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There have been a lot of great sides that have thrilled MLS fans through the league’s first quarter-century, but not all of them were able to rubber-stamp that greatness with at least one league crown. We’re here today to discuss the best of the teams who never raised MLS Cup. Some of these will be specific to a particular season of peak-too-soon greatness, while others rep their colors over a multi-season “always a bridesmaid” era. Any club that previously won it all with a similar core group of players or would soon do so is happily disqualified from making this…

The Las Vegas Raiders might sever their final ties with California in the coming months. The Raiders were planning to hold a minicamp at lame-duck Bay Area headquarters in Alameda and training camp at Redwood Middle School in Napa, Calif., where they have conducted it since 1996. However, Vincent Bonsignore reported in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that according to an unnamed source close to the team, both events could be moved to the Raiders’ new headquarters in Henderson, Nev., which are all but finished. General Manager Mike Mayock was quoted in February that he was hoping something like this might…