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UPDATE* Jeff Carlisle says the vote, conducted March 1, was 383-2 in favor and gave the union strike authority. I have some questions: particularly about only 2 players in the entire league being unwilling to strike, but read an judge for yourself. I spent Thursday in Greensboro at the ACC Basketball Tournament so, gloriously, I…

[Update below. Kansas City got a second round draft pick. Which, you know, changes how this looks.] Usually I wait for official sources for stuff like this, but as far as I'm concerned, Buzz Carrick is official. I sometimes think Third Degree knows more about FC Dallas than Schellas Hyndman. They certainly know more than…

Choosing an all-star team can involve some very difficult judgements. It's tough enough when you're picking among people who played a week ago or a month ago. When it's people who played a century or more ago, it becomes largely guesswork. All of that can be taken as a sort of disclaimer. The all-star team…

As a national team coach you undoubtedly get awfully tired of the countless little boomlets for the flavor of the Month, who is usually some previously mediocre forward who's on a tear. What makes it even harder is when the player in question is a guy who hasn't earned a cap in seven years, didn't…

There have been stories flying around the British media, and I’m sure have permeated to news outlets worldwide, that Liverpool are about to be placed into administration and docked 9 points. /www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]>/www.bigsoccer.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img]> What none of these stories I’ve read has provided is clear evidence that the Premier League would impose a nine-point penalty should the…

Since acquiring Jermaine Jones, the Revolution have lost one game – a 1-0 loss at Columbus back in September that, at this point, we may consider adequately avenged. The Revolution have tied two games – at Montreal on October 11, and last week at home to New York. They won the rest of their games,…

First he's dicking around watching the Lakers, next he's off in some desert resort catching a few rays. David Beckham – what a piece of work, I tell you. Globetrotting jet-setter glamor boy, hitting all the world's vacation spots. And today, he actually deigned to watch some football. As an American fan, it was an…

The Deseret News has a report this morning which quotes Real Salt lake owner Dave Checketts as saying that if MLS players strike the owners will do "something very aggressive and very different" in response. ​ A followup article, posted close to midnight MDT, adds fuel to the fire. "I just came from a meeting…

​ Leave it to Club America to negotiate a transfer with a team whose coach doesn’t even want the player in question. The player in question, Memo Ochoa, is counting the seconds for 2010 to end. It should have been a breakout year for the Club America goalkeeper. It has turned out to be anything…

Oswaldo Sanchez let it slip away…literally​ I thought he had stopped it. Santos coach, Ruben Omar Romano thought he had stopped it. But no, the ball slipped right under Oswaldo Sanchez’s person, and the goalie swatted helplessly at the ball to try and keep it out of the goal. If he had succeeded, Santos would…