MLS Mobile getting a major upgrade beyond simple score texts?

Almost as an answer to the story about the report of poor customer experience this rumor just came to us via our email dropbox:

Hello MLSR,

Good to see the rumors flowing again.

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Just in time for today's story about the Puerto Rico Islanders' dual runs to the USL regular-season crown and the CONCACAF Champions League group stage, they go out and beat Mexican power Santos in pools of standing water Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, Houston traveled to Panama's Rod Carew Stadium and eked out a 0-0 draw in what MLSNET's Dylan Butler notes is the first of four Dynamo games in four countries over the next 12 days.

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Those of you who read The Offside Rules daily have already seen this, but The Don, our great commissioner Mr. Don Garber, was recognized by Time Magazine as the 14th-best sporting executive of the last year. Number 1? KU Athletics Director Lew Perkins. Read about them here.

Also, Davy's rocket from last Saturday beat out some pretty good goals from Ronnie O'Brien, Kenny Cooper, Steve Ralston and Carl Robinson to win the Sierra Mist Goal of the Week award. Click to continue reading...

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NEW YORK -- Major League Soccer and its Japanese counterpart, the J.League, continued to develop their relationship this month, as a J.League delegation toured several MLS markets during the month of September. The 33-person delegation included representatives from 28 of the J. Click to continue reading...

Ah, the names that might have been....

While we wait for Philadelphia to decide on a name we look back on some attempts to name or rebrand current MLS clubs.

Yes we all laughed at Penn Jersey Independence FC but there are other names which could have stuck elsewhere around the league. Click to continue reading...

For many years, many MLS fans have bemoaned the name of one club or another but what we have discovered makes, in our opinion, all current, and former MLS club names pale in comparison in terms of poor quality. This happened today while conducting a deep investigation into Philadelphia MLS club names that are or have been bandied about. Click to continue reading...

File this under: Official MLS Libertadores Connection Uncovered.

Our crack MLSR tech staff has uncovered the following domain name was registered and is currently held and maintained by MLS through next year:




LIGALIBERTADORES.COM



Registrant:

LLC, Major League Soccer


420 5th Avenue
7th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US


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Warning: Do not force yourself to listen to CSRN on the web. Ever. So between that radio broadcast, and highlights on MLSNet, there's not a lot to say about the match. Chances seemed about equal, with Chivas looking the more dangerous. Man of the Match goes to Jimmy Conrad for tying Dallas [...] Click to continue reading...

Here's a follow-up to my recent post about where one could get one's soccer fix after the Aztex season finished. While I still miss the games out at Dragon Stadium, it's hard to argue there's not enough soccer to keep a fan busy.

• Stoke City - their season is underway, so there are games every weekend.

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For all 135 previous MLS team seasons. They are from left to right:

Shots, shots on goal, fouls committed, fouls suffered, offsides, corner kicks, yellow cards, and red cards. The last five years for reds aren't listed with the others on MLSnet, so I'll have to go through and figure them out at a later time. Click to continue reading...

Who: Houston Dynamo at New England Revolution
What: SuperLiga Final
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Tuesday, 8:00 p.m. (Telefutura, MLSNet.com)

The New England Revolution have the potential to make this their most impressive season yet and their chance to do that starts on Tuesday when they take on the Houston Dynamo in the SuperLiga final. Click to continue reading...

I must say after seeing a list of pubs across the land, I want a drink, preferably a Sam Adams. Anyways, I thought this was worth passing along to you all because I know how much some of you probably drink before, during, after and in-between soccer games. MLSnet, the one and only, has launched a [.. Click to continue reading...

Who: Atlante F.C. at New England Revolution
What: SuperLiga Semifinal
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. (Telefutura, MLSNet.com)

The New England Revolution are one win away from hosting the SuperLiga final at Gillette Stadium, and with the Houston Dynamo winning the other semifinal, that match could prove the perfect opportunity to avenge their losses in the past two MLS Cups.

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Brian McBride is all set to join Chicago when he returns from the Olympics. Chicago paid cash, a draft pick and forward Chad Barrett to Toronto for the rights to McBride. Did they pay too much? I don't think so.

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If you watched the Dallas v LA game last night you may have noticed FCD forward Kenny Cooper grabbing the game ball after full time had been called. Click to continue reading...

OK, so ..... a very short entry today and sadly none tomorrow, as I have to go out of town on short notice for some family business. Just read the other Designated Players sites for all the updates. See ya next week.


FC Dallas has sold midfielder Juan Toja to Steaua Bucharest in Hungary. Click to continue reading...

Here's a link to The Don's State of the League address that was alluded to earlier today in a post about expansion. Click here to find out what's what on expansion, the standard of play on the field, fixture congestion and all kinds of other stuff that will be 13 page threads on Bigsoccer before the sun goes down. Click to continue reading...

Who: New England Revolution at Chivas USA
What: SuperLiga Group Stages
Where: Titan Stadium at Cal-State Fullerton, Fullerton, Calif.
When: Sunday, 8:00 p.m. (Telefutura, MLSNet.com)

The New England Revolution had a delayed arrival in Los Angeles Friday after General Manager Craig Tornberg, VP of Player Personnel Mike Burns, and assistant coach Gwynne Williams had to restrain a man trying to open an emergency exit on the team's American Airlines flight at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

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As of today, the videos on the Climbing the Ladder Youtube channel have been collectively viewed over one million times. Actually it's more than that because my first account was shut down due to uploading some non-soccer stuff, so I had to start over a couple of months into the 2006 season. Click to continue reading...

Who: Pachuca (Mexico's Primera Division) at New England Revolution
What: SuperLiga Group Stages
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. (Telefutura, MLSNet.com)

The New England Revolution opened SuperLiga with a 1-0 win over Mexican Champions Santos Laguna, but could face a tougher task on Wednesday with defending SuperLiga Champions Pachuca heading to Foxboro.

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Who: Santos Laguna (Mexico's Primera Division) at New England Revolution
What: SuperLiga Group Stages
Where: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
When: Sunday, 8:00 p.m. (Telefutura, MLSNet.com)

The Revolution have never faced Mexico's Santos Laguna, but that doesn't seem to be having much of an effect on how they are preparing for Sunday's SuperLiga match against the reigning Mexican Champions.

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The domain transfer hasn't fully gone through yet (I'll call tech support as soon as I finish my coffee), but I saw this post by Luis and had to respond. He noted that, with Guzan leaving for England, Francisco Mendoza is the only player currently on Chivas USA's roster who was there from the beginning, and put it out to his readers for the others.

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The domain transfer hasn't fully gone through yet (I'll call tech support as soon as I finish my coffee), but I saw this post by Luis and had to respond. He noted that, with Guzan leaving for England, Francisco Mendoza is the only player currently on Chivas USA's roster who was there from the beginning, and put it out to his readers for the others.

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Predictions: Bob Luder (KC Star) says it will be a 1-0 shutout to his white team, with Jake Gutierrez again standing on his head. Steve Brisendine (AP) thinks the blue team will win 1-0. Steve thinks either he or Bob Rusert (MLSnet) will score the winner.

Hillcrest road predicts a 2-1 shocker by the blue team. Click to continue reading...

Josh Wolff's return to the Kansas City Wizards and MLS in general is of particular interest to me.

First of all, I must admit that although I am a rabid American soccer fan, I'm at most a peripheral MLS fan. Some of that has to do with the fact that I live in Germany, and thus I am not putting on airs when I watch the Bundeslia and cheer for my local team, 1860 Munich (who unfortunately play in the 2. Click to continue reading...

D.C. United 3 : 1 San Jose Earthquakes
Six Word Novel Recap

Gonzalo Martinez's right foot of DOOM!

Media, Traditional and OtherwiseThe Washington Post, Steve Goff: "D.C. United had plenty to savor from its 3-1 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes yesterday at RFK Stadium, a result that extended its unbeaten streak to five and pulled the club into a three-way tie for fourth place in MLS's Eastern Conference. Click to continue reading...

Remember that Brian McBride tribute reel that was making the rounds a few weeks ago? With our Jozy leaving for the land of tapas and flowing red wine, their was a similar video tacked on to the end of the most recent episode of the Extratime show on MLSnet. Since I know some of you are more than a little intimidated by the rugged manliness of Shep Messing, I have posted The Boy King of New York & New Jersey's "greatest hits" video here for your mustache-free pleasure. Click to continue reading...

The CONCACAF Champions League groups have been chosen, and neatly summarized by Mr. Bueno at Sideline Views. Over at MLSNet, it is summarized as "D.C. United has been given perhaps the toughest test of Major League Soccer's teams in the group stage..." And yes, the schedule contains some nasty fixtures.

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What a career it's been for Santino Quaranta -- and he's only 23!

Earlier today I finished an MLSnet piece about Quaranta's emotional weekend -- it should be up on the site later today -- and working on it got me thinking about Tino's journey, the last four years of which I have been around for. Click to continue reading...

June 8th's show is available now as an MP3 archive at RevolutionRecap.com and on iTunes.

The show featured Joyce Furia (in studio), photographer and writer for Soccer New England, Kyle McCarthy, writer for Goal.com and MLSNet.com, and Bernardo Fallas, writer for the Houston Chronicle. Click to continue reading...

Real Salt Lake is trying to build their defense up before Friday's SuperDraft. According to this article on MLSnet (near the bottom) RSL is about to sign Ian Joy(left) from FC St. Pauli of the 2. Bundesliga. Kinda a random piece of information in that article to throw out there for the readers. Joy is American [. Click to continue reading...

Check out the caption on this photo that ran with the KC-LA match writeup on MLSNet. Pardon my math, but Conrad's red (the first for the Wiz) came in minute 57, which seems to me to be two-thirds of the way through the damn match. So, were they playing in some weird dimension where space-time is warped? How does one-third equal "most" of the match? Click to continue reading...

Chicago Fired!!!

Chicago F!re head coach Dave Sarachan has been relieved of his duties as leader of one of Columbus Crew's Eastern Conf. rivals. The move was made because the team does not appear to be headed in the right direction, according to President/CEO John Guppy. Chicago currently sits 5th in the conference, 5 points clear of bottom place Columbus. Click to continue reading...