MLS
Features news coverage of the MLS. In case you didn’t now, here is a quick overview of how the MLS works, as well as the latest MLS kits and the 2008 MLS Season Preview.
Also See: Majore League Soccer Table | Majore League Soccer Fixtures | Major League Soccer Statistics | Major League Soccer Kits.
Soccerlens Podcast – Improving the MLS, Arsenal’s American masters, MLS v Premier League and more
On the eleventh episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by US soccer enthusiasts Mark Fishkin and Lisa Eisenmenger to discuss MLS. The show will be looking specifically at the structure of MLS and how the league can be improved, MLS and it’s connections with the English Premier League and there’s even a chat about…
The case for separate East and West MLS All-Star matches v foreign powers in 2010
MLS is ready to double the ante for its annual All-Star competition in 2010 by creating two separate teams for the Eastern and Western Conferences to compete against two international powers. This July 29, EPL Everton and keeper Tim Howard compete against the MLS All-Stars at Utah’s Rio Tinto Stadium, the seventh and newest soccer…
Carnival atmosphere at MLS matches pushes the envelope
The carnival atmosphere at MLS games is accepted by fans, but risks overwhelming the game. The quality of players varies greatly in MLS, but fans are always provided with a good display of talent and competition on the pitch. Although unnecessary, it’s become standard for stadiums to employ a wide range of distractions from the…
MLS Week 5: Reality check for Sounders as Dallas, Red Bulls and Dynamo score first wins
Is the MLS the most balanced football league in the world? Why does the Galaxy insist on building teams around a single player? Will Seattle recover their grove? All this and more in our MLS weekly review.
In praise of Seattle Sounders
As FC Dallas fight for their life in an empty Pizza Hut Park and DC United swim frantically upstream in their search for a new stadium, one Major League Soccer franchise has taken the league by storm this season, seemingly demonstrating exactly what the perfect US football club should look like. And it’s doing this…
Rash Tackles and Inconsistent Referees Challenge MLS
The rash fouls and referee rants started early in MLS this year. There were seven sending offs this past weekend in relatively unimportant MLS match-ups. In the contest between the hapless Galaxy and Chivas USA, the referee red-carded LA’s US international star Gregg Berhalter in his MLS debut for hauling down a player with a…
Marketing MLS on TV in America
In the last two years, Fox Sports and ESPN made big leaps in broadcasting MLS games and tournaments in the US, improving the quality of coverage as well as the quantity. Competing with simultaneous sports broadcasts and navigating the Spanish language divide, league changes, and access into regional markets, Fox and ESPN are powerful creatures…
Interview with David Sternberg, Executive Vice-President and General Manager Fox Sports International
Last week Fox Soccer Channel bought up the North American rights to the UEFA Champions League, formerly owned by ESPN, through 2012. Fox will broadcast all 146 matches on FSC, Fox Sports Espanol, and Fox Sports Net channels in an effort increase overall distribution and expedite the transition to HD, to begin at the end…
Saving Soccer in a Football World
Trolling the site for some interesting articles to read recently, I came across Ahmed’s article from the fourth of July of last year (side note, probably not the best day to write the article, Ahmed!). Having read the responses to the article I can see that most were negative, and so I decided to do…
US Football: Connecting Through Twitter
“Can’t even eat my sandwich that I made n brought…not so much a fan of stadium food…no offense oscar meyer” – tweet by Aly Wagner, two-time Olympic gold medalist and LA Sol midfielder, during the inaugural WPS match. You knew it was going to happen. A player was going to tweet about their lunch in…
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