A pair of road wins had a big impact on the conference races. The Chicago Fire moved into a tie with D.C. United in the Eastern Conference thanks to its 2-1 win at Colorado, while the Houston Dynamo opened up a four-point lead over Chivas USA with a 1-0 victory at Kansas City.

Results:
July 3 in Sandy, Utah
Real Salt Lake 1 San Jose 1. Goals: Own goal 91+; Alvarez (Campos) 63.
Real Salt Lake - Rimando, Wingert (Cox, 91+), Borchers, Russell, Beltran (Olave, 72), Grabavoy, Mathis, Morales, Williams (Findley, 62), Movsisyan, Espindola.
San Jose - Cannon, Leitch, Hernandez, Pitchkolan, Corrales (Zaher, 45), Alvarez, McDonald, Ribeiro, Convey (Salinas, 38), Campos (Glen, 87), Johnson.
Yellow Cards: Real Salt Lake - Williams 43; San Jose - Campos 13, Salinas 47, McDonald 75, Hernandez 76, Leitch 86, Cannon 95+.
Red Card: Real Salt Lake - Espindola 77.
Referee: Michael Kennedy.
Att.: 17,478.
 
July 4 in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus 1 D.C. United 1. Goals: Moreno (Lenhart, Ekpo) 59; Gomez 33.
Columbus - Hesmer, Hejduk, Brunner, Iro (Lenhart, 46), Padula, Gaven, Carroll, O'Rourke, Ekpo (Burns, 80), Schelotto, Moreno.
D.C. United - Wicks, Namoff, Burch, Janicki, Wallace, Olsen, Gomez, Simms, Pontius, Khumalo (Fred, 55), N'Silu (Barklage, 86).
Yellow Cards: Columbus - Moreno 12, Ekpo 74, Lenhart 92+; D.C. United - Olsen 60, N'Silu 80.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 14,370.
 
July 4 in Commerce City, Colo.
Colorado 1 Chicago 2. Goals: Peterson 76; Pappa (Husidic, McBride) 30, Conde (Blanco) 37.
Colorado - Pickens, Ihemelu, Gibbs, Harvey, Cooke, Ballouchy, LaBrocca (Dalby, 84), Mastroeni, Kimura (Schunk, 89), Casey, Noonan (Peterson, 46).
Chicago - Busch, Woolard (Brown, 65), Conde, Soumare, Ward, Pappa, Blanco (Carr, 88), Thorrington, Husidic, McBride, Rolfe (Nyarko, 79).
Yellow Cards: Colorado - Gibbs 24, Casey 80.
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez.
Att.: 19,680.
 
July 4 in Frisco, Texas
FC Dallas 2 New York 1. Goals: Cunningham 15, Cunningham (van den Bergh) 17; Angel (Borman, Rojas) 43.
FC Dallas - Burse, Moor, Davies, Ricchetti, Wallace (Wagner, 46), Shea (John, 84), Ferreira, McCarty, Rocha (Avila, 65), van den Bergh, Cunningham.
New York - Cepero, Borman (Smith, 49), Boyens (Ubiparipovic, 46), Petke, Hall, Zimmerman (Wolyniec, 80), Mbuta, Sassano, Stammler, Rojas, Angel.
Yellow Cards: FC Dallas - Ricchetti 74.
Referee: Kevin Stott.
Att.: 14,327.
 
July 4 in Kansas City
Kansas City 0 Houston 1. Goal: Kamara (Chabala, Ashe) 18.
Kansas City - Hartman, Watson, Hohlbein, McKenzie, Besler, Jewsbury, Harrington (Thompson, 61), Hirsig, Gomez (Kraus, 74), Wolff, Lopez.
Houston - Onstad, Mulrooney, Boswell, Cameron, Chabala, Mullan, Clark, Davis, Ashe (Cruz, 93+), Oduro (Akinbiyi, 67), Kamara.
Yellow Cards: Houston - Chabala 46+, Boswell 49, Cameron 94+.
Referee: Hilario Grajeda.
Att.: 10,385.
 
July 4 in Carson, Calif.
Los Angeles 1 New England 0. Goal: Eskandarian (Dunivant) 8.
Los Angeles - Saunders, DeLaGarza, Berhalter, Gonzalez, Dunivant, Kirovski, Magee (Sanneh, 78), Miglioranzi, Lewis (Klein, 64), Buddle, Eskandarian (Jordan, 67).
New England - Reis, Alston, Barnes, Igwe, Thompson (Colaluca, 84), Nyassi, Larentowicz, Phelan, Mansally, Dube (Jankauskas, 61), Videira.
Yellow Cards: Los Angeles - Berhalter 72, Jordan 87; New England - Mansally 50, Thompson 61, Phelan 65, Reis 87.
Referee: Mark Geiger.
Att.: 20,609.
 
Standings:
EASTERN W L T GF GA P
D.C. United 5 3 9 26 25 24
Chicago 6 3 6 23 20 24
Columbus 5 3 8 22 21 23
Toronto FC 6 6 4 21 25 22
Kansas City 5 6 4 19 18 19
New England 4 5 4 15 21 16
New York 2 13 4 15 30 10
WESTERN W L T GF GA P
Houston 9 3 4 21 10 31
Chivas USA 8 4 3 19 12 27
Seattle 6 3 7 24 15 25
Colorado 5 4 6 22 20 21
Los Angeles 4 3 9 18 18 21
Real Salt Lake 5 6 5 23 18 20
FC Dallas 4 7 5 20 25 17
San Jose 3 8 4 18 28 13
 
Leading Scorers:
PLAYER (TEAM) GP G
Schelotto (Columbus) 16 10
Casey (Colorado) 11 8
Montero (Seattle) 14 8
Cooper (FC Dallas) 15 7
Cummings (Colorado) 14 6
Jaqua (Seattle) 15 6
Donovan (Los Angeles) 11 6
Findley (Real Salt Lake) 13 6
Angel (New York) 18 6
Johnson (San Jose) 15 6
Lillingston (Chivas USA) 14 6
McBride (Chicago) 15 6
Wolff (Kansas City) 13 6

Schedule:
(All times ET.)
Saturday, July 11
Houston at Seattle Sounders FC, 4:00 p.m.
Kansas City at New England, 4:00 p.m.
Columbus at Chicago, 8:00 p.m. ESPN2, Deportes
FC Dallas  at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
Toronto FC at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Chivas USA, 11:00 p.m. FSC, FSE