mls Stories - Sounder At Heart
Major Link Soccer: Training Camps Getting Underway, DC Having A Rough Go At Finding A New Home
Friday was the last day to pre-order the 2012 edition of the Sounder At Heart official Scarf. Scarves are still available, but they are $20 apiece until we run out. With training camps starting to fire up across Major League Soccer, that means more news is going to start rolling in and that means...
State of the MLS Run In: 3 Weeks to Go
As the regular season winds down I'm going to be posting a weekly summary of the some of the data and predictions we're generating, which should give you some context going into each week of games. Previous Week This one comes a day late thanks to the focus on the US Open Cup final yesterday, but...
State of the MLS Run In: 4 Weeks to Go
As the regular season winds down I'm going to be posting a weekly summary of the some of the data and predictions we're generating, which should give you some context going into each week of games. Previous Week This week saw the LA Galaxy continue to pull away from the pack at the top of the...
Sports Business Journal Reporting MLS To Sell 25% Stake In SUM
Daniel Kaplan and John Ourand have joined together in a story to report that Major League Soccer is exploring selling a significant share in Soccer United Marketing. The 25% share is possibly being sold to Providence Equity Partners for between 125 and 150 Million dollars. It turns out big...
Seattle Sounders vs Real Salt Lake Scouting Report: How the West Is Won
I feel like I've written 'this is the Sounders hardest X game left this season' a lot in the last few weeks, where X is 'road' or 'home' or 'group stage' or whatever. It's a sign that the difficulty of the Seattle regular season peaked in a brutal July and August stretch that featured two games...
State of the MLS Run In: 9 Weeks To Go
As the regular season winds down I'm going to be posting a weekly summary of the some of the data and predictions we're generating, which should give you some context going into each week of games. Playoff & Trophy Probabilities This is each team's up to date odds of making the playoffs,...
MLS Playoff Hopes: The Process of Elimination
As the 2011 MLS Season rounds the turn to the final stretch of the regular season, we've been talking about playoffs quite a bit here. We've looked at playoff position and playoff chances based on the current MLS table, based on a simulation, based on a target number of points, based on points per...
Improving USSF Referees
Everyone knows this is an issue. Don Garber talks about it. Coaches talk about it. Owners talk about it. General Managers talk about it. Players talk about it. Fans talk about it. The steps to improving things seem to be very slow. One change has been that the old USSF reviewer of referees is now...
Seattle Sounders vs Sporting Kansas City Scouting Report: Living Strong
Hey, remember these? A rough patch of buying one house and selling another sort of cut into my scouting report time, so you had to watch this last month or so of games unscouted. Unless you were getting reports from that Arlo guy, I guess. And for a while there the Sounders were winning every game...
Seattle Sounders Still Alive For Five
Last night was a pretty cool experience, above and beyond the result. Thanks to Dave (and Arlo, in a roundabout way) it was my first foray into GA. That is certainly a unique experience that I'd recommend to anyone (except maybe those bringing young children). On the one hand, it's a lot of work...
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