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…

Merritt Paulson, who is leading the drive to get an MLS expansion team in Portland, went to the state legislature yesterday to push a plan for funding for a stadium. And who would pay? The state would take the money…

As a commenter pointed out elsewhere, all of a sudden that Miami MLS expansion bid doesn’t look so sure. At its biannual financial meeting, the powerhouse Spanish club Barcelona that is a key player in the bid is having second…

And then there were five. Sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday — I spent a whole lot of time at the WPS draft — but Atlanta has acknowledged its not going to get an expansion team in 2011. They’re…