So poor has been Chivas USA's season that the absence of a local TV package might be regarded as a good thing, yet on the heels of improved performances comes the announcement that all nine remaining games will be televised.

NBCSN averaged 536,000 viewers -- its best weekday audience since the 2012 London Olympics -- for Monday afternoon's Manchester United-Chelsea Premier League match.

The impact of English Premier League programming on NBCSN was evident in Week 1 of the EPL as the seven most-watched programs on the network the week of Aug.  12-18 were either live EPL matches or the weekend Premier League Live Studio show -- and the top six drew more average viewers than anything on NBCSN the week before.

What does a run to the UEFA Champions League final do to your bottom line? For Germany's Borussia Dortmund, it meant a boost in revenues and profits to $408 million and $71 million, respectively.

By Paul Kennedy More than 3.4 million people watched the opening weekend of the NBC Sports Group's coverage of the English Premier League weekend featuring seven telecasts on three networks (one on NBC, four on NBCSN and two on Spanish-language mun2).

Saturday's NBC telecast of Swansea City-Manchester United -- its first ever broadcast of the English Premier League -- drew a 0.8 overnight rating to rank fourth out of eight live network soccer broadcasts in 2013.

No soccer launch on television has ever featured such a promotional push as NBC's countdown to Saturday's start of the English Premier League.

Even though most of the top Concacaf teams brought less than full squads, the Gold Cup was again a hit at the gate, drawing the two largest and three of the five largest U.S. soccer crowds to date in 2013.

Is it too good to be true? Less than a year ago, no plans were in place, and Orlando officials were just starting to check out what other cities have done in terms of building MLS soccer stadiums.

The Seattle Sounders' announcement that they have already sold out Clint Dempsey's first home game Aug. 25 against Portland -- 66,000+ -- is yet more good news for MLS on the attendance.

Orlando City, the USL PRO club that is seeking to gain Major League Soccer approval as soon as this fall for one of the four expansion franchises MLS will add by 2020, on Tuesday made the first of two critical presentations it needs to make this week to local government bodies in its bid to secure funding support to the tune of $20 million for the soccer-specific stadium it hopes to build in downtown Orlando.

Who's the most popular player in the English Premier League? If you go by the number of shirts he sells, Dutchman Robin Van Persie tops the list.

Major League Soccer has landed Wells Fargo as a sponsor, making MLS the first league with which the San Francisco-based bank has struck a national sponsorship deal.

Demand for tickets to the USA-Mexico World Cup 2014 qualifier on Sept. 10 was, not surprisingly, unprecedented in U.S. national team history as more than twice as many requests for tickets were made than could be accommodated for the game, which is sold out.