Sports Illustrated's Brian Straus has weighed in with some good news: the New York Red Bulls are still qualified for the 2017-18 CONCACAF Champions League.
This is news it is necessary to hear, since CONCACAF has changed the format for its showpiece competition and punted all representatives from Mexico and the USA into the second phase of what is now a two-tiered tournament. This means none of them will be playing CCL 2017-18 in 2017 - and that raised the question of how US Soccer would deal with the fact it would have two sets of qualifiers for the CONCACAF tournament (those from 2016 and 2017) by 2018, but only room for one group of four.