Our beloved D.C. United may have crashed and burned (again) in the MLS playoffs this season, but life goes on. Also, the playoffs go on — right in our backyard, in fact. Many moons ago, Washington was picked to host the 2007 MLS Cup this Sunday at noon, at RFK. Time to put aside your grieving and check out the game. Tickets start at $30, maybe even less on Craigslist. When else are you going…

For months, there have been virtually no developments in United’s attempts to build a soccer-specific stadium at Poplar Point, east of the Anacostia River. That changed yesterday, when Steve Goff’s indispensible Soccer Insider ran a post announcing a potential roadblock to stadium development. Given the abundance of Goff’s own reporting on the blog, we were surprised when he went and posted a press release in its entirety. The “press release” was titled in forboding capital…