This may seem blasphemous on its surface. I mean, who doesn't love Kasey Keller? Who doesn't think he isn't the greatest American keeper, and maybe best U.S. player of all time? He is a legend, an American Legend. He is one of the greatest keepers in his MLS play (playing time caveat). Tens of thousands showed up to see him off, enough to make it the 4th largest soccer crowd in the world.

Oooh, natural grass pitch!
The Nutrilite Canadian Championship just got more muddled. Well, by "just" we mean in 2014 - the projected inaugural season for Ottawa's new NASL club. Scheduled to play in a revamped Lansdowne Park Stadium alongside a new CFL club, Ottawa will be joining the ranks of Canadian pro footy clubs alongside the three MLS squads and their NASL brethren FC Edmonton.

Area where Minnesota's current soccer team plays. They do love soccer there.

Every morning I see MLSSoccer.com's Kick Off hit my inbox and then my twitter stream. Today, there was a little blurb about MLS Expansion so of course I was eager to check it out. It turns out the owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings is planning on building a new stadium and wants to attract a MLS team to play in it, similar to the Seattle Sounders and the New England Revolution (and Vancouver if your counting the CFL here).

To find out which athletic organizations shell out the most dough, we surveyed 272 teams in 14 major pro leagues, covering seven sports, spanning 10 countries, comprising 7,802 athletes making a combined $15.2 billion in salary. Our final numbers, below, were compiled by Nick Harris, editor of sportingintelligence.