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Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket Exactly. 20/20 cricket is such a marketable sport, virtually untapped here in the US. A new frontier, so to speak, in the world of US sports.

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket First off, I never said cricket is currently surpassing soccer in the US. Of course soccer is years ahead because they have been given so many opportunities to succeed in the US and have failed many times. 20/20 cricket has never been given an...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay So the LPGA and WTA are not viable business models and women don't watch womens tennis and/or womens golf?? Interesting. Not to mention womens AVP volleyball. Oh wait, never mind, no one wants to watch scantily clad fit women jump up and down hitting a ball...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay Yes it does because WUSA was a US professional soccer league. World Cup is not a US professional league. If you want to bring in World Cup in the discussion, then I will bring in the Olympics. How well did the US soccer team do in the 2004 Olympics? Oh...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay Because we're talking about the US sports market, and comparing US soccer, to US hockey and US cricket. World Cup has no business in this discussion.

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay WUSA is a part of professional soccer in the United States of America. And I repeat "Soccer, not just MLS, but soccer as a whole professional entity in the US, has failed in the past", and history will repeat itself and the MLS will fail, and you can thank...

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket I fully got the context, but what you thought I was advocating was totally wrong. Cricket isnt signing anybody with the $1 million "proposed" dollars. Organic growth for cricket will go nowhere. It needs national attention/marketing and...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay Soccer, not just MLS, but soccer as a whole professional entity in the US, has failed in the past: WUSA = failed NPSL = failed WISL = failed NASL = failed And why do you keep bringing the World Cup into the argument? We are talking about US sports...

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket Im sorry did I miss something here, when did Romario and Baggio play in the MLS?? That IS what we are talking about, MLS, right?? At least that is what Im referring to. MLS signing washed up players like Beckham will be the demise of the league...

Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket You're not even close to what I was advocating and not even close to comparing it to Beckham. "Show me the money" means give the US something to acheive at the end of the rainbow. Give the US an incentive to want to learn to play cricket and be...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay None taken. If we're taking into consideration all professional soccer(MLS, MISL,etc) in the US and all professional hockey(NHL,ECHL,etc) in the US, there is no way soccer will surpass ice hockey. Professional soccer has a ton of ground to catch up to...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay No. Predicting that soccer will leave ice hockey in the dust is a hilarious prediction.

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay I'm willing to bet on the demise of MLS. Beckham is an over-rated, washed-up, glitter boy, which many of us Americans have seen before getting huge contract deals and not doing jack on the field. Once the US soccer fans gets whiff of this, bye-bye MLS. I...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay OK. I will confess that attendance/ticket sales will be up this coming year if/when Beckham hits the field. And most of those ticket sales will be ticket brokers / scalpers, by the way. But that is 6-7 months away. Alot can happen between now and then...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay NHL is also carried on Fox Sports Network, a HUGE sports channel, comparable to ESPN and all the other big sports channels, that most everyone here in the US subscribes to. And don't even start with this Beckham "deal" thats on the news today. He will be...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay Comcast may carry it, just like Time Warner carries Univision, but OLN is a majority owned Canadian cable channel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLN http://www.tsn.ca/oln/ Get your facts straight dude. I was only kidding around.

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay You're right it won't be mainstream like MLB, NFL, NBA, but it will be mainstream like minor league baseball...marketable, competitive, and enjoyed by those who apperciate the game.

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay Soccer is played in stadiums, hockey in arenas. Big difference in seating capacity, as I have stated before. So what if "friendly matches" have drawn large crowds. You're talking about one single game, compared to many games being played, every night, in...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay OK, screw 20/20 cricket here in the US. I have the answer to solve all the problems with cricket in the US...BaseCricketBall. Its a hybrid of baseball and cricket. Just like the movie BASEketball, made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone from South Park, where they...

Re: Twenty/20 - its here to stay OK. If you want to talk non-MLS, then what about non-NHL, and all the minor/junior hockey league teams/games that are here in the US?? Tons of them. Sorry my friend, hockey wins again, hands down.