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MLS Commissioner Don Garber: Soccer's Steward Sits Down With FanHouse

NEW YORK -- Wednesday was a good day to be at Major League Soccer headquarters. The league unveiled its 2011 playoff format, which will include 10 clubs rather than eight for the first time. It was an eagerly awaited announcement that, like a lot of what's handed down from the midtown Manhattan office, generated plenty of...

FanHouse's Soccer Quotes of the Year for 2010

FanHouse's first year of full-time soccer coverage began with a snowy tour of the New York Red Bulls' amazing new stadium in Harrison, NJ and ended amid awkward celebration at Al Jazeera's bureau in Washington, DC. In between, we covered an MLS season that concluded with a hard-fought championship victory for the Colorado...

MLS Owners Play It Safe With Expanded Playoffs, Increasingly Irrelevant Final

TORONTO -- No wonder the stands at BMO Field were two-thirds empty by the time Colorado Rapids captain Pablo Mastroeni lifted the trophy (very) late Sunday night. No wonder ESPN's ratings for the MLS Cup Final plunged 44% from least year's to the lowest level since 1998. You can't expect fans to care who wins the title...

Colorado Rapids' 'Dirty Desire to Win' Leads to First MLS Title

TORONTO -- The Colorado Rapids' dramatic run through the MLS Cup playoffs presents a convincing argument for the power of intangibles in sports. No one could argue that they were the league's best team this year. The Rapids finished the regular season 12-8-10, good for fifth in the Western Conference and seventh overall....

Colorado Rapids Claim First MLS Cup Title With Overtime Defeat of FC Dallas

TORONTO -- A hard-fought, disjointed, rough-and-tumble MLS Cup final was decided in overtime in the most appropriate fashion -- by a fortunate bounce. Colorado Rapids forward Macoumba Kandji, who was acquired midseason from the New York Red Bulls and entered Sunday's game eight minutes into overtime, had a spring in his...

Background on MLS Playoffs

The MLS Cup Playoffs is the postseason elimination tournament of Major League Soccer held at the end of the regular season en route to the MLS Cup, the league's championship game.

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