They have a lot of soccer rights, including the World Cup in Italy, Spain and Japan, NHL in all but a handful of countries, The Olympics in Italy, NCAA and Big Ten outside North America. They seem to have the widest coverage in Italy, Spain and Japan.
English National League too. With dropping my season tickets after this year I'm thinking about putting that money towards a NL subscription.
If you get the Roku Channel, they just dropped a 3-part documentary called "Soccer Meets America". I've watched the first 2 parts so far, and it's a good history lesson. Worth watching IMHO.
Talksport now producing an American centric Soccer show: https://www.youtube.com/live/uWC-gnR6Bgw?si=0CicG8F-vTgKEBnA
Just announced: Alejandro Bedoya (@AleBedoya17) will be part of Telemundo’s team of analysts for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.He will join the likes of Iván Zamorano, Diego Lugano, and Carlos Salcido, among others, in helping bring fans closer to the action through analysis and a… pic.twitter.com/xTuGMAaexJ— José Roberto Nuñez (@JoserNunez91) May 4, 2026
Soooo.... you didn't tune in then? They talked about MLS, the World Cup in America, the impact of the sport in America, La Liga
The topic of Lionel Messi not speaking to local media while at Inter Miami has hit the mainstream sports conversation in the United States.@LeBatardShow dove into the matter.#InterMiamiCF #Messi pic.twitter.com/YFjZuaoQny— Franco Panizo (@FrancoPanizo) May 5, 2026
In this Backyard, it’s “win or go home,” and this crew hasn’t left since the 90's. Where there’s a pitch, there’s a legend. #YouGotThis pic.twitter.com/EJpQSHcWEi— adidas (@adidas) May 7, 2026 This is pretty good.
Moving forward 🚜Hear more about the progress at The 78 as we begin construction work on our new stadium 👏#cf97 pic.twitter.com/RYdF4DZL2V— Chicago Fire FC (@ChicagoFire) May 8, 2026 Steel in the ground.
Secret Tournament (2002) came after the Brazil Airport (1998). This might be the best since Secret Tournament though.
When a play is under video review for a possible penalty call, we don't need to see the ref's back as he watches his monitor and we don't need to see a profile shot of the control desk in the situation room (where we cannot see shit on the monitors they're viewing). We don't need long singles of either manager awaiting the same info we await. We need replays from each relevant camera angle, slowed down and / or enlarged when beneficial, shown in fullscreen. Why this is hard for apple to understand at this point is a point of embarrassment for MLS.
*SIGH* Apple does not produce the games.......... MLS produces the games. The League is controlling the broadcasts and what fans see and when. As for the second part of your sentence, MLS obviously doesn't care. If they did, they would have invested more money into the quality of their game broadcasts instead of cutting costs.
ok apple doesn't produce the games -- and who gives a shit? Of course the point is that any soccer fan wants to see the replay in the way that best illustrates the incident.
Probably because they don't want to make it obvious that they only have like 3 cameras in use and they have no decent angle of the play in question, and if they did, they don't have a production crew that can actually program the replays timely.
Thanks. That sounds plausible and may be the reason this persists. I'm way past the point of caring about who or why this is dogshit, It makes the league look stupid, and treats the viewer as if he's stupid.
There may be rules. The local Premier League coverage doesn't show endless replays during the VAR analysis either. We usually get shots of the ref waving away players. Personally I don't want a talking head second guessing the referee. I'd rather hear the VAR discussion but FIFA considers that "too chaotic". In cricket they broadcast the video review conversation inside the stadium on public speakers.
Copy, thanks. I think it's useless to show the viewer anything other than the available angles of the play, as noted in my initial comment.
If you want to be that literal, it's useless to describe the color of the sky, or that there's sand dunes in the desert in a fiction novel. Lord of the Rings could have been 500 pages if Tolkien had focused on the plot.
https://bsky.app/profile/richarddeitsch.bsky.social/post/3mllelhsm2k2f But some fans think "Apple deal bad" for MLS...
But what about the fabled viewer who stumbles upon an MLS game while channel surfing and becomes a super fan?