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KNOXVILLE, Iowa – Axalta will serve as the primary sponsor of David Gravel and the Jason Johnson Racing No. 41 sprint car during the NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals.
Representatives from the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series team made the official announcement on JJR’s Twitter page late Monday morning.
The news was first revealed by Adam Stern of the Sports Business Journal.
Per Stern, Axalta joins the JJR organization on the advice of retired four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, who was backed by Axalta throughout his NASCAR career and raced sprint cars before moving to stock cars in the early 1990s.
Gravel moved over to JJR this season from CJB Motorsports, and the pairing has produced impressive results through the first half of the season.
Driving the No. 41, Gravel has earned four wins, 23 top-five and 32 top-10 finishes in 41 feature starts through July 22. His most recent victory came on July 12 at Hartford (Mich.) Speedway.
Jason Johnson Racing won the Knoxville Nationals in 2016, with late team owner and namesake Jason Johnson holding off modern-era Outlaw kingpin Donny Schatz for the win.
Meanwhile, Gravel put up a perfect score of 500 points during his Knoxville preliminary night in 2017, but an engine failure during the championship feature left him unable to claim the $150,000 top prize.
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CONCORD, N.C. — Another Indy 500 has come and gone and I am convinced THE RACE is back to the all-caps version I lived as a kid.
That is, THE RACE means the Indy 500, not any other (lowercase) race, for now and for all time.
For most of my life, that event has been among the brightest of lights for me. It was on par with Christmas, my birthday and basketball state championships (I am a Hoosier, by the grace of God).
Amid the past troubles with the formation of CART, the subsequent outing of USAC, the formation of the IRL, which morphed into IndyCar, there were some lean years for the 500, which resulted in the de-capitalization of the word race.
No longer.
It’s as if I blinked and the 500-Mile Race reappeared, in all its glory and portent, the same way it had been when I started attending during the 1970s.
Now, Indy 500 purists (and I count myself one) have differing opinions of the event. Some like it, some tolerate it and some outright despise it, for his or her own reasons. I never despised it, regardless of some ham-handedness from certain parties, but there were a few years when the interest factor waned a bit.
I always paid attention and always watched the race, usually from Charlotte Motor Speedway, seeing as how I worked in NASCAR at the time.
The past five or so races? They were for sure and certain the pure quill.
This year’s race was gold, too. Simon Pagenaud owned the month, but Alexander Rossi’s ride amid the Red Mist was the stuff of legends, harking back to stirring drives by guys such as A.J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Gordon Johncock and Mario Andretti. He fell a few feet short, but the show was one for the ages.
Pagenaud became the first French driver to win since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House (1920, to be exact) and he did it with a gritty drive of his own. He was on a mission, too, leading more than half the race to earn his likeness on the Borg-Warner Trophy.
The racing was better too, these past four or five years, than at any time since the heyday of the 1970s and 1980s. At no time was any driver just a mortal lock to cross the finish line three-quarters of a lap ahead of the runner-up. The formula seems to be working in terms of competition and the new cars look damned smart.
I love the fact that the drivers, from the oldest driver in the field down to the kids just out of high school, can point these missiles where they need to go and generally don’t cause the kinds of stupid wrecks we’ve seen in years past.
The pageantry was spectacular as always and I thought NBC did justice to the pomp and ceremony the way ABC had done for many years. The flyover was by-God wonderful, too, though I wonder how the F-15 was able to hang low and slow with the other planes.
Feelings are fleeting at times and difficult to describe at others. There’s an essence about Indy for me that had been, if not missing, then not nearly as evident as it was for the past 40 years. That essence was in full bloom and glory this year and it was a wondrous feeling.
I’ve often said the Indy 500 is the race of all races, the Boss Daddy of all motorized contests the world over. It was when I was a kid, it was when I was a young man and it has returned to its unquestioned position atop the motorsports mountain.
Sure, there aren’t any more Unsers, Foyts or Rutherfords in the field and Tony Hulman has been gone since 1977. Most of the people I knew from my earliest days at the speedway are either gone or no longer involved, and it was the people who made it great.
But this past May, at The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, I could feel them all watching and smiling and clapping and shaking their heads at the race that was put on that day.
The all-caps version of THE RACE was back, and it appears that it will remain in all caps for the foreseeable future.
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LONG POND, Pa. – The nickname for Pocono Raceway – the Tricky Triangle – is a cute and fitting slogan.
It might win the overly obvious award because the speedway’s triangular layout is indeed tricky for drivers and teams alike.
For the drivers in Friday’s FortsUSA 150 at Pocono, the track’s three distinct corners present a challenge. Each has a different radius, a different degree of banking, and a different way to approach each one. For some drivers, the best way to approach the track’s challenging turns is to use skills from road racing.
On a road course, every one of each circuit’s turns is vastly different. The same thing goes for Pocono, except there are no turns to the right. So drivers with a little road racing expertise may have a slight advantage over the competition.
At least that’s what Michael Self is hoping.
Self, who has a 90-point lead in the ARCA Menards Series championship standings over second-place Bret Holmes, made the transition to stock cars after starting his career in road racing. Although he doesn’t compete regularly in sports car events on road courses, he’s still an active driver coach. He recently guided recent Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series winner Justin Haley to the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East championship and assisted Haley when he raced in the SCCA Trans-Am TA2 Series.
Even with expertise that other drivers don’t have, Self and his Venturini Motorsports team led by veteran crew chief Shannon Rursch found the Tricky Triangle to be just that.
“This year the biggest challenge we had the first time we were there was setup,” Self said. “We fought it all weekend long before we had a mechanical issue with the car. As far as driver goes, Pocono is very demanding. It’s very disciplined. It’s easy to over drive even though it’s so big. You can bite yourself really badly and not even realize you’re doing it until you watch video or on Dartfish.”
Dartfish is a program that allows a driver and team to overlay video of two laps to make a direct comparison. Self and his team use it extensively and it helped him figure out the best way to handle Pocono as a driver.
“On test day I was over driving it really bad,” he said. “I watched the Dartfish video and decided that I was going to calm down and we went out and finished third that day.”
Self can pinpoint exactly why that road racing background helps him in his quest to score a victory at Pocono.
“The variety of corners you get in road racing, every corner is different,” he said. “It’s the same at Pocono. You expect something different every time. The techniques you use in road racing, wanting to be back on the throttle early, that applies. The discipline it takes to be good at road racing applies as well.”
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For Lowry, nothing like sharing victory with daughter Iris
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Golf
Monday, 22 July 2019 02:00
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – It’s not often you see a player celebrate – actually celebrate victory – in the middle of the 18th fairway of a tournament.
Most players, no matter what their advantage, will wait until the final putt has dropped before they pump their fists and accept their hugs.
Not Shane Lowry. The Irishman enjoyed every second of his triumphant walk up the final hole at Royal Portrush. He raised his arms in the air and grabbed hold of his caddie, Bo Martin.
Afterwards, when the final putt did fall and the claret jug was his, Lowry soaked in the crowd’s adulation. He kissed his wife and hugged family members. He accepted congratulations from friends and fellow major champions Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington.
But there was nothing like embracing his daughter, 2-year-old Iris, on the 18th green.
“My wife knew no matter what to have her there waiting for me, because if things didn't go to plan, at least she would have consoled me a little bit,” Lowry said. “To have her there, winning, obviously it's very special.”
This is Lowry’s second win of the season that he’s got to enjoy with Iris, the first coming in January at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship. She ran onto the final green then, an image captured by photographers and cherished by Shane and his wife, Wendy.
“I'll be able to show her, she'll be able to see those pictures in years to come and it will be a nice memory to have,” he said.
While Iris might not remember either of the two celebrations, Lowry expects her to have plenty more opportunities to share such moments with Dad.
“Look, I'm going to be coming back on another 27 Opens to play,” he said with a laugh. “She's going to be nearly 30 when I play my last one. That's going to be nice.”
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Lowry couldn't get 'shank' guy out of his mind on first hole
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Monday, 22 July 2019 02:49
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Shane Lowry couldn’t stop thinking of Andrew Morris this week, and not for any reason that will excite Mr. Morris.
Addressing the media after his Open Championship win Sunday night, Lowry heard the following from a reporter: “You won the North of Ireland Amateur Championship here (at Royal Portrush) in 2008. You actually beat a friend of mine in the final. I'm just wondering …”
Lowry interjected.
“I couldn't stop thinking about him all week, because he shanked his tee shot out of bounds on the first. That's all I could think about on the first hole,” Lowry said, eliciting laughter from the entire room.
“He's going to kill me for that.”
The out-of-bounds stakes that line both sides of the first hole on the Dunluce Links received plenty of attention this week and fielded plenty of golf balls. Rory McIlroy threw away his Open hopes with his very first tee shot of the week, and both Rickie Fowler and J.B. Holmes went OB in the third- and second-to-last groups on Sunday.
Lowry flirted with the left boundary himself in the final round before his ball harmlessly came to rest in the rough.
The reporter later assured Lowry, perhaps sarcastically, that Morris would be delighted Lowry “remembered him, anyway.”
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By the numbers: Royal Portrush proves a worthy Open host
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Monday, 22 July 2019 01:04
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Royal Portrush returned to The Open rota for the first time since 1951 and proved itself a worthy host. Here is a breakdown of how it played last week during the 148th playing of The Open.
• The scoring average for the week on the par-71 layout was 72.175. J.B. Holmes’ final-round 87 was the highest round and winner Shane Lowry’s third-round 63 was the lowest.
• Both sides played virtually the same with the first nine holes averaging 36.159. The second nine holes played 36.015 even though it had the four most difficult holes of the week on that side.
• The par-4 11th hole was the most difficult hole of the week, playing to a 4.352 scoring average. The hole gave up 141 bogeys and 21 double bogeys. The next hole, the par-5 12th was the easiest at 4.664. There were eight eagles and 188 birdies there for the week.
• There were actually more eagles (11) on the par-5 seventh hole than there were on the 12th hole. The seventh hole was the third easiest hole of the week.
• In total, there were 32 eagles, 1,339 birdies, 5,180 pars, 1,493 bogeys, 164 double bogeys and 36 others for the week.
• Even though the par-4 opening hole was a brute, more people hit that fairway than any other hole (71.6 percent). The par-4 17th hole was the hardest fairway to hit, as only 38.4 percent of the field hit it.
• It makes sense that the three par 5s had the highest percentage of greens hit in regulation. The par-4 14th hole (the second most difficult hole of the week) only saw 31.7 percent of the field find the green.
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Cowen called it: 'Little fat lad with the glasses' grabs claret jug
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Monday, 22 July 2019 01:53
Not everyone saw Shane Lowry’s major breakthrough Sunday at Royal Portrush coming. Even Lowry, with a four-shot lead on the morning of the final round of the 148th Open, questioned whether or not he had what it took to hoist the claret jug.
But one person who did forecast Lowry achieving great heights was instructor Pete Cowen.
Talking to Golf Digest after Lowry's Open victory, Cowen recalled a story of when he first saw Lowry swing a club. The introduction came many years ago, when Lowry was just a teenager on the Irish Boys squad. Cowen was asked to drop by a practice and spend some time with the young players.
Irish coaches were particularly interested to hear what Cowen thought about their young prodigy, Rory McIlroy. And Cowen confirmed to them what they wanted to hear.
“Rory’s going to be great,” Cowen told them – and McIlroy has been, winning four majors and spending considerable time at No. 1 in the world.
Only Cowen wasn’t done.
“But there’s another good one out there,” Cowen continued. “The little fat lad with the glasses.”
That was Lowry, who now at age 32 is a major champion.
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Real Madrid would be willing to let Gareth Bale leave this summer to go to China for free, as they look to unblock a tense situation at the Bernabeu, a source at the club has told ESPN FC.
Zinedine Zidane said on Sunday it would be "best for everyone" if the Wales international left "soon," to which the player's agent Jonathan Barnett responded by calling the Frenchman "a disgrace" -- adding: "If and when Gareth goes, it will be because it is in the best interest of Gareth and nothing to do with Zidane pushing."
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To resolve the issue, Madrid are willing to tear up the remaining three years of Bale's contract if he moves to China as a last resort because no European team has made any offer to sign the 30-year-old this summer, the club source said.
Jiangsu Suning and Beijing Guoan are the Chinese clubs reportedly interested in matching Bale's €17 million-a-season net wages -- and getting him off the payroll now would mean a saving for Madrid of around €100m over the next three years.
Barnett would not comment to ESPN FC on whether his client would be open to a move to China. Bale did not feature in the match squad as Madrid began their International Champions Cup schedule with a 3-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in Houston on Saturday.
The Madrid source told ESPN FC that the player had asked not to play while his exit was being managed, and Zidane was "tired" of Bale's behaviour as he had "not focused on anything" during the team's time in North America so far. However, Barnett denied to ESPN FC that a request had been made to sit out the ICC game.
Reports in the media that Bale could move to Paris Saint-Germain as part of a swap deal for Neymar are not being taken seriously at the Bernabeu, the Madrid source said.
Jiangsu Suning are owned by Chinese billionaire Zhang Jindong, whose Suning Sports holding group purchased a majority stake in Inter Milan in 2016.
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MLS Power Rankings: LAFC top despite Ibra dominating El Trafico
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Monday, 22 July 2019 07:16
"I have a lot of respect for [Carlos] Vela," Zlatan Ibrahimovic said after scoring a hat trick and leading the Galaxy to a win over LAFC on Friday. "He's a good player but you made one mistake: You compared him with me. That was your biggest mistake. I believe in myself. People call it arrogant, I call it confidence. Ignorant people call it arrogant, intelligent people call it confidence."
Here at the Power Rankings, we also believe in ourselves. Our rankings are perfect and unimpeachable. Don't compare us to other rankings. That would be a big mistake.
Ignorant people would call it arrogance, but intelligent people know it's confidence. It's ranking time.
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1. LAFC (14 wins, 4 draws, 3 losses)
Previous ranking: 1
Next MLS match: Friday vs. Atlanta (10 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN Deportes)
Welp. Last week, the narrative was that LAFC was an unstoppable juggernaut charging toward a double haul of trophies on the back of a record-breaking attack led by Vela. This week, the narrative is that LAFC can't win big games and might be in store for a playoff meltdown. El Trafico caused some whiplash.
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Zlatan steals the show with hat trick in El Trafico
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's dominance continued versus Carlos Vela's LAFC as his hat trick lifted LA Galaxy to a 3-2 win in El Trafico.
2. San Jose Earthquakes (10-4-7)
Previous ranking: 3
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Colorado (10 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The "New Almeydians" won again, picking up their fifth victory in their last six games. The stats on the Quakes' bombardment of their last two opponents, at LA and Vancouver, is stunning: 32 shots in each game for a two-game combined total of 64. The Galaxy and Whitecaps? They managed 11 shots combined.
3. Philadelphia Union (11-6-6)
Previous ranking: 2
Next MLS match: Saturday at Montreal (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
One thing the Union haven't really had during their run and stay at the top of the Eastern Conference is big goals from Marco Fabian. The Mexican DP scored an absolute banger in the win over Chicago on Saturday; if he can do that regularly, it could carry Philly through the balance of the season.
4. New York City FC (8-8-3)
Previous ranking: 4
Next MLS match: Friday vs. Sporting KC (7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Winning in Colorado is never easy, even when the Rapids are bad and have a man sent off. NYCFC did what was necessary to secure three road points this weekend and can still point to having several games in hand as a reason to believe that big move up the table is still in the offing.
5. Minnesota United (10-4-7)
Previous ranking: 5
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Vancouver Whitecaps (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
A draw in Utah slowed the Loons down a bit, but they remain in impressive flight with a five-game unbeaten streak. Other teams in playoff contention have found the going tough at Rio Tinto and no one in MLS -- much less Minnesota United, striving for a first-ever playoff spot -- will look a road point in the mouth.
6. Atlanta United (11-3-8)
Previous ranking: 11
Next MLS match: Friday at LAFC (10 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN Deportes)
It was a very good week for the Five Stripes and not just because they picked up six points and pulled into second place. Sunday's win over DC United featured something rarely seen in 2019: a good game from Pity Martinez. A goal and an assist as a sub against DC might be the spark that lights the fire that changes everything.
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Pity Martinez makes his mark in Atlanta win vs. D.C.
Pity Martinez came off the bench to score a late winner and assist a brilliant Josef Martinez goal as Atlanta United beat D.C. United.
7. New England Revolution (8-6-8)
Previous ranking: 6
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Orlando (7 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The Revs ran through the Whitecaps 4-0 in midweek and FC Cincinnati 2-0 on Sunday, extending the post-coaching-change unbeaten run to 10 in the process. Bruce Arena himself is 5-2-0 as New England's boss, taking 17 of a possible 21 points during the stretch. Never doubt The Bruce.
8. LA Galaxy (12-1-8)
Previous ranking: 9
Next MLS match: Saturday at Portland (10:30 p.m. ET)
An admission: Your humble neighborhood power ranker fell victim to one of the classic blunders ahead of the season's first El Trafico. The most well known is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is "never bet against Zlatan when bragging rights are on the line."
9. Seattle Sounders (10-5-6)
Previous ranking: 7
Next MLS match: Sunday at Houston (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
There can't really be any takeaways from the Sounders' home loss to the Timbers. Seattle got beat, but the nature of the rivalry -- physical, ugly and stretching the definition of "soccer" -- makes it tough to draw any conclusions. A couple of misses changed the game.
10. FC Dallas (9-5-8)
Previous ranking: 8
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Real Salt Lake (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Based on what we know so far, FC Dallas figures to be fighting tooth-and-nail with a handful of other teams in the West for one of the final few playoff spots. That's why wins like this past Saturday's, on the road over Sporting Kansas City, are so important. The time of playoff six-pointers is practically here and next week's tilt against RSL will have that feel.
11. New York Red Bulls (10-4-8)
Previous ranking: 10
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Columbus (8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The Red Bulls lost a frustrating game in Toronto in midweek and bounced back with a narrow road win over Orlando on Sunday. Amid the rumors that European clubs are eyeing Aaron Long and the continuing struggles of juggling a busy schedule, the three points in Florida feel big.
12. Portland Timbers (8-4-8)
Previous ranking: 15
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. LA Galaxy (10:30 p.m. ET)
Cascadia belongs to the Timbers. At least for now and thanks to Brian Fernandez. The Argentine rides a fine line between disruptive and irresponsible, but he also scores goals. The two Fernandez scored at CenturyLink Field to lead the Timbers to a win were his seventh and eighth goals in nine games.
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Fernandez double leads Timbers past Sounders
Brian Fernandez found the net twice to lead Portland to a 2-1 win past rival Seattle at CenturyLink Field.
13. D.C. United (9-8-6)
Previous ranking: 12
Next MLS match: Saturday at Chicago (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
United won in Cincinnati in midweek, but decide to give Wayne Rooney a rest in Sunday's match against Atlanta. The loss against the champs brought about an event that seemed a long time coming: the Black & Red dropping out of second place in the Eastern Conference.
14. Colorado Rapids (5-5-11)
Previous ranking: 13
Next MLS match: Saturday at San Jose (10 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Someone hit the brakes on the Rapids after a seven-game unbeaten run that gave them a tiny bit of hope that they could salvage their season. Now winless in three (a draw in Portland was a decent result), reality has settled back in, embodied by the strange debut of teenager Sebastian Anderson, who scored a goal and received a straight red in the first 33 minutes.
15. Real Salt Lake (9-3-9)
Previous ranking: 17
Next MLS match: Saturday at FC Dallas (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
RSL followed an impressive win over Philadelphia last week with 1-1 draw against Minnesota this past Saturday. The vagaries of MLS -- what came easily last week was difficult this week -- hit Real Salt Lake harder than most teams. The margins are small each and every time they step on the field.
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Silva salvages point for RSL against Minnesota
Marcelo Silva forced a sharing of the spoils after finding the net late and securing a 1-1 draw for RSL against Minnesota United.
16. Montreal Impact (9-3-11)
Previous ranking: 14
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Philadelphia (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Playing patsy to the Crew is a bad look these days. Even with the Impact near the top of the Eastern Conference standings, it was hard not to think they were a poor team masquerading as a contender. Saturday's loss sent them tumbling down the standings. Don't expect them to climb back up.
17. Orlando City (7-5-10)
Previous ranking: 16
Next MLS match: Saturday at New England (7 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The Lions ground out a road result in Portland on Wednesday, then fell to the Red Bulls back in Orlando on Sunday. The latter was just cruel: Orlando City hit the woodwork three different times while chasing the game in the second half. Orlando continues to cycle through wins, losses and draws just enough to stay mired outside of the playoffs spots.
18. Houston Dynamo (9-3-9)
Previous ranking: 18
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. Seattle (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The Dynamo broke an eight-game road losing streak with a win at BMO Field thanks in part to some lineup rotation by the Reds. No one in orange will care much for the hows and whys of the victory; just getting on the right side of the ledger was crucial following a period of six losses in seven games.
19. Toronto FC (8-5-9)
Previous ranking: 20
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. FC Cincinnati (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Greg Vanney's team scored an Eastern Conference win on Wednesday against New York, but dropped three points at home to the Dynamo. The Reds haven't been out of second gear all season and it's almost starting to look like they don't have a higher one to shift to.
20. Sporting Kansas City (6-7-8)
Previous ranking: 19
Next MLS match: Friday at NYCFC (7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
A picture says a thousand words, like Seth Sinovic's hand-to-head moment when his pass back to Gianluca Busio missed the midfielder and ended up allowing Michael Barrios to set up Dominique Badji for FC Dallas's first goal Saturday. Most of the words said by that picture are of the four-letter variety.
21. Chicago Fire (5-8-10)
Previous ranking: 21
Next MLS match: Saturday vs. DC United (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The Fire played in a sauna in Chester and fell to the Union 2-0. Dax McCarty and Nicolas Gaitan missed out, a circumstance that certainly hurt Chicago but saved the two veterans from playing in the greenhouse. Did we mention that it was really hot in Chester?
22. FC Cincinnati (5-2-15)
Previous ranking: 23
Next MLS match: Saturday at Toronto FC (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
Last week in this space, we gave FC Cincinnati credit for putting together its second winning streak of the year and wondered if the team could extend it to season-best three games. This week, we must sadly report that FC Cincinnati is back on a losing streak. Ouch.
23. Columbus Crew (6-3-14)
Previous ranking: 24
Next MLS match: Saturday at Red Bulls (8:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
An unbeaten two-game week for the Crew is something to celebrate in Columbus, with a weekend win over Montreal breaking an epic winless run. The last time Columbus won a game, bread was 89 cents a loaf and Ace of Base topped the charts. It feels like it, anyway.
24. Vancouver Whitecaps (4-8-11)
Previous ranking: 22
Next MLS match: Saturday at Minnesota (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+)
The 'Caps are still looking for answers in the middle of a tough stretch of games coming one on top of the next. Marc Dos Santos summed it up after Saturday's loss to San Jose by saying, "Right now, we're in a bad moment." Marc Dos Santos is prone to understatement.
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