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Report: MLS Will Expand To St. Louis, Might Not Completely Fleece The City For A StadiumCongratulations, St. Louis! According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the city has successfully thrown enough money around and greased the right wheels to win economic promotion to MLS!...

Didier Drogba Does Retired Person Thing, Moves To ArizonaFormer Chelsea legend Didier Drogba has been making the seemingly requisite rounds on the European star retirement circuit for a few years now. In 2012, he signed with Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua; in 2013, still an able contributor, he joined Galatasaray for a spell; he returned to Ch...

MLS To Add Four New Teams By 2020At halftime of last night's all-star game, Commissioner Don Garber announced that MLS plans to add four new teams by 2020. Sign of a healthy league, or overexpansion?...

An Abu Dhabi Sheik Is About To Buy A New York MLS Expansion Team

Back in August, we heard noise from a deep-money source that a United Arab Emirates sheik was prepared to pay a ton of money for a New York-based MLS team. The owner was reportedly lobbying for "crazy benefits and tax breaks."...

The Same Firm That Designed The Nets' Rusty Spaceship In Brooklyn Will Make A Soccer Stadium In Queens

The old maxim says that you can't determine the quality and endurance of a sports arena until Jay-Z has played at least six of eight consecutive concerts there. With that requirement satisfied and the Barclays Arena yet to crumble into a pile of orange-brown dust, MLS felt comfortable asking Barclay...

How New York's New MLS Stadium Heralds The Return Of The Cosmos

Top-level soccer hasn't been played within New York's city limits since 1976, when the Cosmos packed up for Giants Stadium and took the country's brief love affair with domestic pro soccer with them. The drought might be close to over, as MLS and local politicians seem intent on returning a team to ...