Mention the word contraction in American sports circles and many fans will shudder. It was this word that was mentioned in the mid-90s by Major League Baseball in hopes of dissolving teams in markets that made little money. However, MLB ...
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Before we even dip a toe into the blame game that is WPS vs Dan Barislow, I have one serious question.

Who represents WPS?

Legally, I mean.

Indulge me for a minute, if you will.

Let's assume that I got a new job. On my first day in the new office, rather than set up my email, read the personnel manual and display a photo of my adorable puppy, I instead chose to smash my computer, spray paint my name on the wall, and subject my coworkers to a vicious series of guerrilla wedgie attacks.

Less than two years after its construction was completed, PPL Park was awarded its first MLS All-Star game, the league announced on Wednesday.

The game has been scheduled for July 25th at 8:00pm ET and will be televised on ESPN2 and Galavision. An opponent has not been announced.

The soccer specific stadium, which has a capacity of 18,500, is the home grounds of the Philadelphia Union, who entered the league in 2010.

The USL Premier Development League has existed since 1995 as the highest amateur soccer level in the United States. The name was changed and tweaked early on but by the time the Chicago Fire entered a team into the league in 2001, it was referred to as what it is referred to today: PDL. Chicago became the first Major League Soccer team to have a PDL team thanks to support from former Fire President & General Manager Peter Wilt and the direction of current Fire Player Development Director & Consultant John Dorn.

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Jan 2, 2012) US Soccer Players -- Later today, the National Hockey League will put on their annual version of what hockey would be like if it returned to an era that never really existed for professionals. The game played outdoors... with the addition of a full and modern Major League Baseball stadium.

By JOSE M. ROMERO

PHOENIX -- Four MLS teams have agreed to take part in the Desert Diamond Cup, a round-robin tournament to be held at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium in Tucson, Ariz., Feb. 22-March 3.

The defending MLS Cup champions Los Angeles Galaxy, the New York Red Bulls, the New England Revolution and Real Salt Lake are the scheduled participants in a series of matches that span a week and a half.

So, the English Premier League will not be staging that dreaded 39th game overseas any time soon, which perhaps allows some of those grassroots fans to be thankful for something while they see the rest of their game being taken away. Chief executive Richard Scudamore certainly wanted to distance himself not only from his own failed idea but also from Scottish Premier League chief Neil Doncaster's idea of taking the Old Firm abroad, which could be taken as simply a throw-away comment or a cheeky notice to Mr.

There was a time where the entire world relied on Journalists for the news. World news, local new, fashion updates, entertainment and sports, if you needed to know something about anything that interested you, you went to the media in its various forms to get the latest. The radio would give you the most up to date news in brief fashion, and the newspaper would give you the in-depth version on your kitchen table with your breakfast before work.

In the absence of real news, as the Interlull takes hold rather more quickly than we might have liked, I am very grateful of the chance I got yesterday to visit Arsenal.

I took a CattleAir flight, was very kindly picked up and dropped off at the training ground by Lewis Hamilton's driving instructor where I met Tom (from Arsenal).

As Tony LaRussa walks away from a Hall of Fame career as a baseball manager, it's hard to argue with his methods that led to so much success for his players, both on and off the field.
Tim Keown of ESPN.com looks back on the career of Tony LaRussa.
There's a certain poetic justice to Tony La Russa's decision to retire after winning the World Series with a team that had no business winning one.

In a surprising twist, Tony La Russa has retired. The St. Louis Cardinals manager certainly went out with a bang by leading his team to a 2011 World Seris championship. The 67-year-old manager retires with the third most wins in Major League Baseball history.

La Russa made the announcment at Busch Stadium during a news conference on Monday morning.

In one of the most amazing comebacks of all-time, the St. Louis Cardinals have won the 2011 World Series. Once 10.5 games back in the NL Wild Card race, and down to their final strike in two different innings of the World Series, the Cardinals are now champions.

Game 7 actually didn't start out very well for the Cardinals.

So the first match of the Wildcard games are over. Shockingly, at least to me anyway, the New York Red Bulls steamrolled FC Dallas 2-nil. Given each's season I thought for sure FC Dallas would win, but I suppose that's the beauty of the play offs... one game can change everything.

In anycase, it sets up a fantastic conference semifinal with the New York Red Bulls facing off against the LA Galaxy.

Stay classy, Frank McCourt. Lawyers for the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers are blaming Bryan Stow for getting beat up at a Dodgers game. All I can say is wow. This is a new low ... even for Frank McCourt.

It's no mistake that Major League Baseball is trying to take the Dodgers away from Frank McCourt.

By Eric Beard

"He's been waiting for this moment his entire life. He's just minutes away from hoisting up the trophy of his dreams. Holland has stayed up all night to watch their beloved Dutch maestro make history. They said it was impossible. Hell, I said it was impossible.

A binding NFL-MLS link will always exist. The Hunt family and Kraft family were early MLS pioneers, of course. Later, Paul Allen (Seattle Seahawks and Sounders) showed everyone how an NFL-MLS partnership should look. Those two, to borrow from Forest Gump, go together like peas and carrots.

So I'm a little perplexed about why one element that makes NFL so special has completely escaped MLS ownership, which, again, are one in the same to a certain measure:

Earning a playoff spot in the National Football League is a special thing.

Jason Davis wrote an article about the lack of ethnic diversity among management in the English Premier League, and how it related to 'the Rooney Rule' in the National Football League (NFL) here in the US.
England's Premier League finds itself working through a difficult equation when it comes to race and coaching at the professional level.

The guilty party for this heinous crime for throwing a cash register receipt and the referee's subsequent ode to physics is not yet known. What is known is that both Nacional and Universidad de Chile, the two teams playing as the crime was committed, then not playing (game suspended) after said crime, will have scouts from any team with ties to Major League Baseball Liverpool and Roma off the top of the head (sorry) in the stands, but with their backs curiously turned to the field of play.

Langley signs MLS contract: D3soccer.com
By signing with the Union, Langley becomes the first Swarthmore alum to play in the American top-level professional baseball (MLB), football (NFL), basketball (NBA) or soccer (MLS) league since Dick Hall '52 wrapped up his 19-year major league baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles in 1971.

Holidays are not really holidays in Major League Soccer. Or, holidays are truly treated as holidays in MLS. Depends on one's outlook. A sports fan might think the latter, but wishes it weren't true.
There is one match scheduled for Labor Day. It's a good one, with Donovan and Beckham leading the charge against the upstart Sporting KC squad in its newest, state-of-the-art Soccer specific stadium.

The Best Interests of the Game. For all of the imperfections that have existed in the past and continue to exist in Major League Baseball, the governance of the game has embedded within it a clause that the commissioner can use to fill in when the rules as written just don't apply properly to the situation at hand.

Former Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks faces lawsuit

Former Liverpool co-owner accused of misdirecting "tens of millions" of dollars from Texas Rangers Major League Baseball franchise.

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Alex Rodriguez finds himself once again in a controversial situation. According to reports, this controversy involved Alex Rodriguez and illegal poker. The New York Yankees third baseman, who is currently on the disabled list, could reportedly face a suspension.

(Is Alex Rodriguez giving Cameron Diaz steroids?

Cesar Diaz writes of the tremendous programming going on in New York City, and specifially in the South Bronx, by South Bronx United and the Uptown Soccer Academy.
With the rise of obesity and asthma mixed with low reading scores the children in the South Bronx and Washington Heights continue to produce, they are in danger of never reaching their full potential.

What's with athletes killing themselves? First it was Jeret Peterson killing himself, now it's Hideki Irabu. The former Major League Baseball pitcher committed suicide yesterday. According to reports, Hideki Irabu committed suicide by hanging himself in a home he owns in California.

A native of Japan, Hideki Irabu came to the big leagues with huge expectations.

No se que deporte sea el que tenga mas aficionadas sexys , pero en el beisbol de grandes ligas incluso en el local siempre hay bellezas como las que veras a continuación:

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Esta es sin duda una de las mejores salvadas de cerveza, perdón recepciones de pelota de las que se tengan memoria esos si son aficionados de verdad.
No me creen, observen el vídeo en el juego de estrellas de las ligas mayores de Beisbol,curiosamente a un home run del mexicano estelar Adrian Gonzalez.

Manchester City earn even more money (although a fee is not yet reported) through what is likely a lucrative stadium naming rights deal with their current shirt sponsor: Ethiad Airways. City have been flirting with the upcoming UEFA Financial Fair Play rules, reporting a $193M deficit in recent reports (a far cry from UEFA's debt allowance of $61.

Partnership equals profit.
The debate will always rage between the fans of a European game and the MLS system faithful: the debate of relegation. This article is not about that. Relegation is not a reality in modern American soccer, so let it rest. Instead the focus is on the relationship between Major League Soccer (MLS) and the second tier North American Soccer League (NASL).

The battle for a coach's trust is one of the most fascinating elements to observe over the course of any sports season. How deep does a coach's rotation go in basketball? Which back gets the hand-off in which yardage and down situations in the NFL? Who is the first batter to come off the bench in pinch-hitting situations against lefties in baseball?

It's true.
You'd imagine someone who co-runs a soccer blog would be a connoisseur of all things football. You couldn't be more wrong. For instance, I absolutely cannot watch anything out of La Liga, MLS, or the entire country of Italy.
After Brandi Chastain's epic shirt removal in 1999, I shelved women's soccer for, as it turns out, 12 years.

Who's more popular in the second largest metropolitan area in the U.S. now, the Dodgers or the Galaxy? The Los Angeles Galaxy have possibly the greatest tandem of players (Beckham and Donovan) any one Soccer team has ever had in the U.S., mostly play at near capacity or sellouts and is a contender for a championship this year.

It was a little surprising that with all the big names touring the U.S. this summer, that no Italian were involved. Well that changed with the news that Juventus, the 27-time Italian champion, will play three friendlies in America in late July.

Only one of the three games has been formally announced and it is a good one.

We've been slaking our thirst for footy action with mostly meaningless international matches the 4-0 hiding the USMNT suffered against Spain last Saturday afternoon in Foxborough, followed up by a lackluster 2-0 victory against Canada in their opening Gold Cup match Tuesday night; the Netherland's scoreless draw against Brasil Saturday down in Goiânia, and then their 1-0 loss yesterday against Uruguay in Montevideo (apparently the Dutch gamely undertook this two-match South American tour to give the two South American powers both a chance to warm up for the upcoming Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América (July 1-24 in Argentina) as well as a chance to avenge their eliminations from WC2010

A rare full house at Citi Field

One that slipped under our radar was a friendly played a mere handful of miles from the CultFootball headquarters Greece and Ecuador played to a 1-1 draw in front of a packed house of nearly 40,000 fans at Citi Field, the 2-year old home of the Mets.

MIKE JACOBS COLUMN, Evansville Courier Press, June 4, 2011
Those who watched Barcelona defeat Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League final last weekend were able to witness the potential of a soccer revolution here in the United States.
According to figures compiled by Nielsen Media Research, as reported by Soccer America, the telecasts of the game delivered a 2.

By Neil W. Blackmon "Mas Que Un Club" Club Motto of FC Barcelona This article was originally going to run Sunday or Saturday evening, before the announcement by FIFA that Barcelona midfielder and Spanish international Sergio Busquets was cleared of wrongdoing for alleged racist statements made to Real Madrid's Marcelo in the second leg [.

EQUILIBRIUM AT QUARTER MARK
Justin Braun destroyed New York with a hat-trick.
Week nine marked the quarter mark of this 36-game MLS season. There's still a long way to go, but what's the early analysis? This league is very, very close.
With no one team outright dominating and few falling too far behind, it's fair to say that everything is still up for grabs.

Once again, we are fortunate to have a guest post from Dave Laidig. Dave is a contracts attorney for a large corporation who occasionally submits posts about soccer. He resides in Minnesota, which is not an MLS market. And he may be a little bitter about that. Thanks to Dave for some great thoughts and insight.

Major League Soccer has more extensive rules than most soccer leagues in the world, but they aren't as complicated as say Major League Baseball. The "Reserve" League for example is not run from a seperate roster, but is a collection of guys that didn't play much in the last or next game. But there is a significant issue where MLS could help its teams that have suffered significant long term injuries.

Francisco Liriano of the Minnesota Twins has thrown the first no-hitter of the 2011 Major League Baseball season. The native of the Dominican Republic blanked the Chicago White Sox by a final score of 1-0. The improved Francisco Liriano to 2-4. It was also the first no-hitter of Francisco Liriano's career.