MLS: Sounders-Timbers not as progressive as some hope

SEATTLE – Since the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers inaugurated Major League Soccer's Cascadia Cup rivalry on Saturday night, fans and journalists alike have been proclaiming that the game was revolutionary for soccer in the United States. However, it may have just illuminated yet again why soccer is not the biggest sport here.

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