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Major League Links 2.29.08
By: Laurie |Happy leap year to all you MLS Offsiders! Here are some MLS links to wrap up your week:
Dave at Red Bulls Offside say only seven slots remain for The Offside’s FIFA 08 Tournament. Reserve your spot now!
Melissa at San Jose Offside gives us a general news roundup, and also talks about the value [...]
Happy Seventh Birthday to Leap Day Baby Taylor Twellman
By: Laurie |We at MLS Offside would like to wish Taylor Twellman a very happy seventh birthday!
(And he doesn’t look a day over six-and-a-half.)
Maybe that’s why NE won’t let him go. Maybe he was apprenticed to the team till his twenty-eighth birthday.
Oh. Wait. Wrong movie.
Major League Links 2.28.08
By: Laurie |MLS links from inside and outside The Offside:
Dave at Red Bulls Offside is hosting a FIFA ‘08 tournament. Be sure to stop by and sign up.
And Jon at DC Offside is planning to give Dave a run for his money.
Alex at Chivas Offside has the good news about the MIA Shavar Thomas’s visa issues. [...]
Major League Links 2.27.08
By: Laurie |Some MLS links from inside and outside The Offside:
At LA Galaxy Offside I’m happy that one draft pick no longer needs to be treated like a chicken, and we’re also talking about Mike Randolph with the U-23s.
Travis at Wizards Offside discusses the Wizards’ new billboards. (With a Simpson reference!)
Alex at [...]
MLS Guys in the U-23 Camp
By: Laurie |MLS is well represented in the callups for the last US U-23 camp before the Olympic qualifiers. The camp runs from March 1-9, with the final 20-person roster for the qualifying games to be named on the 9th.
Players by team
Chicago
Dominic Cervi
Chad Barrett
Chivas
Sacha Kljestan
Colorado
Columbus
Eddie Gaven
Robbie Rogers
Dallas
Arturo Alvarez
Dax McCarty
D C
Houston
Patrick Ianni
Stuart [...]
Major League Links 2.26.08
By: Laurie |Some links from inside and outside The Offside:
Daryl at Houston Offside has info about the de la Hoya purchase and the CONCACAF Champions cup. Warning: Photo not for the squeamish. I’d rank it more nausea-inducing than the Eduardo leg break. But maybe that’s just me.
Travis at KC Wizards Offside [...]
Luis Bueno Gives His MLS Preseason Rankings
By: Laurie |Luis Bueno is one of the bigger Southern California soccer journalists. He’s offering up his preseason thoughtson how the teams will do this year.
1. Chivas USA
2. Houston
3. New England
4. DC United
5. Colorado
6. Chicago
7. New York
8. FC Dallas
9. Los Angeles
10. Kansas City
11-t. San Jose
11-t. Toronto
13. Columbus
14. Real Salt Lake
Click on the links for the goalkeeping, [...]
Major League Links 2.25.08
By: Laurie |Fun MLS stuff from The Offside and beyond!
Be sure to stop by and welcome Daryl to Houston Offside. (No relation to Daryl from The Offside’s Main Page. Aside from that whole name thing.)
And while you’re at it, stop by and welcome back Jeff to the Great Reopening of Colorado Rapids Offside. (Jeff [...]
Blast from the Past: MLS Salary Information from 2004
By: Laurie |I was searching for MLS salary info today for something I was writing on the salary cap. Instead I found some fascinating little salary-related tidbits from 2004. (Keep in mind that salaries for 2008 haven’t been released yet, so this is just three years old.)
Major League Links 2.22.08
By: Laurie |Because this is the off-season, we have trade and acquisition rumors all over the place, plus more fun stuff:
Fitz at RSL Offside talks about the acquisition of the totally badass Dema Kovalenko, among other things. (Okay, the descriptor “totally badass” is mine. I’ll never get over the vision of him in that [...]







