Today looks to be a day of expansion talk. First up is some news out of New York, or Queens rather. This release came into the Hooligan inbox earlier this morning. Now this movement sounds A LOT like what Sons of Ben did in Philadelphia not to long ago. It's still a bit early I think [...] Click to continue reading...

The rich get richer. That's they way it might appear if this deal comes to fruition. Reports out of Costa Rica and Colombia seem to indicate that the Costa Rica national team defender has played his last game for Deportivo Saprissa and is headed north to join the Revs.

We also received this in our inbox:

Our Revolution blog has uncovered stories in the Central American press which state that 23 year old Costa Rican defender Gabriel Badilla is close to signing a 2 year deal with MLS.

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Hot off the email presses today, this just dropped in my inbox a moment ago from the folks up in Portland. After today's announcement of the league's expansion deadlines and what not, Portland wasted no time to get their bid into the league. They have made their bid official with the league and have issued a [. Click to continue reading...

I wasn't planning a post on Lyon's supposed interest in Samuel Eto'o because I thought that these rumors would have blown away by now, but with my inbox flooded with over thirty google alerts in four different languages - in just one day - I guess I need to be more proactive about it.

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This just fell into our inbox:

"I have it on good authority that Chad Barrett has been traded to Toronto FC along with another player to Toronto for rights to sign Brian McBride. The deal may also involve another player, possibly (Calen) Carr"


Commissioner Don Garber stated at halftime during the MLS All Star game that a deal with Toronto was brokered and would be announced Friday. Click to continue reading...

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Ever wonder what it's like being a soccer writer? Ever imagine what it must be like being new to the job and getting the chance to cover your first MLS game?

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Ever wonder what it's like being a soccer writer? Ever imagine what it must be like being new to the job and getting the chance to cover your first MLS game?

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Among the various bits of spam in my inbox this morning, there were of course a number of messages touting the next big thing in weight loss.

"Lose X pounds in Y days" ... fill in any unrealistic values you like.

If you're looking for a real way to drop those unsightly inches, you might want to drop a line to Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, who has gotten quite slim in the run up to Euro 2008, with excellent results for his overall game.

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The MLS sent out their changes for next year, most of stuff you all have read on here or other sites. I won't post the entire thing, but I will give quotes here and there from the entire document that was passed along to me in my inbox that was dicussed in a phone interview [...] Click to continue reading...

Oh how does the US National team know how to peak my interest in a soccer game. I love the emails I get from the USSF telling me when games are and today was just that sort of thing when my inbox read "US Men to Open 2008 with Sweden." Needless to say I am excited. [...] Click to continue reading...