Every year before the MLS Cup, Commissioner Don Garber talks about the state of the league and answers questions from reporters.

On the subject of MLS expansion, he said: ”I know we’ll have 18 teams in 2011. We’re having productive conversastions with Montreal to be No.…

The WPS expansion draft begins at noon today (or so the league website says). There is no live coverage of it. The league will post the results two hours after its conclusion, so the teams involved will have time to…

The expansion draft for Philadelphia and Atlanta is Sept. 15. All teams will loses two players, and some will lose three. Teams can protect 10 players in the first go round, then protect two more after they lose the first,…

I forgot to mention this yesterday and my colleague Bernie Miklasz slipped it into his column this morning, but Soccer America has rated SLU’s recruiting class 10th in the nation. They hadn’t been ranked in the top 10 in the ratings…

The guy who is heading the Las Vegas effort to get an MLS expansion team says he’s still interested and he thinks the city would be a good fit. Las Vegas would need a stadium — I think the only…

On the expansion front, Garber said that it’s not if but when they go from 18 to 20, but they won’t start discussing that until the owners meeting the third week in April. So whether they do it in 2012…

Montreal was one of the candidates for an expansion team at the start of the last round but the league quickly said no. The money in that bid was coming from George Gillett, the part owner of Liverpool and the…

MLS Commissioner Don Garber told me a little while ago that the league will continue to try to steer investors toward Jeff Cooper in an effort to put a team in St. Louis and that having now solidified itself on…

From the official announcement from MLS about the Portland expansion:

Portland completes this round of expansion for MLS, which could expand to 20 teams by 2012 if two additional cities are deemed ready to join.

Does this mean if they had only…

Though everyone is acting cagey about it, unless something really strange happens, Portland will be introduced as the 18th team in Major League Soccer on Friday, joining the league in 2011. Though the league hasn’t confirmed it, all signs point…