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 always less of a draw if Donovan (USA), Beckham (England) and Blanco (Mexico) are going to be ...

The economy sucks. The market is down, unemployment is up, and the dollar is so weak that developmental players in MLS are moving into training ground locker rooms in order to avoid paying rent. And with tax day behind us now, what better time to examine the places where we're spending a lot of dough? So in this week's blog entry, it's time to ...