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Arturo Alvarez of FC Dallas was traded to the San Jose Earthquakes in exchange for allocation money and first round pick in the 2009 Superdraft. The Earthquakes are the team that originally drafted AA in 2003. Coach Cobra Kai is obviously making changes, and San Jose needs a striker so maybe this is a win-win. On the other hand, Dallas better be ...

FC Dallas vs LA Galaxy, 6pm CT/4pm PT (DK, MLStv.com). The Saga Continues.... Gullit is steamed, Schellas needs a win, the seats will be filled, and (despite Euro interest) Donovan, Cooper, Buddle, and Toja will all be playing.  David Beckham and Adrian Serioux also plan to renew their friendship. The recent games in Frisco have been ...

Timbers owner Merritt Paulson says bringing Major League Soccer to the city is no sure thing...(more)... Image via Flickr

The Dude is back in Tr2N!   Lightcycles, frisbie disks, and even (the hottest girl of all time) Lacy Underall from Caddyshack rocked in the original classic movie, Tron.  Now comes the sequel.  This is a little hard to make out in the beginning but looks way cool.  In addition to Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Ricky Gervais, Sean Connery and ...

The Vancouver Whitecaps made their play for MLS official today (including the British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell) following their meeting with the MLS Board of Governors in Toronto. Steve Nash (whose bro Martin plays for the 'Caps) will be part of the ownership group - check out his video on the Whitecaps website. Their stadium would appear to be ...

From the Rosenborg website According to VG, Cooper will soon be joining up with Rosenborg. Negotiations with Major League Soccer - who owns the transfer rights for the FC Dallas striker - have been going on all July, and looks set to be resolved soon. "I never comment on transfers before they're done," Erik Hoftun says. Speculations mount on ...

  Interesting article from the Washington Post. BEIJING -- My country is about to host the world's greatest sporting event and, we hope, claim a truckload of Olympic gold. But to hundreds of millions of Chinese, our widely anticipated bonanza of medals will mean very little. The real metric by which China judges itself against the rest of the ...

FC Dallas is rumored to be attempting to cement their new "relationship" with River Plate by offering former Argentine national and current River Plate striker Ariel Ortega a multi-year deal at $1.5 million per year. Ortega would use up Dallas' DP slot (with greater success than Denilson, hopefully). Ortega is said to be leaning towards accepting. ...