Another busy weekend in Major League Soccer, but before looking at attendance from the last round of matches, a couple of quick business notes. First, Saturday afternoon saw the telecast of the Champions League Final to a worldwide audience that included the United States. The match was broadcast on over-the-air television via the FOX network and featured Bayern Munich and Chelsea.

In 2011, the MLS schedule was released in February. MLS fans eager for league news got a surprising gift on Thursday when the league released the entire 2012 schedule more than one month earlier than last year. For business junkies, the most interesting part of the release is probably the announcement of nationally telecast games.

Big weekend in Major League Soccer as teams are jockeying for playoff position in the last few weeks of the season. Whatever the downsides of the over inclusive MLS playoff setup, the 10 team system does keep more teams in the hunt until the end of the season. The possibility of playoffs keeps an informed fan base interested (there is certainly an argument that a fair number of MLS in stadium attendees have limited knowledge of the home team's place in the stadiums) and coming to games.

The La Liga season may not end until mid June after next week's matches were postponed because of a dispute over television revenue.

Clubs want a law, which says at least one game a week must be on free-to-air television, to be revoked. But on Wednesday the Liga de Futbol Professional (LFP) cited a "lack of progress" in talks with the Spanish government to resolve the problem.

BRUSSELS, Belgium Soccer fans may be able to continue watching World Cup and European Championship matches for free after a European Union court ruled governing bodies can't strike exclusive pay-TV deals for the games in the U.K. and Belgium. FIFA and UEFA, the game's global and European governing bodies, lost court appeals today against [.