Apparently, according to Los Alamos researchers Soccer ‘the most exciting sport’ if you define exciting as how easy it is to predict the winner of any given match up. The results showed that the “upset frequency” was highest for soccer followed by baseball, hockey, basketball and finally American football. Now, its a bit of a […]
That’s right, Major League Soccer has relocated the San Jose Earthquakes to Houston. Damn, his time, its personal. Ok, maybe not that bad, but I had a soft spot for the quakes since a lot of my friends live in the bay area and, no less important, I met Staci out there. The cynic in
Steve Goff did his latest chat on the washington post site yesterday. One of the questions, criticizing the playoff format states: Last year’s conference finals game at RFK against New England was the most entertaining MLS game I ever attended, and would not have been played under the new format as it was the second
Seemingly out of nowhere, Goff is reporting that DC United has made some offseason contract moves. Olsen and Rimando are resigned, but no option pickup for Dema. Late forward signing Filomeno did not have his option picked up either, but the team is working to resign him at a lower salary. Hopefully they can come
My friend David R. sent me the link to a paper from the investigating the effect that international footbal competitions have on the stock market. The authors found a statistically significant decline in stock returns after losses in World Cup elimination matches. Their model attributes the loss effect on reduced productivity or loss revenues. Curiously,
The Soccer blogs aggregator continues to grow and last night I rolled out a new feature. You can now search the articles in the database and subscribe to the search results as an RSS or XML feed. I hope this will be really useful if you write a blog or are interested in a particular
According to DCist, Untied knows How to sell a stadium. Of course, having private funding behind the deal goes a longer way than asking for handouts for rich sports team owners. And beyond all the talk of job opportunities, affordable housing, and economic development, DC United officials have sworn that their stadium will be privately-financed,
Jeff Agoos retired today. His career included championships with DC United and San Jose, and a year with the Metrostars, and 134 caps for the national team. Although he had a penchant for costly own goals or mistakes – the ones against Jamaica in the 98qualifiers and in the Portugal map during the 2002 World
As I was walking to Simon and listening to Marketplace today (yes on the radio, I haven’t gotten into regularly listenting to podcasts yet), I heard a very positive piece on Major League Soccer’s 10th season, ABC and soccer: Goal? Ed Derse states that MLS has made it (don’t tell fans of San Jose Earthquakes
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DC United wants to build itself a new stadium (privately financed)in Anacostia, and has found that putting on soccer clinics for kids is a good way to build goodwill with the community. Its also nice to see Alecko Eskandarian in that picture after he was out for the season due to a severe concussion. "They