Aubrey made $75,000 base salary and $93,500 total with Toronto FC in Major League Soccer in 2017 before leaving soccer and eventually transitioning to the NFL

Just in time for Tax Day, my new book, High Rates and Low Taxes: Tax Dodging in Mid-Century America (Cambridge University Press 2026) is now out

Sounds like FIFA is contemplating asking Trump to declare a form of domestic "Olympic Truce" during the World Cup

Just in time for Tax Day, my new book, High Rates and Low Taxes: Tax Dodging in Mid-Century America (Cambridge University Press 2026) is now out

Celtic ace Auston Trusty says his big sister was his big footballing inspiration Defender is the youngest of six sporting siblings and has a lot to thank his big sister for.

According to this, Trusty didn't make the move from forward to defender until he was 16

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/footba...

If you want to go crazy, I think Auston Trusty played as a forward growing up

While I'm not sure marketing or branding is an art or a science, this sounds like they came up with Mutiny for somewhat logical reasons for Tampa Bay and then someone higher up - MLS? Nike? Ownership? - intervened and decided it had to be changed at the last minute and they pivoted to this

Fair enough. It would make "little" sense (putting asidewhether Iran is serious about sending a team).

See above. It makes no sense to move group stage games when elimination round games are also in that country. If the basis for decision is host country actions, then stripping hosting rights is the only thing that makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is to grant an individual nation's request to move the country for its group games, especially with elimination rounds played in that country. If, on the other hand, the move is based on host country actions, they should strip the country of hosting rights.

FIFA opened itself up to this kind of request when it started multi-country hosting, but it would make no sense for FIFA to set a precedent like this

Either this means there are serious problems on the horizon for the World Cup or the State Department does not consider the Concacaf Champions Cup to be a "major sporting event" even though it's an event hosted by one of FIFA's confederations.

The 2d Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled the date for oral argument as April 22, 2026 in NASL's appeal of its antitrust case against US Soccer. That's a little over 8.5 years since the complaint was first filed.

The trustees of Rocco Commisso's estate must consider NASL's lawsuit against US Soccer to be an asset that justifies them continuing to spend legal fees pursuing its appeal b/c the parties are still submitting filings with the 2nd Cir. about scheduling it for oral argument

There have been other instances when World Cup qualifiers withdrew - for example, India withdrew in 1950 after qualifying by default because the other teams in its group had already dropped out - but this situation, especially given the involvement of a co-host, is unprecedented

Maybe his kids go to Wonderland Elementary in Laurel Canyon. I'm picturing a cafeteria worker named Alice who makes a mean cheesy pillow.

You know that Infantino's actions have become brazenly close to or over the line when the IOC is the one to investigate him for violating the organization's political neutrality requirement.

Question is whether this would backfire by putting pressure on Republican Senators in swing states who try to slow things down until after the midterms.

True, but I was just saying the money was too tempting for someone else not to try given that the ruling is supposed to provide some runway for them to do so. In other words, Real Madrid ending the fight doesn't mean someone else won't try it.

We're talking about different things. Those all reasons to bet on UEFA, for now, on the politics and public opinion against a parallel system, but not on the law. On those matters, however, there's love for UEFA's function, but not UEFA. Another org could compete to do it better.

My point is that a settlement is not because the court rulings have gone UEFA's way. Quite the contrary. Indeed, UEFA's status as both regulator and competitor makes them more susceptible than the NFL, although, like the NFL, UEFA could adapt, acquire, outlast or suppress competitors in other ways

The legal rulings in this case ensure that someone will try again to create a version of the Super League. There's simply too much money at stake for no one one to contest UEFA's right to capture all of it and the courts offered hope and a possible pathway for success.

The "settlement" part of this would be Atlanta United agreeing to drop its complaint against Botafogo with FIFA, which is presumably necessary to get FIFA to remove its transfer ban

On a quick read, I thought your were referring to Gianni Infantino and wondered what he's done now to go rogue after the made-up FIFA Peace Prize debacle

This has basically been the swimming/US version of soccer's European Super League case

You're probably right, but at best you're talking about someone buying a small multi-family low-rise building to collect rental income while living in one of the units

Does he mean over their lifetimes they have bought and sold multiple homes? Even then, even five over a lifetime would be a lot and I'm not sure how it supports any point he could be making here.

I'm shocked. He was a passionate soccer supporter and a thorn in U.S. Soccer's side at a time when it probably needed it

I'm kind of wondering whether the UCLA ROTC students he was training with had to change their kettle bell swing form to match Hegseth's so he wouldn't look out of place.

This only makes FIFA look worse ironically as the public wonders about the connection between the Administration’s move to dismiss the cases and FIFA and Infantino’s moves to placate Trump