Imagine a bad breakup with someone you shouldn't have hooked up with in the first place, someone who seemed perfect for you but who belittled you to your friends, was a slob, didn't pay their half of the rent and utilities and criticized your sexual performance. Now imagine having to have that person spend one weekend a month at your house for the next two years.

This is good news. Unexpected, even. We get one more year of a great women's league here in America.

What's more, the FSI investors have decided to re-up for one more year as well. More details as they emerge.

By Charlie Corr
Eclipse Select staff
CHICAGO -- Former Eclipse Select Soccer Club player and coach Leslie Osborne was one of many Women's Professional Soccer players waiting to hear about the league's future this week. And for the past several months, Osborne's WPS franchise, the Boston Breakers, has been trying to secure additional ownership after majority owner Gary Loveman put his share of the organization on the market.

Women's Professional Soccer (upper case) and women's professional soccer (lower case) are both in trouble in the United States and scrambling for survival.

I have the perspective of being intimately involved in the creation and launch of WPS from 2007 through 2009 as founding President of WPS' Chicago Red Stars.

This place just isn't working out for DC. (Getty Images)

Another bit of news I wanted but couldn't touch on yesterday.

DC United has been making news this week at a possible move to Baltimore. United's unhappiness with RFK Stadium is well documented over the last few years and only continues to get worse for the Black-and-Red.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure that when Don Garber gave the greenlight for the league's current playoff system, he didn't honestly envision that 17 teams would remain mathematically alive for the postseason on September 29th.

Think about that for a second. In addition to Seattle, Salt Lake, and Dallas, the five-win Revolution, six-win Toronto, and six-win San Jose, despite their horrid records and overwhelmingly disappointing form this season, are all eligible for the playoffs right now.

Since December 1, 2010, Tom Werner has been the new chairman at Liverpool FC. Along with John Henry, Werner leads Fenway Sports Groups, the investment assembly that purchased the ailing Anfield club last year. Since, the investors have brought in...
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Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has ended the speculation surrounding striker Dimitar Berbatov. The Bulgarian has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford all summer, but Paris Saint Germain sporting director Leonardo has revealed that the striker is going nowhere.

French giants PSG have been chasing last year's Premier League leading goalscorer all summer in a bid to win domestic and continental honors, but Leonardo has revealed Ferguson directly told him that Berbatov will be staying at the club.

Tom Hicks sued over US baseball team

Former Liverpool owner wrecked Texas Rangers claim investors

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Former Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks sued by Texas Rangers investors

Tom Hicks, who had an ill-fated reign as co-owner of Liverpool, is being sued by a group of former investors in the Texas Rangers baseball club he used to own.

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Paris Saint-Germain announced in late may, that Qatari investors bought a controlling 70% stake in the club. Blaise Matuidi PSG an attractive club That ended months of speculation about who the Ligue 1 club's new owners would be, and PSG's former owners, the American group Colony Capital, had said in December of last year [.

Sponsors, advertisers and investors have a chance of getting involved in the Nextstar project based on giving a "second chance" to players released from the Premier Academy League in England.

Co-owner Arnim Whisler (center)By Orrin Schwarz
Daily Herald
The Chicago Red Stars refuse to fade away.
Left for dead over the winter when they couldn't find enough investors to remain in Women's Professional Soccer for the upcoming season, the Red Stars revived to join the semipro Women's Premier Soccer League.

The New York Times Company has been confirmed as the second largest shareholder in Liverpool Football Club.
The club's owners Fenway Sports Group released the information as required by Premier League rules which state that any ownership of more than 10 per cent must be declared.
FSG chief John Henry revealed that he and the Times group are the two biggest shareholders in the company, which owns Liverpool and the Boston Red Sox.

It is no secret that the football authorities of this land are as useful as chocolate dildos but yesterday's announcement that the Football League were deducting 10 points from Plymouth Argyle was further confirmation of that fact.

The penalty was an automatic one, foisted on the Pilgrims after they appointed administrators to help them out of the financial mire.

Perhaps we should spare a thought for the ordinary supporters of Crawley Town. The thousand or so die-hards that have been going to Broadfield Stadium for a few years have had a tough time of it over the last few seasons and they may well believe that they, if no-one else, have earned their day in the spotlight.

I was getting ready to eat crow when news came out that the NASL would indeed receive USSF sanctioning as the Division II soccer league in the United States for 2011. If you'll recall, I'd made statements like:

New investors are going to have to come out of the woodwork pronto for NASL to have any chance of success in its reapplication for Division II Sanctioning.

The current owners do not have the resources to match other A-League clubs.
While they are happy to have an investor or investors, for the right and big price, take minority interests, they will not give up control. Unfortunately, this has been a deal breaker for ambitious potential owners.