Well, she did say sugar will kill you.

New Zealand is a small island, maybe that guy really did fuck his own mother. YOU DON’T KNOW THE FULL STORY DEADSPIN!

No snark here, DiCicco was not just a great coach but a pioneer. When DiCicco started coaching women’s soccer, a lot of people said it was a joke, that it would never catch on and coaching women’s soccer was a real risk to your career if you wanted to be taken seriously as a coach. DiCicco could have continued to…

It’s not as much as a windfall as you might think. Divide $150 million by 22 and you get about $6.8 million, several teams spend that much on a single player once a year. I suspect it’s mostly about making sure incoming ownership groups actually have money they’re willing to spend.

It’s basically already MLS 2nd division. A lot of MLS teams have “2" teams in the USL to send their young players/borderline guys to for some seasoning or a USL team they have a “partnership” with that does the same for them. Just don’t hold your breath on pro/rel, it’s unlikely to draw real attention to the league…

Generally speaking, playing in an NFL stadium kneecaps an MLS bid...unless there are some pretty major upsides. The most recent one is Atlanta United FC, who will play in Megatron’s Butthole (aka Mercedes Benz Stadium)...but there aren’t exactly a lot of options available if MLS wants that coveted Atlanta marketplace…

If you read the article, you’d note that now, even if you can’t beat the Pokemon in the gym, you can knock down their motivation. Get the motivation of an opposing Pokemon low enough and they’ll go away. Sounds like a Pokemon raid will also kick out an entire team of Pokemon from the gym.

Pele says “Hi!”

Sergio has a lot more in common with Mario than simply his outfit. Both of them have exotic accents, both of them love pasta and both of them like to explore strange holes.

The problem is one of market target. They’re targeting people who:

Not necessarily speaking about “best vs best”, overall eastern conference has been winning the inter-conference games this year. It’s not universal of course, but it seems like the east is stronger, this season. I think LAFC lights some fires next season though.

Doesn’t help with the bug guts though. That’s smeared inside the display panel now.

In most modern monitors the screen is a single piece, including backlight and everything else. Basically his monitor is defective, that’s how the bug got into it,to get the bug guts out you’re talking about replacing the display panel; at that point you may as well just buy a new monitor.

This year you should. The east is clearly the better conference this year and Toronto FC are probably the best team in all of MLS. Balance of power has shifted.

Orlando’s next four opponents just breathed a sigh of relief. The kids seriously good.

Somehow my tired mind saw the title as “An Antelope Fucking a Giraffe”...which lead to some serious questions of logistics in my mind.

But it also means that the best teams don’t necessarily make it out of European qualifying. If the goal is to have the best representatives of your federation make it through, then the European model is pretty damn bad.

Sure, but to say that it’s embarrassing for the team that the USA has now is...silly. Where the USA is right now, we aren’t even the best in CONCACAF yet, much less a world power; so it’s not embarrassing yet.

Eh, I’d say it is. UEFA and Commebol are clearly the top 2, Oceania is clearly 6th, so ranking 3rd, 4th and 5th is the question. Asia maybe has a case to make, but their typical best teams are Japan, South Korea and (now thanks to the wonkiness of FIFA) Australia. But I don’t think those nations are generally better…

The United States Men’s National Soccer Team started out the last round of World Cup qualifiers in the most embarrassing way possible, losing to Mexico at home then getting ripped apart down in Costa Rica.