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Sporting Kansas City punches ticket for MLS Cup; downs Houston in Eastern Conference final

Sporting Kansas City is going to its third MLS Cup final – and hosting its first, as MLS Cup 2013 comes to Sporting Park:

Frigid temperatures in Kansas City; Coldest MLS match … ever?

It will be the coldest match ever ... regular season or post-season ... since the league began recording temperatures 10 years ago:

NBC’s Kyle Martino talks about tonight’s Kansas City-Houston match

What the NBC analyst had to say ahead of tonight’s match the frigid Midwest:

MLS playoff preview: Houston Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City, a place in MLS Cup at stake

It’s hard to escape the history factor in this series, so recent and so meaningful:

MLS playoffs: Notes on Houston ahead of Saturday’s second leg conference final against Sporting KC

Ahead of Saturday’s second leg of this Eastern Conference finals series, here are the must-knows about Dominic Kinnear’s Houston Dynamo.

MLS playoffs: Notes on Sporting Kansas City ahead of Saturday’s second leg conference final against Houston

Ahead of Saturday’s second leg of this Eastern Conference finals series, here are the must-knows about Peter Vermes’ Sporting KC.

ProSoccerTalk’s MLS awards choices: Rookie of the Year

We continue to roll out our choices for the league’s top defender, top goalkeeper, top rookie, MVP and more:

Real Salt Lake v Seattle Sounders - Western Conference Semifinals

ProSoccerTalk’s MLS awards choices: Goalkeeper of the Year

We continue rolling out our choices for the league’s top defender, top goalkeeper, top rookie, MVP and more:

ProSoccerTalk’s MLS awards choices: Defender of the Year

We begin to roll out our choices for the league’s top defender, top goalkeeper, top rookie, MVP and more:

Next date on your World Cup 2014 calendar: the Dec. 6 draw

Mark your calendar, now that the 32-team field is set … and what else you should know about all this:

Juergen Klinsmann, Aron Johannsson, Brek Shea

Brek Shea must move from Stoke City in January

His World Cup roster chances may well depend on it:

It’s official: Next MLS expansion city is Orlando!

Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber made it official, as Orlando becomes franchise No. 21:

What we learned from United States versus Austria

Topics up for discussion include Jozy Altidore, Aron Johannsson, John Brooks and more:

NBCSN highlights of the United States’ loss to Austria

A goal that wasn’t and a couple of close misses, but Jurgen Klinsmann’s team ends the year with two scoreless nights:

Which United States player helped himself most Tuesday in Austria?

One America player put himself back into the U.S. Best XI conversation once again:

United States finishes 2013 with 1-0 loss at Austria

A good year for the World Cup-bound Americans ends on a downer:

Video as Geoff Cameron scores for the United States! Oh ... wait ... they didn’t count it!

Cameron headed in Michael Bradley’s corner kick in the first half against Austria ... only the referees missed it:

Thoughts on John Brooks, Jozy Altidore and others ahead of U.S. - Austria on Tuesday

Brooks, the German-born U.S. center back, passed the test in his recent U.S. debut. So how about another look Tuesday in Austria?

MLS sets schedule for pre-season Desert Diamond Cup in Arizona

Major League Soccer’s championship remains three weeks from conclusion – but the plans for next year are well underway.

Does Sacha Kljestan deserve a chance in a different position?

Time is running out … and Kljestan is one of the U.S. men who still have some impressing to do:

Bruce Arena, coach of the Los Angeles Ga

Bruce Arena agrees with Jurgen Klinsmann: MLS off-season is too long

Not that anything will necessarily happen, but the leading voices of American soccer are increasingly in league on this one:

United States-Scotland friendly a dour affair, eh? We should have seen that coming

It was a just a friendly. Lots of U.S. attacking might was missing. And lots of players were thinking “Don’t make a mistake!”

Big exhibition crowds in Miami ... but does that mean big things for an MLS expansion club?

Probably not … but it’s certainly not a bad thing:

France v Australia - International Friendly

Can someone explain why a Tim Cahill off-season loan would be a good thing?

This is no young, developing talent we’re talking about here:

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