Monthly Archives: July 2008

Steve Nash wants to bring MLS to Vancouver in 2011

It was recently announced that MLS hopes to bring two more new teams to the league in 2011.  Seattle is coming on next season and Philadelphia the following year.  Now all the talk of expansion teams is in Canada.  I do still think that St. Louis will probably get one and likely Vancouver could get [...]

Brian McBride traded to Chicago Fire

The rumors were true. Brian McBride is going to join the Chicago Fire. Toronto FC had the right to McBride, but McBride made it known that he wanted to play near his hometown which is right near Chicago. The Fire sent forward Chad Barrett to TFC along with future considerations in order [...]

What are the chances your team makes the playoffs?

This morning I found a great site that tracks the odds that your team is going to make the playoffs at each week. Sports Club Stats tracks 8 different sports including Major League Soccer. It looks like a pretty neat thing Mr. Ken Roberts has built, a bit complex but still pretty cool.
So [...]

Olympics and All-Stars

The Olympics only comes around once every 4 years - so I figured I could take some time to think about the Olympics for a little bit. I had a hard time finding a full Olympic schedule - so here ya go: 2008 Beijing Olympics Soccer Schedule.
So a camping trip this weekend kept me [...]

MLS players going to Olympics

Peter Nowak named his sqaud for the Beijing Olympics. The team includes several current and former MLS players. Real Salt Lake, Toronto FC and Houston Dynamo are all losing 2 players to Nowak’s Olympic roster while the Columbus Crew, Chivas USA and the New England Revolution will be missing a single player to [...]

Revolution win SuperLiga group B

Both of the final games of group B finished with 1-1 draws which was good enough to send the New England Revolution through to the semi-finals with the top spot from group B.  Defending champions Pachuca advance with 4 points and second place in the group.
PTS - W - L - T (GF-GA) Team
7 - [...]

New England and Chivas shine for MLS in SuperLiga yesterday

After a bad for for MLS at SuperLiga on Tuesday group B came alive for MLS as the New England Revolution and Chivas USA both came up with important 1-0 wins today over Pachuca and Santos Languna respectively. The Revolution are in good position to advance to the semi-finals, but have not been guaranteed [...]

Bad day for MLS at SuperLiga

Group A played the 2nd round of games yesterday and neither of our MLS teams fared very well. Chivas scored the only goal of the game to beat Houston 1-0. This put Chivas into the semifinals. Atlante secured a 3-2 victory over DC United which ensures that DC United has no chance [...]

MLS All Star roster is completed

Coach Steve Nicol added 5 players to the MLS All Star roster and commissioner Don Garber added his 2 commissioner picks to the squad that will face West Ham.
Nicol added Pablo Mastroeni, Juan Pable Angel, Jim Brennan, Christian Gomez and Pat Onstad. Garber choose Edson Buddle and Dwayne De Rosario.
So this is what the [...]

Mark Cuban buys Major League Soccer

It is simply amazing that Mark Cuban was able to buy Major League Soccer.  The Texas billionaire was previously owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA, but now he owns so much more.  His recent purchase was not limited to Major League Soccer - but also included many other top professional sports leagues and [...]