On the same night, the MLS conference leaders showed precisely why they are on top. Kansas City went into Red Bull Arena, where the home team hadn’t lost all season, and thumped the RedBulls, 2-0, which could have taken over first place in the Eastern Conference with a victory and instead fell five points behind. After conceding two […]
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San Jose lands Marcus Tracy in lottery pick
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] Former Hermann Trophy winner Marcus Tracy is the latest player to join MLS via a weighted lotteryprocess, one of MLS’s complicated player allocation mechanisms. He went to the Western Conference-leading San Jose Earthquakes after spending three injury-marred years in Denmark before being releasedby AaB Aalborg at the end of the 2011 season. The […]
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Chivas USA follows same script in 4-0 defeat
Chivas USA defender Danny Califf has seen too many games this season like the 4-0 loss to San Jose Sunday night. Even so, a team that hadn’tconceded any goals directly from free kicks this season found a new wrinkle to go along with its recurring problem of converting opportunities. The Quakes scored three of their […]
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San Antonio lands Toyota sponsorship, Quakes negotiate naming rights
By Paul Kennedy It’s been quite a Year 1 for the San Antonio Scorpions. The NASL expansion club is in first place. It leads the Division IIleague in average attendance at Heroes Stadium by a wide margin. And it has reached a sponsorship agreement with Toyota that includes the naming rights to the soccer-specific stadium […]
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Quakes rise as Rapids slide
Many of the names and faces are the same, but the team of Colorado Rapids who departed from Buck Shaw Stadium Saturday night after a 4-1 lashing by the San Jose Earthquakes didn’t much look likethe 2010 MLS Cup champions. Matt Pickens, Drew Moor, Jeff Larentowitz, Conor Casey, Brian Mullan, et al,left the locker room […]
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Ballouchy returns home to Quakes
[MLS TRANSACTIONS] The trade of Mehdi Ballouchy from the New York Red Bulls to the San Jose Earthquakes is a homecomingof sorts for the Moroccan-born midfielder as he will be playing at Buck Shaw Stadium on the campus of Santa Clara, where he was an All-American. The Quakes acquired him Monday in exchangefor a 2013 […]
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Quakes' Morrow surprise selection
[MLS SPOTLIGHT] MLS All-Star Coach Ben Olsen has added San Jose Earthquakes defender Justin Morrow as a replacement for injured New York Red Bulls defender Heath Pearce on the roster for next Wednesday’s AT&T MLS All-Stargame against Chelsea at PPL Park in Chester, Pa. (8:30 p.m., ESPN2, TeleFutura, TSN2). If you’ve never heard of Morrow, […]
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The Best Ever MLS Game?
As the blinding brilliance of Spain flashed out from the Ukraine on Sunday, it had one unfortunate consequence — it cast into the shadows a slice of superb soccer that had occurred on Saturdayevening, right here in the USA. As a soccer game, as a 90-minute event, the San Jose-Los Angeles Galaxy battle really […]
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Cardiac Quakes shock once again
I’ve never been a big believer that axiom that a two-goal lead is the most dangerous lead in soccer, but the San Jose Earthquakes are making believers of me. Actually, any lead is dangerousagainst the Quakes, but they are especially fond of two-goal deficits against the Galaxy, as they proved again Saturday by rallying from […]
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Lesser names arise in major MLS games
Perseverance is a trait just about all of us admire – except perhaps when we’re denying a 9-year-old that second ice cream cone — and it counts a great deal in professional sports,where injuries, coaching changes, economics and plain old pig-headedness can derail a promising playing career. MLS is a forgiving league, in that mistakes […]