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Chivas USA's quest for a trophy ended the same place its last real quest met its end, where every quest, at least for this trophy, seems to come to a close. The Goats ran into the Seattle Sounders in Wednesday's U.S. Open Cup semifinals, and if th...

SATURDAY, JULY 7 TELEVISION MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Houston Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City MLS Direct Kick, 5 p.m. The Dynamo have played only three road games since their stadium opened two months ago, and didn't win any of them. K.C. is a tou...

The scenarios for the U.S. Open Cup final have been unveiled, and everybody has a shot at a home game except Chivas USA. The Goats would play at Sporting Kansas City or Philadelphia Union if they topple three-time defending champion Seattle Sounde...

Major League Soccer's second transfer window opens Wednesday, so big-name players -- some from Euro 2012 -- could soon be enthralling North American audiences. Well, at least in theory. Some big names have been bandied about as potential acquisiti...

Chivas USA has reached the U.S. Open Cup semifinals for the second time in club history. A familiar foe awaits. The Goats will meet three-time defending champion Seattle Sounders, who won the meeting in the semis two years ago, on July 10 in Tukw...

In just a matter of days, the argument over goal-line technology has been settled. They'll still argue, but after Ukraine was denied a legitimate goal in Tuesday's 1-0 loss to England at Euro 2012, the discussion is moot. "After last night's match...

The first coaching changes of the Major League Soccer have come down, neither all that surprising, although one of them is disappointing. Philadelphia on Wednesday cut ties with Peter Nowak, who took the Union to the playoffs in year two, then dis...

Upsets are good for the U.S. Open Cup, so Major League Soccer's difficulties this year parsing through the competition has made for a more exciting and substantial tournament. More steps toward that should be taken. Soccer by its nature often rewa...

The U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals are set after a wild fourth round that provided four overtime games and just one major upset, and the biggest story of the round concerns the USL Pro's unexpected success. All three third-division teams in action Tu...

Major League Soccer is taking a couple of weeks off, for the most part. Yes, there are more U.S. Open Cup matches next week, one league game this weekend and another next weekend, plus the usual amount of MLS Reserve League action, but this is the le...

Sporting Kansas City beat Real Salt Lake a few weeks ago in a battle between No. 1 and No. 2, according to most of the Major League Soccer "Power Rankings" scattered around the blogosphere. Now we're at it again. This time it's the Seattle Soun...

The best team in Major League Soccer at the moment that isn't Sporting Kansas City -- and maybe you can include it, too -- could be considered local, sort of, for neutrals at this end of the state. The San Jose Earthquakes are off to a 6-1-1 start...

The soccer world appears, more or less, determined to accept goal-line technology, slowly accepting that justice -- being fair and accurate about whether goals count -- trumps a century and a half of tradition. It's coming soon, perhaps to Major L...

Sporting Kansas City won the big showdown last weekend, beating Real Salt Lake in a battle of conference leaders to improve to 6-0-0 -- just the third Major League Soccer team ever to win its first six -- and vault back into the top spot in the Suppo...

It's barely a month into a long season, but Major League Soccer's "Game Of The Year" -- regular-season edition -- is already upon us. Perhaps. Real Salt Lake (5-1-0) and Sporting Kansas City (5-0-0), the two best teams in the league after five wee...

Could it possibly just be that the Galaxy isn't very good? It's something worthy of consideration following their latest defeat, a 1-0 decision Saturday afternoon to a vastly superior Sporting Kansas City side, in which L.A.'s vaunted attack -- mi...