On Saturday night, Atlanta United hosted the Houston Dynamo in yet another sellout at Bobby Dodd Stadium and Atlanta routed the Dynamo 4-1. Miguel Almiron, who had only two goals on the season, scored the second hat trick in Atlanta history and drew even with Josef Martinez for most goals on the team, while Julian Gressel notched his...
Welcome to Pitch Predictions, our new column here at Sports Unbiased, where I'll be offering breakdowns and picks for the hottest matches of the upcoming week. Normally we'll be coming out with this column every Friday in advance of the weekend action around the globe, and that will begin this Friday. But, thanks to intercontinental...
The greater Sacramento metropolitan area has just been skipped over for a Major League Soccer expansion team, and the city, fans, and owners of the Sacramento Republic FC are rightfully outraged.
The MLS expansion committee decided that Minneapolis is a better location for expanding its brand because the potential TV revenue is...
On Saturday, Landon Donovan pulled a U.S. men's national team kit on and took the pitch for his country for the 157th and final time. If you count his time with the under-17, under-20, and under-23 squads, that number bumps up to 217 appearances with the U.S. Soccer crest over his heart. He potted 57 goals for the senior...
(Editor's note: This column will be moving permanently from its Tuesday slot and will now appear regularly every Thursday.)
What is the purpose of a sports league? Not long ago, the argument could have reasonably been made that domestic leagues were the provenance of the people, points of congregation for fans in a given...
What is tradition in sports? Is it merely a shared history, the rise and fall of fortunes that unify disparate people? Is it the shared experience, a cycle renewed with regularity to reignite the past sentiments that are stirred up by the rise and fall? Is it the colors, crests, and stadiums that serve as semiotic identifiers to...
While much of the summer has been spent basking in the quadrennially-available greatness that is the FIFA World Cup, the start of the club season means the return of an even higher level of tournament. The UEFA Champions League starts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and the tournament guarantees high-level play across the board...
Since the Seattle Sounders officially started MLS play in 2009, the league has enjoyed an explosion of popularity in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia region added two more teams in 2011, the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps, reigniting a tripartite rivalry that began in the defunct North American Soccer League four decades...
The stadiums that are like cathedrals. The pride of nations. The roar of the crowd. The over the top celebrations. The short shorts. This could only be one thing - FIFA 14 is out and the world renowned title by EA Sports is ready to consume the lives of millions of soccer fans for the next couple of months. Many players are excited...
Lost in all the rumors of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, Cesc Fabregas to Manchester United and Luis Saurez to Arsenal, was a transfer of historical proportions.
Clint Dempsey is heading back the MLS, as the captain of the U.S. men's national team will be joining the Seattle Sounders from Tottenham in a deal that nobody saw...
