Jonah Freedman

It's Club World Cup time -- try to stay awake

10:11 AM ET 12.11

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I think I’m through trying to feign excitement over the FIFA Club World Cup. As we’ve said nearly every year, in principle, this is a great tournament and a fun way to match up regional powerhouses that never face each other for global bragging rights. But that’s the trouble -- that’s all that’s at stake.There are too many clubs in action, the timing is inconvenient for players and fans alike, it’s impossible to incentivize the European representative and it’s just plain silly that it has to be in Japan every year (the tournament is shifting to Abu…

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It's Club World Cup time -- try to stay awake

09:59 AM ET 12.11

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This Revolution won't be televised

12:43 AM ET 08.18

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Khano Smith broke one of the primary directives of being a professional athlete: You don’t engage fans who are trying to provoke you. After Saturday night’s tilt between the San Jose Earthquakes and the New England Revolution, I was probably the only journalist who saw the Revs’ big Bermudan striker (pictured) angrily hurl a full bottle of Gatorade at two Quakes fans who were heckling him as he headed toward the locker rooms. Smith made a lot of enemies in the hostile crowd during his team’s 4-0 loss to the Quakes, mostly for shoving San Jose winger Ronnie O’Brien…

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