All-time NWSL Salary Cap chart. Maximum Cap Spend since 2013: $208,318,500. NWSL Columbus Expansion Fee: $205,000,000. Note: Max spend not mandated. 2025 and 2026 includes mandated revenue-sharing supplements. Does not include future HIP rule payments.
Columbus' NWSL Expansion Fee pays for every NWSL player's salary every year since the beginning of NWSL.
Imagine all the positive things - for the team itself, for their community, the world at large, whatever - that could be done with $205 million/[insert grotesque expansion fee figure for other sports here] dollars instead of *checks notes* lining the pockets of already obscenely rich team owners.
The children have to learn about 'Tek War' sooner or later
Cool press photo eBay listing, Strikers v Vancouver 86ers in '94.
Whitecaps-possibly-moving scenario especially sad if it happens. They've basically been around since '74, disappeared because NASL1.0 dissolved, 86ers came in 2 yrs later, eventually took on 'Caps name & lasted til MLS move in 2011
Hopefully Columbus govt/team ownership does better at keeping public-space/park related promises than a certain pink MLS team has done in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties in FL
Since the mens team got delayed and the Super League playoffs are basically out of reach, beating them in the last matchup and finishing ahead of Tampa Bay is my USL Cup for 2026 lol
#FTLUTD
On the Bob Ross streaming channel (PlutoTV, Roku etc) it’s obviously been run thru some kind of filter, weird artifacts etc. super off putting and gross
hey so whoever the person is who decided The Joy of Painting needed AI upscaling belongs on the Mount Rushmore of pieces of shit
"Hello Kitty U.S. Soccer" reads like the Asian guy t-shirts on The Simpsons
You all know what I think so I won't add any additional opinion to this, but here's a rough approximation of how the current summer soccer calendar (MLS/NWSL) compares to the Fall-Spring (USLSL) version (and other major sports)
#NWSL #MLS #USL #USSoccer
I mean the weather is a challenge yes but that's not what I was pointing out here.
Besides, there will be a winter break of some sort if they do it Florida still misses most the best time to be sitting outside here anyway.
Well that's interesting
ok, which one of you messed with the timeline?
I’d like to remind everyone that Rachel Robinson is still alive 103 years old, and this day also belongs to her ❤️❤️
Happy Jackie Day!
If you like baseball, do yourself a favor and visit Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, fabulous place to watch a game.
(also really cool that Jupiter is playing Palm Beach today at Dodgertown in Vero Beach)
Basketball has to reduce the number of timeouts per team to like, 1 per game or something lol the endgame phase is beyond tedious
CC: NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL - don't gimme any current or planned "in-season tournament" nonsense, do a real cup, I wanna see the Lakers getting knocked out at the buzzer in Sioux Falls
Reminder that the USOC is the only thing like it in all of American professional sports and is absolutely fantastic even in current watered-down form and every other domestic sport should have a similar competition wherein big league teams not only play but often travel to face lower league teams
I made a Manchester joke re: this recently trademarked slogan earlier but I'll also accept "The FC Made With AI"
*contract
Maybe they ignored part of their contact with him, like they have with various local government entities lol
"The FC Made In NYC, Manchester, England, UK" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well I suppose
Somebody put in a new ™ for "Boston Braves Football Club".
Unsure if it has anything to do with that new New England league thing, but as a baseball nerd I find it interesting.
Fun fact: the left field stand & a building behind it from the stadium the MLB team now in ATL used is still there
Good read here.
Kudos to Hummel and other smaller suppliers like them for doing it the right way.
Un-kudos to pudding-brained clubs buying plain Nike shirts and slapping a badge on them.
I'm not opposed to this.
I'd also accept streamlining the entire international ecosystem and properly connecting the World Cup to the 6 continental championships, with only the 6 current title holders participating, doing away with seperate qualifying competitions entirely.
At a glance or in small applications this looks like either the current Inter Milan roundel or the VW logo.
Major downgrade.
Me to every single Panthers/Heat fan actively hoping the teams lose games this week so they *might* get better draft picks
Ok I needed this angle because I could not for the life of me decipher whatever FoxTrax nonsense was happening in the orginal clip lol
