Cardboard Soccer, Part 2: Collectors vs. Investors

Nothing here is ever legal or investing advice... but I can tell you what I think you should do.

The second-half Loons might be a good team with bad results

The underlying numbers say that the Loons have played well post-World Cup. But the results don't begin to match.

Free Headers: Dominik Fitz goes to Austria, Maurice Malone arrives from Austria, Duggan and Diaz extend contracts (not in Austria)

Minnesota's moves are one loan out, one signing in, and two contract extensions.

Hank Stebbins steps into interim CSO role for MNUFC - with an almost impossible degree of difficulty

This is probably not how Hank Stebbins wanted to get a top job in MLS - but now, the interim Chief Soccer Officer has to steer the MNUFC ship.

"He's got a big future": Fanendo Adi is helping Marcus Caldeira shoot to the forefront for MNUFC

MNUFC2 head coach Fanendo Adi was the right coach in the right place at the right time, for Loons striker Marcus Caldeira.

The negative Loons narrative is impossible to ignore

One of the more difficult parts of sportswriting is trying to fit single, discrete events into a larger narrative arc. It's why we write so often about streaks and runs; it makes every particular event part of a larger whole, and therefore part of the story we are

Free Headers: MNUFC celebrates Team of the Decade as they take on (mumbles vaguely)

The Loons take on Atlanta - and celebrate ten years as a club.

A genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car striker controversy

Marcus Caldeira keeps making things happen.... and now, he's given the MNUFC coaching staff something to think about.

Aziel Jackson returns to Minnesota - older, and perhaps ready for more

Aziel Jackson returns to Minnesota, in a reversal of a departure than many fans didn't love in the first place.

All they need is more: Pereyra drives long-awaited Loons victory

Joaquín Pereyra pushed Minnesota to its first victory in months, outlining just how important he - and players like him - are to the Loons.

Cardboard Soccer, Part 1: A History of Sports Cards, For Old People Like Me

If you're old enough to be thinking colonoscopy, here's how sports cards have changed since you were a kid

Is the Leagues Cup providing value for fans?

A good performance for the Loons - overshadowed by the (lack of) occasion.