If Lionel Messi and his teammates seem a bit tired and stiff in their MLS season opener against NYCFC on Saturday night, there is a reasonable explanation. The Inter Miami team plane landed at 4 a.m.

There will be heat, there will be snow, and there will be, regardless of the color of the balls, MLS this weekend.

With the brutal cold in the Kansas City metro this week, medical crews saw an uptick in exposure calls for issues like frostbite and hypothermia.

The only other MLS team with a billion-dollar valuable was LA Galaxy, the reigning MLS Cup holders and league’s most ...