A Series of Questions…Answers, Please

I am, officially, going nucking futs in the other space, finally coming good on a concept I’ve wanted to try for a while.   Don’t count on it sticking around, though…I have a lousy record with such things.
What am I doing?  Posing a series of questions that came to me as I watched DC United fail [...]

DCU 1-2 Crew: Adam Moffat’s One-Minute to Redemption

(NOTE: To help people to find our new space, we’ll be cross-posting for a few days.  Below, you’ll see an excerpt to the post I wrote about the Columbus Crew’s shocking - shock…ing - win over DC United.  And I say “shocking” mainly from DC’s perspective.)
“If you’ve ever scored an own-goal - even a play [...]

MLS Week 3 Collective Power Rankings: Seriously, Who the F%#$ Is on Third?

Seeing as we’re in the process of training all readers familiar with this space to follow Center Holds It over to its new digs on BigSoccer, I’m going try to pique your interest by publishing only a teaser from the full Week 3 collective rankings. Well, that and the image I had hoped to [...]

Hello Big Soccer (Resistance Is Futile*)

You may have noticed me griping about lack of time lately; my colleagues, Breton and Ryan, managed to hold their silence…and, it should be noted, their dignity.
A big part of that can be attributed to our decision to change Center Holds It’s (CHI) base of operations. Early last week, we received an invitation to [...]

MLS Week 3 Power Rankings: The Last Shall Be First

(This same post appears on my corner of BigSoccer’s Center Holds It page.)
“Lo, and the first among you shall be second, and the second first. The third only gets show…there’s only so much I can do.”
- God (OK, maybe not). Time, irrelevant.
That was one hell of a no-way weekend. I saw a [...]

MLS Week 3: Black Eyes and Big Ideas

(NOTE: Because the week got off the a god-awful start - and because I further handicapped this young week by drowning it in beer - I have to forgo posting the feature I advertised this morning, “MLS Week #___: Let the Record Show.”  I’ll get this stuff down shortly…promise.  I lieu of that one, I’ll [...]

MLS Week 3 Ink-Blot

The idea behind this is pretty simple: whether you’ve seen the game in question or not, results provoke a gut-level reaction. It can be a “wow,” a “meh,” or even an “I told you, you twit,” but there’s always something. That’s what comes below: a kind of “say the first thing that pops [...]

MLS: Pouring Some Sauce over Week 3

With the ground shifting violently beneath my feet and my hands getting burned by all the pokers I’m pulling from the fire, I thought I’d try to post something saucy, topical, and yet not too complicated. I also wanted it to be useful…you judge the extent to which I succeeded.
As such, below you’ll find [...]

MLS Week 2 Collective Power Rankings

The real pisser about the Major League Soccer (MLS) schedule is the fact that, by the time I get around to posting these on Thursday, some of these calls look silly. I’m thinking here of that #1 ranking for the Kansas City Wizards; I’m guessing that the 8 of 11 pundits who placed KC [...]

CCC08: Done, Dusted…and Ugly…just Ugly

Well, that sucks.  As any who cares by now knows, both of Major League Soccer’s representatives in the CONCACAF Champions Cup have exited the tournament, the Houston Dynamo with a whimper, while DC United went down with fists flying…well, judging by the scoreline at least; I didn’t see the DC game.
Being pressed for time today, [...]