Late in the first half of Saturday's game with the Los Angeles Football Club, Dallas keeper Jimmy Maurer gathered the ball in his hands, swung his right leg forward and …
A week earlier, in LAFC's first game at Banc of California Stadium, many in the crowd accented each of the opponent's goal kicks with an offensive chant that includes an anti-gay slur. On Saturday the chant was gone.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber, who sat with LAFC owners Tom Penn and Larry Berg at the home opener, was angered by the slur and told the team it needed to stop it.