Subject: Major League Soccer

• Geezer Butler Rules

  September 20, 2007

• St. Louis Going Balls Out for Soccer Team

  October 16, 2008

• St. Louis Women's Soccer Team is called "Athletica"

  Nearly two months after it acquired players, the St. Louis franchise of the Women's Professional Soccer League finally has a name. Henceforth, our team shall be known as St. Louis Athletica. "People ask, 'Is that even a word?'" said team president Jeff Cooper at a press conference at the Missouri Athletic Club this afternoon. "Well, it is now."

  November 25, 2008

• Thursday, March 12: Morning's Newz

  Police in Maryland Heights are on the lookout for the "feces bandit" -- a suspect accused of spreading human excrement in Wesport Plaza bathrooms. The bandit has also been leaving his (or her) "trail" on vending machines on college campuses. Terry Sedlacek, the man charged with gunning down the Rev. Fred Winters during a church service Sunday in Maryville, pleaded "not guilty" yesterday to charges of murder and aggravated battery. Radio station KTRS reports that St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob M

  March 12, 2009

• Just for Kicks: St. Louis will field a new professional women's soccer team next spring

  October 1, 2008

• League of Nations: Immigrant soccer players from across the globe go balls out at a tiny park in north St. Louis

  July 23, 2008

• Home Sweet Soccer: St. Louis has become part of an international phenomenon

  June 11, 2008

• The Spirit of St. Louis

  Two of the Lou's famous rockers fill us in on their favorites of 2007 — and what the next year holds.

  December 26, 2007

• Fungus Among Us

  May 9, 2007

• Unamerican Dream

  Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy

  May 10, 2006

• Kickin' It

  The Street Soccer Cup USA is taking it to the, um, streets

  July 14, 2004

• World Cappuccino

  A soccer field the size of a postage stamp

  July 9, 2003

• Penalty Kick

  Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

  June 19, 2002

• 1998: The Year in Sports

  January 6, 1999

• Extreme Tuna

  December 2, 1998

• Photos: Shaquille O'Neal, Albert Pujols at the Four Seasons

  Photo: Nick LucchesiThe entire press conference was filmed to be included in the television series.​To hype his upcoming reality show Shaq VS., Shaquille O'Neal, the 17-year NBA icon, mixed friendly smack-talk and humble sentiments at the opportunity to face Albert Pujols in a home run derby Thursday afternoon in O'Fallon, Missouri."St. Louis, Michigan, how are you?" O'Neal joked after sitting down at the conference table, positioned on the shadeless rooftop of the Four Seasons hotel downtown.

  August 12, 2009

• Jeff Cooper, Other Team Owners to Form New Soccer League

  simmonsfirm.comJeff Cooper​Tired of waiting for Major League Soccer (MLS) to grant St. Louis an expansion franchise, Jeff Cooper is joining other soccer team owners to begin -- in the words of Penny Marshall -- a league of their own. Cooper, a well-off Illinois attorney with the Simmons Law Firm, has been attempting to get an MLS franchise in the St. Louis area for a number of years. In a statement today, Simmons announced that he and the owners of soccer franchises formerly of the USL-1 confe

  November 10, 2009

• Q&A: Jeff Cooper Discusses Plans for Professional Soccer Team

  Jeff Cooper​Earlier today Daily RFT shared an announcement about a new professional soccer league that plans to bring a team to St. Louis. This afternoon, we got in touch with the league's spokesperson, Jeff Cooper, the Illinois attorney who's been trying to bring a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise to St. Louis for years. Cooper already owns the professional women's soccer team, St. Louis Athletica, and will also be the principal owner of the men's outdoor team when the new league starts th

  November 10, 2009