Some News for Wed Dec 9, 2009
du Nord, December 9, 2009
STARTERSThe Guardian is reporting that Everton is in the final stages of signing Landon Donovan on a loan deal in January.dNNot a single home team won in the 8 UEFA Champions League games yesterday. What are the odds of that going down?!?! The road teams got 6 wins and 2 ties. Amazing! See UEFA Champions League section for details.dNThe Kartik Report has an article on the USL filing a lawsuit against 3 teams that have fled their First Division in the recent weeks to join the breakaway NASL.THIS IS MY DEAL ABOUT HOW TEAMS SHOULD BE NAMED IN AMERICASeveral folks from St Louis emailed me about dogging their new team's name, AC St Louis, and countered me by saying the Missouri Athletic Club is a well known name of a sports organization in their area. The team even included that justification in their press releases. OK, thats cool.But I say this: If there wasn't a world-wide-ultra-popular team called AC Milan would they ever in a million years come up with AC St Louis on their own? Nope.dNAs a follow up to that.