Chad’s lower chest. Now Jack has returned to coach the youth as well. The circle remains unbroken. Enjoy.


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And here are some photos from the Clinic
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6th Annual Southwest All-Star Game Tonight!

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Join us for tonight’s High School All-Star game, being hosted at Springfield Catholic High School for the first time. The game features the best graduating high school seniors in this region, as chosen by Steve Ole Olson of SGFsoccer.com, who covered over 50 games this Spring season, and Eric Sorlie of Springfield SC. Nominations were sought from the coaches of all of the teams from the three classes that play soccer in the Southwest Missouri region.

As part of the game activities this evening, we will be recognizing the Springfield Catholic girls team, along with Head Coach Ben Timson and assistant Meredith White. The Lady Irish won the State Soccer Title in Class 1 on June 5th, defeating Trinity Catholic from St Louis. The title is the first ever in soccer for any team in Southwest Missouri.

What: Southwest High School Soccer All-Stars
When: Tonight!
6:00 pm – Girls Game (download the rosters)
7:45 pm – Special Recognition, State Champion Springfield Catholic Girls
8:00 pm – Boys Game (download the rosters)

The Boys rosters includes 8 All-State players while the Girls roster includes

The Girls Head Coaches are Evan Palmer of Nixa and Clint Nurnberg of Parkview. The Eagles won their first ever District and Sectional titles this season while the Vikings achieved perfection in going 9-0 during the Ozark Conference season.

The Boys Head Coaches are Steve Fast of Bolivar and Jason Ingold of Camdenton. The Liberators won 2nd Place in Class 2 in November while the Lakers earned their first District title.

Key sponsors this year include J&K Soccer who provide the souvenir jerseys, game balls and this year are bringing tents to provide shade for the players during the game. Cox Sports Medicine is represented by Dr Rusty Bond (whose daughter Jamie was an All-Star in 2008) and Charles Bower. There will also be an ambulance stationed at the game. Springfield Catholic Schools is hosting the event and are ensuring every resource is available for the players and the fans.

That includes taking special steps to allow Mediacom to return to the game for the first time since 2006. Don West and Mike McClure will be on hand this evening to provide the play-by-play. Color analysis will be offered by Coaches Jeff Rogers of Glendale and Tom Davidson of Ozark, the deans of Springfield high school soccer.

The event is organized jointly by SGFsoccer.com, Southwest Missouri’s soccer resource, and Springfield Soccer Club, home to over 20 teams including the two time State Championship squad.

Fox Soccer Plus – Not On Mediacom!

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Fox Soccer plus logoAccording to an AP wire story Fox Soccer Plus reaches deals to start airing DirecTV, DISH Network and Verizon FiOS have agreed to carry Fox Soccer Plus when the network launches Monday.

The new network, a companion to Fox Soccer Channel, is taking over many of the rights that had been held by Setanta USA, which shuts down Sunday night. Fox Soccer Plus, a premium channel, will televise the European Champions League, the English Premier League, FA Cup, League Championship, FA Cup and national team and the Italian Serie A, plus rugby from the Magners League, the Guinness Premiership and the Heineken Cup.

None of the cable carriers will televise the new network in HD at this time. DISH is carrying FSC in HD and will charge $14.999 monthly for Fox Soccer Plus as an “a la carte” option.

I don’t have the Mediacom HD package, if they were to add this channel it would be the motivation I need to finally spend the money. What is your experience, tell me if you see the new channel now that it’s premiered!

Feel free to visit the Fox Soccer Plus website as well and click on the Locater button near the bottom. Enter your zip code and provider to let them know you are interested!

Contact Mediacom Regarding US World Cup Qualifier vs Mexico Broadcast August 12th

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Dont-Tread-150OK folks, if you want to see the US vs Mexico match on August 12th, it’s going to take some work. From TVweek.com

NBC Universal is now going to offer all cable and satellite operators free access to Telemundo-owned cable network mun2 on August 12, so that all soccer fans around the country will get to see the English-language telecast of the World Cup qualifying match between the United States and Mexico.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/07/nbcu-reaches-compromise-on-eng.php

Visit the Mediacom site here, and fill in the contact form by copying the information within the block quote above and pasting it into the comment site. I don’t have an account with Mediacom but I classified it under Cable Support. This site is read across the Midwest and Mediacom is the cable provider in many of these areas. If we can get a large enough effort, maybe we’ll be able to see the show. Categorized under Sportsmanship!

Olympic Soccer – 21 Days and Counting

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With tonight’s friendly between the US Women and Brazil (join us at Coester’s at 9:00 pm!), I thought I’d take some time to update you on what to expect in terms of broadcast schedules and related info.

First the good news – I’ve updated the SGFsoccer.com calendar to reflect ALL of the games that I found on the TV schedule at the NBColympics.com website. Click on the link to be taken to the soccer page where you can localize the schedule depending on your TV access – Mediacom, Dish or DirecTV. I used Dish for my scheduling effort but the schedule should be pretty accurate given the channels that are going to be used – NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD, as well as NBColympics.com (I’ll come back to that later). Soccer will primarily be shown on USA, MSNCB and Telemundo, beginning with the US Women vs Norway (skol!) on Wednesday August 6th (MSNBC) and ending with the Men’s final being broadcast on CNBC on Friday night August 22nd.

In addition, NBC Universal is also providing coverage of the entire men’s and women’s soccer and basketball tournaments through Soccer (58 games) and Basketball (76 games) NBC Olympics specialty channels. Only Comcast and Cox have signed on to broadcast these channels according to this site. I can’t find a thing on Mediacom’s website although I’ve contacted them via their Investor Relations site. Feel free to reach out and let them know your interest as well!

There will also be an online option. NBCOlympics.com will feature approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage, the first live online Olympic coverage in the United States. No indication of special requirements although this site notes Vista and Microsoft Silverlight. I think the only part they got right is probably the Silverlight piece. I’ve downloaded it (a cross-browser cross-platform plug-in according to Microsoft’s site) and I’ll do some testing on my Mac and PC. It’s optimized for HD and streaming it appears but it’s also in Beta so we’ll see what’s ready on August 6th.

OK, that’s probably plenty for now. Updates to come on the Men’s and Women’s teams. For now, the best be it to join us tonight and make your own decisions on the ladies! Facebook event – Join us at Coester’s for the broadcast!