We love the single table format. That said, we also love rumors that MLS may be headed in that direction. With everyone from Sean Wheelock to Greg Lalas, to Shep Messing commenting on it as of late there must be something to the rumors. So we decided to look for any fact based evidence rather than seek out a New York bartender who keeps Don Garber's tab. Click to continue reading...

The coming weeks are going to be very active for the Wizards and their supporters, the Cauldron, in regards to their work in the community. The first event will take place this coming Saturday, as the Cauldron will be participating in the Alzheimer's Memory Walk, in Corporate Woods in Overland Park. Click to continue reading...

Written by Guest Author Roue Yecpot There are so many people who love to play soccer. These games can be street soccer, soccer that is played in schools, recreational soccer, in the local park, on the beach and the more formal soccer game. Regardless of where soccer is played there is one constant in the game [. Click to continue reading...

We all remember the damn commercial, now they think that they can have soccer balls and make partnerships with the FIFA World Cup on some phone thing.

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OPERATION: Andy's Gift is a project the Stewart family of the Triangle Area is organizing to provide children in Afghanistan with new soccer balls and equipment. This project started out of a simple request from USAF Captain Andrew Stewart who is serving his third tour in the Middle East. This mission was derived out of Andy's love of sports and the fact that he is a father to two young children. Click to continue reading...

From United for D.C.'s Executive Director, Sara Peterson:

On Thursday, September 11, six members of D.C. United assisted 30 youth from United for D.C.'s United Soccer Club in the "Shop with a Player" experience at Dick's Sporting Goods. Marc Burch, Quavas Kirk, Bryan Namoff, Clyde Simms, Zack Wells and Mike Zaher accompanied a group of five kids on a $100 shopping spree throughout the sporting goods store in Bailey's Crossroads.

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If you're heading to the Revs match versus the Goats tommorrow night I'd encourage you to bring a deflated soccer ball. Strange request I know but hear me out. The Revs are collecting deflated soccer balls on Thursday at match to ship to Iraqi children. The initiative, dubbed Operation Soccer Ball, is a humanitarian effort to spread universal goodwill, camaraderie and friendship between nations and provide hope to the people of Iraq through the "universal language" of soccer. Click to continue reading...

Venezuela hands out soccer balls to children who hand in their toy guns. In an effort to curb inner city violence in Venezuela, the Government has decided to open an exchange program. The police will exchange every toy gun for a soccer ball. The new, more socialist government under Chavez has been interesting. Click to continue reading...

Venezuela hands out soccer balls to children who hand in their toy guns. In an effort to curb inner city violence in Venezuela, the Government has decided to open an exchange program. The police will exchange every toy gun for a soccer ball. The new, more socialist government under Chavez has been interesting. Click to continue reading...

In less than six minutes!

Brits on soccer balls are like locusts on wheat.

Kids keep a close eye on your soccer balls. Click to continue reading...

This a fantastic little video made by curious people in Edinburgh to see how the masses react to over a dozen unattended footballs left on the street. One which they should repeat many times over. In fact, they should do one in every major European city to see who steals them the fastest, making them [. Click to continue reading...

Recognize that ball up there in the corner? Of course you do, as the design is somewhat iconic. But it's also one design you almost never see these days. Amid the swoops and sashes, an incredible pallette of colors (including my personal pet peeve, the hideous yellow and purple thing now so fashionable in the English Premier League) and designs that clearly come from frustrated Jackson Pollock wannabes and hallucinogenic trips the world over, there's something somewhat comfortable about the simple black pentagon on white truncated icosahedron design. Click to continue reading...

Surprisingly, questions on soccer balls is something I seem to receive quite frequently in my emails. Many readers have asked if I know anything about the different brands available such as Mitre soccer balls, Diadora balls, and even funny questions like whether indoor soccer balls are better than the normal ones. Click to continue reading...

Over at 18 Yards, they found a YouTube video of the various­ steps in constructing an adidas Europass soccer ball, the successor to the Teamgeist, which we've written about a few times before. The Europass uses much of the new ball technology found in the Teamgeist and adds a dimpled surface (think golf ball) to [. Click to continue reading...

Have you ever thought about why most soccer balls look the same in terms of the number and shape of the panels? The Teamgeist ball introduced for the 2006 World Cup had a revolutionary panel design (a­nd a revolutionary price!) and adidas continues to come up with neat panel designs including their F50 Xite ball. Click to continue reading...