Just arrived here in Chicago (my favorite American City) and have settled in downtown at the lovely Embassy Suites Lakefront. Here for the RSL vs. Chicago Fire game tomorrow night. Looking forward to some good Chicago Style Pizza and Dogs while I’m here. When you live in a city like Salt Lake City, you sometimes forget and miss the energy and life that you feel when you are in a town like this. I absolutely love it, though the 1 hour and 15 minute ride in from O’Hare isn’t something that I’d want to deal with on a regular basis….

Big match for RSL tomorrow night…I agree with GM Garth Lagerwey’s assesment that they need 7 wins in their last 12 matches to hope to be playoff eligible. Head Coach Jason Kreis disagrees, you can hear his comments from the RSL Coaches Corner last night in the Audio Vault at kall700sports.com.  If RSL is going to win here tomorrow night it’s going to be by winning the match up against the ever so difficult Fire backline that includes two All Stars, Soumare and Conde. The match kicks off at 6:30…

Nothing new today on the Carlos Boozer situation…he’s still technically a member of the Utah Jazz. I listened to an hour’s worth of Chicago Sports Radio this afternoon on my drive to the hotel and no mention of Boozer or the Bulls…

Finally 6 days and counting until Fall College Football Practice begins….Utah reports Wednesday and begins practice on Thursday…You will have daily camp reports right here on my blog and on the air at KALL 700 Sports…

I’m off to get a slice….

Sitting here in Columbus early Sunday morning getting ready to board a flight back to SLC…

Quite disappointed by the effort of RSL last night here at Crew Stadium. Granted that both teams were short handed, but Columbus was missing, arguably, it’s top 5 players last night and still managed to outplay RSL for the final 60 minutes of the match. Just doing the match and the standings, with the matches remaining, it’s becoming more and more difficult for RSL to think playoffs. Just simply getting results/ties on the road isn’t going to be good enough. Kreis’ side is going to have to find a way to win against quality opponents on the road down the stretch. A few bright spots last night for RSL: Javier Morales appears to be rounding back into the form he found at the end of last season. Nat Borchers continues to be solid in the back and the youngster Raphael Cox scored his first goal last night in MLS.  RSL can’t afford not to get 3 pts this Friday against FC Dallas….

I wrote the other day about the surprise start of my guy Tom Watson at the British Open. Well he’s 18 holes away from making history today at Turnberry. I’ve been a Tom Watson fan since I was 7 years old and would love nothing more than to see him win today, but win or lose he’s proven that he’s truly one of the greats in Golf History and just simply reminded a generation of young golf fans that the game did indeed exist prior to a guy named Tiger. Here’s a great read from Mike Lupica in today’s NY Daily News on Watson and his run at the British Open.

Paul Millsap is offically still a Jazzman. Millsap and Kevin O’Connor met with the media yesterday afternoon and everyone was saying the right things. It’s interesting to me that O’Connor still refuses to admit publically that he and the Jazz are in “trade mode” with Carlos Boozer. I understand not divulging any state secrets, but not to admit to the desire to move Boozer seems to me like ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the corner of the room. I still believe that Boozer will not be in a Jazz uniform when camp begins in mid-September, but with that said the Boozer rumor mill has been silent for the last 3 or 4 days.

Looking forward to Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I’ll be in Las Vegas for the MWC Football Meetings. Doing the show on Tuesday and Wednesday from the Green Valley Ranch and Resort. I’ll be anxious to see how the pre season poll comes out. I don’t have any doubt that TCU will be #1, I’m just wondering how Utah and BYU fare behind them. My poll to the league went this way: #1 TCU, #2 Utah, #3 BYU and #4 Air Force. My guess is that BYU will end up at #2 in the overall poll. I’ll chat with all the players and coaches from around the league on the show this week and if you miss any of it you can catch those interviews here on the website in the audio vault at kall700sports.com.

It’s Sunday night and I’m posting…fill in your joke here…I’m getting ready to watch the season premiere of Entourage…

1. Still no movement on the Millsap situation with the Jazz and Blazers. The Jazz have until Friday afternoon to match. If you are confused on the luxury tax situation with the Jazz/Millsap and Boozer here’s a good explanation from a guy that’s been on the show a few time with us, Ken Berger of CBS Sports.com. Give it a read and it will shed some light on why the Jazz will likely match the offer.

2. RSL posted a nice win last night against Club America of Mexico. I hesitate to call it a great win against a SuperClub, because Club America didn’t look good at all. In fact, they looked like a team that just began preseason training, which they did. But when you are RSL, a win is a win. Let’s see what happens when it COUNTS this Saturday against an improving Columbus Crew squad.

3. I will be turning in my MWC Preseason Football ballot tomorrow. No worries, I will make an entire posting MWC ballot related. I know that I’m putting TCU #1 on my ballot, I’m just not sure yet who’s #2 and #3, between Utah and BYU.

Check back tomorrow or Tuesday for a full rundown of my pre season ballots.