My apologies for not posting over the past week or so. I had a little time off. The highlight of my trip: playing on a golf course where iguanas were as abundant as the squirrels on my local track here in Austin. And this was one of the little ones​ I’ll leave MLS to the […]

….yeah, how the hell IS Edson Buddle supposed to get a work permit? Okay, the only Becks who matters has spoken out. How’s this for a headline – “Franz Beckenbauer attacks Fifa over World Cup voting process.” Finally, we’ll get some action. He played in the United States. He’s in our Soccer Hall of Fame. […]

Four great chapters in MLS history ended this week. The first, of course, was the Curt Onalfo Era at DC United. The temptation to lay into the guy is nigh-irresistible, but by all accounts he's a wonderful person and this is a case of bad things happening to good people. Me, I tend to think […]

Please note: This post covers a couple of different topics but one of them is most definitely not Alex Morgan's bare ass. Or any other unclothed portion of her body. Really. In fact, the phrase "Alex Morgan's bare ass" will not be found anywhere below. So if you did a search for "Alex Morgan's bare […]

A: Who gives a ********? Okay, well…now what? As a candidate for the now-vacant post of President of the United States Soccer Federation, I would like to be the first, and last, to wish Sunil Gulati well in his future failures. I'm sure Mr. Gulati looks forward to spending more time with his family, despite […]

Is it worth it to talk about the merits of a single table for next year? While MLS still has playoffs, there's not really much of a difference one way or the other. Maybe if we still had the system where the top four in each conference got in, we'd have something to yell about. […]

Apologies in advance – this one really is about nothing but nothing. This is really the sort of topic that people with nothing better to do waste their time with. It's not news that Maradona thinks he was better than Pele, except I actually heard this story on the news – well, sports talk radio. […]

With yet another ineffective display from Liverpool against Fulham, where it was decided leaving all four defenders AND a holding midfielder on against a team that were pinned back in their own half all game was the best way to go about getting a goal, we’ve completely wasted the fixture computer’s generosity in giving us […]

So how's the weather where you are today? On a day when much of the continent is facing blizzard conditions and record low temperatures – to say nothing of Winnipeg, where the current temp is exactly the same as that on the surface of Mars – down on the balmy Caribbean island of Antigua today […]

It's kind of hard to argue with this Ives article at this point. And man, I'm envious. Ives writes an article trashing the living crap out of someone, and the following Saturday he lives down to every single word. Me? I write something nice about someone, they're sure to be busted selling crack at the […]