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Major League Soccer: ESS All-Star Ballot

Today is the final day of the voting for the Major League Soccer All-Star Game where the All-Stars will face off against Manchester United at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The ballot requires a 3-5-2 formation so here is the starting

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 14 Preview

Once again, I will keep these short with the World Cup going on. It was hard to gauge all of the teams after a long break, but Columbus and Los Angeles still appear to be the top teams in the

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 13 Preview

MLS is finally returning from its break as the group stage of the World Cup finishes up. There is a full slate of games this weekend as well with everyone returning to action. I won’t go into too much detail

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 12 Preview

Major League Soccer is fitting another quick round of games before going on break for the World Cup Group stage. Last week, Los Angeles showed their power once again by scoring a 4-1 victory over Houston. Meanwhile, Columbus struggled getting

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 11 Preview

Over the weekend, there was the match of the two unbeaten teams: Columbus and Los Angeles. Both teams were without their national team stars. Los Angeles seemed hit harder by the absences in terms of talent, and this being a

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Major League Soccer: Young Stars Emerging

On Saturday, I was lucky enough to catch the Columbus-Los Angeles game as well as Houston hosting the Philadelphia Union and two young players stood out for me in those two games: Tristan Bowen and Danny Cruz. It is still

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 10 Preview

Columbus had a strong week winning two games on the road without Robbie Rogers and Chad Marshall. They even were without Guillermo Barros Scheletto for the first game as well. However, with solid defense and opportunistic finishing, they are still

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 9 Preview

The games are still continuing even though quite a few of the stars are now at the US training camp. Los Angeles, Columbus, and Chivas USA are each losing two players, while Houston, FC Dallas, and Real Salt Lake are

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Major League Soccer Gameweek 8 Preview

There were some blowouts last weekend with Seattle and New York on the wrong end of 4-0 drubbings to California teams. Los Angeles continue to be the class of the league picking up impressive wins. Last week they defeated Colorado

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Major League Soccer: Gameweek 7 Preview Part II

The first four games went against home field advantage as 3 road teams scored victories while DC United got their first victory of the season at home. The most outstanding performance from the midweek was Chivas USA’s 4-0 clobbering of

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