MLS Cash Transfers: A New Era of Storylines Happening Off the Pitch
For most of its existence, MLS ran on a kind of Monopoly money. If the Seattle Sounders wanted a player from FC Dallas, nobody was writing an…
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MLS Power Rankings: LAFC continue to slip, Nashville break away from the pack
We’ve had another couple rounds of MLS play as we start to turn the corner into the business end of the 2026 season. And in the Howler…
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Can Inter Miami Achieve Their Super-Club Dreams While Messi Pulls the Strings?
Back in December 2025, Inter Miami finally secured their first MLS Cup. Lionel Messi delivered two second-half assists in a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps, sending…
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O Jogo Bonito in the United States: Brazil and MLS
Ideas over who originally coined the Portuguese phrase ‘O Jogo Bonito’, or ‘The Beautiful Game’, are varied, and I will not claim to have an answer. But…
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Mentality Monsters: How the Houston Dynamo Have Risen to the Top of the West
Sitting pretty atop the MLS Western Conference, there’s no stopping the Houston Dynamo right now. Having just ousted former pacesetters Vancouver Whitecaps, the team widely considered the…
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Can MLS Afford to Complicate the Playoff Format in a Period of Major Transition?
Major League Soccer has never been shy about tinkering with its playoff format. In three decades of existence, the league has cycled through best-of-three series, two-legged ties,…
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MLS Power Rankings: Houston and Chicago Ascend, Inter Miami Drop
We’ve had another couple rounds of MLS play now that the Leagues Cup break is behind us. And in the Howler Top-10 Power Rankings, we’ve had plenty…
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Nashville SC’s Climb to the MLS Summit Shows Culture and Competence Trumps Star-Power
Nashville SC sit alone atop the MLS table after putting on a statement performance in front of their own supporters on Saturday, dispatching Inter Miami CF 4-1…
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Has MLS Quietly Slipped Back into ʻRetirement Leagueʼ Territory?
For a league that spent the better part of the last few years trying to shake the “retirement league” label, Major League Soccer has spent the last…
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Does Leagues Cup Have a Future in the Rapidly Changing American Soccer Landscape?
For four summers now, MLS and Liga MX have paused their domestic seasons so that all their clubs can play each other in a single, Concacaf-sanctioned tournament…
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The Questions Surrounding Mauricio Pochettino’s Extension With The USMNT
This past week, U.S. Soccer made Mauricio Pochettino’s contract extension official, keeping him as USMNT head coach through the 2030 World Cup. It’s a bit of a…
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Soccer’s New Lovestory: Middlesbrough, The USMNT, and Major League Soccer
There is a TikTok video from July 2020 that has recently been doing the rounds on social media. It had gone six years in the depths of…