Category Archives: History and Perspective
One for the Ages in the Open Cup
On October 4, 2011, the team currently known as the Seattle Sounders, Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer, will contend for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, formerly known as the U.S. Open Cup and the National Challenge Cup and hereinafter referred to as the Cup, against the Chicago …
The Good and Bad of the Red Bull Way
We have recently learned a little more detail about the Red Bull Way of running an MLS “team/club” (“semi-franchise” is not yet a a legal term of art, but it may need to be invented for this whole SEM animal). As I write, it is half-time of the RBHarrison match. …
On March 11, The Kansas City Star reported these comments from Jimmy Conrad: “We’re staying within their business structure and we’re not trying to change anything fundamentally. We’re just trying to get a few more rights for the players.” Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/11…#ixzz0iZIXMEy2 Flying blind as we all are, apart from …
The Game of Our Lives II, Sort Of
Everyone who is even vaguely initiated into supporting the United States knows about 1950 (USA 1, England 0, and the Earth shook). Have you been drunk because of a U.S.A. loss? In support of a U.S.A. victory? Or under compunction by religion or reform to not be drunk because of …
