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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.

Jon Billings is the director of communications for the Tacoma Tide. He'll be providing news, notes and updates on the Tide. E-mail Jon.

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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 08:59:23 pm

The Los Angeles Galaxy added a point in the MLS Western standings Saturday with a scoreless draw at D.C. United.

Then Chivas USA moved past the Sounders in the West with a 2-0 win over Toronto.

Posted by Don Ruiz @ 10:44:44 am

Sounders designated player Freddie Ljungberg trained with the team today, showing enough where coach Sigi Schmid said he will fly to Houston today and play against the Dynamo tomorrow.

"He felt fine, so he's going along with us to Houston," Schmid said, just before heading for SeaTac. "If everything goes well, we expect him to play."

Here's my story from this morning's paper, and the two designated players who will be on the Robertson Stadium pitch tomorrow.