Why do I feel like he's used this schtick before is his former/single life and not for season ticket renewals?

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How essential is watching an all star game to being a fan of a sport?

That's the question I am asking myself with the MLS All Star Game later tonight. ESPN2 will be broadcasting MLS All Stars v. Manchester United (The Rematch) beginning at 8:30 PM ET and I suspect the ratings for the event will be decent (relatively speaking).

Despite its fundamental flaws, the BBC Money Programme production Lord Sugar Tackles Football was a watchable attempt to evaluate English football's financial ills. These flaws were immediately evident. Sugar's call for football to take a "dose of hard business reality" came during an hour-long documentary whose introduction contained next-to-no reality whatsoever.

When I got the press release about Cobi Jones signing on with the Cosmos as assistant undersecretary to the director general or whatever, my response was: "Interesting. Seems a bit premature considering they don't even have a senior team yet and aren't locks for MLS. But interesting in that it takes a different tack from the whole Pele/Chinaglia honorary posting.