Over at the Sports Law Blog, they have the schedule for the upcoming [ Future of Sports Law Symposium at Willamette University College of Law. It sounds like an interesting round up of speakers and topics. I think some MLS teams should send representatives to some of the sessions. ]{.PostTitle}Chivas-USA staff might be interested in ["Foreign Student-Athletes in U.S. College Sports: Recruitment, Eligibility, and Title IX Implications". If he was still with the team, DC United could send Ryan Nelsen.  ]{.rss:item}[On the heels of the red bull acquisition, any team front office should send someone to Jack William's session on ]{.rss:item}["The Coming Revenue Revolution in Sports: Mining Revenue from Non-Traditional Sources"]{.rss:item}\

I'm not sure how I missed this but via the Sports Economist, I saw today that Sunil Gulati's first move as president of the USSF was to reduce the USSF board from 40 to 15. I guess this move is meant to reduce some of the political infighting between the amateur and professional wings of the sport. He also links to an article in the Internaional Herald Tribune that run on Tuesday,

Soccer: Opportunity for U.S. as Gulati takes reins.

He announced a 100-day program of initiatives including drives in international relations and greater involvement of Hispanics and African Americans.

A common resason I hear for not getting a Tivo is a reluctance to pay a monthly fee for little more than the electronic TV guide. Never mind that your cable company also charges you a monthly fee for your DVR, or that the generic DVRs have a horrible user interface and don't have wonderful features like the SeasonPass. Most people can't get past the monthly fee after paying for the hardware. So yesterday, TiVo announced a new pricing plan wherein you pay the monthly fee (forever) but don't have to pay for the box itself. Oh, and you can't buy the lifetime service after this week either. According to the official Tivo blog:\

 We found that the overwhelming majority of consumers favored the bundling together of the TiVo box and TiVo service. You spoke, we answered.

I call bullshit. The overwhelming majority of consumers favored not having to pay a monthly service at all. This coupled with the elimination of the Lifetime service, makes me seriously doubt that I'll ever get a TiVo again. I'm not alone, read through the comments on Digg.  The new pricing plan is also causing some confusion (although a Tivo employee clears it up in the comments there).

According to TiVo, this new plan "they have increased the lifetime value of a TiVo customer by over \$100." Well see in the upcoming months if the decision makes an impact on the bottom line. While they may have increase the cost to, I mean value of, each subscriber this may not translate into more subscribers. \

A complete wrap up of the TiVo quarterly call is on Thomas Hawk's Digital connection.\