The Galaxy looked sharper than they had in weeks last Saturday against the Revolution, which bodes well for the run they will have to make in order to get into the playoffs. However, this Saturday MLS has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to schedule league matches concurrently with a FIFA World Cup qualifier date.

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The Colorado Rapids are in trouble. Actually, they have been since their opening night evisceration of the LA Galaxy, a game which gave fans a very false sense of security. The Rapids of 2008 have not been able to solve the problem of points on the road in MLS. Only Real Salt Lake is worse away from their friendly confines, securing a single win and two ties in 11 tries. Click to continue reading...

David Beckham and his LA Galaxy will return to New Zealand in December for an exhibition match against an Oceania All Stars team captained by New Caledonian and French player Christian Karembeu, former Real Madrid player and better known for having married to Slovak model Adriana Sklenaříková. Click to continue reading...

Last week, we were discussing the LA Galaxy's blog-o-ma-phone being a bit sub-standard in the professional sports franchise sweepstakes--bush league if you will. Let's carry that theme forward to Major League Soccer in general, specifically as regards the sorry state of affairs with the Red Bulls' attempted capture of Macoumba Kandji. Click to continue reading...

I just watched the game via the archived stream on MLSNet. This team looks completely different from the team that lost to Chicago just a week earlier. At home.

Probably because it basically is a completely different team when you put in Landon Donovan, David Beckham and Eddie Lewis all at the same time.

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The Columbus Crew were the only Eastern Conference team to win and by doing so moved to the top of the division and the MLS overall table to round out Week 23 of the Major League season. LA Galaxy 2 New England Revolution 2 Landon Donovan scored a pair of goals for the Los Angeles Galaxy, but [...] Click to continue reading...

And your MLS leaders are...

(drumroll)

The Columbus Crew!

Who woulda thought?

Other than that, not a very noteworthy week in domestic soccer. For me, at least. It might've been thrilling for some of you. On to the scores and standings.

Sunday
Houston 2-1 Chicago (A: 22,554)

Saturday
NY Red Bulls 0-0 D. Click to continue reading...

A colleague shouted this out as the "statistic of the night" after the Chivas USA match on Saturday:

With David Beckham and Landon Donovan in tow, the LA Galaxy has the same exact record of the expansion San Jose Earthquakes.

The Galaxy almost had their first win in quite a while on Saturday. Click to continue reading...

I don't have much on short notice except that Eddie Lewis is expected to play.  (I love this picture of Lewis and his family.  Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.)  The game can be seen on HDNet and FSN-PT at 7:30 EST so leave work early and head to the sports bar!

I'm excited to see the line-up and find out if Arena took my offensive line up from the Eddie Lewis Is Ours comments.

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The Wizards have put out an official release about the upcoming MISL reunion game before the Wizards take on the LA Galaxy. The match will take place at the KC SoccerDome the Saturday the 13th at noon. After that, you can head over to Arrowhead and get autographs from the former KC Attack/Comets players as well as the former players from the St. Click to continue reading...

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The SBI MLS Power Rankings are back.

Okay, so maybe you didn't miss the SBI MLS Power Rankings, but at least a few of you noticed their absence in recent weeks.

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Newcastle legend and former England defender Warren Barton has joined the new look LA Galaxy staff under former US National Team Head Coach Bruce Arena. Barton, who serves as a FOX Soccer Channel analyst for the Premier League on the weekends will work during the week with the Major League Soccer  sides' U-18 team. Click to continue reading...

I had a chance to watch Game Breakers: The Stars of Major League Soccer this evening. The A&E DVD about several of the stars of Major League Soccer was just released today.

The description of the DVD lists 12 players that they profile but you will see so much more than just 12 player profiles.

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It was a toss up whether I would post this here or at my floundering Beckham blog and I decided it was better suited to the Beckham blog, so go take a look.

And remember, the Beckham blog needs a new writer.  I have found that I am more interesting in writing Galaxy-related posts here and have limited time, so .

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San Jose is unbeaten in six games... but still in the cellar.

Regardless, Huckerby's boys are giving it quite a go, even though the points probably aren't quite there to be had to make the playoffs.

But that's all the praise I'm giving the 'Quakes, I have to learn to hate them as a Seattle boy. Click to continue reading...

Great piece by Mr. Gardner of Soccer America today, talking about Bruce Arena's first move with the LA Galaxy. I hadn't even realized how he did the same thing in New York.

As for the comments about what Arena wanted to do in DC, I just want to profusely thank Gulati, Doug Logan, and whoever else realized that was insanity. Click to continue reading...

It's not just us who go on European Football Weekends, you're all at it! Send us your EFW photos and we'll publish them here - simple:


Motherwell fan Andy took this one of the Tartan Army in Prague.

He also followed his team to the market town of Abtenau near Salzburg, Austria for some pre-season action. Click to continue reading...

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The details finally emerged on the Carlos Ruiz trade from LA to Toronto FC on Thursday and they were shocking to say the least. The LA Galaxy shipped Ruiz to Toronto FC for a pair of supplemental draft picks.

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For some the LA Galaxy debut of Bruce Arena didn't go as planned. A 1-0 defeat to the Chicago Fire thanks to a second half goal by Galaxy-killer John Thornington. But for others the debut was pretty much expected due to the lack of Landon Donovan, David Beckham and Eddie Lewis. Oh yeah and the [...] Click to continue reading...

Bruce Arena's return to the hot seat as a manager of an MLS team didn't go as smoothly as he would have hoped as his recently inherited LA Galaxy fell 1-0 to a surging Chicago Fire squad led by striker Brian McBride. Click to continue reading...

We are minutes away from MLS' Thursday night line up but quite a few familiar faces will be missing due to World Cup qualifying commitments.

Missing:
LA Galaxy will be without: Landon Donovan, Eddie Lewis (USA; WCQ v Guatemala); David Beckham (England; v Czech Rep)

Chicago is missing: Cuauhtemoc Blanco (Mexico; WCQ v Honduras); Marco Pappa (Guatemala; WCQ v USA); Gonzalo Segares (Costa Rica; WCQ) Click to continue reading...

We finally got some confirmation that two deals went down today that we've been talking about for a couple days now. LA Galaxy ships striker Carlos Ruiz to Toronto FC for a first and second round pick in the 2009 MLS Supplemental Draft and salary budget considerations. The Galaxy also sign veteran midfielder/defender Eddie Lewis. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards are auctioning off a lot of different pre-game things for the upcoming game against the LA Galaxy. You can bid to be the pre-game entertainment, the national anthem singer, pick the charity to be the Kicks for Kids Donation, and the Color Guard Donation. Auctioning anything they can with the pregame has gotten the Wizards noticed by Freakonomics, a blog with the New York Times (thanks to Peter for sending this my way). Click to continue reading...

Gash in his head and all.

Ruiz will go to Toronto probably cleats up after watching last night's game.

Lewis is a great acquisition, especially having played for Bruce Arena for many years already. That will make the transition to the team go more quickly and effectively.

I don't have news on the financial aspect of it all.

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The U.S. men's national team defeated Guatemala on Wednesday night, 1-0, in the opening match of the World Cup Qualifying group stage. It wasn't pretty. In fact, it was downright ugly for the Americans for the first 60 minutes of the match.

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