So are the New York Cosmos not a lock anymore to become the 20th Major League Soccer team? Eh, sorta.

MLS commissioner Don Garber said on Tuesday that the league is still talking with the Cosmos and other ownership groups as well for a 20th team in New York. Garber said adding a second team in New York remained a priority but he played down the much-hyped Cosmos.

Greetings Sanforders. The new season is here, complete with spotty TV coverage, weeks long gaps in the schedule, some new teams, an even dumber playoff format and a bunch of new import stars. The KC Wizz changed their name to try to banish memories of their sole championship and Fat Tony Meola, Toronto ripped it all up and started over for the third time in 3 years, Jewel of MLS and NJ Soft Drink once again cornered the market on dumb rumors and condescending BS from management.

There can't be any doubt that when the Seattle Sounders announced in late March that they'd be selling a 3-pack of tickets that included Manchester United, the last home game of the season, and the New York Red Bulls, it was the star power on the New York roster that was intended to be the attraction.

Photo credit: TFCforever via Wikimedia Commons
Good afternoon! I hope everyone is enjoying this glorious Saturday. Our team is back in MLS action today @The Home Depot Center, against Chivas USA (10:30pm ET, MSG & Galavision). This season's first RBNY/Chivas encounter, @The Cathedral of Football, ended 3-2 to the Goats, with Justin Braun (3 goals) having a field day with the RBNY defense.

Alarazboy drops mixtape number 66 and it's his most NSFW work yet. Not just for Luda's potty mouth but for the sheer nastiness of the moves on dispaly; hold on to your butts.

You would think that a home game against a side that struggles on the road would be seen as an opportunity to chalk up three points in an indifferent season.
You would think that an insipid performance against Pelita Jaya, winning 1-0, would have seen some butts kicked and some improved performances.

Given that nearly everyone these days, especially in places like Singapore and Bangkok, is either on line or not far from being on line is it really necessary for papers to just regurgitate news stories, ok, football stories, from England or Spain?
For example yesterday it was reported in England that West Ham were favorites to win the right to use the Olympic Stadium in London after 2012.

Chivas USA
Conference: West Position: 8th
W-L-D: 0-2-0 (0 points, -2 goal differential)
Away Form: N/A
Recent Form: LL
Last Meeting: Chivas USA 3 Toronto FC 0 (Oct.

Following the latest events linked to the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), the FIFA Emergency Committee decided on 1 April 2011 that, in accordance with article 7 paragraph 2 of the FIFA Statutes, a Normalisation Committee will take over from the current PSSI executive committee.
The FIFA Emergency Committee estimated that the current PSSI leadership was not in control of football in Indonesia as proven by the failure to gain control of the run-away league (Liga Premiere, LPI) set up without the involvement of PSSI or by the fact it could not organise a congress whose sole goals were to adopt an electoral code and elect an electoral commission.

I sit here on a rainy Saturday and I am considering filing this post as a police report.

You see, I don't blog nearly as much as I might with a ligher schedule in "real" life, and when I get a motivating idea I like to see it through. However, this week, someone stole my blog idea, they crashed my post, the pillaged my mental outline.

Of course, the day belongs to Porto for winning their first Europa League title in eight years (the last one they picked up was with Mourinho when he was making his mini mark as a mastermind in 2002!) But these innovative fans take the cake for using paper plates (or something along those lines) to create their butts/costumes!

So, in their infinite wisdom, the MLS Powers That Be decided it would be too unfair for DC United to withstand our team AND our massive travelling support. The result of said infinite wisdom is that our away game @The Lair of The Great Satan was scheduled for a Thursday. As a matter of fact, it's happening this coming Thursday, April 21st (7:30pm).

George John will take his talents to England. (Getty Images)

I really wanted to get to this yesterday since the player's agent actually contacted me about it. Ah never the less it was still reported well over at my other hub at BigDSoccer.com.

FC Dallas defender George John is on his way to Greece to pick up his Greek passport.