It isn't on the online version, but in today's Courier Mail there is a report, page 89, that Miron is boycotting A-League promotions because the opening game of the season was swapped from Gold Coast home to Brisbane home.
It said he missed the Unicef event for Queensland teams, will miss the Sydney season launch and won't say anything to promote the opener Brisbane v Gold Coast at Lang Park on August 8. Click to continue reading...

It's almost a year into the 2009 Major League Soccer and attendance numbers continue to be low, most noticable with FC Dallas averaging 8,801 (through 6 games) and the overall average at 14,729. Most sports were expected to take a hit in their attendance due to the struggling economy but currently the league is averaging almost 2,000 compared to the 2008 season.

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In an conference with mainstream media, as reported by Jack Bell at the NY Times the MLS Commissioner had this to say:

"Fans want to see stars. They want more games on TV and they want an increased quality of play," he said Thursday in a meeting with editors and reporters from the Associated Press Sports Editors conference.

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Crew stadium may only be home to concerts if the author of the piece below is right.
We brought you Part I of this series. Today the author posted Part II which you can read here. Rather than post an excerpt of the beginning, we chose to post an excerpt of his conclusions:

So what's keeping the Crew in Columbus?

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by CVI's Geoff McPherson I head off DSG park with my 3 year old daughter not knowing what to expect on a day that is hotter than the inside of well roasted marshmallow. The demographics are a lot of people... Click to continue reading...

While most people will gawk at Sepp Blatter putting his foot in his mouth yet again, the head cheese at FIFA actually said something yesterday which was interesting but didn't offend entire demographics. Massive shocker any way you look at it. Of course, his stupidity will force this under the radar, so keep the credit [. Click to continue reading...

I was surfing the web late the other night and stumbled on an interesting article in the New York Times. Entitled No Babies?, it is a lengthy and fascinating look at demographic trends in Europe. There was no mention of football or any other sport. Instead, the article's author examined the reasons [. Click to continue reading...

Jon Lowder did a followup on my recent post about racism in soccer and took it in the direction of the shortage of minorities of any color playing in North Carolina leagues: I don't think that overt racism is a contributing factor to the lack of diversity on the soccer fields. I think most clubs would [. Click to continue reading...