That is incredibly infuriating coming from the guy who is too cool to write a decent article about soccer.

San Francisco Cyber Ballers- worst team name ever?

I’ve had two interactions with Cobb County:

Yes, TV money that’s all dependent on having inventory for TV programming. Remember also that while the national TV money is obviously the big pie, for individual franchises/owners the regional TV money (your local CSN/FSN) is also very significant and those regional TV partners pay to have live games in primetime as…

Exactly. If it would’ve been a cop instead of a Target loss prevention worker, she’d have been shot at least once.

For those unaware, that’s Delaware North, an evil conglomerate that also specializes in making sure your beer/concessions at your local sportsball/concert venue is outrageously priced.

How would Pro/Rel force youth development in the US? MLS teams must have youth systems down to at least U-14 (could be younger now), these aren’t possible without the MLS franchises guaranteed revenue streams at the top. Not saying that the academy system is perfect, but it’s an improvement of leaps and bounds…

MLS teams already don’t do shit in the existing CONCACAF Champions League, getting on par with Liga MX in the next ten years would be an admirable goal.

How does Pro/Rel grow American pro soccer’s popularity (and as a result, profitability) in the world’s most competitive and well-developed sports landscape (find me another country where soccer has to compete with a “Big Four” set of pro sports leagues to say nothing of college sports) that already has easy access to…

Minnesota is a state, not a city.

This was also entertaining when Vice ran this story on HBO a few weeks ago.

Pulisic’s penalty, passing, plus Pierre pleasantly pummel preseason players.

I didn’t see a Leonard Bernstein reference coming when I was reading this.

Technically all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are female (covered early in the movie), which provides the context for this gem of dialogue:

Miami missed the playoffs this year.

Also let’s not forget the heaping pile of garbage coaches that LeBron has dealt with. Mike Brown, Ty Lue, and Erik Spoelstra owe their careers to LeBron making them look like they’re decent and the multiple seasons they’ve had/will have of being a head coach after LeBron. David Blatt will probably never be an NBA…

HBO Real Sports did a piece on this a few years ago, I may be off on a few details but basically a bunch of migrant labor is recruited from poor communities in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, etc. by being lied to about the great opportunities that they have in Qatar. They show up, the “glorious opportunities”…