Robert Hay

Real Salt Lake established itself as the Supporters Shield front runner, Seattle is still struggling to score goals but New York shows how to gain points without them, and are the Union the East team to beat? The national team members return from Team Bradley while some of the youth team players are still out […]

After Seattle and Houston kicked off the week's action last night, we have a full slate of matches today that will mostly be regionally broadcast. Even this early in the season, there are some interesting story lines. In Canada, Toronto looks to put their embarrassing first match behind them and hosts a Portland team that looked like […]

After the shine of the first weekend has worn off, MLS gets into the grind with some of its biggest names missing for international duty. Some teams have a second chance to show they've improved, while some have another chance to prove they aren't bottom feeders. Make sure you vote in our poll below for […]

I will be the first to admit that my proximity to RFK Stadium may color my biases a little bit. But after seeing DC United's press release on their latest friendly, I have to be impressed with this club. Despite playing in less than stellar facilities and finishing last in MLS last season, the club […]

MLS could not have asked for a better opening weekend of soccer than this weekend. After a somewhat pedestrian first match between the Galaxy and Sounders, there were a ton of story lines to follow in this weekend's games. While it may be a lot to ask for every weekend to be this exciting (although […]

Without a doubt, the writers for The Guardian are some of the best soccer writers in the world. Their podcast is first class. And even for an American like myself their writers and collaborators are well known: Sid Lowe, Jonathan Wilson, Raphael Honigstein, and others. So the fact that they want to contribute more to […]

DC United and the Columbus Crew are two of the MLS's original franchises and two that are going through the reboot phase. For DC United, the rock bottom came last year with a last place finish, a porous defense, and an offense that at times wouldn't scare a high school team. Management decided the team […]

On the same day Seattle set an attendance record for an MLS match, the rival Portland Timbers sent out a press release designed to show that their fans too can pack a stadium for a soccer match. This was another tactic in their strategy to prove to the soccer world that maybe Seattle doesn't have MLS's most […]

Join us here at 9:30 PM Eastern as we kick off the season with MLS's First Kick, a game featuring two MLS Cup hopefuls with the Galaxy visiting the Sounders. Bring your analysis, thoughts, and witty banter as we celebrate the beginning of the soccer season. MLS First Kick 2011

After weeks of previews, discussions, and debates, we are roughly 36 hours away from the beginning of the fifteenth MLS season. The league has seen an offseason full of drafts, some national team names fleeing to Europe, some old friends returning to the league, some of the league's first faces becoming the next wave of […]

Team: Toronto FC Coach: Aron Winter Last Year's Finish: 9-8-15, 35 points. Eastern Conference: 5th Toronto's offseason can be described in one word – tumultuous. The team couldn't win the media cycle because every time it had a positive offseason development, it took a step back. They brought on Jurgen Klinsmann to serve as an […]

Fresh off the news that JP Dellacamera is making the move from ESPN to Fox Soccer, the network announced its pairings for the upcoming MLS season. Not surprisingly, Dellacamera is the Friday night play-by-play man, and in my opinion Fox has surrounded him with some quality talent. Your game day host for MLS will be […]

Of course over the next few days we will be wrapping up the team previews, with the San Jose 'Quakes on today's schedule. If you have not read your favorite team's preview yet, I highly recommend you take a look and share anything we overlooked or you think we got wrong. Of course the MLS […]

Team: Real Salt Lake Coach: Jason Kreis Last Year's Finish: 15-11-4, 56 points. Western Conference: 2nd In a sense, RSL's season has already begun with a 4-1 aggregate victory over Columbus in the CONCACAF Champions League. In the second of those two matches, we've seen a team that looks like it's picking up where it […]

Fifteen years ago, MLS launched with teams in downright psychedelic uniforms playing on football fields; some of MLS's earliest highlights look like the two teams are playing on a lacrosse field. In 2011, the situation has vastly changed, as most MLS franchises have their own soccer specific fields or compounds with only a few still […]