COLUMBUS, Ohio - Suspended for the first match of the season, a 1-0 loss to the Houston Dynamo last Saturday, Columbus Crew SC midfielder Justin Meram said he "hated" watching the season-opener from home.
Toronto FC suffered their first loss of the 2015 campaign. But rather than anything they did on the field in a 2-0 defeat to Columbus Crew SC, head coach Greg Vanney was more concerned by a decisive call made by head referee David Gantar that he felt transformed the game.
FRISCO, Texas – The Blas Perez show returned for an encore at Toyota Stadium on Saturday night.
Following his late-game heroics last week, Perez scored his team’s first two goals and nearly hit a hat trick to carry FC Dallas to a 3-1 win over Sporting Kansas City.
The postgame talk around Columbus Crew SC's 2-0 win over Toronto FC on Saturday is justifiably centered around referee David Gantar's decision to send off Justin Morrow late in the first half. Read More
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A red card on Toronto FC defender Justin Morrow just before halftime transformed what had been a back-and-forth Trillium Cup showdown Saturday at MAPFRE Stadium, turning it into a 2-0 Columbus Crew SC rout.
The Vancouver Whitecaps headed into Chicago on Saturday evening looking for their first ever win at Toyota Park after failing to do so in their first three attempts.
The Whitecaps had not previously scored a goal in the Windy City, never mind come away with the three points, but they managed both in an entertaining encounter that saw Octavio Rivero grab the victory for the visitors with an 86th minute strike.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – As home openers go, this one did not follow the script. A dominant second-half performance from the Vancouver Whitecaps saw the visitors leave Toyota Park with a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire.
AMSTERDAM – Alejandro Bedoya and Nantes tentatively rose to eighth place in France's Ligue 1 with a 2-1 home victory over Evian on Saturday night.
The US attacker worked a lukewarm full shift in the No. 10 role, even if his passing game was a shade off. Bedoya misfired with 18 of his 37 attempts, including a pair of early through balls that were too heavy for area runners to reach.
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AMSTERDAM – Brad Guzan needed just two saves to post his first Premier League shutout since New Year's Day as visiting Aston Villa sailed through Sunderland 4-0 on Saturday afternoon.
The US No. 1 was given very little to do on a day when the Villans would score as many goals in the opening 45 minutes as they had in their first 14 road games of the season. In addition to comfortably saving a pair of distance tries, Guzan also raced off his line to smother an early Jermain Defoe chance and rang up one cross claim.
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CARSON, Calif. – Jose Villarreal was given the first chance to step, sort of, into Landon Donovan's shoes, and his performance in the LA Galaxy's season-opening win over the Chicago Fire suggests he might have found a new home on the field.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – Ahead of the Chicago Fire's home opener against the Vancouver Whitecaps (6 pm ET, TSN), head coach Frank Yallop expects his team to be significantly improved from their opening day defeat to defending champions the LA Galaxy.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – For New Englanders the mere mention of Yankee Stadium is enough to make the blood boil.
The iconic Bronx stadium, in all of its incarnations, has been home to what many argue is the greatest rivalry in American sports, between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – It’s tempting, from a fan’s standpoint, to want to see San Jose Earthquakes head coach Dominic Kinnear throw caution to the wind on his trip to Seattle this weekend, eschewing the pragmatic approach that kept FC Dallas off the scoreboard for more than 90 minutes in the season opener and putting three of his biggest offensive weapons on the pitch at the same time.
To Kinnear, however, that might seem like tempting fate.
“Your movement is incredible. It’s like a nightmare for me.”
Those were the words of Chelsea captain John Terry at halftime of his squad’s exhibition matchup against the 2012 MLS All-Stars in Chester, Pa.
HOUSTON – As far as gut punches go the Houston Dynamo were served a stiff one Friday night.
In an ugly game where the Dynamo and Orlando City SC looked destined to split a set of drab points, both teams struggled to create momentum going forward. Both defenses looked tough to break down and the passing and finishing were not clicking.
Things changed for the worst for the Dynamo in the 74th minute.
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Considering his team had just chalked up their first MLS victory and overcome their first road test in MLS, at BBVA Compass Stadium, Orlando City SC head coach Adrian Heath might just have been the calmest person in Houston.
HOUSTON – In a game where neither team’s attack had many answers it was a Tyler Deric own goal that gave Orlando City SC their first win in MLS franchise history, downing the Houston Dynamo 1-0 in front of a sell-out crowd at BBVA Compass Stadium.
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The first round of MLS Fantasy is now in the books, and so far this season is looking at lot more like 2013 than 2014. If you weren’t around two years ago, 2013 was the year defenders were king and a 5-4-1 was almost a required formation for success. Unfortunately, few experts were talking up defenders during preseason, so you’ve probably got a few guys on your team that you already want to replace.
Here’s are the best players to replace your Round 1 MLS Fantasy duds:
Updated as of March 12, 2015 - 4:00 PM ET
Most every Friday night, UniMás or Univision Deportes Network (UDN) will broadcast a top MLS matchup in Spanish and in English using Secondary Audio Programming (SAP).
Whereas on Earth the study of geology evolved from one of field work to incorporation of remote sensing, that of Mars is the reverse, with orbital-based data only complemented by surface investigations from rovers in the last 10+ years. The merging of these datasets has yielded profound new understandings of the geologic history and modern processes on Mars. These include studies of mineralogy, stratigraphy, structural geology, surface dating, landscape modification rates, and many other research areas. This special issue seeks papers that incorporate data from surface (MSL, MER, etc.) and orbital (MRO, MEX, Odyssey, etc.) missions that have increased our understanding of Martian geology.
Announcing a call for papers in a special issue of Icarus with a focus on lunar and solar system science that substantially rely on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. LRO, launched in 2009 has a suite of seven instruments, all of which have been depositing data in the Planetary Data System every three months. We are requesting submissions that rely on LRO data, but we encourage submissions that combine data from LRO with data from other missions.
