



This piece is part of our “State of the Team” series, previewing each MLS squad ahead of the 2020 season. Read the other teams’ stories here.



It has been an eventful few weeks to be a Houston sports fan.



The Astros cheating scandal, which recently cost several World-Series winners their jobs, continues to set the national discourse alight. The Texans took a 24-point lead in a division playoff game and lost it before halftime. On a more positive note, James Harden is averaging an eye-popping 37.1 points per game for the Rockets.



Elsewhere in the city, Dynamo players have quietly opened training camp — under the radar and overlooked, compared to their bigger-league peers, which has been their club’s lot for a not-insignificant chunk of their existence.



In 2019, maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing. Head coach Wilmer Cabrera, who guided the team to the Western Conference finals in 2017 and a U.S. Open Cup...