USWNT: Top Spot for London, but will Morgan Start?

Alex Morgan 

The USWNT played some impressive soccer over the past couple weeks. They made a trip up north to Canada in an attempt to qualify for the London Olympics. The team made their way to the finals to face one of their biggest rivals, Canada. Although the rivalry is heavily dominated by the Americans, Canada saw around 25,000 fans come to BC Place in Vancouver to cheer them on. However, the fans were unable to strengthen the Canadian squad enough, and the United States took the win.

The star of the game was undoubtedly Alex Morgan.

Alex Morgan is creating quite the stir in the USWNT scene beginning with the last world cup. Morgan has often been used as a late game substitute, using speed and precision to penetrate defenses. She has shown again and again that she is quality on ball and off of the ball. On Sunday, she was given the start, and proved that she is just as deadly when facing fresh opponents, scoring twice and assisting on one of Wambach's goals. Her nickname "Baby Horse" began trending on twitter after her first goal, and it was explained to me that she got the name for her speed, and youth.

A New MLS Conference Possibility

With the announcement of an unbalanced schedule this year, the Eastern and Western conferences will play more purposeful roles than they have in past seasons. MLS seems to be moving away from the idea of a single table format this season. League expansion, season length, and the geographical size of the league have all been sited as reasons that a conference system is better for MLS. With that being said, what possibilities does the league have to develop towards? The league could, and probably will, stay in the East/West format that it is in currently in, but how many teams can be added before we run into season length issues again? The league could split the conferences into 2 divisions as more teams are added, but this will require the league to grow fairly large, maybe to a size that isn't sustainable. Instead, the more interesting option for league may be creating a 3 conference system.