It’s so fun watching a sports league shoot itself in the foot. Well, not fun, honestly. Just, like kind of funny but really both disappointing and embarrassing. No, I’m surprisingly not talking about D.C. United’s ridiculous decision to host a home match in Baltimore because it would seat more D.C. United Lionel Messi fans and sell more tickets. That’s a post for another day. MK Dons-ass team. Actually, this post is about the National Women’s Soccer League, the still-nascent, well, United States professional women’s soccer league. After several attempts to get a U.S. league off the ground,...
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1,000 lawyers in a deep sea trench…
I think I’d like to make basketball the subject of my inaugural post. You see, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the negotiations leading up to agreeing on a new collective bargaining agreement. There a lot of points of contention, lots of issues to be hashed out, but the gist of it is that the owners are feeling pinched by decreased revenues owing to the recession, and are looking to cut their personnel costs. This, to sort of stop before I even start, is total nonsense, see here. But what’s interesting to me is the owner...
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