There is no right or wrong when it comes to staging the MLS All-Star Game, just differing perspectives on what is the best way to showcase the league's talent.

After league play resumes, following Thursday's Pepsi MLS All-Star Game festivities in Toronto, the Crew will embark West to Colorado to take on the Rapids in the return leg of the home-and-home season series between the two clubs. The match features a Crew squad (8-5-4, 28 pts.) that is seeking to gain ground on first-place New England in the East, and a Rapids side (6-8-3, 21 pts.) that is looking to improve on its position in the middle of the pack in the West.

The Columbus Crew are experiencing the same feelings parents have when their son heads off to college: There's a lot of pride and hope that he will do well but, really, now who's going to cut the grass?

Crew midfielder Guillermo Barros Schelotto was voted as Major League Soccer's Player of the Week for Week 17 of the 2008 season.

The Columbus Crew issued the following statement regarding an altercation that took place at Crew Stadium during halftime of Sunday's exhibition between West Ham United and the Crew which has been exaggerated in at least one news report.

The Crew and Kansas City Wizards hooked up in a 3-3 Rorschach test on Thursday night. Was it a point won for the Crew after going two goals down? Or two points lost after going a goal up?

Columbus Crew rookie midfielder Cory Elenio said he wasn't in awe of playing English Premier League club West Ham United in a friendly Sunday. After all, he owns Hammers defender Anton Ferdinand.

West Ham United might be in the early stages of their preseason training, but they were in good enough form to give a Columbus Crew team comprised mostly of reserves a 3-1 defeat Sunday afternoon at Crew Stadium.

Andy Iro has a chance to enact revenge against West Ham on Sunday in Crew Stadium even though he has never played against the English Premier League club.

For the second consecutive home match, the Columbus Crew fell behind by a pair of goals in the opening 25 minutes before rallying.