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Seven of 14 Major League Soccer clubs in action Tuesday night dropped their U.S. Open Cup openers, including the Galaxy, Real Salt Lake and Houston Dynamo. FC Dallas, Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire also were beaten, and the New England Revolution ...

Jose Erik Correa made the most of his first start, but Chivas USA couldn't hold onto to its advantage at the finish, settling for a draw in game they should have won even if they didn't really deserve to. Correa scored with a simple but tremendous...

Sporting Kansas City on Monday signed supplemental draft pick Shawn Singh, boosting UCLA's presence in Major League Soccer and adding to the 53 local players already on rosters. Singh, a left back from Bakersfield, is the fourth Bruin rookie in ML...

Chivas USA's Major League Soccer opener is just a week away, and the club enters its final preparations in turmoil. The Goats were battered in their final preseason match Sunday, a 5-0 disaster against the San Jose Earthquakes in Portland, Ore., and ...

CARSON -- Chandler Hoffman had heard the buzz, how his superb performance at Major League Soccer's pre-draft combine in Florida -- on top of his 18-goal, All-America showing for NCAA semifinalist UCLA -- had vaulted him into the top five, maybe the t...

Chivas USA got its man, the Galaxy bolstered its ailing backline, and UCLA's Kelyn Rowe was the No. 3 overall selection in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft. Chandler Hoffman surprisingly slipped into the teens and two UC Santa Barbara products were taken...

Chandler Hoffman and Kelyn Rowe aren't going to last very long once the MLS SuperDraft begins Thursday morning, and Luis Silva, Sam Garza, Miguel Ibarra and Andy Rose figure to be nabbed soon after. They're the big names, but hardly the only ones,...

Final mock drafts should start showing up online any minute now, and nearly all of them will continue to have Jamaican speedster Darren Mattocks, a University of Akron sophomore, going to Montreal with the first pick in Thursday's MLS SuperDraft in K...

Mexico's Clausura, the second-half championship, kicks off in the Primera Division on Friday night, with Club Tijuana visiting Morelia. The Xolos went unbeaten in their last eight games in the fall Clausura and hope that prods them up the table in t...

UCLA has lost a second underclassmen to Major League Soccer, but it wasn't like it was unexpected. Kelyn Rowe, who looked seriously at turning pro following his freshman season a year ago, is the league's fifth Generation adidas signing. Rowe, the...

Counting down the 11 biggest 2011 stories in Southern California soccer ... Fans of the Mexican Primera Division have always been in fairly decent shape around these parts. We get every single game on television, which ought to sate the throngs of...

Chivas USA's roster could soon be bolstered by the additions of two more midfielders, Frenchman Nicolas Dieuze and Ecuadoran Oswaldo Minda. Both have been in head coach Robin Fraser's sights for some time, and although the club has announced nothing...

MALIBU -- Nadia Link has netted some wonderful goals this season, but few as sweet -- and none as important -- as her bending blast Saturday afternoon at Pepperdine. Link fired into the far corner of the net with 13 seconds to go in the first overti...

UC Irvine struck at the start, doubled its advantage after a half-hour Wednesday night and coasted into the Big West Conference tournament title game, where it will get a rematch with fellow power UC Santa Barbara. Freshman Cameron Iwasa headed home...

Pepperdine romped past San Francisco in its West Coast Conference women's soccer finale, a not-unexpected outcome, but the more meaningful action was taking place about 125 miles to the south. The eighth-ranked Waves (15-1-4) claimed their first c...

Big West Conference rivals Cal State Northridge and UC Riverside pulled off stunning upsets Saturday night, winning on the road against Southern California's most storied programs. The Matadors rallied for a 3-2 nonconference triumph at eighth-ra...