The favorites, except one, recovered from first match jitters and moved on in CONCACAF qualifying while one team that looked safe after the first round fell on its face and was eliminated. The three four-team groups are set. The top two…

I think everybody expected the U.S. to do a number on Barbados, but getting the first goal in the first minute on the way to an 8-0 win was a good start.

 Elsewhere around CONCACAF, there were three interesting resuilts.…

There has been talk about a team in St. Louis since Dave Checketts has a bunch more open dates to fill now that SLU has left. I’m sure the league will pop back up. You can’t seem to kill off indoor…

Not since the start of MLS changed the look of the tournament has a team from St. Louis taken part in the U.S. Open Cup, but Tony Glavin’s St. Louis Lions qualified over the weekend. The full draw hasn’t been…

I got this from ESPN today, and for those of you have access to ESPN Classic, it might be worth a look:

 Beginning today (Monday, May 26) through Thursday, June 5, ESPN Classic will air a condensed, one-hour version of…

Apparently feeling you can never have too many St. Louis kids — or even more specifically, too many Scott Gallagher kids — New England on Thursday signed Joe Germanese and Brandon Manzonelli to developmental contracts. Germanese went to SLU High…

The two St. Louis players on the New England Revolution, Steve Ralston and Taylor Twellman, both got hurt in their season openers on Saturday. (Correction: Twellman apparently got hurt in practice late last week, but he wasn’t scratched from the…

My old pal Grahame L. Jones of the L.A. Times spoke to MLS Commissioner Don Garber the other day at a business conference in California. For those living in fear that St. Louis is being passed by, Grahame writes:

 St.…

So it will be Barbados facing the United States in Round 2 of World Cup qualifying after the Bajuns (if I remember correctly) knocked off Dominica 1-0, winning their series 2-1 on aggregate. They’ll be playing June 15 in Carson,…

North Carolina women’s coach (and former U.S. women’s coach) Anson Dorrance and Hugo Perez were elected to the Soccer Hall of Fame on Monday. Dorrance got in on the Builders’ ballot, edging out Bruce Arena, and Perez, who played in…