“>Bill Beacon of the Canadian Press is reporting that owners of teams in the United Soccer Leagues First Division are prepared to start their own league next season unless they get more say in how USL-1 is managed and run, Montreal Impact president Joey Saputo said Tuesday. The eight-club Team Owners Association, angry that Nike passed [...]

“> The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has diminished in value of the years.  With the creation of the Superliga and Concacaf Champions League the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open cup may just be less coveted. Wednesday night when DC United takes on the Seattle Sounders one has to wonder if the right venue was chosen for this match.  Now [...]

“>First some history….Here is what the videographer posted on the ACES09 message board: Hello fellow ACES supporters, just wanted to drop a note here because I’ve got a plan set up to expose Seattle for all their B.S. (not bigsoccer, the other BS). My glorious club, the Toronto FC is playing the Flounders in a few weeks. We [...]

“> Thanks to another reader got pointing out that British Columbia’s Premier spoke about the Whitecaps retractable roof on the CKNW’s The Bill Good Show (click here for the show and select August 31, 2009 9am to listen at around 26 min 12 sec). Below are some quotes from the Premier on this topic: “I’d love [...]

“>This information comes directly from Marc Webber of the Vancouver Province.September 1, 2009————————————- VANCOUVER — Before Monday, the United Soccer Leagues’ Team Owners’ Association was a relatively-unknown entity. That changed when the group fired a salvo expressing “extreme disappointment” in Nike’s decision to sell the USL to NuRock Soccer Holdings last week, and made public its desire [...]

“>This information is coming directly from Big Apple Soccer.————————————————– USL SHAKEUP AT THE TOPAugust 31, 2009 Holt in as president; Marcos out, to be senior director of international development United Soccer Leagues announced Monday the restructuring of its executive management team following last week’s acquisition of the league by NuRock Soccer Holdings from Nike. NuRock’s Rob Hoskins will serve [...]