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  15. Zips in the MLS, NASL, USLPro 2012 Season Thread

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    Thanks for the news Bobby. But, as much as I hate the Galaxy, they were one of only two teams (Chivas the other) available on Fox West/Prime Ticket -- and even though Time Warner is the ONLY cable provider in Hawaii, the CA TW broadcasts are not available here. So why am I paying over $100 a month for this system??? :gun:

    Pay the $51 for Matchday Live. The LA games that are on TWC aren't blocked out. The only games blocked out are the games on ESPN, NBCSports, Galavision/Univision, and home Crew games. I think the Canadian games are blocked out every now and then when they're on TSN. I <3 Matchday Live.

  17. Zips in the MLS, NASL, USLPro 2012 Season Thread

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    Donovan Ricketts will be with the Jamaican National Team May 27 - June 14, let's hope Evan Bush can get some playing time.

    Vancouver wrote an article featuring Darren Mattocks: Coming of age, Youngsters Mattocks, Salgado impress in Seattle draw

    “Darren Mattocks was fantastic,” head coach Martin Rennie told reporters after Saturday’s match. “His movement – He was so sharp. He got in great positions, an obvious area he has to improve upon. He caused them all sorts of problems, as did Omar on the other side.

    Fast Forward to 1:33

  19. Zips in the MLS, NASL, USLPro 2012 Season Thread

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    I'm not sure if this topic deserves its own thread, but I'm returning to the subject of MLS television coverage in 2012. It appears (now that I'm back on "American" soil), that not only has Fox lost MLS coverage on its premier soccer vehicle (the one called "Fox SOCCER Network"), but also on it's regional networks. This is clearly more than just a loss for Fox, but a huge loss for MLS! For example, Fox West and Prime Ticket were the regional broadcasters of both Los Angeles franchises, but now, best as I can make out both the LA Galaxy and Chivas USA have NO local TV coverage any longer. How can that possibly be a good thing for Major League Soccer? Are the Columbus Crew still having their games broadcast by Fox, or some other regional TV Net? Whether or not Fox gave MLS the respect it may have deserved is now reduced to the quest for any day-to-day coverage whatever. Rather than competing with Premier League, Serie A, and whatever other stuff FSC had on it's lineup, MLS must now compete against the NHL, cycling, all kinds of outdoor stuff, and gets probably less than 2% of the NBCSN's time whereby they were a daily feature at least on Fox Soccer with highlights, rebroadcasts and regular ads/teasers for upcoming games. All this (the changeover) seemed to happen with no foremention to fans. Yes -- they Foxed up again -- but the real losers seem to be US soccer fans (again!).

    edit/addendum: Looking at the Galaxy and Chivas TV schedules, I see that Chivas is still having SOME of their games (about 1/2) broadcast by Fox West or Prime Ticket, while the Galaxy has gone exclusively to a local L.A. station for local broadcast. I wonder if Becks, Keane and Donovan no longer sell outside LA County.

    It's the opposite of what you think. The Galaxy landed a deal with Time Warner Cable for all of their local home games. A 10 year deal worth $55 million.

    Fox Sports Ohio upgraded their Crew coverage by adding the Cleveland market this year. Sucks for those with Matchday Live because home games are now blocked out in the Akron area.

  21. Conference Re-Alignment?

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    Everything I've read has the ACC as the destination for ND if they were to ever join a conference. I think if that happened, it would turn into a Big 5 landscape. The Big East would be 100% dead.

    I disagree. Who will the ACC's top team play if they don't make it to the 4 team tournament? According to the new arrangement between the Big12 and SEC, it wont be a top team from those conferences. Big10 and Pac12 are going to do the same thing leaving the ACC with the Big East.

  23. Conference Re-Alignment?

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    With apologies to The Smiths, how soon is 1963?

    What I mean to say is that they'll announce the continuance of the Rose Bowl game, but with similar rules to the Big12 v SEC game. i believe they're going to shut out teams from other conferences from participating in their bowl games.

    ACC will have the Big East, which means the teams leaving the Big East for the ACC didn't really benefit much. Notre Dame is the biggest loser out of all of this.

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