Which Top Seed Will Do More Damage in the MLS Playoffs?
The MLS Playoffs are finally here, complete with a new format that will ensure that more teams than ever have crack at the trophy. But no matter how many teams the MLS lets in, there are only two...
View ArticleWhat Each Team Must Do In the Second Leg of MLS Playoffs
For each of the eight teams left in the Major League Soccer playoffs, it’s halftime. The first legs of each Conference Semifinal matchup have been played, and we now know exactly what each team needs...
View ArticleSports: Hallelujah!
On Monday I wrote a post about the tragedy in Orlando. In it, I described how — for once — I wasn’t thinking about sports in spite of a calendar chock full of championships and intriguing storylines....
View Article4 reasons the USMNT will beat Argentina
Seeing the world’s No. 1 team dismantle a defense with surgical passing and combination play is one of the most beautiful sights for a soccer fan to see – unless that defense is your defense. It won’t...
View ArticleJürgen Klinsmann’s Calendar for the USMNT vs Argentina Copa America Game
Jürgen Klinsmann is one busy dude. He’s trying to prep the USMNT’s depleted roster for a massive, massive game against one of the best players in history (*Author’s note: Lionel Messi) and an Argentina...
View ArticleTexts From Last Night: Lionel Messi’s (Maybe) Retirement Edition
Lionel Messi, perhaps the best soccer player on the face of this earth announced on Monday, after a crushingly brutal defeat at the hands of the Chilean National Team, that he was planning to retire...
View ArticlePortugal, pressure, and vindication
The victors get to write the history books. When you achieve such a peak of greatness in winning Euro 2016 like Portugal, you have a moment of pause when there’s any questioning of your version of the...
View ArticleBruce Arena’s Steady Hand Has Stabilized US Soccer
You may have heard they are making a young Han Solo movie? Well, they are. It’s coming out next year and expectations are quite high, as they are for any Star Wars movie. But this isn’t any Star Wars...
View ArticleTake/Off | Monday, October 8 | THE NBA OFFSEASON REVIEW EPISODE (and USMNT...
Join No Coast Bias writers Brian Hall and Alex Schubauer as they discuss and debate four of the most important sports and pop culture takes from the last week. Be sure to share your thoughts with them...
View ArticleUSMNT Have No Excuses As They Somehow Fail to Qualify for the World Cup
Lost amid the disbelief, fury, and disappointment of last night was the wildly unfortunate chain of events that led to the unthinkable: The USMNT missing the World Cup for the first time since 1986....
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