Well this was an odd surprise. The old MLSsoccer.com webpage is no more and a new one has taken its place. Which is weird because, in my opinion, I thought the old website did a fine job of giving news at the same time as being a league website. This new one? I'm not so sure...
The first thing that I see when I land on the page is what appears to be a content driven news site, not necessarily a league site and that kind of bugs me.
"The Goat"?  The borders are opening, the army is standing down, and the fires ravaging Canadian cities are finally under control. Yes, professional iced hockey is back and Canada finally has meaning as a nation once again. Apparently. You may not realize it if you only digest regular Canadian media, but other professional sports do actually exist within our borders including Major League Soccer.
Baseball calls it Hot Stove season. The NFL occupies months with draft talk, organized team
activities, mini-camps and training camps. Whatever the name, off season events have become an
integral part of the modern sports business model. Fans hungry for team and league news flock to
websites, mainstream media sources, sports radio and sports television for year round coverage of
their favorite sports.
By Charles Boehm - WASHINGTON, DC (July 5, 2012) US Soccer Players -- United States National Team
captain Carlos Bocanegra made a bit of a splash this week, taking a VIP turn at baseball's All-Star
Game festivities in Kansas City and appearing in ESPN's attention-grabbing "Body Issue." Both are
mainstream media hits that probably offer welcome diversions from the ongoing ambiguity about the
future of his bankrupt Scottish club, Rangers FC.
It's always funny how rumors come out of no where and are really based off of nothing. The Birahim
Diop to Colombia rumors started out of nothing but a running joke that Diop would look to continue
to follow Ocatvio Zambrano as he had quite a few times in his career. Today another rumor really
based off of nothing has come up.
It has become the cheapest thing in football writing to criticise its television commentators. I
almost feel like I'm cheating if I get cheap laughs out of an article on the foibles of Alan Green,
Peter Drury et al... So, let's get serious. This European Championship has seen the usual mix of
poor research and inanity from the commentary boxes of both the BBC and ITV.
It has become the cheapest thing in football writing to criticise its television commentators. I
almost feel like I'm cheating if I get cheap laughs out of an article on the foibles of Alan Green,
Peter Drury et al... So, let's get serious. This European Championship has seen the usual mix of
poor research and inanity from the commentary boxes of both the BBC and ITV.
The contentious nature of politics drives even the best of politicians to the brink. It's at this
point, when sports have been brought up as a topic to bring levity to a broad audience and show a
more human politician.
This is our last installment in a series of post setting out the top business stories in
American soccer from 2011. We have looked at Portland and Kansas City while also discussing NBC's
entry as a soccer broadcaster and FOX's big play for World Cup television rights. We will set up
a vote to select the top story early next week.
Monitoring the evidence being given by Rebekah Brooks to the Leveson Inquiry is more than
entertaining...
... the collusion in corruption between power and insiders is evident.
In the dim and distant past, I undertook a Ph.D in Economics - the title of my thesis was "The
Impact of Conspicuous Money on Outcomes in British Horseracing Betting Markets".
Football is Fixed/Dietrological attacks on two wings - we expose to the public some of the
blatantly surreal data that indicates the degree to which football is criminalised and we transform
the game from within by working alongside other bodies who possess an interest in saving the
sport.
Football is Fixed/Dietrological attacks on two fronts - we expose to the public some of the
blatantly surreal data that indicates the degree to which football is criminalised and we transform
the game from within by working alongside other bodies who possess an interest in saving the
sport.
Football is Fixed/Dietrological attacks on two fronts - we expose to the public some of the
blatantly surreal data that indicates the degree to which football is criminalised and we transform
the game from within by working alongside other bodies who possess an interest in saving the
sport.
This post deals with the former.
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has slammed Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger for publicly
accusing Reds striker Luis Suarez of diving, suggesting that the Frenchman should be charged by the
FA.
Dalglish has seen an eventful month at Merseyside go from celebrating Carling Cup glory to
losing back-to-back Premier League fixtures that have put his side on the verge of yet another
disappointing finish in the domestic standings.
Liverpool forward Luis Suarez and manager Kenny Dalglish have both apologized for their actions
during, and after Liverpool's 2-1 loss away to Manchester United on Saturday, despite the FA
claiming that no charges will be issued to anyone involved.
After reportedly telling club officials that he will shake Patrice Evra's hand, Suarez made a
last-minute decision to avoid the handshake, stirring further controversy after a race row
involving him and the United left-back had ended with an eight-match suspension for the
Uruguayan.
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has urged the media to stop focusing the spotlight heavily on
John Terry as the Blues skipper returns to QPR next Saturday for the first time since being accused
of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in October.
The Rangers won the ill-tempered clash 1-0 as Villas-Boas saw two of his players dismissed,
leaving the visitors to fight with nine men for most of the afternoon.
There's a Golden Sky By Ian Ridley Published by Bloomsbury, October 2011 £18.99 ISBN:
9781408130407 It's often been asserted that the one remaining advantage mainstream media has over
bloggers is the issue of access to the game's personalities – Jonathan Wilson made this point on
establishing The Blizzard earlier this year and Kevin McCauley expounded on the subject in an
overview of a spat
There's a Golden Sky By Ian Ridley Published by Bloomsbury, October 2011 £18.99 ISBN:
9781408130407 It's often been asserted that the one remaining advantage mainstream media has over
bloggers is the issue of access to the game's personalities – Jonathan Wilson made this point on
establishing The Blizzard earlier this year and Kevin McCauley expounded on the subject in an
overview of a spat
It's an odd thing for a Seattle sports fan. Despite odd votes that indicate East Coast proximity
bias, or worse, among mainstream media in the United States and Canada, when it comes to players
and agents around the game the Seattle Sounders are a have. No they are not the New York Red Bulls
or the LA Galaxy (or Toronto FC if they were good), but they are a have.
50 Teams that Mattered by David Hartrick Published by Ockley Books July 2011, £13.99 (eBook:
£7.99) Fortunes for football blogging have been immensely fluid over the past 12 months or so.
While a number of excellent platforms have finally called it a day, other writers have branched
out to mainstream media and publications like The Blizzard, while the predicted emergence of
'megablogs' featuring a range of the internet's best has come to full fruition.
Are there toxic chemicals in the soccer apparel our children are wearing all year?
A worrisome report recently came out from the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC) that found
'worrying' levels of chemicals in Euro 2012 replica team jerseys. High levels of lead, organotin
compounds, nickel, and nonylphenol were found, in some cases so high the BEUC recommended the
shirts be banned.
Roy Hodgson (36 years in management)
7 Allsvenskan Titles (Malmo/Halmstad) and 2 Svenska Cupen (Malmo) - all prior to 1990
1 Danish Super Liga (FC Copenhagen)
1 Danish Super Cup (FC Copenhagen)
Harry Redknapp (29 years in management)
1 FA Cup (Portsmouth)
2 Division Three Titles (Portsmouth/Bournemouth)
1 Inter Toto Cup (West Ham)
1 Associate Members Cup (Bournemouth)
Fabio Capello (25 years in management)
4 Serie A Titles (AC Milan)
1 Serie A Titles (Roma)
2 Serie A Titles (Juventus)
2 La Primera Liga Titles (Real Madrid)
1 Champions League (AC Milan)
4 Supercoppa Italiano Titles (AC Milan/Roma)
1 European Super Cup (AC Milan)
1 Coppa Italia Primavera (AC Milan)
Goal line technology is not enough and the repeated mainstreaming of the state of play in the
development of this limited technology every time there is a colossal (and public) travesty of
justice in football is becoming somewhat hackneyed.
The mainstream media are also responsible for the framing of this technology argument - the limited
msm exposure for Wenger's views on video technology across the field of play (as opposed to merely
goal line) being merely the latest example.
Knowing the result beforehand, inevitably succumbing to spoilers, makes this review both less
joyous and less frantic than it should be. Removing much of the roller-coaster emotion from that
result removes much of what makes sports brilliant, and today's spectacle aptly demonstrates why
I'd far rather read bloggers' match reviews that the mainstream media's.
Harry Redknapp lives in a £10 million mansion at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset.
Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth largest land value in the entire world.
It is known as 'Britain's Palm Beach'.
Harry Redknapp is a low tier manager who had won nothing of consequence until a fixed FA Cup Final
victory for Portsmouth in 2008.
I find it difficult to engage in schadenfreude when it comes to Fernando Torres because he's
so pretty. Sure, it was funny at first – £50m former world's best striker looking less
likely to score six yards away from goal than world's most hideous face Steve Buscemi at a
nightclub – but it's now become a global source of depression (step aside, financial
markets).
The feet-dragging on various issues pertaining the S.League is not doing any good if the league
authority is keen to have the struggling competition back on its feet.
With mysteries of the identities of Winston Lee's replacement for the league's CEO, the 13th and
14th team still looming large, plus the near "black-out" on S.
I just wish the media would stand up and be counted at times like these. So many experts thought we
would be the only English side struggling to make it through the Champions League group stages. The
polar opposite of the mainstream media's predictions has come true and this tells a whole story in
itself.
Over the last couple of weeks or so, a debate has been being passed back and forth between
football bloggers over both the present and future of what they do. On the one hand, we have seen
the introduction of a new news feed service which has angered some that are seeking to make a
living from their writing whilst, on the other, the behaviour of an established football website
(which could clearly be described as "Mainstream Media") has seen the scales fall from quite a few
eyes on the matter of the ethics of established media sources.
One of the saddest parts of modern football is the way in which the non-Premier League divisions
have been neglected and forgotten by the mainstream media. Take a look through some old cigarette
card collections or the wonderful Football League Review magazine and you'll find that although not
necessarily billed as equals with First Division clubs, many of the smaller lower league sides were
included and covered alongside many of the giants of English football.
