And we bid a fond farewell to The Ultimate Fighter on Spike. This is the final episode (not counting the finale, which is basically a “Fight Night” card) that will air before the UFC takes its programming over to the…
Monthly Archives: November 2011
The WPS vigil: Nov. 30 update
by Beau Dure • • 5 Comments
The WPS saga is starting to creep out beyond the women’s soccer media into some other outlets: The Soccer America headline ”History isn’t on WPS’s side” doesn’t quite tell you what’s in Paul Kennedy’s analysis. History isn’t on WPS’s side in…
All the Borislow-WPS legal documents (so far)
by Beau Dure • • 6 Comments
Plenty of people have been asking to see the exhibits. Careful what you wish for. See the whole thing at Scribd. Some language NSFW. Links to the individual documents follow (since I can’t get the Scribd widget to embed here)…
The WPS vigil: Nov. 29 update
by Beau Dure • • 5 Comments
Being a fan of women’s soccer is a bit like being a fan of quality television like Community or quality music like Metric. You see how smart people react when they’re exposed to it, and you don’t understand why billionaires…
WPS rips Borislow in legal documents
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
Update: My story on the situation has been posted at espnW. For those just joining us: Dan Borislow, who turned the Washington Freedom into a star-studded South Florida team called magicJack last year, is suing WPS over his termination from…
The war on nonrevenue sports
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
“ When football/basketball overspend and can’t be rainmakers — Maryland lifts ax over eight sports: wapo.st/tmLugp Beau Dure November 21, 2011 3:46:10 PM EST
Borislow: Reasons WPS is dead, how to save it
by Beau Dure • • 21 Comments
Update: From Philadelphia – “The accusation that the franchise offered $6,000 to a WNT member for the year is completely false. The Independence has been in talks with WNT members and none of them have been offered the amount put…
MLS Cup: An experiment
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
The idea is to cut the clutter. I’m not going to give you every shot, foul, etc. I’m going to give you the score, a sense of who has the better of the run of play (the more arrows, the…