It has been awhile. In April, 2014, I started the “The Road from Here” thread, where I hoped to foster a discussion of where MLS should head in...
Let's start looking at the 2017 roster. The Pioneer Press reported last week that the Loons have added three players, Finnish midfielder Rasmus...
To keep a final promise (before I cut back here), I am posting my detailed rebuttal to by Stefan Szymanski’s recent post about MLS. It’s a lot of...
I'm starting a new thread to continue the discussion of how the league may be structured to progress from this point forward. To frame the...
I’ve been reading The Wages of Wins, Taking Measure of the Many Myths in Modern Sport by David Berri, Martin Schmidt and Stacey L. Brook. It’s a...
One of the only downsides of MLS getting more coverage in the foreign media is that, invariably, if you read the comments fans will start blasting...
Robbie Keane offers his thought on making MLS a World Class league by 2022 in the Sporting News: “The next step for MLS, Keane argued, was to...
Topic: I meant what I said and I said what I meant. MLS will be a top league in the World by 2022 one-hundred percent! Grant Wahl has just...
From the Daily Telegraph: "Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi-based owners are understood to be considering extending their influence in football...
I'm working my way through the newly released "Revised and Expanded" edition of Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. Much of the...
Game Changers. MLS officials have been talking about how to move MLS to the next level recently, (and it doesn't involve the movie or...
“We do need to continue to figure out ways to improve the quality, and some of that is going to include spending money. Hopefully over time we...
Fake Sigi had a very interesting blog entry the other day -- if he's correct, and I think he is, he's found documentation regarding SUM's...
There are Reports in seveal media outlets that Beckham has turned down PSG: The Telegraph: David Beckham will not join Paris Saint-Germain...
Bill Archer has been doing yeomanlike work blogging about the evolving scandal that has shaken FIFA and CONCACAF. There are plenty of places to...
There are threads on the attendance and specific games, but overall I think a good case can be made that MLS just had one of its best weekends...
From time to time, people have posted comparative attendance figures in various Big Soccer forums, and I thought it would be interesting to do an...
For those who haven't already seen it, Nicolas Anelka's agent has suggested he would like to come to MLS when his contract with Chelsea expires in...
Dear Don: Forgive me for the informality of the greeting, but I feel I've come to know you these past five years. I've certainly come to...
For a number of years now, Bizjournals, the Internet arm of American City Business Journals, has done an annual study to determine if the largest...
US Soccer has now released the new standards for professional Division 2 socccer leagues, and Inside Minnesota Soccer has gotten a copy. The...
Over the past two years, I've wondered why MLS hasn't more forcefully stated it's vision -- essentially, what it wants to be when it grows up....
You'll note in the papers that Uefa’s executive committee is expected to approve new 'financial fair play’ rules today that could have a profound...
Richard Farley of MLS Talk is reporting that AC St. Louis and Saint Louis Athletica are on the brink of folding. Jeff Cooper, who attempted to...
I've been tracking MLS attendance for the "pre contraction" teams on a rolling five year basis to watch their performance year on year, and I...