MLS makes smart format changes
LOS ANGELES -- Hours before Sunday night's 2011 MLS Cup final, Major League Soccer has announced major changes in its format for the 2012 season. By …
Preview: Red Bulls vs. L.A. Galaxy
Great sporting matchups are underpinned by sharp juxtapositions. And they garner even more poignancy when their differences are borne from circumsta…
In defense of Bob Bradley
At the heart of the Bob Bradley saga -- the will-they or won't-they surrounding a soccer federation that refused to relieve a head coach despite of a …
Ideas to improve Copa America
After three weeks of bad soccer on worse fields, the 2011 Copa America has mercifully come to an end. After beating Paraguay 3-0 in the final, Uruguay…
FIFA's rankings -- go figure
The new FIFA World Rankings came out Wednesday in that parallel universe that soccer's world governing body occupies, where accountability is a futuri…
FIFA acts like it's above the law
It's been a bad spring for despots, strongmen and kleptocrats. All over the world, some have fallen quickly and unceremoniously from power while oth…
Top 10 overpaid and underpaid in MLS
As it does every year, the Major League Soccer Players' Union has released the salaries of every player on the books in MLS. And, as usual, there wer…
Point of contention
Refereeing is now officially a problem for MLS. True, the men with the whistles and the flags, sent down by the U.S. Soccer Federation, had never e…
What makes a great manager?
In soccer, coaches come and go. Some will do well and others will fail. And some who have done spectacularly well in one place will fail just as spect…
Schalke's no-fear approach crushes Inter
The story of Inter-Schalke was that of a rollicking affair punctuated by a frenetic exchange of chances, a plot twist on every page and with no fewe…
