| Ten questions with Steve Walker, Vardar North soccer coach
Steve Walker is in his fourth year of coaching soccer with Vardar North, the premier youth travel club of the mid-Michigan area. The Manchester, England native moved to the United States in 1998 to work for Major League Soccer camps for the Chicago Fire. He went to school at Columbia College in Missouri, taught soccer in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque and San Diego. He moved to Midland to work with the soccer club there before attending Saginaw Valley State where he captained the Cardinals soccer team. He has coached Nouvel boys and Heritage girls soccer teams. The Saginaw News writer Geoff Mott caught up with him for 10 questions. 1. What's the difference between youth soccer in England and the United States? It might have changed in the last 10 or 11 years, but when I was at home, it was the only sport that was offered.
Sobering soccer solution? Allow US to drink on it
When Doug Logan was the commissioner of Major League Soccer, he said all the right things about the growth of soccer in the U.S. -- youth programs, family entertainment, the kids are the future, blah blah blah. You know, the orthodoxy of 40-odd years of non-growth that included the death of three other leagues. But now, as the head of U.S. Track and Field, he has seen the light -- well, a light, anyway. The key now, apparently, is gambleholic lager louts. .
Olive Branch plans for fifth fire station
Olive Branch officials are eyeing space next to the city's popular soccer park to build a fifth fire station. Officials hope to know sometime in the fall whether Olive Branch will receive an Assistance to Firefighters Fire Station Construction Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. .
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