Toluca's 7-0 thrashing of Marathon last night in the CCL means that Marathon and United are now level on goal differential. United plays Marathon...
A friend of mind and I will probably fly down for the game. (We got a pretty good price on Continental, arriving Monday afternoon and leaving...
Sorry for the delay in posting this. Did anyone else see Santino sitting in one of the director chair seats on the sideline during the first...
Warning: don't read if you haven't yet done the crossword puzzle in the Friday New York Times. The answer to 3-down is none other than...
In his typically slick, year-end review of sports on HBO, Bob Costas runs a segment on significant sports figures who died 2005. And there,...
On our way into FedEx last night, we ran into a Chelsea fan carrying some stalks of celergy. Between the beer and the noise, his explanation for...
No United player was called up for the current dyad of World Cup qualifying. It has been such a long time since no United player was included in a...
It was very, very close. The contact probably justified the award of a penalty, but I thought the referee was wrong to do so under the...
The U-23 team for Concacaf qualifying for the 2004 Olympics includes 22 players. Of these, 5 are from United. The breakdown: Chicago (2) -...
I took advantage of a rare opportunity to see Bolton on tv in the States this past weekend, and I was impressed. Bolton controlled play in the...
Did Marco play (somewhat OT)? There was a fair amount of talk on these boards about Marco being called up by Bolivia for its two most recent...
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=281231&cc=5901 And none too soon, either. As Big Sam says, 'He'll be able to take us from the draw...
4-1 Portsmouth. I didn't see any of the play because it wasn't televised in the US, but any match described by the losing manager as...
Soccer America reports today in MLS Confidential (sorry no link available) that MLS gets notably good ratings on ESPN2 in Seattle and Houston....
Is it just my imagination, or has the Galaxy somehow managed to avoid the salary-cap induced upheavals that have bedeviled almost every other MLS...
A couple of random All Star Game comments 1) Who is Paulina Rubio? Or, better yet, why is Paulina Rubio? I commend MLS for securing attractive...