My personal opinion on this game was that it was the best showing—two sloppy defensive errors notwithstanding—that the Legion has produced all season. Most notably, the team was playing in a way that ...
All told, this was exactly the kind of Legion game we were promised with the new management. That is, except for the two goals allowed. Mark Briggs continues to focus on eliminating defensive errors b...
The most obvious thing that will jump out at you from this week’s Power Rankings is the big jump the Legion took. Surprising? Perhaps. But consider: in the last 5 games only one team has fewer l...
So, we missed 5 Legion games while we were out running around Europe. In those 5 games the Legion allowed just 3 goals (not including the PK shootout). Which is good, of course, and a significant impr...
We’re back from our European vacation and desperately trying to catch up on a lot of things, not to mention getting over jet lag. In all we were absent for 5 Legion games over 18 days—a pretty b...
Tonight (7:00pm, ESPN+) the Three Sparks will face off against Mark Briggs’ old team, Sacramento Republic, to start a double-game week, with the Oakland Roots coming to Proretive Saturday. Which...
Just a quickie rankings post this week; we’ve got a lot going on and just a couple of days to do it (more on that Wednesday). That being said, there was quite a bit to unwrap in this week’...
Tomorrow it will have been ten days since the very disappointing loss to Indy Eleven; a trip up to Louisville (Saturday, 7:00pm, ESPN+) will test the team’s mettle and mindset considerably. The ...
A full slate of games this week resulted in relatively few surprising scores and thus a fairly stable week in the rankings. Note that the 3 games played last week in what was primarily a Jägermeister ...
Tonight’s game against Indy Eleven (7:00pm, ESPN+) is a key matchup in the tightly contested midsection of the Eastern Conference. The Legion has a 2-point advantage over Indy but has played one more ...