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This is it – the final club in our Expansion Draft protection lists – the Los Angeles Galaxy. The Galaxy won this year’s Supporters’ Shield trophy for the best record in the league and now are 90 minutes away from winning another MLS Cup. To recap, I’ve already looked at the Chicago Fire, Chivas USA, the Colorado Rapids,…[continue reading]

A change is coming to the US Open Cup that many of us have been hoping for. According to sources to theCup.us, the USOC will extend it’s bracket out to all 16 US-based Major League Soccer teams and go to a 64-team bracket. Over the last few years, the tournament has come under constant criticism…[continue reading]

Only two more teams to go in our look at each MLS club’s potential expansion draft lists. Today I start with the Eastern Conference champions, the Houston Dynamo. The Dynamo shocked a lot of people this season with their late fall surge in the playoffs. Now they are going for a third MLS Cup. After…[continue reading]

When voting came out for the end-of-year awards in Major League Soccer – one award was simple to vote on – the Rookie of the Year. MLS announced that Sporting Kansas City forward C.J. Sapong has been named 2011 MLS Rookie of the Year. Sapong appeared in all 34 of Sporting’s regular season games and…[continue reading]

You could see the writing on the wall with this for several weeks. Gary Smith was not happy and neither were the folks above him with the Colorado Rapids. Today, they made it official as the club announced they would be parting ways with the only head coach in their club history to guide them…[continue reading]

The ballots have been tallied and we now know the finalists for the various end-of-season awards for Major League Soccer. Last year it was easy to find some fault in the various finalists but this year, every award was fairly open enough. 2011 Major League Soccer Awards Finalists (Listed in alphabetical order by last name…[continue reading]

Starting the year with a 10 game road trip – and 11 of their first 12 games on the road – expectations weren’t high for Sporting Kansas City. The old Wizards turned into Sporting had a new look, name and stadium in 2011. As the year went on it was pretty clear that Sporting was…[continue reading]

Expectations were high going into 2011 for Real Salt Lake. The club was closing in on a historic CONCACAF Champions League win and everyone in the league was supporting their efforts. But injuries, suspensions and the gutting loss in the CCL final to Monterrey changed the course of the season for RSL. But they got…[continue reading]

It wasn’t the year that most had expected out of the New York Red Bulls. A fast started turned into a long summer drought followed by a late season push into the playoffs. Expectations were high and the team failed to reach them. With so much talent on the roster, protecting the main parts of…[continue reading]