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The biggest surprise (sarcasm) of the month, Sigi Schmid is talking to expansion club Seattle Sounders FC about their head coach opening. We’ve all thought he was a candidate since the start of 2008 and now it is a little more official. Sigi Schmid is officially a candidate to be named head coach of Seattle…[continue reading]

Just as it was done last year, it is time to dust off the season predictions and look at how great bad I did this year. Some predictions were decent and easy to say, while others were totally wrong. I knew at the time most would end up off base or have no way of…[continue reading]

Some news that is actually good news for FC Dallas fans. The hefty contract on the books is now no more as FC Dallas and Mexican defender Dulio Davino are parting ways according to Dallas GM Michael Hitchcock. “Duilio is a great professional who has enjoyed a storied career,” said Hitchcock. “He brought a great…[continue reading]

I know this post comes a few days late but due to me travels over the holiday season I really didn’t get to dive deep into Seattle’s expansion draft last week since I was somewhere in the air over Memphis when the whole thing went down. So forgive me for the lateness on this, I…[continue reading]

A list I’ve been meaning to get around to is finally updated. I was mainly waiting for the expansion draft to conclude last week and for my vacation to be over as well before I got into this long list of player moves. As some of you already know I try to track these moves…[continue reading]

It is starting to sound like that MLS Expansion fee is starting to be a selling point for a few expansion groups, most of which are north of the border. Montreal’s bid was rejected by the league for not wanting to pay the full $40 million fee, now it looks like another Canadian city could…[continue reading]

Probably the best news that I saw while I was out came down yesterday. The Columbus Crew took one step towards a possible repeat as MLS Cup Champions by re-signing league and Cup MVP Guillermo Barros Schelotto to a new contract, making him the first Designated Player in team history. “Securing Guille’s return was one…[continue reading]

This may be a day late but it is still valuable to talk about here. Major League Soccer revealed its opening 2009 schedule yesterday, with New York visiting expansion side Seattle in the first match of the season, on March 19th. Here are the schedule for week one, and the subsequent home openers: WEEK 1…[continue reading]

Okay, things are back up and running here. I had been out of town the last few days to visit family and go on a little vacation to Washington DC. I will slowly get to the news of the last week or so as I am getting back into things here. I have a backlog…[continue reading]