The top six teams in the Eastern Conference have better records than the Western Conference co-leaders, Colorado and FC Dallas. For the up-to-date MLS standings and leading scorers, all the weekend summaries and this week’s schedule …
STANDINGS
Eastern Conference
Columbus 18 points
Chicago 16
New England 13
New York 11
Kansas City 10
Toronto FC 10
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D.C. United 6
Western Conference
Colorado 9
FC Dallas 9
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Los Angeles 8
Real Salt Lake 8
Houston 7
Chivas USA 5
San Jose 4
LEADING SCORERS
Donovan (Los Angeles) 8 goals
Cooper (FC Dallas) 5
Rogers (Columbus) 5
A. Moreno (Columbus) 4
Beckham (Los Angeles) 3
Gordon (Los Angeles) 3
J. Moreno (D.C. United) 3
Kljestan (Chivas USA) 3
Blanco (Chicago) 3
Thorrington (Chicago) 3
SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 15
Colorado-Real Salt Lake, 9:30 pm ET
ESPN2, ESPN Deportes
Saturday, May 17
Toronto FC-Columbus, 4 pm ET
Direct Kick, MLSLIVE.tv
New York-Kansas City, 7:30 pm ET
Direct Kick, MLSLIVE.tv
New England-San Jose, 7:30 pm ET
HDNet
Chicago-Houston, 8:30 pm ET
Direct Kick, MLSLIVE.tv
Chivas USA-D.C. United, 10:30 pm ET
HDNet
Sunday, May 18
FC Dallas-Los Angeles, 3 pm ET
TeleFutura
MLS SUMMARIES (May 10-11)
May 10 in Houston
Houston 2 Colorado 1. Goals: Ching (Holden) 43, De Rosario pen. 87; Cummings (C. Gomez) 68.
Houston – Onstad, Mulrooney, Boswell, Robinson (Ianni, 75), Barrett, Mullan, Clark, De Rosario, Holden (Ashe, 71), Caraccio (Cameron, 65), Ching.
Colorado – Coundoul, Kimura, Erpen, Ihemelu, Harvey (Clark, 88), Peterson, C.Gomez (Ballouchy, 80), Mastroeni, LaBrocca, McManus (H.Gomez, 65), Cummings.
Yellow Cards: Houston – Mulrooney 28, Clark 34; Colorado – Harvey 41, McManus 44, Ihemelu 86.
Referee: Tim Weyland.
Att.: 15,024.
May 10 in Salt Lake City
Real Salt Lake 2 FC Dallas 1. Goals: Morales 28, Beckerman (Williams) 73; Cooper (Rocha) 56.
Real Salt Lake – Rimando, Olave (Williams, 40), Mantilla, Borchers, Beltran, Beckerman, Kovalenko, Morales (Cutler, 57), Wingert, Espindola (Findley, 80), Deuchar.
FC Dallas – Sala, Moor, Davino, Serioux (Pitchkolan, 71), Rocha (Oduro, 84), Ricchetti, Saragosa (Ricardinho, 77), Toja, Alvarez, Cooper, Thompson.
Yellow Cards: Real Salt Lake – Kovalenko 32; FC Dallas – Moor 59.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 12,173.
May 10 in Santa Clara, Calif.
San Jose 2 Columbus 3. Goals: Corrales (O’Brien) 42, Johnson (Ned Grabavoy) 89; Rogers (Ekpo) 73, Rogers (Moreno) 81, Evans (Schelotto) 83.
San Jose – Cannon, Riley, Garcia, Hernandez, Denton, O’Brien (Glinton, 82), Corrales, Grabavoy, Guerrero (Johnson, 66), Peguero (Salinas, 64), Kamara.
Columbus – Hesmer, Hejduk, Marshall, O’Rourke, Hendrickson (Iro, 93+), Gaven (Ekpo, 69), Carroll, Miglioranzi (Evans, 31), Rogers, Schelotto, Moreno.
Yellow Card: San Jose – Riley 8.
Referee: Jair Marrufo.
Att.: 9,318.
May 10 in Carson, Calif.
Los Angeles 1 New York 2. Goals: Gordon (Randolph, Vanney) 77; Borman 21, Angel (Richards) 78.
Los Angeles – Cronin, Klein, Franklin, Roberts, Vanney, Beckham, Franchino (Jordan, 83), McDonald, Randolph, Donovan, Gordon.
New York – Conway, Freeman, Parke, Goldthwaite, Richards (Wolyniec, 82), Borman (Mendes, 58), Sassano, van den Bergh, Altidore, Magee (Leitch, 90), Angel.
Referee: Alex Prus.
Att.: 27,000.
May 11 in Carson, Calif.
Chivas USA 1 New England 2. Goals: Braun (Galindo, Harris) 93; Mansally (Larentowicz, Albright) 18, Twellman (Ralston) 59.
Chivas USA – Guzan, Ebert (Braun, 59), Curtin, Thomas, Burling, Kljestan, Marsch (Paladini, 68), Nagamura, Mendoza, Galindo, Razov (Harris, 71).
New England – Reis, Albright, Heaps, Parkhurst, Thompson, Ralston (Flood, 79), Joseph, Larentowicz, Castro (Dube, 55), Mansally (Twellman, 46), Smith.
Yellow Cards: Chivas USA – Marsch 19, Harris 75, Paladini 76; New England – Larentowicz 30.
Referee: Mark Geiger.
Att.: 10,927.