Good morning all. With the second off day of Euro 2008 upon us, and MLS action still two days away, it's a relatively slow day on the news front so I'll get the day started with another portion of the most recent Q&A. Here are some more answers to questions asked earlier this month (the last portion of these will be done later today). Enjoy.Ives Galarcep

Good afternoon folks. Apologies for the lack of posts this morning but I have been at Red Bulls training at Giants Stadium. Some interesting tidbits from here that I will post in a bit.What I was able to get done today was the rest of the Q&A session from a few weeks ago. It took a while but I was able to polish them off today.So here they are, they rest of your questions answered:---------------------ADAM- Any idea how serious NYRB will take the Carolina RailHawks game, considering it's their last game before MLS?  read more »

Managing your fantasy team is getting tougher and tougher. With vacations and erratic MLS scheduling converging to leave you scurrying to set your lineup, some of you (like me) have thrown in the towel and started to look ahead to the EPL fantasy season for some redemption. That doesn't go for all of you. Some of you are still fighting the good fight in the MLS Fantasy Game and you survivors deserve some help.  read more »

(With Fantasy MLS growing more and more popular, I figured it was time to incorporate a segment to help provide SBI readers with some insight into the fantasy game. Stephen Zaffuto will serve as the SBI Fantasy MLS expert and give us his weekly take on the action in the official MLS Fantasy Game .  read more »

UPDATE: This list has been updated to include the just released salaries of Kansas City's Claudio Lopez and Toronto FC's Laurent Robert. (Dropped from the list are Ante Razov (21) and Ronnie O'Brien.(22) Older version of the list is here.

Also the list of celebrity MLS fans has been updated here.  read more »

While MLS is not the English Premier League, that hasn't stopped a few players from making a tidy bit of coin and greenbacks.

Here is the 2008 MLS Rich List.

Top 20 Guaranteed Compensation  read more »

The title of this post refers to the age of a player for a particular season. I set a specific age for a player in each season, which is something commonly done on baseball sites. That way, you can look at a player's stats and say, ok, he was 22 during that year. Then you can easily compare his age 22 year to those of other players. And it's also way easier than actually figuring out the exact numbers for the time the player actually was 22 years old.

I used July 1st as the cutoff date. That's the date used in baseball since it's about the halfway point of MLB, and that's pretty much the case in MLS as well (it was July 5th this year). So whatever age the player is on July 1st, then that's the age I counted the player as for the lists below.

This post will list the top ten goalscorers for each age. Only regular season goals are counted. If a player played for two teams in that season, then the team listed should be the one where he scored more goals.  read more »

Chivas USA: *Lost yet again Tuesday in the U.S. Open Cup (and for the second successive year) against the USL Seattle Sounders, falling 2-0 in the Pacific Northwest. *Had the experienced likes of Claudio Surez, Jesse Marsch, Carey Talley and Francisco Mendoza on the bench. Striker Ante Razov and defender Bobby Burling (Loyola Marymount) remained in Southern California after picking up minor knocks over the weekend. *Has won only one U.S. Open Cup game in five attempts - against USL-2 team Charlotte Eagles. Game story here.  read more »

It had the makings of a tightly-contested rivalry match.  read more »

The first weekend of the Major League Soccer season provided plenty of entertainment, excitement and storylines for the future as new stars emerged and improved teams showed that they are ready to shake up the pecking order in MLS. You had the New England Revolution playing without Taylor Twellman and still thrashing defending champion Houston. You had the Wizards outplaying the revamped D.C. United team that so many have pegged for greatness. Then you also had the Los Angeles Galaxy being ripped apart by a Colorado squad that looked like world-beaters against the Galaxy's putrid defense. Yes, it is only...Ives Galarcep