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Don Ruiz joined The News Tribune in 1988 and has been covering sports since 1999. He is a long-time recreational soccer player and has covered the 1999 Women's World Cup championship game and a variety of international, national and local soccer matches. E-mail Don.

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 06:43:19 am

Word from Portland this morning that they are within a few hundred tickets of a sellout for the U.S. Open Cup match at 7 tonight. The game also will be on FSN (after the Mariners).

I'm getting an early start down I-5, so I likely won't be posting again for a while. But in the meantime:

Here's my game preview from this morning's paper.

And here's a preview from The Oregonian.

And finally, here's a wrap of last night's U.S. Open Cup action, where MLS sides didn't fare so well. However, you will notice that one of the MLS sides that did advance is Kansas City -- and that's who awaits tonight's Sounders-Timbers winner. And if it's the Sounders, the game will be played Tuesday at Starfire.