Kansas City Wizards rookie defender Chance Myers has been battling a bout of mononucleosis for the last 6-8 weeks, the club revealed on Tuesday.
Myers, who was selected first overall by Kansas City in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, has made 10 appearances this season despite his illness (7 starts), but has been sidelined for the past week with a bout of Strep throat, a side-effect from having a weakened immune system. Click to continue reading...

One of my favorite blogs out there is almost always interesting Climbing the Ladder. Click to continue reading...

FC Dallas rookie Brek Shea has undergone surgery for a torn medial meniscus in his right knee, the club announced on Thursday, and is expected to be sideline for 3-4 months in recovery.

Shea, 18, was the second-overall pick in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft, but has seen very little playing time in his first MLS season, making two appearances on the year for a scant 17 minutes. Click to continue reading...

Real Salt Lake rookie defender Tony Beltran has undergone a successful operation for a sports hernia in Munich, Germany, the club announced today. He has missed RSL's last five league matches due to the injury, but will return to Salt Lake City tonight and should be ready to return in 2-3 weeks.

"We are pleased that Tony's surgery was successful, and we look forward to Tony fighting his way back into our back-line rotation and contributing down the stretch," said Real Salt Lake GM Garth Lagerwey. Click to continue reading...

Major League Soccer rosters were frozen in place today, meaning today was the last chance for those teams with sputtering playoff ambitions to add new talent or throw dead weight overboard. Several teams took advantage of the last-minute deals available throughout the league, so here's a rundown of the latest transactions. Click to continue reading...

We'll announce shortly that we've acquired 23-year old Ryan Miller off waivers. The defender was originally drafted by the Columbus Crew in the third round (31st overall) of the 2008 MLS Superdraft. He did not appear in any first team games, but did play in seven Reserve Division contests. He'll fill the team's last developmental slot.

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The player allocation process has been fascinating. Part Match.com, part medical school national matching day and part MLS SuperDraft.

i think the results are going to be remarkably successful in terms of matching up player preferences, team preferences and balancing competitive and marketing issues. Click to continue reading...

In what has to be considered one of the more-complicated MLS trades in recent memory, Toronto FC has acquired defender Hunter Freeman from the New York Red Bulls until the end of the next season in exchange for third- and fourth-round draft picks in the 2009 MLS Supplemental Draft, a move club officials announced on Friday. Click to continue reading...

The UCLA men (1-1) are on the road this weekend playing No. 1-ranked Wake Forest Friday and North Carolina Sunday.

UCLA bounced back from a wrenching 2-1 overtime to Maryland at Home Depot Center last Friday to hand Coach Jorge Salcedo his 50th college victory Sunday in a 3-0 win over UC Riverside.

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Kansas City Wizards have traded for Colorado striker Herculez Gomez today according to the Denver Post. Colorado will ship the 26-year old Gomez to KC in exchange for a forth round pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft and first-round pick in the '09 supplemental draft as well as undisclosed amount of money. Click to continue reading...

The Colorado Rapids have traded forward Herculez Gomez to the Kansas City Wizards in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft, as well as a first-round pick in the '09 Supplemental Draft and an undisclosed sum of allocation money.Gomez, 26, was once one of the brightest young stars in the league when he was with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Click to continue reading...

Former MLS Superdraft 17th overall pick by New York Red Bulls is now playing for Villareal CF in Spain. On June 2008 Villareal bought Altidore for €6.4 million, a record transfer fee for an American football player. Real Madrid was first reported interested in signing the kid. According to rumors he turned it down because Jozy [. Click to continue reading...

In case you haven't seen the news, the Clint Mathis deal to Real Salt Lake is now complete. RSL acquired the MLS rights to Mathis from the LA Galaxy in exchange for a conditional fourth round pick in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. Some like this move, some don't. I'm sort of inbetween here on it. I [...] Click to continue reading...

With big striker Danny Dichio set to return to the lineup from injury and the recent acquisition of Chad Barrett, Toronto FC has deemed Jeff Cunningham expendable to the club's needs, trading the 11-year veteran to FC Dallas. The deal, announced yesterday, mercifully ends his tumultuous 15-month spell with the club, with TFC settling for just a third-round pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft in exchange. Click to continue reading...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Revolution today announced that forward Pat Noonan has re-signed with Major League Soccer and has been traded to the Columbus Crew in exchange for allocation money and the Crew's natural first-round selection in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft. The teams also agreed to switch positions in the current 2008 allocation standings and agreed to considerations regarding the 2009 allocation rankings.

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Just got word that the deal is now complete that sends Pat Noonan from New England to Columbus in exchange for the Crew's natural first-round selection in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft and allocation money. Additionally, the teams traded spots in the current 2008 allocation standings with Columbus moving into the 10th spot and New England moving [. Click to continue reading...

According to several reliable sources, oft-injured American defender Cory Gibbs is looking to make a return to Major League Soccer in the next couple of weeks.

Should the one-time MLS defender return, he would be made available through an allocation process similar to the recent Brian McBride situation, meaning the Los Angeles Galaxy would have first crack at signing the 28-year-old center-back, as they sit at the top of the allocation order. Click to continue reading...

FC Dallas has traded some allocation money and a draft pick to Colorado for Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guarda. The former Southern Methodist University player was sought after by former SMU and current FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman.

Here is the Press Release:

FC Dallas today acquired former SMU midfielder Bruno Guarda from the Colorado Rapids in exchange for the team's natural 2nd and 3rd Round selections in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft and a partial allocation.

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Brad Guzan was a fixture at Chivas USA since the club began play in 2005. In many ways, I was lucky enough to have covered Guzan since then.

Watchig Guzan go from a kid right out of college to a seasoned veteran ready for the English Premiership has really been a treat and got me to thinking about Guzan's MLS career. Click to continue reading...

A little trade in the news today. For those around FC Dallas probably saw this move coming a mile away. Abdus "Ibee" Ibrahim has been traded to his hometown club Toronto FC in exchange for a conditional draft pick in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. Ibrahim apparently had been going through some personal/family issues during his time [. Click to continue reading...

They're not very good. Simple as that. In recent seasons, we've seen that team takes a while to come together and when it does, it looks like one of the greatest teams ever seen in MLS. I'm not convinced that this will happen this year.

The problem is that this team, as we heard throughout the off-season, was assembled to win CONCACAF.

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Going into the 2008 MLS SuperDraft Spencer Wadsworth didn't know which club would ultimately pick him. Yet, he certainly knew where he wanted to go.

The former All-American had a fine first three seasons at Duke, where he accumulated 23 goals. But when the injury bug bit during his senior year, the production dropped (two goals in 20 games), thus causing his pre-draft stock to slide. Click to continue reading...

If there was any argument to be made for having the New England Revolution establish ties with a European club, perhaps the Michael Videira saga is the most convincing thus far.

Sometime after the third hour of the afternoon during the January 18th MLS SuperDraft, the New England Revolution took a gamble.

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...is it 2009 that Major League Soccer (MLS) keeps saying they'll re-work the collective bargaining agreement with the MLS Players' Union? 2010? Does it matter? It's like Jon from the DC United Offside said in his post about DC-draftee Andrew Jacobson bypassing MLS to sign with France's Lorient: "Eddie Pope, take notice. Click to continue reading...

After chasing the day-to-day trade clocking for a couple weeks, and with the Super- and supplemental drafts all wrapped up, today seems as good a day as any to pull it all together. Plenty of changes have already happened and plenty more look likely to happen before Major League Soccer's (MLS) 2008 season kicks [. Click to continue reading...

Here's a question: how many articles/posts/message board items have you read since last Friday that questioned the value Major League Soccer (MLS) clubs get through the SuperDraft.� Jamie Trecker posted a mildly frustrated kick-around on the subject just this morning over on Fox Sports and it covers familiar ground - e. Click to continue reading...

And "F-Bomb" refers to the "F" Ives Galarcep awarded the Colorado Rapids for their SuperDraft decisions. Let's go to the text: "Fernando Clavijo has always been regarded as a good judge of talent, but that didn't stop many from scratching their heads at the Rapids' two picks Friday. Clavijo passed on a top forward (Nyarko) [. Click to continue reading...

For the second year in a row, two former Rhode Island Stingrays (Premier Development League) were selected – in back-to-back order, no less – in the MLS SuperDraft.

Defender Matthew Britner (Brown University) was drafted in the third round (41st overall) by the New England Revolution.

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Well, the 2008 Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft is over. Or close enough to for me to type out this little post, which, in the grand scheme, is a blank slate with a couple words stenciled on it. I may not always be informative, but at least I'm honest. As promised, I'm going [...] Click to continue reading...

Ziga-Zoga Nation - this is Steve reporting from the MLS SuperDraft in Baltimore, which is like sitting on the bottom of an ocean of sound, visual effects and constant activity.

It seems as the MLS continues to grow in popularity every season, so does the league's SuperDraft and the influx on new talent that promises to keep MLS on the rise.

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Part of me wants to say the highlight of the whole thing was the ESPN commercial with the dude on the fishing boat. Mind, that was a fantastic commercial, but I now accept that I haven't missed much by not seeing past SuperDrafts. That's not to say there weren't real, draft-related highlights, a [. Click to continue reading...

This is the second of today's pre-SuperDraft posts on the two Major League Soccer (MLS) teams I adopted for the 2008 season: I'll cover the Crew's drafty-day prospects in this post; the Colorado Rapid's appears below. Consider this a stab at figuring what each team can or should do ahead of and/or during Friday's [. Click to continue reading...

As anyone watching this space knows, I adopted two of Major League Soccer's (MLS) original teams for the 2008 season: the Columbus Crew and the Colorado Rapids. Today, I'm going to make a stab at figuring what each team can or should do ahead of and/or during Friday's SuperDraft. For simplicity's sake, I'll [. Click to continue reading...

In my world, this is a combine: Consequently, I'm going to turn this space over to links written by others, specifically, people who 1) have actually given some thought to how Major League Soccer (MLS) clubs build their teams through the draft, and, 2) actually went to watch the games MLS put on to showcase these [. Click to continue reading...