Pat Noonan’s career with the Rapids is over, as he suffered the dreaded disgrace of being “waived.” From the Rapids Website Noonan appeared in 17 games with nine starts and scored two goals for the Rapids last season after being acquired by Colorado in a trade with the Columbus Crew on June 15, 2009. Two Points: You could see this...

I arrived here on a wet evening at the end of June 2009. ‘Denver doesn’t get much rainfall’, I was told. So you can imagine my mood when on landing, having travelled 15 hours and feeling full of excitement at the prospect of a new city, stepping off the plane to good old Scottish drizzle. My heart sunk. Continue to: Jamie Smith: How did I...

Sucks that this dude is pretty much spot on… For Americans, soccer is just not a sport you play hooky for. What American boy hasn’t played sick to watch a World Series baseball game a few times in his life? I feigned many a flu to watch Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants pitch against Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers, back when dinosaurs...

I believe the future of MLS should be to become like Eredivisie or Ligue 1: a quality, competitive, second-tier league that develops young talent and sells it’s best to the big spenders in the EPL and La Liga. Attempting to become one of those big spenders will leaveus, just like the first great American soccer experiment, penniless and league-less. That...

For weeks, the MLS Players Union has insisted that it was unified enough to initiate a work stoppage. On Thursday, the players moved a step closer to proving their point, with multiple sources indicating that they voted 383-2 to go on strike if a new collective bargaining agreement between the union and MLS has not been agreed upon by 12:01 a.m. ET on March...