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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...

Impotent CONCACAF To Plead For Fourth World Cup Spot

Remember back in high school when student government candidates would promise things they had absolutely no hope of delivering -- a soda machine in the cafeteria, the extra parking spaces, early release on football Fridays? Well, it appears that Jack Warner is running for class president. The December World Cup vote...

MLS To Back Off Schedule Shift Following World Cup Snub

BALTIMORE -- If FIFA doesn't want to play ball with the United States, than Major League Soccer isn't going to play ball with FIFA. MLS commissioner Don Garber on Thursday told FanHouse that the league is going to pocket its promise to look into shifting its season to the European fall-to-spring calendar -- it was a...

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...

Hopes Dashed at Beachside World Cup Bid Watch Party

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA -- Most of this seaside town was quiet on Thursday at 6:30 a.m. The lack of movement outside -- there were just a few early-risers walking their dogs in the sand as the sun rose over the Pacific, and a cyclist or two zipping along the sidewalk -- stood in contrast to the crowd of noisy soccer fans...