Now that is one very fine fake photo, don't you think? (It's actually an enhanced (in more way than one, if you ask me) version of the HDC, site of Dynamo's third championship postgame celebration.) Unfortunately, I can not take credit for it, which goes instead to the excellent blog The Original Winger. Click to continue reading...

Courtesy of Bernardo Fallas' blog on the Chron site, check out this schedule from now until Halloween for Dynamo, playing CONCACAF Champions League and MLS (not to mention WCQ games for some of them):

Sunday: vs. K.C. at Robertson, 2 p.m. MLS
Sept. 13: at San Jose, 9 p.m. MLS
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NEWS: The 16-team field for the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League is set, and it pits the Dynamo against rather interesting foes, including Mexico City's UNAM Pumas. Pumas earned passage after beating Jamaica's Harbour View 3-0 on Thursday... Click to continue reading...

NEWS: Well, it will be up to the Dynamo and D.C. United to hold MLS' name high in the inaugural edition of the CONCACAF Champions League. The New England Revolution and Chivas USA have bowed out before the tournament even... Click to continue reading...

NEWS: Dynamo defender Eddie Robinson, who left Sunday's 2-1 win over Chicago with a left hamstring strain late in the second half, is questionable for Sunday's match against Kansas City. If you missed it, here is what Robinson said about... Click to continue reading...

For the second week running, the MLS table is nice and neat, with everybody level on 22 games. The Crew surge past the Revs to grab a narrow 2-point lead in the race for the Supporters' Shield. Three back of the Revs sit Chicago and the West-leading Dynamo. United and the Red Bulls (the current holders of the "at large" playoff bids) are level on 32, and RSL looks to be in a fairly solid 2nd Click to continue reading...

Eddie Johnson and Brian Ching celebrate a goal against Barbados, the only game which a current US striker has scored a goal in the last 14 months for the national team.

Bob Bradley's tenure as United States National Team manager has gone about as well as can be expected: A CONCACAF Gold triumph, several victories in the "old world" and thus far a smooth run in qualifying including an elusive win over Guatemala.

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Notable arrivals: Fraizer Campbell (Manchester United, loan), Vedran Corluka (Manchester City), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), Cesar Sanchez (Real Zaragoza), David Bentley (Blackburn), Luka Modric (Dynamo Zagreb), Heurelho Gomes (PSV), Giovani dos Santos (Barcelona), John Bostock (Crystal Palace) Notable departures: Dimitar. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham have finally completed the signing of Manchester City defender Vedran Corluka for an undisclosed fee. The 22-year-old was finally allowed to leave Eastlands after the Blues signed South American duo Pablo Zabaleta and Glauber over the weekend. City boss Mark Hughes had originally attempted to hang onto the former Dynamo Zagreb full-back, but he appeared keen [. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Vedran Corluka (Manchester City), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), Cesar Sanchez (Real Zaragoza), David Bentley (Blackburn), Luka Modric (Dynamo Zagreb), Heurelho Gomes (PSV), Giovani dos Santos (Barcelona), John Bostock (Crystal Palace) Notable departures: Lee Young-Pyo (Borussia Dortmund), Anthony Gardner. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Vedran Corluka (Manchester City), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), Cesar Sanchez (Real Zaragoza), David Bentley (Blackburn), Luka Modric (Dynamo Zagreb), Heurelho Gomes (PSV), Giovani dos Santos (Barcelona), John Bostock (Crystal Palace) Notable departures: Lee Young-Pyo (Borussia Dortmund), Anthony Gardner. Click to continue reading...

Happy Labor Day, all! Hope you're enjoying the holiday. If you didn't get the day off, join the club. But, hey, it's Labor Day after all, right? The Dynamo should be enjoying their day off today after rallying from a... Click to continue reading...

Tottenham have signed Croatia defender Vedran Corluka from Manchester City on a 6-year deal for 8.5m. The 22-year-old defender began his career at Dynamo Zagreb before joining City in 2007 where he made 41 appearances in all competitions. Corluka's move to White Hart Lane was apparently agreed some time ago with Manchester City waiting to bring in [. Click to continue reading...

Follow Chron.com's live game commentary. The Dynamo look to get the ball rolling again and rebound from last week's 3-0 loss at New York when they host Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Brian McBride and the rest of the Chicago Fire beginning... Click to continue reading...

NEWS: Let's get this out of the way first because, well, we knew it was coming. Canada has asked Dynamo starters Dwayne De Rosario and Pat Onstad to join them for upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Honduras (ouch) on Sept.... Click to continue reading...

Let's take a look see.

GROUP A -- easy advance for the top two clubs
Chelsea, Roma, Bordeaux, Cluj

GROUP B -- a breeze for Inter, nice cool, breeze
Inter Milan, Werder Bremen, Panathinaikos, Cypriot

GROUP C -- Barca has no worries, none at all
Barcelona, Sporting Lisbon, Basle, Shakhtar Donetsk

GROUP D -- Reds could be in deep, deep trouble
Liverpool, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, Marseilles

GROUP E -- United should be fine, key word: should
Manchester United, Celtic, Villareal, Aalborg

GROUP F -- wide, wide open group here
Lyon, Bayern Munich, Steaua Bucharest, Fiorentina

GROUP G -- Arsenal could be tested here. Click to continue reading...

Porto, Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kiev

Piece of piss. ;)

Keep it Goonerish............. Click to continue reading...

The Dynamo reserves made a quick trip to Frisco Wednesday and came back with a 3-0 victory over FC Dallas. Kyle Brown, Geoff Cameron and John Michael Hayden scored for the Dynamo, who improved to an impressive 6-1-1 record (19... Click to continue reading...

The Dynamo reserves made a quick trip to Frisco Wednesday and came back with a 3-0 victory over FC Dallas. Kyle Brown, Geoff Cameron and John Michael Hayden scored for the Dynamo, who improved to an impressive 6-1-1 record (19... Click to continue reading...

The Dynamo reserves made a quick trip to Frisco Wednesday and came back with a 3-0 victory over FC Dallas. Kyle Brown, Geoff Cameron and John Michael Hayden scored for the Dynamo, who improved to an impressive 6-1-1 record (19... Click to continue reading...

Though we were not impressed with Liverpool coming into the season (a view that was not exactly expunged by their first few performances on the pitch), we didn't think qualifying for the Champions League would be anywhere near this difficult. We shrugged off the scoreless draw in the first leg as an anomaly Stevie G and co. Click to continue reading...

The preliminary round of the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League kicks off tonight with some interesting matches that include Goliaths like the New England Revolution and Mexico's Cruz Azul taking on regional Davids. While the Dynamo enjoy the luxury of starting... Click to continue reading...

There are only 9 games left for each team in the regular season. Since each team (finally) has the same number of games played, it makes it easy to compare the schedules for all 14 teams. Going by the total number of points, here is the remaining strength of schedule for each team:

1 New York 279 2 Columbus 278 3 Los Angeles 275 4 Colorado 263 5 DC United 259 5 Kansas City 259 7 Chicago 257 7 Dallas 257 7 Toronto 257 10 New England 256 11 Chivas USA 251 12 San Jose 250 13 Real Salt Lake 243 14 Houston 234
New York, Columbus, and Los Angeles face the toughest schedules, while Houston has the easiest followed by RSL. Click to continue reading...

The Dynamo have us going from one wow to another. They beat then-Western Conference leader Real Salt Lake 4-3 in a wild one. Wow! They crushed Chivas USA 4-0 for consecutive win No. 4. Wow! They followed that resounding win... Click to continue reading...

It isn't quite time yet to sink any teams but there are several clubs who look like the should be sleeping with the fishes. There seems to be a big dropoff between six and seven this week. I'd take any team from the top six over any team from the bottom eight - with the possible exception of the slowly climbing number eight club - in a home-and-away series or a one-off match. Click to continue reading...