This will obviously be the first team in the (new) USFL.

Think it was fair to extrapolate what other retractable roof stadiums are used for and their rationale for both having a retractable roof and when they open and close it, regardless of whether the original discussion was specifically about NFL stadiums.

U of P Stadium's roof is almost never opened from about May to October and almost never closed (at least for events you can reasonably call "outdoor-type" events) the rest of the year. It is almost ALWAYS open for any Cardinals game after about mid-October. I have been to soccer games in November and December with the…

No, they still wouldn't overtake the NFL. They'd be among the top soccer leagues in the world. But they wouldn't overtake the NFL. They wouldn't have 14 million people watching on a Sunday afternoon. They wouldn't get billions with a B in TV revenue. They wouldn't get $700M a year from their PPV deal and in-house TV…

That's absolutely overstating it. Those three players would NOT make MLS more popular than the NFL. The NFL would have to implode from concussions and even THEN, MLS has still got appeal to a subset of Americans. Beckham (not a player on that level by the time he got here, but a bigger crossover star) helped…

The Cardinals wouldn't have gotten this wrong, tell you that much. #stillnotold

"Once again, names that are the most popular nationwide for that year are colored..."

Funny part? Not even the worst coach we've ever had, and probably only slightly ahead of Ray Perkins for biggest a-hole.

Yes, domestic league outdoor soccer in this country has long been a tough sell on television. I was amazed, quite frankly, that they were able to generate the TV revenue they have, but I guess those content monsters need to be satiated. SOMEBODY can make a go of televising soccer. I just don't think there will ever be…

The entire fanbase is not that small anymore. That's a meme from about 2005. MLS will average 18k+ this year, with more than half the league averaging more than 19k.

St. Pete, man.

I was just glad to see they did this The Right Way.

Stunning to me: There is a television show called "The Best of Mike Francesa."

Phil Elliott kept Seth Maxwell's name out of it, luckily.

What were we talking about, again?

Cowherd served the subpoena because, in his words, "She had it coming."

Waaaaaaay more polite than Aaron Alexis. (Too soon?)

He'll fit right in, as most of Florida's players lately have no heart.

Story I was told once was legendary in an NBA city in which I used to live: A very good player for the team once left tickets for two different women with whom he was intimately acquainted for a particular game. And, as luck would have it, they wound up sitting next to each other. They quickly discovered for whom they…

"Rosenthal says Leyland told the players it was time for someone younger to do the job."