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Way back in March, I wrote a post with links to the preseason predictions of some of the most widely read soccer pundits. Among the prognosticators that went so far as to designate playoff teams were Ives, a consolidation of ESPNSoccernet writers, Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports and seven others.

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The Major League Soccer regular season is finished and the playoffs are starting this week. It was an interesting regular season which included new franchise Seattle making the playoffs and leading the league in home attendance. Other clubs such as the New York Red Bulls struggled all year and were the worst team in the league.

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The UEFA Champions League had several upsets and surprising results on Tuesday and Wednesday. FC Barcelona lost at home, AC Milan beat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, and Liverpool lost 1-2 at home to Lyon. Many of the top teams lost or had to settle for draws. The exception was English Premier League sides Chelsea and Manchester United.

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The Major League Soccer Power Rankings for Week 31 are here with not many changes at the top. The Columbus Crew, Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, and Chivas USA are in the top four spots. The Seattle Sounders are close by and have clinched their playoff spot in their initial season. The rest of the rankings are very close as there are a number of playoff spots left going into the last week of matches.

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The playoffs are a week away but seven MLS clubs still remain in the running for three open spots, including one automatic birth from the eastern conference. This week's rankings saw a few shifts including FC Dallas' on-going run up the boards and possibly into the playoffs.

Elsewhere on the board we saw Toronto gain a little grown while Colorado and Chicago continue to slip.

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What a glorious tangle we've got, eh MLS HQ gargoyles? At this point, would you put it past any of the teams still in playoff contention (oh hell, let's throw in everybody but the Red Bulls) to beat any of the others? The Parity Police are slapping... Click to continue reading...

US MNT Player Power Rankings (10/15/09): The US Men's Soccer Team has qualified for the 2010 World Cup, which kicks off a mere 8 months from now. Now that we're in, the big question is who will represent the Red, White, & Blue at the world's biggest sports spectacle.

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First off, sorry for not getting these posted earlier this morning. I had ever intention to do so but somehow I just never hit publish on this post. Second of all this week's rankings come with very little change at the top six or seven. Most of the clubs stayed right where they were at after week 29.

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With only four games on the docket this international week, you wouldn't expect much movement on the Pile. But it's an indication of just how tight things are that even four games, two involving the going-nowhere Quakes, would prompt some... Click to continue reading...

It was a light schedule in Major League Soccer as there were World Cup Qualifying matches. Several teams have already clinched a playoff spot but the majority are still up for grabs. In the Power Rankings for Week 30, the Columbus Crew are on top again while the LA Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, and Chivas USA round out the top 4 spots.

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I'm back from the long weekend in Austin. I decided to go a head and catch up on this last night instead of just writing a bunch of posts about the weekend that I missed. Now that I am caught up on everything thanks to some highlights and some DVR I felt like starting with the weekly power rankings before I got into anything else.

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Man, doesn't that image look awful? Have no fear, dear reader, the technical glitches with the Dogpile are high on the off-season agenda. And by the looks of it, I won't be the only one looking to do a little re-tooling in the winter. Would you look... Click to continue reading...

The UEFA Champions League had few upsets this week in group stages matches. The one exception was AC Milan losing FC Zurich. The 90th Minute's rankings are going to change where we will only rank the top 16 even though there are 32 in the group stage. Realistically, any team outside the top 16 is not a threat to win the title.

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It's a strange thing. Everybody complains that the integrity of the "so-called Champions League" is a wasting ozone being eaten away by the presence of so many non-champions, and everybody loves the idea that the fan-friendly, high-scoring, reasonably priced Bundesliga is secretly better than the not-particularly-any-of-those-things Premier League.

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As mentioned yesterday the playoff race has gotten pretty clear for me. Aside from two or three clubs I pretty much have a good understanding of who will be in the second season and who will not. The rankings sort of reflect that this week and there was some movement across the board.

First up I think LA has finished climbing the charts for now.

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Does no one want to win this thing? No one? Oh, shut up and put your hands down, Columbus. Take a look, if you will, at who's hot as we plow through this critical stretch of the season. We'll use the last five results as a measure of en fuego-ness.... Click to continue reading...

Quick, name the three hottest teams in MLS! Well, sure, there's the Crew, netting ten points from the last fifteen on offer. Predictable, right? Somewhat more unbelievably, but borne out by their current league standing, the Galaxy are matching the... Click to continue reading...

Week 27 is down and in the books. Only a few weeks left to go and this regular season will be finished. This weeks rankings saw yet another shift around the middle of the order but for the most part a good chunk of clubs stayed put from last week's table.

Still, the top four and the bottom four are the same that we've seen for the last few months that's one thing that has remained consistent here.

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While many of you are waiting for today's UEFA Champions League action to kick off, here are some more answers to questions submitted in the most recent Q&A.

It's a small batch, eleven answers to be exact. The topics range from the Columbus Crew, to future U.S. national team managers what's on my TIVO, to Chris Rolfe's impending departure from Chicago.

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Now that's the MLS we all know and love, right? Questionable officiating, the playoff race somehow getting even tighter, the Galaxy shipping six goals while scoring three...the Red Bulls losing. What's a poor blogger to do when the Parity Police... Click to continue reading...

After a week off due to a low number of games (three), the power rankings return in full force. We have some change all around this week after a slew of games this past week. The top changes, as does some near the bottom.

Right now it appears that clubs 1-5 are pretty much set. After that 6-11 are a real mess each week with clubs moving all around that area left and right.

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The Week 26 Major League Socer Power Rankings have had some significant changes from last week. The Columbus Crew have the top spot with a win over Houston while the Los Angeles Galaxy dropped after a disappointing 3-6 lost to Dallas. Other teams moving up are FC Dallas and the Kansas City Wizards who both got much needed wins.

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Week 26 (09/09)

Last Week's Ranking in Parenthesis...Â

1. Houston (1):Â Due to some terrible scheduling, only 6 teams played last week.Â
2. Columbus (2): So, this entire Week 26 Power Rankings is an exercise in futility.

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It was a light schedule in Major League Soccer with World Cup Qualifying so the Power Rankings for this week have not changed much. A few teams who did play, the Colorado Rapids and Kansas City Wizards, did move up as they both had wins. The Rapids improved their playoff chances with a 1-0 win at home against Toronto FC while the Wizards won at New England with a 4-2 victory.

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I may be on vacation getting ready for my wedding but I did spare a second to do some game pickings. Yes the previews are going to be kept mighty short but thankfully we only have three games to deal with. I guess the league decided three games would be enough of a break during an international window of World Cup qualifiers.

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Welcome back to the Dogpile, my friends. The kennel is in chaos with the top dogs from last week all sitting on the wrong side of 1-0 results, the majority of those engaged in the mad playoff scramble holding serve, and, of course, the Red Bulls... Click to continue reading...

The Major League Soccer Power Rankings changed a bit this week as a few teams, most noticably the New England Revolution who won two matches and are back in the playoff race. Other teams such as the LA Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Columbus Crew, and Chicago Fire remain near the top of both conferences.

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Major League Soccer seasons are famous for the streaks and slumps that teams invariably go through and two teams coming out of mid-season slumps just in time for the stretch run are New England and Chivas USA.

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Major League Soccer seasons are famous for the streaks and slumps that teams invariably go through and two teams coming out of mid-season slumps just in time for the stretch run are New England and Chivas USA.

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Week 23 in Major League Soccer proved to be a big one for some clubs. New York finally got off the losing end of things, New England won two straight to move into playoff contention, San Jose finally turned the tide late in the games, and LA got four quality road points in the week.

Yes, week 23 changed a decent bit of things in the rankings.

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The Crew remain masters of all they survey despite sitting out the week atop that pile of recent victories and the assorted skulls and captured standards of the rest of MLS. Sadly, neither of their closest challengers could mount anything resembling... Click to continue reading...

After a weekend that saw the Columbus Crew dominate an FC Dallas team (2-0 on August 15) -- the same FCD that beat the Houston Dynamo a week prior (1-0 on August 6)Â -- coupled with Houston being dominated by, albeit tying, Real Salt Lake (0-0 on August 15), the Crew solidified their spot atop this week's power rankings.

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After a weekend that saw the Columbus Crew dominate an FC Dallas team (2-0 on August 15) -- the same FCD that beat the Houston Dynamo a week prior (1-0 on August 6)Â -- coupled with Houston being dominated by, albeit tying, Real Salt Lake (0-0 on August 15), the Crew solidified their spot atop this week's power rankings.

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After a weekend that saw the Columbus Crew dominate an FC Dallas team (2-0 on August 15) -- the same FCD that beat the Houston Dynamo a week prior (1-0 on August 6)Â -- coupled with Houston being dominated by, albeit tying, Real Salt Lake (0-0 on August 15), the Crew solidified their spot atop this week's power rankings.

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