Survivor Experts Blog

Survivor Pro: Hard work pays off for Crew

Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:23 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Los Angeles Galaxy, Frank Yallop, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Joe Cannon, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Survivor Pro, Frankie Hejduk, Bruce Arena, Darren Huckerby, Donovan Ricketts, Robert Warzycha, Juan Carlos Osario, Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Alecko Eskandarian, Bobby Convey, Real Madrid, Curt Onalfo, Jeff Agoos, Seattle Counders FC, FC Barcelona

This week, all-world striker Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid get set to tackle Toronto FC at BMO Field. On paper, this looks like a mismatch -- and it will be. That's why the Top Choice for the week is Los Galaticos. Oh, wait -- that's just an exhibition, Read More...

Survivor Pro: Crew to shape up vs. NY

Every once and a while, it is good for a team to take a loss against an underdog. Last week, Columbus experienced this feeling with a 2-1 defeat on the road against a struggling (to put it kindly) FC Dallas squad. The reason it can be a good thing is Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:03 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Los Angeles Galaxy, Bobby Boswell, New York Red Bulls, Columbus Crew, Pat Onstad, Landon Donovan, USA, Bruce Arena, Mike Petke, Buster Douglas, Robert Warzycha, Juan Carlos Osario

Galaxy gathering steam behind reserves

Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:58 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: David Beckham, Colorado Rapids, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, D.C. United, Edson Buddle, Taylor Twellman, Alan Gordon, Landon Donovan, Steve Nicol, New England Revolution, Steve Ralston, Matt Reis, Shalrie Joseph, Survivor Pro, Jay Heaps, Bruce Arena, Tony Sanneh, Donovan Ricketts, Omar Gonzalez, A.J. DeLaGarza, Gregg Berhalter

Who says that the Los Angeles Galaxy need Landon Donovan and David Beckham when they've got the likes of Edson Buddle and Alan Gordon ? The MLS season has reached the point where coaches have to figure out what they've got not just with their First XI, Read More...

Survivor Pro: Only the strong survive

Saturday will mark the first time that MLS has held a seven-game slate in a single night. The Revolution have the night off, but all other teams are in action and there's some quality matches to keep an eye on for Survivor Pro . Sure, so far this season Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:18 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Chivas USA, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Davy Arnaud, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Fredy Montero, Seattle Sounders FC, Claudio Lopez

Survivor Pro: Take stock, mentally and physically

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:36 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Chicago Fire, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Kenny Cooper, Landon Donovan, Survivor Pro, Brian McBride, Amado Guevara, Seattle Sounders FC, Tony Sanneh, Devon McTavish, Ryan Nelsen, Greg Janicki

The first weekend of the regular season has come and gone and the results either left fans wanting more of the same (Chicago, Seattle, Toronto) or flipping the calendar to find the last game of the regular season (New York, Dallas). While it is only one Read More...

Survivor Pro: Making the most of First Kick

The 2009 Survivor Pro season opens Thursday night as the New York Red Bulls travel to Qwest Field to take on Seattle Sounders FC in the inaugural game of the MLS season. Just like last year, the name of the game is WIN. Put together enough wins to build Read More...

Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:36 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Landon Donovan, Christian Gomez, Sigi Schmid, Survivor Pro, Kevin Goldthwaite, Seth Stammler, Mike Petke, Qwest Field, Danny Cepero, Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero, Seattle Sounders FC, Home Depot Center, Kasey Keller, Nate Jaqua

Survivor Pro: National duty hampers league play

Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 7:58 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Carlos Ruiz, Pat Onstad, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Dwayne De Rosario, Brian Ching, Chad Barrett, USA, Ricardo Clark, Alan Shearer, Kevin Harmse, Jim Brennan, Tyler Hemming, Shavar Thomas, Danny Dichio, Greg Sutton, BMO Field, John Carver, Julius James, Jarrod Smith, MLS, Michael Owen, Tyrone Marshall, Amado Guevara, Marvell Wynne, Sacha Klejstan

Major League Soccer has tried to do a lot of things right, but one of the challenges that league faces is what to do about teams who become desperately short-handed when a league match is played on the same day as a World Cup qualifying matches. There's Read More...

Survivor Pro: Avoid the imploding Galaxy

There has been plenty of fast-paced action in MLS over the last month -- most of it coming along the transaction wire. Familiar faces are returning ( Pat Noonan to Columbus and Brian McBride to Chicago), while league All-Stars have departed ( Brad Guzan Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:31 AM by Staff | 1 Comments

Filed under: Alexi Lalas, Houston Dynamo, Chivas USA, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Ruud Gullit, Brian McBride, Tim Leiweke, Cobi Jones, Pat Noonan, Jason Kreis, Zach Thornton

Survivor Pro: Picking a winner by default

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:04 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: David Beckham, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Edson Buddle, Landon Donovan, New England Revolution, Josh Wolff

After a month-long hiatus, we're back ... and shocked to discover that Spaniards are now ruling the world. First the Spanish national team dominates Germany in the Euro 2008 championship to win the country's first European title in 44 years. Then Rafael Read More...

Survivor Pro: Be aware of player movement

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller This time of year, there are four major areas where a Survivor Pro players needs to focus their attention in order to make certain what players Read More...

Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:48 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Juan Pablo Angel, Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Chicago Fire, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, D.C. United, Jozy Altidore, Landon Donovan, Survivor Pro, Frankie Hejduk, Brad Guzan, USA, Spain, Brian McBride, Villareal, Fulham, England, Ricardo Clark, Maurice Edu, Pablo Mastroeni, Oscar Echeverry, Claudio Reyna, John Wolyniec, Mike Magee, Bob Bradley

Survivor Pro: FCD searching everywhere for spark

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:11 PM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Bobby Boswell, Toronto FC, D.C. United, Zach Wells, Manchester United, Clyde Simms, Troy Perkins, Cristiano Ronaldo, Steve Morrow, Michael Hitchcock, Freddy Adu, Marco Ferruzzi, Luciano Emilio

Apologies for the delay in posting this week's blog, but we were just trying to gather our shock from Steve Morrow's sacking with FC Dallas. We could maybe understand if it had been Tommy Soehn in D.C. given how underwhelming that team has performed thus Read More...

Survivor Pro: Rapids find balance

Here's a challenge for you: Without looking, name the top goal-scorer for the Western Conference leading Colorado Rapids (3-3-0), a team that has scored 10 times in six games. Cue the Jeopardy music. A logical guess would be midfielder Christian Gomez, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:33 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Colorado Rapids, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, D.C. United, Joe Cannon, Landon Donovan, Nick LaBrocca, Jose Burciaga Jr., Tom McManus, Herculez Gomez, Jovan Kirovski, Facundo Erpen, Colin Clark, John DiRaimondo, Conor Casey, Terry Cooke, Fernando Clavijo, Omar Cummings, Christian Gomez, Sigi Schmid, Alejandro Moreno, Robbie Rogers, Brad Davis, Buck Shaw Stadium, Geoff Cameron, Dwayne De Rosario, Brian Ching, Franco Caraccio

Survivor Pro: Steady East, Wild West

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:36 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, Landon Donovan, Steve Nicol, New England Revolution, Chris Albright, Jaime Moreno, Jeff Larentowicz, Posh Spice, Sainey Nayassi, Steve Ralston

We wanted to take this week to expand upon Landon Donovan's incredible first month of the season (one of the best in recent memory by MLS standards) and how he has lifted our fantasy team to the top of its league, but that's the other guy's column . Our Read More...

Survivor Pro: Favoring the home team

The MLS season is only two weeks old, but there is a bit of a trend developing. Have you noticed it yet? It has nothing to do with the Kansas City Wizards ' fast start, Cuauhtemoc Blanco 's brilliance or Jon Busch 's return to prominence between the posts. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:24 PM by Staff | 1 Comments

Filed under: Houston Dynamo, David Beckham, Chicago Fire, Kansas City Wizards, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, San Jose Earthquakes, Jon Busch, Alan Gordon, home team, Landon Donovan

Survivor Pro: Expect the unexpected

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:35 AM by Staff | 0 Comments

Filed under: FC Dallas, Alexi Lalas, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake, Los Angeles Galaxy, Toronto FC, Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Columbus Crew, San Jose Earthquakes, Dynamo Girls, Juan Carlos Osorio, D.C. United, Ruud Gullit

The first weekend of the MLS season is officially in the books and it's safe to say that it has not exactly turned out the way some may have expected. If you were fortunate enough to make it through the first five matches with one predicted victory intact Read More...