Crawling Toward the Mainstream

Back during the MLS season, I remember thinking that soccer will have truly arrived in this country when something like Chad Barrett breaking his foot and missing the rest of the regular season shows up on the screen crawl of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago.

So you can imagine my surprise when I saw that ESPN2 reported both the Klinsmann rumor and US Soccer's denial of it amidst all the college hoops -- and, to be fair, Champions League -- scores last night. I don't think it rose to the level of Sportscenter coverage, but it still feels like a step in the right direction. You've got to crawl before you can walk? Sorry, too many ways to stretch that metaphor.