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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.
View the full story here: The Telegraph
A news article on 2011-08-16 22:27:22 from: The Telegraph
This news item has been reproduced from today's media.
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 MARKJustin 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.