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SPORTS ASHEVIU.E CITIZEN-TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006 C3 RFK Stadium to host MLS Cup for 3rd time D.i II I i- i M. By Howard Fendrich BEAT THE PRO Os ffcS FOOTBALL CONTEST Think you're better than Nancy Allen, the Citizen-Times expert? Join our weekly contest and see if you can compile a better recoro Go to and follow the instructions. You be able to make picks after 12:45 p.m. on Sunday. The top 10 winners will each receive a $10 gift certificate to Wild Wings Cafe.

The contest can only be played online. y-f" Jl; game was played at new, smaller soccer-specific facilities in Frisco, Texas, in 2005 and 2006, and Carson, in 2003 and 2004. "Once you're in the seats in RFK Stadium, and the stands start bouncing, and the noise starts, and you can't hear yourself think," D.C. United president and CEO Kevin Payne said. "It's as good an environment as you're going to find in any sports venue in the United States." The soccer club shares its stadium with major league baseball's Washington Nationals.

Their seasons overlap, so the field must be reconfigured repeatedly, with the dirt infield used for baseball covered with patches of grass and the pitcher's mound lowered into the ground. Stands are shifted, too. Payne said there should be enough time between the end of the Nationals' season their last home game is scheduled for Sept. 23 and the MLS Cup to re-sod half of the soccer field. Seating capacity for the MLS Cup is expected to be about 44,000, and Garber said he expects a sellout if four-time league champion D.C.

United reaches the game. Payne said having the MLS Cup in the nation's capital could help the club's efforts to build a new stadium across the Anacostia River from where the Nationals are constructing their new ballpark. IMt AbSUUAItU PRESS WASHINGTON In a victory for atmosphere over amenities, aging RFK Stadium was chosen to host the 2007 MLS Cup, becoming the first arena to stage Major League Soccer's title game three times. The championship will be played at noon Nov. 18, an early time slot to accommodate broadcaster ABC, MLS commissioner Don Garber said at a news conference Thursday.

"This is a fantastic soccer market," Garber said. "This is a bit of a thank-you to the community and to D.C. United." RFK Stadium, which opened in 1961, also hosted the MLS Cup in 1997 won by f- Js Miami at Buffalo 1 N.Y. Jets at Minnesota A natrnit at Rraon Riu Pittsburgh at Carolina Denver at Arizona Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants St.

Louis at Oakland Kansas City at San Diego CTTr 1 lampa bay at cntcago Jacksonville at Tennessee Cleveland at Baltimore JACQUELYN MARIINTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber announces Thursday that RFK Stadium has been chosen as the location for the 12th MLS Cup Championship. D.C. United, still the only team to capture the title on home turf and 2000. The league's championship Washington at New Orleans Monday's game Houston at New England Cincinnati at Indianapolis MOORE: Critics have been silenced Give Yourself A Gift All Throughout The Year And Then Some stuff he just wants to coach ball but when that stuff got back to him, I think he didn't really understand it." "I couldn't honestly say it didn't bother me. There was some frustration, sure," Jerry Moore said.

"But that's part of coaching. It's one of the pitfalls of this profession. Even when that happened, I liked the challenge of it. "There's a fire that burns in your ol' belly when things like that happen. You're competitive, and you want to do well.

I'm having a lot of fun right now, and if you're doing something and not having fun at it, you're wasting a lot of time." Now Moore stands at the pinnacle of his career, and he says neither retirement nor a possible move to a bigger school is likely. "You coach from your heart, and you do what you think is best for your football team," said Moore, who gave his players Bibles earlier this week on the night the team left for Chattanooga. "I tell these kids and their parents, when we recruit them, that we are going to try and make a difference in your son athletically, academically and spiritually. "We're going to expose kids spiritually. That's our charge.

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At one point, his postseason record was 3-7 (it's now 13-10); After the Mountaineers lost in the first round of postseason play in 2002 and didn't make the playoffs each of the next two seasons, there were rumblings that it was time for Moore to go. "There was a push from certain quarters of the alumni that we needed a new coach," said Franklin Graham, ASU class of '78 and the chairman and CEO of Samaritan's Purse in Boone. "Those voices have quieted down now," Graham said with a laugh. When Kenneth Peacock was hired as ASU's chancellor three years ago, Glenn Wilcox Sr. an Asheville businessman and former chairman of the board of trustees at the school made sure Peacock was aware of what he had in Moore.

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