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Why MLS needs to give up its TV dreams

Let the people have soccer

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Brendan Dentino
May 11, 2025
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San Diego FC’s first game in franchise history, in Los Angeles against LA Galaxy, was starting in thirty minutes. One hundred-and-twenty miles south, in downtown San Diego, I couldn’t find a place to watch it. 

“What channel?” the bartender at an Irish pub asked me, after I had asked him to put the game on.

“It’s not on any channel,” I said. How was I to …

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