Feb 03

Glimpse inside Florida courtroom raises more questions in WPS-Borislow case

By Beau Dure soccer 7 Comments »

Today’s espnW story hints at the direction the WPS-Borislow legal proceedings will take in the wake of league’s decision to suspend the 2012 season.

A key issue: Would U.S. Soccer allow exhibition games between a magicJack exhibition team and WPS teams? WPS says definitely not. Borislow’s legal team says it wasn’t cut and dried, and in any case, the court transcripts show that the deal wasn’t even dependent on that.

Look at these court transcripts and decide for yourself. First up, the court hearing that was supposed to be a four-hour session on “irreparable harm” but instead became the announcement of the deal:

Then the telephone conversation between the parties and the judge:

I’d love to hear everyone’s comments.

The other news today: Abby Wambach appeared at a celebration in Kansas City, and ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel was there to get a word with her. The quote getting the most attention:

The truth is that the responsibility is all of ours. Nothing rises or fails with one person. We all need to step back, look at ourselves, and take responsibility for all of the things. Nobody is talking about the amazing things Dan did and how he treated his players. Everybody focuses all the attention on the negative. And that’s not how we’re going to get the WPS back and running. You can’t build something great on negativity. It has to be in a positive manner.

That’s not going to calm magicJack critics, who think players were so content with their salaries and creature comforts that they turned a blind eye to the issues raised by the league, the union, Ella Masar and others. And when you have WPS founders like Peter Wilt saying the whole thing needs to be scaled way back, you have to wonder how many other investors would be willing or able to step forward and match the “amazing things” Wambach’s describing.

But Wambach has also called for people to lose the egos and get past the issues that have come between them. Judge Sasser could very well order people to do that next week. We’ll see how that goes. And as one lawyer says in the transcripts, the devil is in the details.

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Feb 03

Again with the promotion/relegation: Investors STILL needed

By Beau Dure soccer 5 Comments »

I was kidding when I mused aloud about suing a certain promotion/relegation zealot for defamation. I think.

As I’ve said before, the people (particularly the ringleader) of the promotion/relegation movement tend to personalize things. We’re not just idiots if we don’t see how American soccer would obviously be better if everyone saw the “open system” light. We’re on the take from Major League Soccer as part of a grand conspiracy to rid the world of the league system that began when England had too many soccer teams applying for its league.

We soccer journalists can say we like pro/rel but don’t find it feasible in this country at the moment, we can say it might happen someday when we reach critical mass, we can say our income wouldn’t change if MLS were to disappear tomorrow. We could probably even post our tax returns online, and they’d insist that someone from MLS is slipping us cash in a secluded room somewhere.

That’s all a good way of deflecting attention from the fact that we soccer journalists have plenty of evidence — some of it brilliantly compiled this week by Kenn Tomasch — and they have little but a voice in their heads saying, “If you build it, they will come.”

The current argument tack appears to be that they don’t need investors to build a league. They can just change things at the federation level, and then everyone will have to get on board with promotion/relegation.

Just a couple of problems with that thought:

1. Current investors could easily run screaming from such a change.

2. Again, there’s no evidence that we have people who would invest in soccer clubs that want to get promoted. In fact, the current leagues of choice are cheap amateur leagues — PDL, W-League, NPSL, WPSL.

If, over time, these teams find that they’re ready to make the leap up the pyramid, they can. But the vast majority of these clubs are in no position to be forced up the pyramid, and they dang well know it!

Let’s reiterate this:

- You can move up the ladder in American soccer if you have the capital and facilities to do so.

- Most clubs choose not to do so.

So how could anyone think there are tons of investors who would invest in soccer if they had a chance to climb the ladder through on-field performance? They can already do so, and they’re not.

3. U.S. Soccer knows this. So they’re not going to ruin the most stable league they’ve ever had by forcing teams to move up and down.

And no amount of personal attacks, no jabs at MLS’s TV ratings, no scoffing at WPS’s troubles will change those basic facts.

 

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Feb 02

Borislow: Let’s reiterate a deal

By Beau Dure soccer 44 Comments »

On Jan. 18, I reported the following:

Women’s Professional Soccer averted another court date with magicJack owner Dan Borislow on Wednesday, reaching a deal that allows his team to play an exhibition schedule in 2012 and 2013. Borislow said he has put his temporary injunction suit on hold; the suit was intended to stop the termination of his franchise.

The details of the deal need to be finalized and the plan must be approved by U.S. Soccer.

The Deal was first reported by a mysterious Twitter person who has since deleted the tweets. But it was Borislow who was most enthusiastic about it, though our mysterious eyewitness told the world that “Fitz, O’Sullivan all seemed happy.” (That would be Atlanta Beat owner/WPS board chairman T. Fitz Johnson and WPS CEO Jennifer O’Sullivan, of course.)

News of The Deal even reached Deadspin, thanks to the fabulous (and since-departed) Emma Carmichael, with the classic headline “The Banned Boca Raton Women’s Professional Soccer Team Will Keep Playing In Zombie Form.”

And yet WPS, for its part, never publicly acknowledged such The Deal. The league didn’t acknowledge much of anything.

You may have heard this week that the news has turned a little sour.

In Monday’s conference call about WPS suspending its 2012 season, O’Sullivan addressed The Deal: “What the ownership and league have been struggling to do is put the focus back on the players and this game. We were willing to consider that as an option in order to accomplish that goal.”

This morning, we learned from Beat beat writer William Bretherton that WPS owners were downplaying The Deal. And Johnson thought info about The Deal “was put out when it shouldn’t have been.”

That, of course, is the unfortunate part about going to court. If you’re read all the legal docs that I’ve put out through this site and espnW, you’ll see a lot of things that both parties might not want the public perusing. And The Deal can’t be kept secret when it’s being discussed in a public court hearing. As I said to our mysterious Twitter witness, “FINALLY! The deal is public!!!”

The details, though, were not described in public. And William quotes Philly owner David Halstead as saying WPS and Borislow were on different wavelengths.

Want to know what Dan Borislow has to say about The Deal? Let’s check the motion his legal team filed Monday:

The first paragraph complains that WPS is blaming Borislow for the suspension of the season and, for reasons that aren’t clear to me, boasting that Borislow was likely to win his case. The second paragraph says there’s no point in having a Feb. 1 hearing on an injunction if the 2012 season doesn’t exist, suggesting that the parties meet by telephone instead. (That meeting has apparently taken place.)

Then it gets interesting (emphasis mine):

Further, as the parties reported to the Court at the January 16, 2012 hearing, the parties have already reached a complete settlement of this case on agreed terms, certain of which were read into the record. Notwithstanding the latest announcement by Defendant, it continues to be Plaintiffs’ position that this is a settled matter. The only open issue, that is, U.S. Soccer Federation approval, remains pending, and Defendant has a continuing duty to cooperate in good faith in such efforts. It now, however, appears that defendant is attempting to renege on the settlement.

And then the fourth paragraph says, “Hey, we still have a deal.”

So what have they agreed to do, and what might Judge Sasser — who has already ruled against WPS even on issues that seemed to be cut and dried such as jurisdiction of this case — compel WPS to do?

I’ve written a check to the State of Florida and filled out a request form to get audio recordings of the Jan. 16 hearing and the telephone hearing. It might take a few days, but I’ll let you know.

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Jan 23

Solving the CONCACAF scheduling problems

By Beau Dure olympic sports, soccer 2 Comments »

The only people who seem happy with the CONCACAF Olympic women’s soccer qualifying format are the players who have padded their career goal totals against the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.

The mismatches are one problem. Here’s another: If either Canada or the USA should slip up in the final group-stage game, they’ll have to play each other for one berth in the Games.

To make matters worse — if Canada loses tonight against Costa Rica, the USA will be in the situation of getting a much better matchup with a loss than with a win. No one thinks the U.S. women would throw a game for any reason, but just putting them in that situation would be a horrible thing to contemplate.

And then you have a meaningless “final” between two teams that have played four games in a week. Can’t wait to see that one.

Those are the problems. Here’s a solution:

1. Have a Caribbean tournament and Central American tournament for unseeded teams, as we have now. Winners advance.

2. Semifinal round: Caribbean winner, Central American winner and the third- and fourth-seeded teams (most likely Mexico and Costa Rica). Single round-robin, top two advance.

3. Final round: Semifinals winners and top two seeds (most likely the USA and Canada). Single round-robin, top two go to the Games.

Certainly fairer than the European system of basing it solely on World Cup performance. It’ll be a strange Olympic tournament without Germany.

Jan 22

U.S. lineup vs. Guatemala: Some changes, but the right ones?

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Abby Wambach is still in the lineup, exposing her various aches to another game on artificial turf in the midst of a five-game stretch. Not sure that’s a good idea.

There are a few changes:

  • RB: Heather Mitts for the injured Ali Krieger
  • CB: Becky Sauerbrunn for Rachel Buehler
  • LB: Kelley O’Hara for Amy LePeilbet
  • CM: Lori Lindsey for Shannon Boxx
  • RM: Megan Rapinoe for Heather O’Reilly
  • LM: Amy Rodriguez for Tobin Heath
Remaining in lineup along with Wambach: Hope Solo, Christie Rampone, Lauren Cheney, Carli Lloyd.
Jan 22

How education helps athletes

By Beau Dure soccer, sports culture No Comments »

Monica Gonzalez wasn’t writing specifically about high school and college soccer here, but she makes an argument here that bolsters the notion of keeping the USA’s “school and soccer” combination alive:

Education affects sports performance. Think of it as a gym for the mind. Sitting through classes hones concentration. Incorporating studies into life trains discipline and focus. And studying for finals prepares one for stress and pressure. Every player on Canada and the U.S. has either finished college or will soon. I can say the same for only half of the Mexican womens team. Even fewer on the Mexican mens team, but dont get me started on them. Boys are forced to quit school to enter fuerzas basicas, which is the pro system. It is a flaw on the Mexican mens side, but thats another article for another day.

via Monica Gonzalez: CONCACAF must close the disparity gap – espnW.

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Jan 10

Today in WPS and the Florida courts

By Beau Dure soccer 95 Comments »

Dan Borislow won part of his case in Florida, with the court saying WPS improperly terminated his magicJack team while reserving judgment on “irreparable harm” and other issues of the case. A hearing on Jan. 18 will address the rest. (Skip toward the full circuit court ruling if you like.)

This evening, WPS released a statement from CEO Jennifer O’Sullivan:

“We are extremely disappointed with the court’s findings and will consider our legal options.  Mr. Borislow’s abusive behavior and blatant disregard for League rules were a clear breach of contract and led to the Boards’ dismissal of magicJack as a franchise. His statements and actions negatively impacted the league’s business including efforts to attract expansion teams and sponsors, jeopardized player safety and threatened the very integrity of the League.

“WPS owners took several measures to rectify the situation before making the difficult decision to dismiss Mr. Borislow from the League. If the court rules to reinstate the franchise, my fear is that ownership will seriously consider folding the League, thus ending professional soccer for women in the United States.”

No one else has commented today (not to my knowledge, at least — please let me know otherwise), but in checking with several teams, it appears Friday’s draft is still set to go on as scheduled.

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Dec 28

WPS goalkeeping musical chairs

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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 colossal mistake by passing on heralded goalkeeping prospect Bianca Henninger?

A team’s goalkeeping needs may be more obvious than, say, a glaring gap at left wing. But goalkeepers are rarely in demand in the top few selections of the draft.

Check MLS: Out of the 120 top-10 picks of the past 12 years, only six have been goalkeepers. Brad Guzan was the highest pick, going No. 2 in 2005. Adin Brown was No. 3 in 2000. Steve Cronin has bounced between MLS and the second division since being picked No. 10 in 2004. The last three top-10 keepers — Chris Seitz (No. 4, 2007), Josh Lambo (No. 8, 2008) and Zac MacMath (No. 5, 2011) — were picked as prospects.

And that’s no surprise. Goalkeepers typically mature later than field players. We don’t have as much data in women’s soccer as we have in men’s soccer, but it’s safe to say we don’t see a lot of teen phenoms breaking through on the U.S. national team. Hope Solo debuted before age 20 but still wasn’t on the 2004 Olympic roster at age 23.

So if Atlanta is thinking of immediate improvement in goal, would Henninger be the pick? Or would the Beat look for someone who has already gone through the apprentice years?

With only five teams in the league (pending Dan Borislow’s legal action to get magicJack reinstated), you’d have to think goalkeepers would be available. The U.S. player pool lists five goalkeepers, so that’s one per team, right?

Well, no, it’s not that simple. But let’s take a quick look at the goalkeeping pool, focusing with the 13 goalkeepers who saw action in WPS last season. We’ll take into account that some keepers may miss time for the Olympics if the USA and/or Canada can qualify. And if a goalkeeper has retired or definitely isn’t in the mix for the team in question, her name isn’t in italics.

Boston: Has Alyssa Naeher (18 games in 2011) under contract after a successful offseason stint in Europe. Also re-signed backup Kati Jo Spisak, who started a couple of games in 2009 after sticking with the Washington Freedom from its W-League days. Naeher is in the U.S. pool but not in camp, so she’s not expected to miss time in 2012. They’re just looking for a third-stringer. Ashley Phillips played nine games for the Breakers in 2010 and remained on the roster last year along with 2010 third-round pick Kelsey Davis.

Western New York:Like Naeher, Ashlyn Harris (18 games) is in the U.S. pool but unlikely to miss time in 2012. The former Washington Freedom phenom is in U.S. camp, though, so she might get a shot in a friendly or two. She has re-signed for 2012. The Flash had two backups last year — FC Gold Pride alum Brittany Cameron and 2011 draft pick Ashleigh Bowers.

Sky Blue: The Jersey team has Karina LeBlanc (1 game, magicJack) under contract. The former Los Angeles Sol starter, who split time with Val Henderson in Philly in 2010, might miss time if Canada qualifies to the Olympics. Keeper/sweeper Jenni Branam has retired. The question mark is English starter Karen Bardsley (3 games), who played a lot for Sky Blue in 2010 but much less for the club last year due to World Cup duty and Branam’s play. Bardsley is likely to be in London with the one-off Great Britain team; would she want to spend part of the season in the USA? (Bardsley is indeed staying overseas, as Jenna at All White Kit points out.) Sky Blue carried two more keepers last year: Erin Guthrie, who has an FC Gold Pride appearance on her resume, and Kristin Arnold.

Philadelphia: Terrific tandem last year with two-year FC Gold Pride starter and veteran U.S. backup Nicole Barnhart (9 games) and former Los Angeles backup Val Henderson (9 games). Re-signing them would be a great way to signal championship intent this year. Also on the roster last year: Robyn Jones.

That brings us to the team in question …

Atlanta: The Beat’s keepers were certainly busy last year. Allison Whitworth (11 games) had 67 saves; Ali Lipsher (7 games) had 44. Both have experience elsewhere — Whitworth with Gold Pride as Barnhart’s backup, Lipsher with a lot of starts in Boston. They also have one of the two keepers drafted in 2011, Katie Fraine.

So Atlanta could stick with the corps from last season or perhaps take a run at signing Barnhart or Henderson. But then there are all these other keepers in the mix from magicJack, some of whom might not mind signing with a WPS team this season. …

We can probably rule out Brett Maron (4 games), who played for the Beat in 2010 before Hope Solo’s arrival but has signed overseas. Shannon Myers (1 game) also did time in magicJack’s front office and was pressed into service with two goalkeepers out on World Cup duty.

That leaves three big-time goalkeepers, though we don’t know how much interest they’ll have in WPS:

- Jill Loyden (8 games): Hope Solo’s backup with magicJack (and St. Louis before that) and another contender for the U.S. roster.

- Hope Solo (4 games): With magicJack gone, can anyone lure her to play in WPS, or will she work her way back into Olympic shape in residency?

- Erin McLeod (not in WPS): Canadian starter ditched magicJack to go overseas. Would she come back?

We’re dealing with a lot of moving pieces here. But given the talent that’s available, it’s hard to imagine any WPS team going into the draft with the intent of starting a rookie goalkeeper all season.

Chris sees Atlanta passing on Henninger to make the glitzier pick of U.S. national camp-dweller Sydney Leroux. Then Sky Blue could pick Henninger out of the No. 2 spot. That might be for the best all around. Henninger can sub for LeBlanc during the Olympics and maybe even push her for the No. 1 spot, especially later in the season.

Now if the Beat pass up Henninger and fail to pick up Loyden, Solo, McLeod, Barnhart or Henderson, that would be a sign of trouble.

I’m guessing that some of these keepers have actually signed without having that news announced, so please check back for updates.

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Dec 22

WPS vs. the semipros

By Beau Dure soccer 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 seen a return from hibernation from the blogger known as Fake Sigi. (He’s a bit different from the typical “Fake” or “Not” identities that parody Sepp Blatter, Dan Borislow, “soccerreform” and Grant Wahl in that we know his real name and he spends little time mimicking his namesake.)

I’ve seen Fake at the same table as Canadian journalist Duane Rollins, but they still get pretty annoyed with each other. Duane felt compelled to respond to Fake’s post as well as former Whitecaps player Ciara McCormack, who has written one more post arguing directly with Duane and another that mentions the dispute in passing.

So far, though, we haven’t heard anything from the Whitecaps. They’re the ones called “vicious pimps” in Fake’s piece, so you’d think they’d be the most offended party.

But underneath the occasionally amusing insults, we have a fairly legitimate debate. Duane isn’t the only person suggesting that the top North American women’s league should follow more of a semipro model. Peter Wilt, who qualifies as a co-founder of WPS for his work with the Chicago Red Stars, put forth a detailed proposal and sparked an enlightening discussion. Bonnie D. Ford made similar points at espnW and drew a few hostile comments as well as the typical Internet gaggle of juvenile responses.

Here’s the strange part to me: Why are we having this discussion now?

Last year, when the Washington Freedom went up for sale, the Chicago Red Stars self-relegated and FC Gold Pride joined the ranks of the disappeared, the discussion would’ve been timely. This year, all six teams were willing to return — one was told “no thanks” for reasons other than finances. And for the first time in U.S. women’s history, a league was around to absorb a big bump after a big event — one that has much more impact than the World Cup has on MLS.

We’ll have to see how much of that impact carries over into 2012. But here’s the question I haven’t seen addressed: If five ownership groups are willing to gamble on that, why tell them you’d rather go ahead and start the transition to a semipro, scaled-back league now?

On Twitter, I compared the WPS-vs.-semipro debate to 1993, when U.S. Soccer chose between MLS, the existing APSL (A-League) and the rule-bending League One America proposal to leap into the Division I men’s soccer void. They opted for MLS, which was in many senses a leap of faith. It’s easy to say now that men’s soccer is popular in the USA and Canada today. It wasn’t so easy to predict such popularity back in 1993.

I got this response from @DCUWomen:

In 93, men were playing catch up to the world with huge $$ reward a draw… Women is dif biz, needs lower budgets, more teams.

I can see the lower budgets — no one, not even the free-spending Dan Borislow, is suggesting that WPS teams should start shelling out $3 million to $13 million per team like MLS teams did in 2011. But why more teams?

So that’s two questions: Why does WPS need more teams (more than the eight U.S. Soccer is demanding by 2014), and why should the powers that be insist on going semipro if at least eight owners are willing to play legitimate D1 ball by 2014? Anyone have answers?

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Dec 12

WPS vigil’s final hours: The overseas question, U.S. budgets

By Beau Dure soccer 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 board members to chat openly before that meeting, but in the meantime, we’re getting some interesting conversation that relates at least indirectly to the concept of professional women’s soccer:

The Whitecaps’ white hat knocked off? Canadian writer Duane Rollins chatted with Vancouver Whitecaps exec Bob Lenarduzzi recently and confirmed that the Caps aren’t interested in WPS at the moment. Rollins concluded that if the Whitecaps were turning down WPS, perhaps something is wrong with WPS.

Irish-Canadian player Ciara McCormack fired back a response that made other journalists (well, me, anyway) wince in terror. She has had a couple of stints with the Whitecaps and takes issue with the notion that they’re committed to the women’s game or should be considered any sort of bellwether on WPS’s viability. (I’ve asked the club for a response and will post it as soon as I get one.)

McCormack and Rollins have continued a polite but firm discussion about his reporting. I took issue with the shots at Rollins initially (disclaimer: I know him from MLS circles), protesting that he couldn’t have known that the Whitecaps were anything other than a model women’s team that had a lot of terrific players. (One quibble: I don’t think “just a blogger” applies to Rollins. He’s a journalist. And since so much of the best reporting on women’s soccer takes place on blogs — All White Kit, Equalizer, etc. — I don’t see that as a meaningful distinction in the first place.)

But that disagreement has led us all to a larger issue, which McCormack raises: Let’s start talking openly about the conditions of the women’s game. We’ve seen a wall of silence in women’s soccer this year — players who used to be open with the media have been guarded and even cliched, and no one’s willing to talk about the astounding case of Dan Borislow.

Which leads to this curious case:

No peace in Perth: Two international players left the W-League (Australia)’s Perth Glory soon after Sydney FC beat the club 11-0, a score that has never, ever been approached in WPS play. The initial story was that Norway’s Lisa Marie Woods and New Zealand’s Emma Kete were sacked “for the benefit of overall team harmony” after some sort of incident.

Woods and Kete released a joint statement acknowledging that they had a heated argument in their shared living quarters but denied that they had a physical altercation. And they didn’t appreciate their demeanor being questioned. The club apologized, adding this: “We acknowledge that there may be a somewhat disparity between the culture and professionalism of the W-League and what you may have been used to in Europe and that on the pitch and at training you have acted professionally and given it your all.”

How professional is Europe? From a BigSoccer discussion, I was directed to a couple of entertaining reads on how much money players are making in Europe — both in French. At this point, French soccer in particular seems to have a couple of fully professional teams and some that are nowhere near. If you’re looking for an underdog story, consider Juvisy, which leads Lyon in the current French standings despite operating on less than 10% of Lyon’s budget.

The tips came from a BigSoccer reader who goes by “Katreus,” whose Twitter feed is a recommended follow. Also from Katreus comes this shocker:

Pro women’s soccer in Los Angeles! Ali Riley, Christen Press, Rebecca Moros, Sarah Huffman, Jen Buczkowski, Tina DiMartino, Val Henderson and other WPS veterans — all on the same team? Yes indeed. This makeshift squad will apparently play Mexico and Trinidad/Tobago in friendlies in January. They also have really ambitious plans for 2012, trying to bring Sweden, Canada and Mexico to California for a December tournament.

And they apparently scrimmaged against the U.S. women’s team recently. Here’s some footage. The U.S. defense might want to watch that counterattack.

Safe to say I’m looking into this. If you have more info, please share.

The petition drive. Former Boston Breakers exec Andy Crossley isn’t impressed with the WPS petition drive or the idea that women’s soccer should be sold as a “cause.” I don’t think Andy — who has already shared plenty of WPS info in his piece on FC Gold Pride and his interviews with former Gold Pride exec Ilisa Kessler and player/journalist Tiffany Weimer — would object to me saying his piece raises more questions than answers.

One thing I’ve kicked around in my head: Many sports teams are owned out of affectations. Russian moguls lavish luxuries on women’s basketball players. Barcelona’s finances are questionable. Plenty of American sports teams lose money. And some — from Manchester City to magicJack — are essentially loss leaders for companies.

Given that, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to reach out to the Ellens and Oprahs of the world. Ellen DeGeneres has a show to advertise. Oprah has a fledgling cable network that needs to advertise. If one of them were to buy a WPS team and operate it for roughly the same money that Puma spent each of the past three years to equip WPS teams and then have stores that don’t even offer soccer gear, would that be such a bad investment?

And for many fans, petitions are all they can do. It’s not reasonable to ask someone in Seattle to buy Sky Blue season tickets. That fan can only support the league by watching games and possibly buying merchandise.

So maybe instead of U.S. Soccer requiring a season-ticket drive, it should require a merchandise drive? Get all 45,000-plus signees to buy a T-shirt?

It’s moot at this point, anyway. The call is due to start in less than an hour. We might hear nothing tonight, or U.S. Soccer could just punt a decision once again. Or the next few hours could be the most important in league history.

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