Jeff Cooper Scores Sweet Drugs, Thinks St. Louis Will Get An MLS Franchise

"Here, take those ones with the little hole in the middle.� Yeah, those," St. Louis soccer executive Jeff Cooper told me at the beginning of our interview in his East Alton, Illinois office.

Mr. Cooper's office, which looks strangely like a cloud floating above a glowing fortress of eternal joy and solitude, was bustling with activity despite it being Labor Day.