[SirFozzie]

Let's see.. what's news:

Rumors have it that English Championship side West Bromwich Albion (WBA was relegated from the Premier League last year) has tabled a $2 Million dollar bid for KC's Eddie Johnson. (Considering EJ's slide over the last year, how MLS hasn't accepted this yet is surprising)

The Scottish Premier League want to absorb 10 more teams from the Scottish League system to form a 2nd division of the SPL, where the SPL would have 12 teams, the SPL2 would have 10, and one team would be promoted/relegated. (So all that would change really is the name of the 2nd division from Scottish First Division to the SPL2, and who would run it, from the FA to the SPL teams.. (confused))

Owen Hargreaves has asked to speak with Bayern Munich management in an effort to push his bid to leave the team to join Manchester United.

The EPL kicks off this weekend, and for EPL fans, if you have DirecTV, you won't miss many games as between Setanta Sports and Fox Soccer Channel, 8 of the 10 games being played in week one will be shown live on one of the two channels. How much overload is there? Setanta is in final stages of negotiations with DirecTV to provide a second channel on the lineup to be used when there is two games Setanta has rights to at the same time.

Speaking of Setanta and 2nd channels, rumor has it with all the leagues that they now have rights to, that they will be adding another channel, called Setanta Sports Extra, and will be populating that with Rugby and Gaelic Football and Hurling, along with Aussie Rules Football. Kinda like the evolution of Fox Sports World into Fox Soccer Channel, except they'll just move the other stuff over to Setanta Extra instead of dropping them.