Instead the lead swung back and forth as the two Ryder Cup colleagues took the drama to the final green and beyond. We played Panama and Honduras, and even in Chicago the number of soccer shirts I saw was phenomenal. tball of their season at exactly the right time (ie at the same time their first-round opponents, the Cavaliers, are playing their worst). As with much of Howard’s work since rejoining MLS, he was serving as a suboptimal frontman for a compromised campaign.