Reality bites: Real Salt Lake sinks Whitecaps’ season

The Vancouver Whitecaps season is over — and it hasn’t even finished.
The Major League Soccer team’s post-season hopes were all but extinguished Thursday night when Real Salt Lake crushed the New England Revolution 4-1 in Sandy, Utah.
While the Caps needed to win both of their remaining games to make the playoffs, their qualifying was also contingent on RSL dropping points in their final two matches. They can still tie on points, but the tiebreaker — goal differentia