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Manchester City and the New York Yankees have teamed up to create a club that will become the 20th member of the MLS.

Things are hectic at MLS headquarters off New York's Fifth Avenue. David Beckham hectic. A giant step and repeat banner branded with images of MLS, Manchester City and New York Yankees logos, U.S. Soccer's latest brand bedfellows, is being shuttled a...

In ground-breaking news that fuses two global sports brands and continues the ongoing growth of soccer in the United States, a $100M deal was announced this morning that partners Manchester City, the English Premier League's 2011-12 Champions, with t...

ESPN FC reviews the 2012-13 Premier League season with in an in-depth look at clubs that finished 1st-10th.

ESPN FC reviews the 2012-13 Premier League season with in an in-depth look at clubs that finished 11th-20th.

The Premier League enters the home straight this weekend, making this the perfect moment to laud the player who has excelled most consistently across the course of the season. Though the official baubles have long been distributed, they were voted on...

NEW YORK -- Landon Donovan is buzzing. I meet American soccer's most celebrated player the morning after he'd used his quick feet and accelerated vision to deliver a goal and two assists in the second half of a comprehensive 4-1 dismantling of the P...

Ferguson. Moyes. Mancini. Scholes. Barbara Walters. The greats say good-bye and heads roll at season's end. Michael Davies and Roger Bennett dissect the decapitations and even find time to debate the origins of pie with special guest and Manchester C...

For a historically unsuccessful Northern club unaccustomed to winning silverware, victory in this weekend's FA Cup final could offer a much needed dose of glory. But enough about Manchester City. Its preseason dreams surely were oriented toward the t...

In light of Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett gather to review the repercussions for Man United, Everton, and beyond. Listen to this podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Network on iTunes, and check out our po...

A die-hard Evertonian friend of mine had the good fortune to be seated by David Moyes at an end-of-season awards a couple of years ago. Resplendent in black tie and relaxed by the open-bar environs, the two spent the evening bonding over Go...

It hasn't been the finest vintage, this Premier League season. But most football fans agree, they will drink anything if the price is right. Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham all got what they needed over the weekend, even if there were a string of rat...

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When NBC's "The Golden Girls" arrived on British television in the late 1980s, the sexagenarian sitcom instantly became a cultural phenomenon. Not just for its "only in America" qualities that tended to attach themselves to any U.S. export, be it the...

After the biting, it's back to the football. And not before time. With his "Man vs. Food" antics and resultant 10-game ban, Luis Suarez has single-handedly transformed the Premier League into world football's version of Shark Week. Since Sunday, the ...

Is the English Premier League really the "best" in the world? Roger Bennett explores the stats and finds an entirely different truth.