Chris Henderson (not the MLS veteran) follows women’s college soccer in rather remarkable detail, and I’m absolutely not qualified to question his selections in AWK’s 2012 WPS Mock Draft v1.0. But one point is provocative: Would the Atlanta Beat make a…
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Myriad most popular: 2011
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
By popular demand (well, some demand, anyway), I’m going through the stats to see what you read on SportsMyriad this year. Traffic was down just a little year over year, which isn’t surprising even though the blog didn’t operate all…
SportsMyriad in 2012: Keep me in your RSS reader
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Through it’s 21-month existence, SportsMyriad has seen erratic activity — flurries of posts, then very little. I’d expect the first couple of months of 2012 to veer toward “very little.” I really need to sit down and wrap up my…
WPS vs. the semipros
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
We’ve all lived ten days since I last posted about WPS and nine days since WPS owners accepted U.S. Soccer’s terms for Division I sanctioning, and yet the debate doesn’t seem to have changed. One reason it’s still going: We’ve…
WPS vigil’s final hours: The overseas question, U.S. budgets
by Beau Dure • • 4 Comments
The U.S. Soccer board will go into a conference call this evening to discuss Topic A in the U.S. women’s soccer community: Will WPS get a waiver to continue as a Division I league with five teams? Don’t expect any…
WPS: It’s pretty much officially not going to be six teams in 2012
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
The reason given for the delay in WPS sanctioning was to give the league time to line up a sixth team. That has not happened. Here’s WPS CEO Jennifer O’Sullivan: While our discussions with expansion candidates continue to be positive,…
Great time for promotion/relegation fans to step up
by Beau Dure • • 17 Comments
Because I wrote a book about Major League Soccer that sold at least 10 copies and long held a position in which USA TODAY tolerated a small amount of soccer writing, I’m something of a lightning rod for what we…
The only MMA conference call transcript you’ll ever need
by Beau Dure • • 3 Comments
(Classical music fades in and out as if on a distant radio station. It abruptly stops at times, raising hopes that call is about to begin. Then it restarts, dashing those hopes. … 10-15 minutes after the scheduled start time,…