One can debate, and perhaps even ridicule, a listing that puts MLS as seventh-best league in the world, but there's no question it is at or near the top in one critical category.

FC Dallas rules the top spot despite tying but Montreal and defending champion Galaxy kept up the pressure by winning.

He'll take some heat for this one, but one can't really rip Commssioner Don Garber for citing exorbitant costs as the reason MLS won't implement goal-line technology in the near future.

National team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann reminded everyone this week that Landon Donovan needs to play his way back onto the squad, and former U.S. coach Steve Sampson is confident that he will.

Perhaps it's appropriate that a squad nicknamed The Goonies has a bogey team.

When does the "youth" go out of youth soccer? This topic resurfaces in the wake of the U.S. U-17s failure to qualify for the FIFA world championships to be held later this year. Knocked out in the quarterfinals, the Americans have been supplanted by their conquerors, Honduras, along with Panama, Mexico and Canada as Concacaf representatives.

Sunil Gulati is everything Sepp Blatter isn't.

An eight-point lead over the Galaxy and a five-point edge in the overall standings places FC Dallas in a dominant position.

That noise you might have heard on Tuesday was money being sucked out of the U.S. soccer market.

Texas takes the first two places in the power rankings with both FC Dallas and Houston posting important home wins.

What lessons can we draw from another year of MLS participation in the Concacaf Champions League?

A schedule lightened up by postponements to accommodate Concacaf schedules for Seattle and Los Angeles still provided opportunities for three teams to post their first wins of the season.

I'd have preferred to see more than two former players inducted to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, yet it's good that both selections are utterly deserving.

Whether or not the Galaxy can dethrone two-time defending champion Monterrey in the Concacaf club semifinals, it is the only MLS team currently strong enough to challenge for the regional title.

To take a metaphor from another sport, MLS Commissioner Don Garber is trying to play both sides of the net when it comes to the Concacaf Champions League.