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They're baaaaack! The Dynamo are back at practice today and after slacking off over the holidays with this weekly column it is back each week. With a little bit of this and a little bit of the from around the league and around the world this is the spot to find some non-Dynamo and non-Dash news from time to time.
What's in a number?
The boys are back and there are a lot of new faces on the Dynamo after a busy offseason. The new Dynamo home jersey will be revealed in less than six weeks and the Houston Dynamo Twitter account had been tweeting out sneak peeks of the jersey. Plot twist it is orange. Player numbers have also been given out. The classics stay the same aka Davis with number 11 while Tyler Deric is now number 1.
| Tyler Deric | 1 |
| Kofi Sarkodie | 2 |
| Oumar Ballo | 3 |
| Jermaine Taylor | 4 |
| Raul Rodriguez | 5 |
| Nathan Sturgis | 6 |
| DaMarcus Beasley | 7 |
| Luis Garrido | 8 |
| Erick Torres | 9 |
| Giles Barnes | 10 |
| Brad Davis | 11 |
| Will Bruin | 12 |
| Ricardo Clark | 13 |
| Jason Johnson | 14 |
| Alexander Lopez | 15 |
| AJ Cochran | 16 |
| Chandler Hoffman | 17 |
| David Horst | 18 |
| Rob Lovejoy | 19 |
| Zach Steinberger | 21 |
| Leonel Miranda | 22 |
| Taylor Hunter | 23 |
| Corey Ashe | 26 |
| Boniek Garcia | 27 |
| Memo Rodriguez | 28 |
| Michael Lisch | 30 |
| Joe Willis | 31 |
Hope Solo
Okay, so at this point most people have already heard that the domestic violence charges were dropped against Solo only to see her husband arrested a few days later for suspicion of DUI. Solo was in the vehicle and was reportedly belligerent with officers and oh yeah her husband was driving a vehicle owned by US Soccer. Soon after she was suspended by US Soccer for a month.
Despite the fact that the domestic violence charges against Solo were dismissed I still think she should have served some sort of suspension over the incident. Her current suspension will see her miss two friendlies one against England and one against France. She will have to apply for reinstatement to US Soccer which most people expect her to get.
I'm all about suspensions, but it has reached the point where after so many incidents you have to wonder if it will do any good. Looking at it from the outside it looks like what Solo needs is help, to get her life back in order. Unfortunately, people often have to hit rock bottom to be ready to accept that help. Is Solo there? I have no clue I can only hope that at some point she will get it together, by herself or with help from others, not because she needs to be a role model for kids but for herself.