All Entries Tagged With: "MLS"
MLS Candy Dish: L’Impact de Montréal Mock Draft
By Andrew Villegas The problem with the MLS expansion draft candy dish is that you have to wade through a hundred stale Tootsie Rolls (some of which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, go figure) to get to that proverbial Snickers bar. This is the worst kept secret in American soccer. Teams stack the unprotected [...]
MLS CUP Betting Insider Preview
MLS Cup Betting Insider There are just two teams left alive in the 2011 MLS season, and only one will be left standing after Houston and Los Angeles faceoff in the MLS Cup Final on Sunday night. Let’s preview the unlikely matchup for the league’s most important match. This game will be shown on ESPN [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: MLS Cup, and If USMNT Players Were Cocktails Edition
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. With my qualifying exams finished, I can finally enjoy a weekend full of Florida Football, PBR, and the MLS Cup Final. While the great majority of USMNT fans seem ready to proclaim Klinsy the greatest US National Team coach since Herb Brooks, I am [...]
MLS Intriguing Subplot Number Two: Is It Now or Never For the LA Galaxy, and When Did Bruce Arena become a Celtics Fan?
This is the sixth piece of a seven-part series highlighting the most intriguing subplots of the 2011 MLS campaign. Our other MLS preview pieces are linked below: Number 7: Omar Bravo: Next Designated Player to Fail, or is Sporting KC the place for a revival? MLS Eastern Conference Preview: Five Most Intriguing Sides Number Six: [...]
Davies Lawsuit A Sad, Irresponsible and Tragic Setback In A Storybook Comeback
By Puck With the MLS playoffs underway, our domestic league will be getting a lot of attention over the next few weeks. Will a squad with a designated player finally lift the MLS Cup? Can a disappointing season from the New York Red Bulls, made only palatable by a late, solid run of form, be [...]
Assessing The Charlie Davies Loan: Europe Or Bust?
By Andrew Villegas Yeoman Dwayne De Rosario has one goal every 173 minutes this year. Sebastien Le Toux has one every 270. Rising Star Brek Shea? One every 241 minutes. And Charlie Davies, that death-defying, on-loan, one-time USMNT’er? He’s scored one goal every 137 minutes, better than them all. Yet, there Davies is every week, [...]
Who Needs Promotion? Orlando City Leaves Its MLS Mark As Players Move Up Ladder
By Andrew Villegas A column about promotion and relegation should come with a warning label. “Write about promotion and relegation at your own peril. Side effects may include loathsome comments from all sides, headaches, nausea, and gratuitous feigning of vomiting.” Editor’s Note: As expected, the promotion/relegation side of the article has created controversy. We’ve been [...]
LA Galaxy Have the Look of A Classic Super Club- But Can They Finish?
By Sean McElroy The Los Angeles Galaxy have a true abundance of riches. They have two of the best goalkeepers in MLS, Donovan Ricketts and Josh Suanders. They possess a back line of young, promising (and I might add, mostly American) players, notably Sean Franklin, Omar Gonzalez, and AJ DelaGarza, mixed in with the veteran [...]
Major League Soccer Set to Take Over CONCACAF ?
Editor’s Note: With this piece, we welcome Connor Walsh to the Yanks Are Coming family. We’re excited to have him on board, and think you’ll like what he has to say…or at least want to discuss it if you don’t! By Connor Walsh Ask even the most pessimistic American soccer fan, and they’ll [...]
The Wacky World of MLS Playoff Standings
By Andrew Villegas Take a second to look at the up-to-the-moment playoff standings for MLS. What strikes you? If you’re anything like most people, it’s that the New York Red Bulls – is it wrong that I automatically think to add “machine” to the end [...]
