Breaking News: Fox Soccer Channel has beaten ESPN to the US TV rights to the UEFA Champions League. This is a massive coup for Fox Soccer Channel and a huge blow for ESPN. Plus this is the second time in 2 weeks that ESPN has lost Champions League rights to Fox. Just two weeks Fox […]

Fox Soccer Channel, ESPN and Setanta Sports were in heated discussions Tuesday to acquire the US TV rights to UEFA's Champions League. The three sports networks attended SportelAmerica, an industry conference held in Miami Beach, Florida. EPL Talk and MLS Talk were the only members of the American media at the conference. While ESPN are […]

EPL Talk and MLS Talk attended the 2009 SPORTEL America conference the past several days. Here are some of the points of conversation. Typically we don't report on gossip on this site (other sites specialize in that) but we felt the need to bring you some of this information as one of the few American […]

The game Thursday night in Seattle is a big deal, it involves much more than just a soccer game between Seattle and NY. Media will be forced to cover the game and the after-effects of the game. It will have to be a part of Sportscenter and all the talking heads shows of Friday's […]

Kartik Krishnaiyer and I went down to Miami yesterday morning to attend the SportelAmerica Conference where we interviewed executives from Setanta Sports and GolTV as well as former World Soccer editor Keir Radnedge and a few surprise guests. We covered a lot of news. The biggest headline was that the US TV rights to the […]

Tuesday Night's CONCACAF Champions League semifinal match was easy on the eye especially if you have the luxury of watching in HD as I did on Telefutura for much of the match. Bill Gaudette had another spectacular match in goal for the Islanders making several point blank saves and organizing his defense exceptionally well on […]

West Ham fans must be some of the hardest-suffering supporters on the planet. The “Academy of Football” enjoys a sterling reputation for developing talent. No less than 8 of the 23-man squad called up for the Spain Friendly had ties to The Upton Park outfit, many of them coming through the youth set-up. Despite a […]

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We are all wondering about the possibility of Hertha providing a surprise winner to one of Europe's premier leagues. With 10 games to go, it becomes feasible that we can map it out and give a best guess as to the possibility. If we take a look at the fixtures, it is not only possible, […]

Could this be Manchester City's new home shirt for the 2009-10 season? We knew that Le Coq Sportif had been dropped in favor of Umbro, and that Thomas Cook's days as the shirt sponsor were numbered. And that Man City had talks with Etihad Airlines. But is the above photo the genuine article or a […]

The big day has finally arrived. The first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League semifinal will feature the Puerto Rico Islanders of our USL versus Cruz Azul of the dominant FMF. Puerto Rico was able to handle Santos Laguna at home during the group stages in a game which ended with typically unsporting play and […]

Peter Wilt, the President/CEO/Part owner of the Chicago Red Stars of WPS joins us to talk about the new team as well as the history of the Chicago Fire, an organization he ran from its inception until a few seasons ago. A can't miss podcast for any fan of the game from the Chicago-land area […]

Podcast Interview with Peter Wilt regarding the Chicago Red Stars and the history of the Chicago Fire: LATE MONDAY Preview of Puerto Rico's CONCACAF semi-final clash with Cruz Azul: TUESDAY MLS Western Conference Preview: WEDNESDAY MLS Eastern Conference Preview: THURSDAY A Look Around CONCACAF: FRIDAY Thank you for your continued patronage of Major League Soccer […]

Read through the following news headlines from this past weekend that I handpicked. Enjoy. "Humiliated Sir Alex Ferguson Laments Scheduling" (The Times). Fergie shows what a sore loser he is after the Liverpool match by refusing to be interviewed by Sky Sports because of the early Saturday afternoon kick-off. For all the praise Ferguson gets, […]

Sepp Blatter doesn't know when to shut up. The Anglophobic President of FIFA has now extended his war against English speaking peoples across the pond in attacking Major League Soccer. Blatter believes MLS should move to what he refers to as a "traditional calender." What exactly is the traditional calender? Is it the calender that […]