If MLS was making enough money to challenge the world’s best leagues for top-tier male talent and was a viable option for most elite players, MLS would be able to support the NWSL, much like the NBA and WNBA relationship.

Viable is a stretch, but I think the NWSL will have a small market of fans and allow it to chug along. Club soccer is extremely hard on any level in the United States (MLS, USL, NASL, NWSL). I doubt NWSL will become profitable enough (even if the USWNT win the 2019 WC, which I think they will), but it will be around…

That is a load of nonsense.

ESPN and Fox Sports 1 put the NWSL on tv a few years ago, but “sports” fans did not watch their games in large numbers for them to consider a longer tv deal. ESPN3 shows NWSL playoff games, but the viewership does not improve, despite having the best women’s players (mostly USWNT -based players), and the US Soccer…

Soccer is a hard sell for either men or women. ESPN, Fox Sports, and BeIn Sports did not bid on the NWSL two years ago, even though the two former networks showed the women’s league at one time. They rarely drew over 150,000 viewers. Lifetime (A+E) signed a deal in that they produce weekly coverage, and eat the…

t is arrogant because it does not take into consideration that other countries produce elite talent in other sports. The NBA and MLB were the first leagues to receive massive tv deals, and as a result, draw the best players from other countries because of the obscene salaries they receive. MLS does not have the large…

Agreed. Title IX is the best reason they have a long track record of being good. Other countries just essentially threw a team together with little or no playing time and were well schooled by the WNT. Now, that is not their fault. But to wax poetic, because they steamroll their Concacaf competition and are “better”…

sliI think the WNT will easily qualify (Canada might give them a game but still lose), and they will make the WC Semi-Finals. Only then will they run into quality opposition. The USWNT is extremely good (they are called into training camps far more often than their world counterparts), but that is due to their awful…

You um, believe that Democrats are not into cashing in their chips and taking lucrative jobs that steal money from the American people and give it to their corporate overlords, eh? There is no difference between the power players in the Democratic (cough) or Republican parties. Commentators who actually think one…

Give me a break. She is a corporate litigator, she may not be in the FBI, but she has opinions. Do only liberals work at Sphincter?

That goes for both sides. I don’t really think the leaking of Ms. Ford’s name was in any way other than to damage Mr. Kavanaugh and benefit the Democrats in November. A pox on both their houses. These stupid political parties are slowly eroding the fabric of this country.

Agreed. The people who are critical of non-Hillary voters never seem to realize that HRC simply wanted the White House handed to her without putting together a good campaign. She then needed to work hard to campaign to win what she coveted.

Zlatan should have been included (both for his first goal for the Galaxy, and his 500th), but since he plays in MLS, it would not have garnered any votes. Sucks.

As Napoleon said, “We are either Kings or Pawns.”

?Companies are free to endorse whomever they want to associate with. At times they endorse men and not women. In other instances, women get more endorsements than men (Serena Williams made more in endorsement money in 2018 than any player in the NFL [sport that is more popular than women’s tennis]). So, these…

What is this movie? Was it a horror movie?

Uh, women are not taught to accept another gender’s narrative as equally or more important. What planet is that called?

Her father is a smart businessman. She doesn’t strike me as the brains behind her team, which includes her family. TSwift is savvy enough and has good self-awareness, though.

That applies to both Republicans and Democrats. Each will protect their own nominees to SCOTUS, POTUS and the like. Neither party is that different from the other, in how they operate in Washington, D.C.

So what is the difference? A mirror does exactly the same thing as the cameras inside the car. I don’t see what the excitement is about.