Week Seven Preview: A Symphonic Saturday of Soccer

Another glut of MLS action is heading our way this weekend, with a Saturday that will satisfy even the most die-hard fans amonst us. You ...

Referee Jair Marrufo Gets a One-Game "Chance to Clear His Head" (Which is NOT a Suspension!) after Blanco Shirt Incident

One jersey. Many problems. As reported by our Chicago Offside blogger Irish Steve, referee Jair Marrufo has been suspended for this week's matches ...

MLS Offside Power Rankings: Week Six

The Power Rankings for this week have been thrown in a blender and tossed around. Teams are climbing, others are on free fall -- it's ...

MLS Rookie Life: Episode 6

Preseason continues as MLS Rookie Life takes a look at what it's like to make a MLS team.

ESPN Final Kick: Week Six

They even recapped Wednesday's and Thursday's games. Impressive.

Week Six Recap

Is the warmer weather bringing in more soccer fans? We'll have to see what happens as the summer rolls in, but it was a good ...

Week Six Highlights

This week's selection of highlights. Remember: follow MLS Offside on Twitter and to email tips to mlsoffside[at]gmail[dot]com. Enjoy: Kansas City v Toronto Columbus v Chicago Real Salt Lake ...

Week Six Preview: Are we here already?

Before jotting down this weekend's preview I had to check myself. Are we already this far into the season? Time is flying by, and while ...

MLS Offside Week Five Power Rankings

Not a whole lot of movement with the Power Rankings this week. Chivas is holding steady, and now have 13 points from a possible 15. ...

MLS Offside Week Four Power Rankings

So someone finally beat Seattle -- the Wizards knocking off the league's new darlings, something that was bound to happen. Sorry Seattle fans. This, of ...

MLS Rookie Life: Episode 5

Checking in with this week's rookie life. Power Rankings are delayed until tomorrow. Sorry about that.

ESPN Final Kick: Week Four

Week Four Recap: Bleeding Red

Hardly a banner weekend throughout MLS. A lot of draws and it was a sea of red as numerous cards were shown around the league ...

Week Four Highlights

As in previous weeks, here is your one stop clicking (or videos) for MLS highlights from the fourth week of the season: San Jose v Chicago Toronto ...

Week Four Preview: Another glut of games

If last weekend was an appetizer this one is a full meal. Instead of seven games spread over the course of Saturday and Sunday, there's ...

MLS 101: Hooligans and Fan Bans. (Or: Where Did that Code of Conduct Come From?)

Did anybody else sit down in your seats for the first game and pick up that little flyer thing detailing your rights and responsibilities as ...

MLS Offside Week Three Power Rankings

Seattle at number one this week. Best expansion team ever? There's a lot of people riding high on the Sounders, with good reason. At the ...

MLS Final Kick: Week 3

ESPN has this new blog-friendly (letting you embed) video that recaps MLS action from the previous weekend. Enjoy.

Week Three Recap

Another week, another Seattle victory. I have to admit that I didn't see it coming, but I'm not that surprised either. The start of the ...

Week Three Highlights

A quick round up of links to highlights from week three: Real Salt Lake 4-1 Columbus Toronto 0-2 Seattle D.C. 1-0 Houston New England 2-1 Dallas Los Angeles 2-3 Colorado Kansas ...

Chivas vs Crew Preview

With kickoff an hour away, Chivas USA are chasing their 3rd straight win in so many games. Although they are off to the franchise's best ...

Weekend Junk Pile: Don't Tase Me, Bro! (And Ljungberg's First MLS Goal)

A few little items that caught my attention this week but weren't worth a whole post. To paraphrase an old joke, Why do Columbus cops ...

Week Three Preview: A cluttered schedule

So the reworked schedule is something to keep a close eye on. A team like Columbus this week, as I pointed out yesterday, must now ...

Real Salt Lake-Columbus Highlights

That was a much different game than I was expecting. Robbie Findley -- who I think will make a run for the national team one ...

Thursday Night Special

Real Salt Lake v Columbus With the ESPN game of the week no longer every Thursday, the preview/pick posts will be sporadic. An interesting match up ...

MLS Offside Week Two Power Rankings

More changes to this week's power rankings... Seattle is reaching new heights, Chicago holds serve at number one. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter ...

Week Two Recap

The 1-1 result was plentiful over the weekend -- three games ending with that score in tightly contested matches around the league. Don't look now, ...

Week Two Preview: Inernationals already?

It's only the second week of the season and here we have international break -- once again duly ignored by the MLS head honchos -- ...

MLS Offside Week One Power Rankings

A lot can change after one weekend of play. The Red Bulls came crashing down to the basement, while the expansion Sounders enjoy a lofty ...

Week One Recap: It's all about first impressions

Well that was a pretty fun opening weekend, was it not? Goals were at a premium as many a time defenders looked out to sea. ...