D.C. United split last week's two road games, losing to San Jose while beating Toronto. more ›

D.C. United fans, break out the champagne glasses: we've got a winning streak on our hands! The hometown team handed the Houston Dynamo a 3-2 defeat on Saturday night at RFK. more ›

Maybe New York forgot to imbibe the energy drink that is its team's namesake, because D.C. United handed its rivals from up north a 4-1 defeat at RFK on Sunday. more ›

In honor of Sunday's matchup between D.C. United and the New York Red Bulls at RFK Stadium, our resident soccer writer decided to extend the heated rivalry and engage in some pre-game trash talkin' with his New York-based colleague. more ›

After putting forth a subpar first half effort against a clearly inferior opponent, D.C. United may find last night's tie with expansion Montreal Impact much more frustrating than either of their two losses this year. On a damp evening, a small crowd of 10,000 at RFK Stadium saw the hometown team struggle to a 1-1 draw, a troubling sign ahead of Sunday's matchup against rival New York Red Bulls. more ›

Last Friday, four D.C. United players wore hooded sweatshirts during pre-game introductions in solidarity with Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer while wearing a hooded sweatshirt. We spoke to two of them about it. more ›

For the first time since last September, D.C. United won a game—and did so convincingly, routing FC Dallas 4-1 at RFK Stadium Friday evening. more ›

D.C. United fans, step away from the ledge. For now. The black and red ground out its first point of the season Saturday night in a hard-fought 0-0 draw on the road in Vancouver. more ›

On Saturday, over 16,000 fans hoped to see a newly revamped D.C. United upset Sporting Kansas City. What they got instead was a DCU that seemed to pick up right where it left off last season—giving up a goal in the 93rd minute and leaving the pitch without any points. more ›

With last year's late-season meltdown on their minds and their first march scheduled for late February, D.C. United players braved the cold this past week for their first pre-season training sessions of 2012. more ›

Just in case you thought Major League Soccer was not-too-serious about helping to facilitate D.C. United's exit from Washington -- even though they've been surveying Baltimore residents about potentially relocating United to the city -- well, think again. more ›

In fairness, the frantic final minutes of the last meaningful match D.C. United will play in 2011 was a microcosm of the season as a whole: promising and full of chances, but inevitably disappointing. more ›

Maybe it's just destiny. Maybe this D.C. United squad just isn't meant to be playing into the postseason. While I hate to be pessimistic about the squad's chances to break a years-long playoff drought this year, it's hard not to think such things after what happened in the waning moments of Saturday night's match. more ›

Is there any stopping Dwayne De Rosario? Not if you're Real Salt Lake. more ›

D.C. United, led by Chris Pontius, Dwayne DeRosario and debutant goalkeeper Joe Willis, put on a solid display in defeating the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-0 on Saturday. more ›

Has there ever been a crazier D.C. United match than the one that took place at RFK Stadium on Saturday night? Possibly -- but if there had been, the memory of it has likely been replaced for the 11,684 who were on hand to witness the home side earn a 3-3 draw with Toronto FC. more ›

Blame the heat if you must, but D.C. United certainly wilted last night. The club's woes inside RFK Stadium continued, as they dropped a painful 1-0 decision to New England. more ›

Will the additions of Dwayne De Rosario and Brandon McDonald be enough to break D.C. United's lengthy playoff drought? That certainly looked the case on Saturday night -- that is, until the 84th minute. more ›

Someone had to be the first player punished for a publicly derided rash of dives and embellishments, and it looks like D.C. United forward Charlie Davies is taking the first slap on the wrist. The MLS is fining Davies $1,000 for an 83rd minute dive against Real Salt Lake that led to a penalty kick and a controversial, game-saving 1-1 draw. The fine is seen as the first player punished retroactively by MLS for diving, setting a precedent for all players moving forward. more ›

Offensively, D.C. United got off to a flying start on Saturday. Unfortunately, that euphoria lasted all of two minutes -- then San Jose's Steven Lenhart took over. more ›

It'd be easy to write off D.C. United's scoreless home draw with FC Dallas on Saturday night as a disappointment -- after all, the team certainly could have used the three points, especially when it seemed the only thing standing in their way was the hands of Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman. But the defensive effort provided by the team -- especially on the heels of an April in which they allowed four goals three times and three goals once -- was impressive enough for head coach Ben Olsen and most of the 11,504 on hand at RFK Stadium. more ›

After a pair of demoralizing losses in league play, including the club's worst home loss in years, D.C. United rebounded with an invigorating 2-1 victory over Seattle last night. Charlie Davies, Josh Wolff and Andy Najar anchored an impressive offensive performance, while Bill Hamid made several key saves to earn the club its first MLS points since mid-April. more ›

by DCist contributor Travis Clark The hustle is there. The willingness to fight tooth-and-nail is prevalent. But what D.C. United has lacked all season, mired in one of their worst starts in league history, is goal scoring. And once again, that failure to produce a goal cost them, this time losing at the hands of the Colorado Rapids, 1-0. more ›

Wherever you earn your paycheck, chances are your first day was a bit nervy. But then someone showed you where the coffee was. Maybe you met a nice HR rep while you were filling out your paperwork. And then someone took you out to lunch, and you thought, hey, this isn't going to be so bad. more ›

If we were to make the obvious comparison between D.C. United's season and Groundhog Day after five regular-season games, we'd be right about at the point in the film where Phil Connors is prepared to check out -- permanently -- rather than handle one more repetitive day in a place he can't stand. But just like Bill Murray's legendary weatherman, United won't find their way out of the limbo they're stuck in until they can piece together one honest day -- or at least an honest ninety minutes. more ›

Cup competitions are the true equalizers. Take, for example, administration-battling, Premier League relegation fodder Portsmouth's journey to this year's FA Cup final -- and that's a club that was considering not playing seven players in said final because they cannot afford to pay their contract bonuses if the team wins the trophy. The point isn't to harp on Portsmouth, but rather to acknowledge that the best team will usually win out in the marathon that is the league. In the knockout, though, any team is but a bad surface or a lucky bounce or an off-night away from pulling something worthwhile out of the morass that a season in limbo often is. more ›

D.C. United supporters, in addition to being some of the loudest and most fun-loving sports fans in this town, are also among the heartiest, cheering and singing until the end regardless of the score. That steadfast devotion to the club means that it's a rare sight to witness D.C. United fans leaving the lower bowl of RFK Stadium before the final whistle. But the frustration of yet another defeat on a very chilly and blustery evening was too much for several fans to bear on Saturday night, as a late pair of goals by Chicago sent United to their fourth straight league defeat to open the 2010 season, 2-0. more ›

He may have had a good excuse to not be paying attention -- having just spent weeks hammering out a vital labor contract that likely saved his league -- but MLS Commissioner Don Garber showed no signs of understanding D.C.'s fragile financial state yesterday, expressing public frustration regarding the city's failure to build D.C. United a new stadium. more ›