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The protected lists for Major League Soccer's expansion draft are out, and the Galaxy and Chivas USA have nailed down their most influential players, leaving some rising talent dangling for the Montreal Impact. L.A. protected 10 starting positions...

Major League Soccer's Players Union last week released its latest salary figures, and it's worth noting that Robbie Keane's wages isn't the only news for local fans. Keane, it turns out, is making a little less than $3 million in base salary and nea...

Chivas USA makes its final stop Wednesday on a five-game string of away matches, facing the Portland Timbers in front of their rabid fan base, before returning to Home Depot Center this weekend a very different team from the one that last played ther...

Steve Dykes/Getty Images "Timber Joey," the Portland Timbers' mascot, cuts a log slab after the Timbers scored against D.C. United at Jeld-Wen Field on May 29. PORTLAND, Ore. -- David Beckham has done and seen plenty on soccer fields across the gl...

Tristan Bowen's return to action after two months away with an ankle injury brought him a new position, a new set of challenges and, best of all, a goal. An important one, too. The 20-year-old attacker from Van Nuys headed home a Mariano Trujillo fe...

Chivas USA head coach Robin Fraser has more options as he puts together his lineup for Saturday's nights clash with the Portland Timbers at Home Depot Center. Three players return from suspension or international duty, several more are getting hea...

The Galaxy's dominance of the Portland Timbers extended into Sunday afternoon's MLS Reserve League meeting, but it lasted less than a half-hour. Once Michael Stephens, the most influential player to begin the match, was sent off for a last-man foul ...

A reunion in the middle for former Maryland teammates Omar Gonzalez and A.J. DeLaGarza is likely Saturday night when the Galaxy takes on the Portland Timbers at Home Depot Center. That's the most appropriate response to Leonardo's season-ending knee...

Another Anteater has made it to Major League Soccer. Spencer Thompson, a three-time All-Big West forward who scored 25 goals with 17 assists in four seasons at UC Irvine, signed Friday with the Portland Timbers. Portland took Thompson with the No. 2...

The San Jose Earthquakes finished a week-long So Cal training camp with a 2-1 victory Friday afternoon over the Ventura County Fusion in a closed-door scrimmage at Oxnard College. Tony Donatelli and an unidentified trialist scored the Quakes' goals i...

The Portland Timbers opened training at Oxnard College earlier this week and meet the Ventura County Fusion -- the reigning Premier Development League Southwest Division champion -- in a friendly Friday night at Ventura College. The Timbers, prepari...

The Galaxy built some lower-roster depth, Chivas USA picked up two prospects who lasted longer than expected, and UC Irvine sent three players in Major League Soccer during the league's Supplemental Draft held Tuesday. UC Santa Barbara defender Mi...

There's not a huge contingent of local prospects in Major League Soccer's draft Thursday (ESPN2, 9 a.m.), but at least three (and maybe more) figure to be gone by the time the last of three rounds arrives. Here are the top five propsects with SoCa...

Watch out for Loyola Marymount, which is off to a 4-0-0 start in the West Coast Conference, hasn't lost in almost a month and finds itself in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's top 25 for the just the second time since 2006. The Li...

PACIFIC 10 CONFERENCE UCLA BRUINS Head coach: Jorge Salcedo (seventh year, 71-33-22) Home field: Drake Stadium (on campus) Last year: 12-4-4 (5-1-4, first in Pac-10), NCAA quarterfinalists NCAA Tournament: 37 appearances (1968, 1970-77, 1980, ...

UCLA defender Lauren Barnes, midfielder Kylie Wright and forward Sydney Leroux have been placed on the "Watch List" for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious of college soccer's player-of-the-year honors. Barnes, a senior from Upland (Upland HS...