RENTON, Wash. — Is it Pete Carroll with the Seahawks? Maybe Don James with UW? Could it be someone who oversaw an Olympic sport, or a high-school hoops team?

Trying to figure out who the best coaches are requires far more nuance and guesswork than ranking the top athletes — and ranking the top athletes is tough enough.

But what if I were ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Will Kuntz's life changed with a letter.

He was a small-college basketball player at Williams College, an even smaller liberal arts college in Massachusetts, when he found himself alone in a dorm room flipping through the school's alumni directory out of sheer boredom. On that list of former Purple Cows — that's the school's ...Read more

CARSON, Calif. — I’m not sure when exactly you’re reading this, but odds are the Galaxy are still scoring.

And I’m not saying one of Greg Vanney’s team’s goals is to score as many goals as there are stars in the Galaxy, but I’m not saying it’s not.

We’ll give them bonus points for that. The first order of business, of course:...Read more

SAN DIEGO — If anyone thinks San Diego Wave FC’s decision to move on from U.S. soccer legend Landon Donovan ended with a bitter aftertaste, he insists that’s not the case.

The Wave announced they would go in a fresh direction after Donovan served as interim coach, taking over a club in free fall after the franchise’s successful debut.

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MIAMI — Inter Miami coach Tata Martino is leaving the club for personal reasons, league sources confirmed. He has a press conference scheduled for Friday to make the announcement alongside team owner Jorge Mas and president of football operations Raul Sanllehi.

Martino, a finalist for MLS Coach of the Year, led Inter Miami to a league-record ...Read more

South Florida soccer fans will get a close-up look at the U.S. men’s national team under new coach Mauricio Pochettino as the USA opens its 2025 schedule with a friendly against Copa America quarterfinalist Venezuela on Jan. 18 at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.

Kickoff will be at 3 p.m., and the match will be broadcast live on TNT, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Grant Hill, the former Orlando Magic star and one of our city’s resident sports icons, started going to Orlando Pride games six or seven years ago because he wanted his daughter and her friends to have athletic role models who they could up look to, emulate and aspire to be someday.

And then Hill and his wife Tamia, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Forty-two million dollars can buy a lot of things, but apparently it can't buy an MLS championship, because for the second time in as many seasons Inter Miami came up short in trying to spend its way to a league title.

This time it was Atlanta United, the lowest seed in the 18-team playoff field, a team that has played the last ...Read more

With next year's World Cup drawing closer, Mauricio Pochettino called up a 25-man roster Sunday for his first competitive games as coach of the men's national soccer team.

The U.S. will face Jamaica in a pair of CONCACAF Nations League quarterfinals, the first on Thursday in Kingston and the second on Nov. 18 in St. Louis. The winner of the two...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — This is not how it was supposed to end, with Lionel Messi and the top-seeded Inter Miami exiting the MLS playoffs in the first round. But that is what happened on a Saturday night that left the home crowd at Chase Stadium stunned and silent.

All the pressure was on Messi and Inter Miami as they tried to keep their ...Read more

MIAMI — It all comes down to this for Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates: Beat Atlanta United at home Saturday night and advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals, as expected, or exit in the first round in what would be perceived as a massive failure for the most-hyped and highest-paid team in league history.

Miami entered the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Union have fired manager Jim Curtin, the team announced Thursday.

The Oreland, Pa., native’s 10 years in charge made him the longest-tenured manager by far in Union history, and the second-longest-tenured in Major League Soccer through this past season. This year ended with the team’s first failure to make the playoffs ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Anyone who remembers Alexi Lalas from his playing days remembers the unruly shoulder-length red hair, thin headband and bushy goatee. They remember him traveling across Europe carrying little more than a backpack and guitar.

He was soccer's version of Bill Walton, minus the tie-dyed T-shirts and penchant for listening to the ...Read more

MIAMI — Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates were considered locks to advance from the opening round of the MLS playoffs. They had secured the Supporters’ Shield in record-breaking form, racking up more points than any team in league history. Their 79 goals were the most in the league, by far.

Messi was coming off back-to-back hat ...Read more

Tata Martino addressed the Neymar-to-Inter Miami rumors Friday morning, as his team prepared to travel for Saturday’s playoff game against Atlanta United.

Speculation that the Brazilian superstar might someday join former Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba intensified this week after Neymar bought a ...Read more

ATLANTA — The clock is ticking down for Atlanta United. Its season of underachievement and disappointment may be reduced to one final match, Saturday against uber-team Inter Miami at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Saturday is Game 2 of the best-of-three series of the Eastern Conference playoffs. Atlanta United is down 1-0, and only a magnificent ...Read more

MIAMI — When Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates arrive at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday for Game 2 in their first-round MLS playoff series, they should be prepared to find a fired-up crowd of 70,000 fans and a fearless, upset-minded opponent.

Atlanta United opened the stadium to full capacity for the game, anticipating ...Read more