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Is a WMLS Needed?
With the U.S. Women's National Team currently competing in the CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying tournament in Canada, a thought came to my mind: with the struggles currently taking place for the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league, might a launch of a WMLS, connected to and perhaps even run...
Why Jurgen Klinsmann is still the right choice for the USMNT
As most of the regular readers know that read this site, I am a pretty big international soccer/USMNT fan. Other than posting the odd lineup here or there for a friendly in the past few months, I haven't had a real USMNT piece up in a while. The holiday break doesn't exactly make for a...
Chris Paul trade saga provides Major League Soccer insights
It's almost impossible to have escaped the saga of the Chris Paul trade(s) in the NBA but just in case you have, here are a couple of need-to-know facts. Ownership of the New Orleans Hornets (Chris Paul's now former team) was sold to the NBA back in December 2010 Every owner in the NBA owns 1/29th...
Smolderings & Question of the Day: Are you happy the Chicago Bulls are back?
Hat Trick Top of the story of the day comes from Orrin Schwarz at the Daily Herald: The Chicago Fire has filed a discovery claim with MLS on a 19-year-old Ecuadorian midfielder the club found on a scouting trip to Argentina. According to Andell Holdings' Javier Leon, the player is a two-way...
New York Cosmos: Why MLS may not be the endgame
The news of Eric Cantona's hiring by the New York Cosmos to become their new Director of Soccer has sent a ripple through the soccer world and has the famous old North American Soccer League team name in the news again. Brian Straus has a great lead to his story for Fanhouse.com. Members of the...
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