I am prepared to declare this a Good Dog, on the basis that dopeyness and Good Dogness are basically one and the same.

"Hey MLS, why don't you make a bunch of decisions that will hurt your ability to make money? Play in front of small, shivering crowds on turf fields during blizzards! Don't spend money on well known players!"

"I thought they liked when people dumped beer on them?" - Dan Snyder

"Now, you'll finally be able to experience the life of an NFL player! Just look into this light..."

Weird, I expected this article to just be a picture of Dan Shaughnessy.

The media is "gamblers and fantasy players" now?

This goalkeeper's free kick positioning is more interesting:

This is a good time to point out that even the semifinals drew more viewers than 3/4 of this year's Wild Card games.

Heath is a character in Ron Howard's new comedy series Mr. Eh.

Tests of Evans' skull showed that it, too, was underinflated.

When asked for comment, Lynch naturally refused, but eventually offered that
"yeah, 15 yards sounds about right."

Archers, ranked

I think if the NFL had its way people would be focusing on and talking about the other conference championship game.

Loopholes like "Toronto signed him to a (very lucrative) contract in much the same way any team on the planet could have." There was literally no league involvement in Giovinco ending up in Toronto.

Toronto is big, but it still doesn't explain why MLS would want players whose value is significantly greater on this side of the border (Bradley and Altidore) playing in Canada. Salt Lake is on national television in the first year of the league's shiny new deal more than Toronto.

Yes, the fix is in for a Canadian team that's on national TV all of five times this season. Meanwhile, the league couldn't find a way to nudge a USMNT striker to an American team, in particular the one in NY he once played for.

Just gonna leave these here.

the New York Cosmos' announced strategy of bringing in good players from abroad but mainly focusing on finding and developing the best youth talent.

I'd argue that most players are in the leagues they're in because it's best for their bank account. Cesc Fabregas isn't at Chelsea out of a sense of charity. You get to be "the best league in the world" (and I don't deny that this is still decades away for MLS) by paying for talent.

At some level, MLS is damned if they do, damned if they don't. Two years ago critics said "our best talent is always going to play in Europe," and now they cite the influx of that best talent as evidence of that best talent's failure. When does the league's purchase of talent start saying something about the league…