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Soccer is one of the only team sports where participation has increased over its pre-pandemic numbers (and flag football is really a one-off because it has only recently developed as an approved girls' sport at the high school and college levels).
New youth sports data is out from @AspenInstSports via @TheSFIA. Findings from 2025 include:
Tennis & golf participation surges
Flag football keeps growing
Low-income kids are being left behind
Fewer adults are coaching
My analysis: projectplay.org/news/youth-s…
A reminder that the Fall-Spring D1 men’s soccer plan is not quite a done deal. If the NCAA allowed it, the compromise solution would be for some of these programs/conferences to drop a division, while remaining D1 in other sports
Men's college soccer celebrated its move to a fall-spring season. But behind the scenes, there's a strong push to block it.
~150 schools have submitted rescission votes. The NCAA D-1 board will discuss today.
News + explainer, free to read @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/7726710…
The World Series matchup might not help the owners' case for a salary cap, but it might help the players' case for a higher salary floor as the Guardians total payroll was more than $20M less than the Rays.
As I have been saying for awhile, it's hard to confidently count out Infantino. Most predictions of his demise come from a Eurocentric understanding of the governance/power structure that's not reflective of the way the system works on paper and in reality. 1/
Most football fans detest Gianni Infantino. But the Swiss son of poor Italian immigrants may be exactly the FIFA president that most national football federations want. Me @FT on how power in the global game works, and why he's likely to survive. Free link as.ft.com/r/ccedc296-d545-4f…
Moreover, the Man City scandal (which is likely unique only in scale, not type, in Europe) suggests both that European football is hardly morally pure in separating money and football and may not be independent enough from other regions to spin-off from FIFA 4/4
To clarify, the Eurocentric view is that because Europe has the best leagues, players, and biggest TV contracts, if UEFA is united against Infantino, he's out even though UEFA voters have no more power (and fewer total voters) than voters in other regions
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It's always been about the money, with the real sticking point between the confederations and FIFA being the amount of money
🚨Exclusive: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has opened the door to increased money distribution from the governing body's $6bn reserves. This comes after calls from UEFA, Concacaf & AFC to do so. Full story @TheAthleticFC: nytimes.com/athletic/7640715…
I’m sure this is at the top of Infantino’s agenda for the “independent” FIFA reform process he has indicated willingness to consider
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been accused of “woefully inadequate” levels of co-operation after failing to satisfactorily respond to an attempt by Democratic members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to scrutinise FIFA’s relationship with the Trump administration.
Exclusive story from @AdamCrafton_ ⬇️
bit.ly/4hn5YYv
This is like when the club director informs the parents that they are not allowed to ask their coach about substitutions and playing time and the coach, hearing no complaints from the parents, assumes everyone is happy
Corner Kicks as a tie breaker at the end of overtime? I did not know the NCAA used that instead of a PK shootout!
My guess is the reason Leonard got off easy is that the NBA crafted the punishment to make sure the Players Ass'n would not challenge it under the CBA, which would be the best legal recourse to overturn it. It's deliberately easy on the player, but hard on the owner and the team.
Did Kawhi get off easy with a $700K fine from the NBA in the Clippers' salary cap circumvention case? 🤔
@KellyIko has more: yhoo.it/4iKsooI
Infantino's violations of FIFA regulations and questionable ethics positions were reported back in 2016, as well as his undermining of the FIFA reforms by threatening removal of the independent committee chairs/members, leading many to resign. No one should be surprised by this.
Avsløring: Hemmelig lydbåndopptak: Detaljerte beskrivelser av Infantinos brudd på FIFAs regelverk idrettspolitikk.no/2026/09/0…
It's almost like owners saw the proposal from last summer to limit the amortization of intangibles in the sales of pro teams from 100% to 50% and figure it's better to get sales done before that change comes back.
Stan Kroenke’s reach in Southern California is getting bigger.
The Rams owner has agreed to buy the Angels, extending KSE’s footprint from SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park into Orange County’s 3M+ person market.
ow.ly/H1J950ZHWQX
This is potentially huge - US Soccer returning to youth soccer after abandoning DA in the pandemic. Going through USYSA offers a chance to regionalize, which reduces costs, and revive ODP as an ID pathway, but true progress requires coordination w/ other platforms 1/
U.S. Soccer is on the verge of taking over the U.S. Youth Soccer Association.
A significant, historic step toward a re-wiring of America's youth soccer system — but it comes w/ many unknowns.
News, details, explanations, etc. free to read @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/7545747…
There's some legal risks to coordinating rigid pathways (if the Ted Stevens Act doesn't provide antitrust protection), but it doesn't sound like that is what they propose. Backing off the calendar year age group dogma demonstrated flexibility, not rigidity, is the key here. 3/