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by Pounder
Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:03 am
Forum: NWSL
Topic: Best of Times, Worst of Times
Replies: 0
Views: 33917

Best of Times, Worst of Times

This should be a celebration. As long as the Board of Governors accept, a new CBA with a substantially better minimum salary has apparently been agreed upon. Two new teams, with Angel City (LA) apparently having sold over 13,000 season tickets already. That might be more than Portland. A real TV con...
by Pounder
Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:59 am
Forum: Outdoor Soccer
Topic: State of American Soccer
Replies: 17
Views: 28715

Re: State of American Soccer

https://www.protagonistsoccer.com/coverage-blog/newamsterdam-battles-nisa After all these years… It took some time to get this league kicked off. Then they got a couple of the lower-level glamour teams and seemed like they were getting momentum. Now they’ve lost Detroit City (to USL, a development t...
by Pounder
Wed May 05, 2021 4:04 am
Forum: AHL
Topic: AHL West
Replies: 49
Views: 84415

Re: AHL West

Three years on... The NHL gets the Seattle Kraken this fall. Their AHL affiliate... Palm Springs, provided the permits are in order. Private project involving the same ownership with a similar MO (which is to say that a lot of what they envision in the arena will be concerts). Groundbreaking is supp...
by Pounder
Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:10 pm
Forum: NWL
Topic: Wherefore Salem-Keizer
Replies: 0
Views: 23189

Wherefore Salem-Keizer

The minor league casualties in the Northwest League are the Boise Hawks (who will join the now independent Pioneer League) and he Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. That’s arguably 2 of the 4 lesser stadiums in the league, while Everett is arguably in the ballpark, except the Mariners most certainly fancy the ...
by Pounder
Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:31 pm
Forum: General Baseball
Topic: Major League Baseball Hostile Takeover Of Organized Minors
Replies: 4
Views: 27517

Re: Major League Baseball Hostile Takeover Of Organized Minors

First off... I think the 3 people who kept monitoring this board might have had a pool on when the plug would be pulled. There was so little happening here that I awash practically shocked when I remembered it last week and the board was still here. So if this doesn’t take, it’s our fault. ;) “Goofy...
by Pounder
Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:57 am
Forum: General Baseball
Topic: Major League Baseball Hostile Takeover Of Organized Minors
Replies: 4
Views: 27517

Re: Major League Baseball Hostile Takeover Of Organized Minors

Despicable? Maybe. Goofy? Plenty of that. Judging from the invitations out today, there’s a semblance of rhyme and reason to the overall proposal, but some head-scratchers. Thing is... inevitable. They’re re going to be pressed on paying a living wage to minor leaguers, there’d better be a way to pa...
by Pounder
Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:19 pm
Forum: AFL
Topic: And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
Replies: 5
Views: 16495

Re: And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

Time of actual death... two days ago. The analysis over at another site is kind of interesting. Ted Leonsis gave this the three-year ride, wanted to see if the gambling angle would work for that league (and then incorporate it into his major teams), and decided it didn't work for the AFL. It sounds ...
by Pounder
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:31 pm
Forum: General Other Sports
Topic: Major League Rugby
Replies: 2
Views: 32709

Re: Major League Rugby

I made a little road trip back in April to Denver and Salt Lake (and a little Nevada border town thrown in for good measure). I kind of get a kick out of the Glendale Raptors. Small Denver suburb, bills itself as Rugby Town USA, has what was (up to the middle of last year) the only "rugby-speci...
by Pounder
Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:13 pm
Forum: NWSL
Topic: Louisville. Sacramento. Atlanta?
Replies: 0
Views: 21907

Louisville. Sacramento. Atlanta?

Who'd have thunk that the WNT political angle would carry over into NWSL and spawn better attendance for the league? Louisville has been announced (2021). Sacramento is all but announced (2020, supposedly). Atlanta is rumored. Supposedly (if we're to believe commissioner-speak, always a proposition ...
by Pounder
Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:48 pm
Forum: General Football
Topic: Aafl ??
Replies: 29
Views: 59772

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/269 ... n-football

It's interesting how much "ego" factors into all these stories.

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