The World's Game (According to Us)

...time we saw him play, he looked, well, old. In the midfield with Giggs, we'll put MLS's 2008 MVP Guillermo Schelotto along with Javier Zanetti, both 35-year-old Argentines, and Juninho, the...

The World's Game (According to Us)

...little soccer. One thing these movies do is make soccer seem like a tough guy's game. MLS is trying a different approach in a new marketing scheme hatched with CosmoGirl.com. On the site...

Bob Bradley

After the collapse in Germany, America needs him. But for how long?

Big Finisher

...the IMG Soccer Academy in Florida, the 16-year-old rookie joined the Red Bulls down the MLS stretch and scored three huge goals— including a 30-yard blast in his second pro game...

The World's Game (According to Us)

...switch teammates, tactics and allegiances, and line up for their national teams for World Cup qualifying matches. (MLS is an exception. Its games inexplicably continue without many stars.) For some players, it's a tough...

The Morning According to Us

...the background. For years, players with any ounce of lingering international name value who end up in MLS—think Carlos Valderrama, Cuauhtémoc Blanco or even Jorge Campos, Juan Pablo Angel and Piotr Nowak&mdash...

The World's Game (According to Us)

Five years ago when Jose Mourinho first faced Sir Alex Ferguson in the Champions League, there was a lot of drama off the field of play. The young Por...

Becks in Milan gives the MLS a new kind of appeal

Sports and Recession

When the government awarded Citigroup $45 billion in bailout money, a sponsorship name that had been settled upon years ago became—all of the su...

The World's Game (According to Us)

Aspiring soccer coaches can stop studying motivational techniques and polishing up their team talks. They don't need to send the squad to boot camp wi...

The World's Game According To Us

On April 1, 1985, a now-iconic article by George Plimpton appeared in Sports Illustrated, profiling a Mets pitching prospect named Hayden "Sidd" Finch...

The World's Game According To Us: The Seattle Sounders

...one of the more entertaining ways to fill out the roster of the new team. Sounders FC, MLS' latest expansion club, is running a series of open tryouts after which it'll sign up the...

Lunch Links

...hitter of record. · Apparently Michael Young wants to be traded. · Interesting developments with Seattle's MLS roster. · A new song about Rasheed Wallace as a mentality. · Charles Oakley cooking on TV...

The World's Game (According to Us)

...have much greater passion for football," he revealed.) But, for some reason, the L.A. Galaxy and MLS remained silent about the move until Monday, when it was quietly made official. The concept of the...

The World's Game (According to Us)

When soccer fans reflect on 2008, we're sure the first thing they'll remember fondly is the birth of The World's Game (According to Us), where each we...