March is finally here! That means we’re just 16 days away from the start of the real season! The sun’s rising earlier, birds are waking my dogs up at like 6:30 a.m., I’ll have to start doing yardwork again soon, and so on. No, it’s not spring yet, but I’m very much ready for it to be here. When I was in school, spring was both great and bad because I love being outside and very quickly lose interest in things that I was supposed to be doing like studying for exams and stuff. I managed fine, but it was a struggle to read my notes or a textbook when I could be outside drinking beer or gambling on horses or playing golf or something. Spring is the best. Come on, spring.
- Like kudzu or The Blob, the USL just can’t stop growing. El Paso will have a team starting in 2019, and Albuquerque apparently isn’t far behind. Get your Jesse Pinkman jokes ready.
- Louisville City is expanding its broadcast partnership with iHeart Radio. Key takeaways: JOC will have a Monday night radio show, Soccer City Radio is moving to Thursday nights, and Jeff Milby is leaving us for Richmond, VA for some reason. Good luck to Jeff!
- Slow news day in the lower division soccer world, y’all. Here, have a funny cat gif: