Articles tagged with "real salt lake"
Week Eight Preview
By travis | May 15th, 2008Morning all. Or should I say good evening. I don't know what time it is, but I'm woozy because of a cold and getting on a plane to go to the middle of Australia. Should be good fun. Needless to say, I've put together this week's picks and previews ve ...
Week Seven Recap: The Woeful West
By travis | May 13th, 2008Emergent trends are continuing. The Crew keep winning. DC keeps losing. United were the only team from this weekend's games to not find the net. They seem to have problems. The Galaxy couldn't outscore New York. However, some trends are changing - Sa ...
MLS Bloggers Wanted: Real Salt Lake, Columbus Crew
By Laurie | May 9th, 2008If MLS were single table, the Columbus Crew would currently be sitting in second place, with a game in hand over leaders Chicago and a chance to go top this weekend. And yet The Offside is currently lacking a manned Crew blog. This is just wrong. ...
Week Seven Preview: The fun continues
By travis | May 8th, 2008This is the week where we can welcome Volkswagen as the second-highest paying jersey sponsor of MLS. Meanwhile, the Crew and Fire look to maintain their hold on the top, as DC United and the Dynamo look to break out of funks they can't seem to get ou ...
Textbook David Beckham
By jen | May 5th, 2008Beckham's goals versus Real Salt Lake on May 3rd. Two beautiful bending balls into the left upper 90 out of goalkeeper Nick Rimando's reach. Each of these goals are up for MLS Goal of the Week. I'm not sure of the exact statistics, but I don ...
Week Six Recap
By travis | May 5th, 2008After six weeks of MLS action, things are starting to become clearer. The Crew remain the hottest team, while DC United continues to play sub par, as do the Dynamo. Toronto FC continues to put solid results together, although they did have their thre ...
Galaxy Highlights vs. RSL (once you get through the Lowlights)
By Laurie | May 4th, 2008Ignore the highlights from the first twenty minutes. After that it was watchable. And Beckham proves once again that his right foot is worth every penny of that $6.5 million. ...
Week Six Preview
By travis | May 1st, 2008And so it continues. Another week, another feeble attempt from me to act like I know what I'm talking about. Making picks for each match makes things fun; each game now means more to me. This week, I'm tired and don't have much to say. Here we go: ...
Bizarro MLS
By Dave Martinez | April 29th, 2008Through 5 weeks of the MLS season, one would have to wonder if things have been scripted by DC Comics. Its Bizarro World folks. And there is no denying it. + The Columbus Crew are in first place + Will Hesmer leads all keepers with 4 wins ...
Week Five Recap: I am terrible at predicting the future
By travis | April 29th, 2008So I'm not going to quit my day job. Over the past four weeks, I've proved completely useless at knowing the outcome of MLS matches. Considering I'm not psychic, I'll have to live with that fact. Which is fine by me. I can live with not being psychic ...
Week Five Preview: It's still early
By travis | April 24th, 2008This weekend marks the end of the first month of MLS. And while a number of teams have struggled who we didn't expect to (DC, Houston) and a number of teams have had unexpected success (Toronto, San Jose), it's only the first month. There are still l ...
Week Four Recap: Can I spell Unpredictable?
By travis | April 21st, 2008Another weekend, another string of results that shocked me. No offense to San Jose, but I didn't see them winning any games anytime soon, and to stick two goals on the supposedly resurgent Rapids was definitely impressive. Toronto got their second wi ...
Week Four Preview: Football. Futbol. Soccer.
By travis | April 17th, 2008Welcome to the fourth weekend of MLS action. Lots of craziness so far this season as each week has been as unpredictable as the last one. So you might say that it has been a predictably unpredictable season thus far. Regardless of that, a lot of team ...
Week Three Recap: Away gains
By travis | April 13th, 2008Well, finally. An away team with a victory, and it was the early game. The Revolution battered KC at Community America Ballpark, becoming the first team to grab three points away from home. That, plus a oops! my bad moment for Brad Guzan of Chivas US ...
MAJOR LEAGUE LINKS - 4/9
By Dave Martinez | April 10th, 2008Here is whats going on around the league. Enjoy these stories while you wait to get your $3 million camel. + The Seattle Sounders are here! Now Steve will tells us what he thinks of names WorldWide (Extra points for choosing an Argentine ...
Week Three: Where's the Defense?
By travis | April 9th, 2008After a week where 28 goals were scored, this week focus can shift onto the defense. Will anyone play it? It's an interesting dilemma. There's the soccer fan purist in me that wants to see tightly contested matches played down to the wire. But then t ...
Major League Links 4.07.08
By Laurie | April 7th, 2008So much going on while I was gone! (And it's great to be back.) So what's happening on The Offside? First thing, let's all stop by the new Seattle Sounders FC Offside blog and welcome Steve, who finally has a name and a logo for his team ...
Chivas USA 3 - RSL - 1
By Alex | April 7th, 2008Chivas USA defeat Real Salt Lake 3-1 in Saturday's home opener. The Chivas USA hosted 2005 expansion rivals in a thrilling 4 goal affair. The Red and White weathered the storm even though the were missing several starters, including captain Claudi ...
Week Two Recap: Goals Galore!
By travis | April 7th, 2008All I can say is wow. This past weekend (Thursday included) 28 goals were scored. And in only just seven games. To compare with everyone's favorite measuring stick, the EPL featured 24 goals in nine games. That's an impressive statistic, if you ask m ...
Major League Links, 04.04 - Post-Primetime Double-Dip
By Jeff | April 4th, 2008As all y'all know, MLS aired a couple games nation-wide last night. Enjoy the chatter from The Offside's team blogs: - I think it's fair to say Chicago v. New England raised eyebrows the highest. Celebrate the occasion with Sean from the Chicago ...
Week Two: Now everyone gets to play...
By travis | April 3rd, 2008Now that the first week is over and done with, time to move on and look at some of the questions week two may answer: My personal favorite: Do the Galaxy really suck that bad? How will New England survive the loss of Twellman? And are those Gam ...
Major League Links, 04.01 - Little bit of this, little bit of that
By travis | April 1st, 2008In the vacant three/four day period of no games during this week it's real quiet here at MLS Offside, with stories few and far between. Here's what we've got going on: -Dallas Offside goes in search of Stephen Colbert. Robert is trying to annoint ...
Major League Links, 03.31 - Match Reports, Match Reports, Match Reports
By Jeff | March 31st, 2008And I do apologize for my failure to post Major League Links last Friday. But, y'know...life. That said, it's kind of fun to go back and read all the previews for this weekend's games. Just shy of half of those bold statements came undone by Sun ...
Week One: Here we go!
By travis | March 29th, 2008Well after months of offseason training, preparation, transfers, and oversea tours, I am proud to announce at 4:00 PM Eastern time, the 13th MLS season will kick off. Lots of questions linger and flow through in regards to each team. Can Houston thre ...
Major League Links, 03.27 - Finally, Some Meat!
By Jeff | March 27th, 2008Ahem. Lots going on The Offside's team blogs today...time to dig in. - Because I'm a fan of abrupt mood swings, I must begin by celebrating Sean from the Chicago Offside's roller-coaster duo of posts. One minute, he's optimistic, the next...well ...
Major League Links, 03.26
By Jeff | March 26th, 2008Thanks to a Poland v. U.S.-inspired media blackout, I have to do a short, early edition today. - Hot off the presses, Melissa from the San Jose Offside reviews some of the pros' copy and ponders her team's chances for the season - a tough, yet opt ...
Major League Links, 03.25
By Jeff | March 25th, 2008Some things to consider in this calm before the storm... - The RSL Offside's Fitz wins the volume contest today with dynamite posts on the structure and mysterious mechanics of Real Salt Lake's roster and some consideration a "most improved" poll ...
Major League Links, 3.24.08
By Dave Martinez | March 25th, 2008What a long day. Lets get to it shall we? + Good news from Jeff at the Rapids site - They won a preseason game! Against Chicago no less. Good sign for the new season. + Feel Jons pain as "Little Didier" Kpene is cut loose. Ce la vie my fri
Major League Links, 3.21.08: Interviews, Previews, Rear-Views*
By Jeff | March 22nd, 2008* OK, not the last one. - Toronto FC Offside gets the lead for winning on volume. Not only does he provide the latest news on injuries and trialists for TFC, he also keeps you current on Canadian Soccer news; yes, the CSA has hired a technical directo
Argentinian Photo shoot
By travis | March 19th, 2008With not much going on in Wizards camp (players resumed training Tuesday), new signings Ivan Trujillo and Claudio Lopez put on their kits for the cameras. Here's a sample of Lopez in the home jersey: The team has training all week to prepare for th
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