By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax)
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Crew's Paladini suspended pending investigation
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew’s Daniel Paladini, currently sidelined with a broken leg, has been suspended with pay andbanned him from all club activities, pending an investigation into a reported domestic dispute. The 29-year-old Paladini made four league appearances in 2014 before breaking the tibia andfibula in his right leg at training in September. He […]
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Revs load up on away goals
[MLS PLAYOFFS] Before he left MLS nearly six years ago, former deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis justified the league’s decision not to use away goalsin its playoffs by citing how the series could effectively be decided early if an away team won the first leg by a large margin. At Columbus Crew Stadium on Saturday, New […]
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Wright-Phillips ties scoring record in season finale
[MLS: Week 33] On the final day of the regular season, the New York Red Bulls beat Sporting Kansas City, 2-0, to set up a playoff rematch with defending championand also inscribe Bradley Wright-Phillipsinto the history books as the third MLS player to score 27 goals in a season. MLS SCHEDULE, Week 33:Sunday, October 26 […]
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Sounders in driver's seat for Supporters' Shield
[MLS: Sunday] The LA Galaxy looked to be coasting to victory in the first of its home-and-home series to decide the 2014 Supporters’ Shield when the SeattleSounders struck for two goals in three minutes to earn a deserved 2-2 tie that spoiled Landon Donovan‘s farewell regular-season match at StubHub Center and putsthem in the driver’s […]
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Crew signs its youngest Homegrown Player ever
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] The Columbus Crew will sign 17-year-old midfielder Ben Swanson to a Homegrown Player contract onThursday. The signing deadline for the 2014 season has passed, so Swanson will be added to the Crew roster for the 2015 MLS season. He is the youngest of the 10 Homegrown players the Crew has eversigned. Other Homegrown […]
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MLS Releases Six-Part Donovan Series
MLSSoccer.com is honoring retiring LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan with a six-part mini-documentary series, “Landon Donovan: LegenD.” The series, produced alongside Copper PotPictures, shows highlights from Donovan’s record-breaking career, with one episode appearing each day ahead of his final regular-season home game against the Seattle Sounders thisSunday. Incidentally, Copper Pot Pictures previously produced the soccer […]
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New name, new badge, new local push for Crew
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] The Columbus Crew will have a new name — Columbus Crew Soccer Club — and new badge for the 2015 season, unveiled Thursday at an event in downtownColumbus. Investor-operator and chairman Anthony Precourt, who bought the club in 2013 from the Hunt Sports Group, revealed the club’s newbadge at a ceremony alongside Columbus […]
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Crew grabs Kamara on the rebound
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] The Columbus Crew has used its top slot in the allocation rankings to claim attacker Kei Kamara, an MLS veteran who was released byMiddlesbrough in late August. His stay in England lasted only a year; he’d joined the English club for a transfer fee reported to be $1.5 million and signed a two-year […]
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Playoffs hinge on Cascadia clash; more drama looms in East
[MLS: Three Games to Watch] Another edition of the Northwest head-knockers takes place in Portland, and more drama looms in a tightly bunched EasternConference. Only Seattle has mathematically clinched but several other teams are on the brink of nailing down their postseason slots heading into Week 28 of the regular season. MLS SCHEDULE, Week 28: Friday, September […]