Sports Law Professor Explains Success of International Soccer's League System

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Sports law professor and author Stephen Ross explains why international soccer's league system helps make it the world's game.

Gooa 109 Ab There's a reason soccer inspires such rabid fan interest outside the United States, and it's not necessarily the sport itself. It's how leagues are structured. So argues Stephen Ross, Penn State University sports law professor and coauthor (with Stefan Szymanski) of Fans of the World Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers, published in November. Ross says American professional sports would benefit greatly if each league had a second-tier league to which poorly performing teams could be relegated and from which top finishers could be promoted. Paul Steinbach called upon Ross to promote his thesis.

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