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The Baltimore Blast is a soccer team that plays in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The Blast came into existence in 1980 and captured its first MISL title during the 1983-84 season, winning the championship before 12,007 fans at what was then called the Baltimore Civic Center. The Blast won back-to-back titles in 2003-04 and won the title again in 2006. Before coming to Baltimore, the Blast was the Houston Summit. In 1992, the MISL ceased operations, and several Blast players joined the Baltimore Spirit, a franchise in the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). Current owner Ed Hale took over the franchise in 1998, and the Blast currently play at 1st Mariner Arena. Prior to the 2...
The Baltimore Blast is a soccer team that plays in the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The Blast came into existence in 1980 and captured its first MISL title during the 1983-84 season, winning the championship before 12,007 fans at what was then called the Baltimore Civic Center. The Blast won back-to-back titles in 2003-04 and won the title again in 2006. Before coming to Baltimore, the Blast was the Houston Summit. In 1992, the MISL ceased operations, and several Blast players joined the Baltimore Spirit, a franchise in the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). Current owner Ed Hale took over the franchise in 1998, and the Blast currently play at 1st Mariner Arena. Prior to the 2001-2002 season, the NPSL folded, and the new MISL was created. The MISL currently has nine teams.
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Bits & Pieces: Armstrong is inducted into National Soccer HOF
This area has had no shortage of top-notch soccer exports. But even still, it's not often that a local product is inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. That is why it gives me special satisfaction to pass along the news that Desmond Armstrong...Tags: Summer Olympics, Maryland Terrapins, College Sports, Atlantic Coast Conference
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Sagu leads list MISL honors
Five members of the Baltimore Blast received Major Indoor Soccer League honors, the league announced Wednesday.
Goalkeeper Sagu, defenseman Mike Lookingland and midfielder Max Ferdinand all were selected to the All-MISL first team. Forward Machel...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena
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The Blast's Sagu and Lookingland win MISL awards
Sagu has been named the Major Indoor Soccer League's Goalkeeper of the Year, and his Baltimore Blast teammate Mike Lookingland is the Defender of the Year in league awards announced Thursday.MISL award winners were selected through a vote by team...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena, Awards and Prizes
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Baltimore Blast routed by Milwaukee Wave in series opener
The Blast took a calculated risk in its best-of-three Major Indoor Soccer League championship series against the rival and defending champion Milwaukee Wave, opting to play the first game on its home turf on Friday.
The idea was to set the tone, claim...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena, Central Division (NHL)
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M&T Bank Stadium to host Liverpool-Tottenham exhibition in July
The Baltimore SunA soccer rivalry that has endured for decades in England will hit Baltimore this summer. Liverpool F.C. and the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, two of Europe’s most storied soccer teams and long-time foes in the English Premier League, will play...Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Sports Organizations, College Football, College Sports, Judaism
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Baltimore and Washington in competition to sell tickets for soccer exhibitions
In competition for another kind of football fan, the Baltimore Ravens hope to get a jump on the Washington Redskins when tickets go on sale Tuesday for this summer's friendly between two prominent English Premier League teams. Tottenham Hotspur and...
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First Mariner's Hale retires
Edwin F. Hale Sr., the Baltimore trucking magnate and developer, said Friday that he has retired as chief executive and chairman of First Mariner Bancorp — the banking company he built, only to scramble in the housing market collapse and recession...Tags: Shareholders, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Financial and Business Services, Bears Stearns Cos., Highlandtown
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
Looking for something to do this week? Check out our list of everything going on from 12/5-12/11.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
New Year’s Eve
The Sitter
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
The Young Turks (series debut; 7 p.m.; Current)
Gossip...Tags: Science, Long Island, Tom Waits, Brad Williams, TLC (tv network)
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Ten things that should happen on 'The Walking Dead'...
"The Walking Dead,"AMC's epic, buzzy zombie apocalypse drama, returns from its midseason hibernation this Sunday at 9 p.m. with the first of six episodes closing out the second season.
The midseason finale, which aired on Nov. 27, saw a zombified...Tags: David Duchovny, Halloween, Michael Rooker, The A-Team (tv program), Cheech Marin
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Blast routs Syracuse, 21-6, to build on Eastern Division lead
The home game woes that plagued the Baltimore Blast earlier in the season are clearly long gone.
More proof came in dominating fashion Friday night against the visiting Syracuse Silver Knights, the team that spoiled the Blast's home opener back in...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena
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Hale is retired from bank, but he's not out of business
EASTON – Shortly before sunrise, Edwin F. Hale Sr. scatters decoys on the water, preparing for a day of waterfowl hunting on his Talbot County farm.
The day dawns cloudy, a good sign because ducks and geese fly low under clouds, Hale says, as he...Tags: 1st Mariner Arena, Financial and Business Services, Domestic Travel, Visit Baltimore, Realty
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Most rural Marylanders say, 'War? What war?'
Nobody asked me but . . .
This news, via MarylandReporter.com, might come as a shock to members of the General Assembly who believe the O'Malley administration is waging a "war on rural Maryland": A poll by OpinionWorks finds that 62 percent of...Tags: Personal Income, New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Wells Fargo & Co., Newt Gingrich
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