Miami had everything in place to finish 2024: Messi, a stellar squad and the platform of an exemplary regular season which no other club matched. The stars were aligning. Maybe it felt too easy.

It remains to be seen whether MLS will budge on its postseason format after Miami and Messi were bounced in the opening stage. Alba's comments about the format were spot on but it doesn't help that ...

More than half of the monkeys that escaped a primate research facility last week in South Carolina have been recaptured, ...