Daniel Harris is a writer, in shorter-form and about sport, mainly for The Guardian. His most recent book, The Promised Land, tells the story of Manchester United's treble season, and he can be found on Twitter @DanielHarris.

One of the guys in the analyst booth, Argentina's Santiago Solari, also played college here before spending most of his career with Real Madrid. College soccer has made more stars than MLS has.

I disagree, I think the ref got it right. Players got tangled up a bit and we're a little naughty, yellow cards is the right call.

Given where the Cup is being held, the players should be grateful there's any turf on the pitch at all.

OVER 2.5 goals for the US is a lock and basically a license to print money.

I wish instead of the music he had included Victor Morales famous call of Maradona's goal:

Thats kind of the point, true analysis is handicapping not just the chances but how they could win. I think Deadspin is doing a great job here

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Vince Wilfork: Out (Ribs)

MLB sends over the following:

Nothing better explains the abject mediocrity that has been USMNT soccer the past decade than the fact that Landon Donovan was considered its best player. Except maybe the fact that his departure is considered anything other than a very good thing for the future of the USMNT.

I was there 4 years ago when Donovan smacked in the rebound vs Algeria . It was an amazing moment and I will forever remember him as a great player. BUT that was four years ago he is now a out of shape over 30 who has half-heartedly played for the last few years in a pedestrian MLS and made the occasional appearance…

Time to embrace the era of Julian Green and Aaron Johannsson attacking from the wings.

this is the squad that will shock the world when they beat Germany. Just you watch. Julian Green will show shades of Michael Owen in France 98.

Your comment is hilarious and it is the reason people come to Deadspin. But your comment cannot be the #1 highlighted comment, as there was a guy complaining about his team's bad luck, and, well... he posted 3 minutes earlier than you and has garnered more replies. So, fuck your comment.

That's the one thing holding us back from getting it. I hated the design they came up with during remodeling. Not only does it look stupid from the outside, its the smallest stadium in one of the best football markets in the NFL. There's not a chance in hell that we get it with a capacity of 60,000. Maybe they can add…

None of those teams did it in one year, and none were coming from 7th place. Being out of the Champions League, as it did to City, will force them to overpay for second-tier players. Fitting a large group of new players into a reliable system will also take time (e.g., Tottenham). Money gets results, but jumping…

As promised, an update; I woke up to several angry emails from Phil this morning.