By: Andy Humphrey One of Major League Soccer’s biggest selling points over the last decade has been the parity within the league. You can point to many instances where a bottom-feeder team transformed into a top seed over the course of just one season. It gives hope to the weak teams and forces the teams […]
By: Chris Olszewski Current rumors revolving around the 2017 MLS All-Star Game point to the game being held at Soldier Field in Chicago. Chicago has held the event once before, at Toyota Park in 2006. That was the tail end of the glory days for the stadium’s resident Chicago Fire. The Fire would win the […]
By: Andy Humphrey We’re no strangers to seeing star athletes briefly retire and then come back to play professionally, but this doesn’t feel like any ordinary comeback story. If you rewind to a year ago today and asked ten casual American sports fans about Landon Donovan, how many of them do you think would be […]
By: Chris Olszewski Hype and expectations are perhaps nothing new to anybody surrounding NYCFC. Even putting aside the pedigree and deep pockets of their owners City Football Group and Yankee Global Enterprises, NYCFC themselves turned on the hype machine in the two years before beginning play in 2015. The club picked up a host of […]
By: Danny Shin Week 6 of the 2016 MLS season came to an ugly end in Los Angeles on Sunday. After a lot of controversy regarding the referees last week, not a single red card was handed out over the weekend. But one should have been given, and I’ll get to that in a […]
By: Danny Shin On Sunday, Arsenal will host Leicester City at the Emirates Stadium with the Foxes currently atop the Premier League table at 53 points. They sit five points clear of Arsenal and Tottenham, who are tied for second place with 48 points. Claudio Ranieri’s side, led by the goals of Jamie Vardy and […]
By: Matt Vereen THIS IS IT, FOLKS! The weekend we’ve all been waiting for: the MLS Cup. The matchup, as we all guessed features two teams that absolutely dominated the season: New Yo… what? What do you mean the Red Bulls didn’t make it? Well, at least FC Dallas took care of business… right? No? […]