Monthly Archives: August 2009

This time last season, the Columbus Crew were just "America's Hardest Working Team," always pretty good but hardly ever great. But after a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Houston on Aug. 2, 2008 left its injured/absent/suspended squad seemingly down for the count and a long shot for the playoffs, "America's Most Resilient Team" rallied […]

There are overbearing sports parents, those who unconditionally criticize and blindly claim that their son/daughter isn't being utilized or valued enough, and there are sports parents who played the sport and might actually know what they're talking about. Whether former FC Dallas striker Kenny Cooper has the former or latter is up for debate after […]

With an almost endless string of incoming and outgoing players in L.A. over the past four years, whether it be signings as big as Beckham or players such as Ante Jazic and Alecko Eskandarian merely being moved down the hall to HDC roommate Chivas, the Galaxy has hardly been what you'd call a solid "team." […]

In a sign of the times and what also a prescient sign of the things to come (although we kind of hope it's not, for the sake of our already over-informed society), a prominent off-the-field figure from a popular sports franchise has taken to Twitter to voice his frustration about the performance of the team. […]

UEFA General Secretary David Taylor has come out to denounce the lavish spending of European clubs such as Manchester City and Real Madrid for fear that they're risking "serious difficulties" if they continue to over-extend themselves by paying huge sums in the transfer market. "I would say in this financial climate, it is surprising, a […]

Now 15 years removed from the first ever World Cup in the USA, we can look back and see that with its massive stadiums full of soldout crowds, USA 1994 changed what the tournament could be from an attendance and financial windfall. But SI.com's Tim Vickery goes one step further regarding the '94 World Cup's […]

Amid all the hype and hysteria surrounding this summer's FC Barcelona tour, amid the countless fans screaming for Lionel Messi, amid the persistent journalists pleading for a few words from new addition Zlatan Ibrahimovic, is a lesser-known story about a certain French forward named Thierry Henry who is quite keen on playing in MLS. And […]

“As other big leagues seek concessions from players, the Major League Soccer Players Union has proposed significant increases in its members’ rights, including free agency and league-wide guaranteed contracts,” as part of a newly proposed Collective Bargaining Agreement, reports the Sports Business Journal. Although already shot down by the league in 2004, free agency “would […]

Loyal, long-time Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher asks for the likes of the seemingly already-gone Xavi Alonso and Javier Mascherano to remain at the club or at least resolve their impending exits in a timely fashion. “When you have gone as close as we did last season,” said Carragher, “you don’t want to lose anyone from […]

Manchester City manager Mark Hughes attributes jealousy as the cause for comments from the likes of Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger and Liverpool’s Rafael Benitez that have suggested his historically small club’s off-season spending spree has “distorted the transfer market.” “I have never had to court publicity myself because I played for […]

“I hate to get embarrassed, and we got embarrassed today.  Over the course of 30 games, sometimes you’re going to have a shocker like we had today.  We just need to make sure that doesn’t become the norm.” That was Seattle Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid, speaking about Saturday’s surprising 4-0 loss to San Jose […]

In what was “supposed to be an article about how (Zak) Ibsen, a 37-year-old guy, represented the United States as it attempted to qualify for this autumn’s FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Dubai,” the New York Times’ Jack Bell ends up chronicling the journeyman’s surprising story about “how crystal meth helped end his M.L.S […]