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We are over the half way line in the positional rankings here as the 2011 Major League Soccer season inches closer to starting. Last week I looked at keepers and defensive rankings. Today is midfielders, which will be followed by strikers and lastly (likely next week) my overall team Power Rankings to kick off the…[continue reading]

  We’re continuing on this morning with the 2011 Major League Soccer previews. Wednesday we ranked the 18 club’s keepers, today we’ll move up a notch on the field to the defenses in front of them. Again these rankings are all about the starters and the depth behind them. I polled some folks on Twitter…[continue reading]

I think I’ve thrown out half of my preseason post ideas due to lack of time and energy to write them (18 teams is a lot to do these days!). Instead I will be going with some more league-wide previews. Today I wanted to start with some positional rankings. Yes, Power Rankings if you must…[continue reading]

I may be beating a dead horse already with this post but I felt discussing the new playoff format again needed to be done. Now first of all I am not advocating to get rid of the playoffs all together, I see the need for that and I truly believe its a good thing to…[continue reading]

It may not be perfect but I do believe this is an improvement. Major League Soccer (finally) announced their playoff structure and format today. As we knew from back in the fall 10 clubs would make the playoffs in 2011, two more than the eight clubs that had always made the post season dance. Conferences…[continue reading]

Jerseys for Major League Soccer teams are always a hot topic of discussion, debate, anger, whatever each season. 2011 should be no different. I saw this post over at AOL’s Fanhouse by the always engaging Brian Straus (if you don’t read his work you’re really not doing yourself a favor). Straus got to sit down…[continue reading]

We’re moving on in our 2011 Major League Soccer previews. So far we’ve taken a look at the five breakout players and the five Home Grown players to watch. Today I want to dive into some stories that are going to be worth following this season in MLS. Some of these stories/questions are obvious to…[continue reading]

I never touched on some of the big news from last night. Mainly I wanted to enjoy the game as much as possible without having to sit down and write anything on here. I’m lazy what can I say. Still the league announced some fairly decent sized changes for the 2011 season. With two more…[continue reading]