Details emerge on the ownership qualifications for Chivas USA suitors

By Nicholas MendolaAug 12, 2014, 3:36 PM EDT

One of the great MLS mysteries going is the fate of Chivas USA, long-rumored to be on the road to Los Angeles SC or some other rebranding to put the club in better big market positioning.

But what we haven’t known is who would be our new Los Angeles overlords. What are the qualifications for suitors to the Chivas USA throne (so to speak)?

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The Goat Parade did some digging into a speech from current Goats president Nelson Rodriguez.

Here’s what they came away with:

While he acknowledged, “It’s difficult to move forward with plans for 2015. What colors will the team be? What will its name be? What are the values of the club?” he did provide some more detail on the ownership requirements:

The club stays in Los Angeles

The group that buys the club must make a commitment to build a new stadium in Los Angeles

The managing director of the club must work and live in Los Angeles

While Rodriguez doesn’t indicate where the requirements come from, one must assume his boss, Major League Soccer, which of course owns the team following their purchase of it from Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes in February, laid down those mandates.

There are more facets and moving parts to this rebrand that perhaps any in recent major sports history. For one thing, there’s what an effective rebrand could mean to the crosstown rival Galaxy. And, as evidenced by the rise of the L.A. Clippers in the NBA, the power in a major town can certainly shift.

The manager who ‘must live and work in Los Angeles’ seems more a shot at the former state of the club than any major point in the discussion, and it serves to say that the Club That Will Soon Be Formerly Known As Chivas USA (Prince symbol: Goat) is going to be a fixture in L.A. That’s decent news.

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NBC Sports Premier League schedule

By Joe Prince-WrightJul 12, 2020, 5:06 PM EDT

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The new NBC Sports Premier League schedule for the 2019-20 season has been released, with time and dates for the upcoming matchweeks confirmed and here’s how you can watch it all live on TV in the USA.

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With games spread out across multiple days and many in separate time slots, there are lots of changes to your regular schedule as the league returns on June 17 after being suspended on March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Games will be played in empty stadiums and at home venues.

The full TV schedule for the games this month are below, plus you can watch every single second of every single game live online via NBC Sports.com, the NBC Sports App and by purchasing the “Premier League Pass” via NBC Sports Gold and the new Peacock streaming service from NBC.

Below is the new schedule for the Premier League on NBC Sports from June 17 to July 22 , as we will release the dates and times for the final matchweek of the 2019-20 season when they become available and how to watch them in the USA.

Premier League: How to watch, schedule in USA (all times EST)

Matchday 35

Saturday, July 11: Norwich City 0-4 West Ham
Saturday, July 11: Watford 2-1 Newcastle United
Saturday, July 11: Liverpool 1-1 Burnley
Saturday, July 11: Sheffield United 3-0 Chelsea
Saturday, July 11: Brighton 0-5 Manchester City
Sunday, July 12: Wolves 3-0 Everton
Sunday, July 12: Aston Villa 2-1 Crystal Palace
Sunday, July 12: Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal
Sunday, July 12: Bournemouth 4-1 Leicester City
Monday, July 13: Man United v. Southampton, 3 p.m. ET, NBCSN

Matchday 36

Tuesday, July 14: Chelsea v. Norwich, 3:15 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 15: Burnley v. Wolves, 1 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 15: Man City v. Bournemouth, 1 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 15: Newcastle v. Tottenham, 1 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 15: Arsenal v. Liverpool, 3:15 p.m. ET
Thursday, July 16: Everton v. Aston Villa, 1 p.m. ET
Thursday, July 16: Leicester v Sheffield United, 1 p.m. ET
Thursday, July 16: Crystal Palace v. Man United, 3:15 p.m. ET
Thursday, July 16: Southampton v. Brighton, 3:15 p.m. ET
Friday, July 17: West Ham v. Watford, 3 p.m. ET

Matchday 37

Saturday, July 18: Norwich City v. Burnley, 12:30 p.m. ET
Sunday, July 19: Bournemouth v. Southampton, 9 a.m. ET
Sunday, July 19: Tottenham v. Leicester, 11 a.m. ET
Monday, July 20: Brighton v. Newcastle, 1 p.m. ET
Monday, July 20: Sheffield United v. Everton, 1 p.m. ET
Monday, July 20: Wolves v. Crystal Palace, 3:15 p.m. ET
Tuesday, July 21: Watford v. Man City, 1 p.m. ET
Tuesday, July 21: Aston Villa v. Arsenal, 3:15 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 22: Man United v. West Ham, 1 p.m. ET
Wednesday, July 22: Liverpool v. Chelsea, 3:15 p.m. ET

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Premier League standings

By Nicholas MendolaJul 12, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT

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The Premier League is back a three month suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic. Below you will find a reminder of the Premier League standings as we get back to business.

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With three matchweeks remaining in the 2019-20 Premier League season, there is plenty to play for up and down the league and the standings are extremely tight.

Liverpool have wrapped up the Premier League in stunning fashion over Man City, with the reigning champions and current second-place side eager to focus on cup competitions.

Three of the top four should stay there unless Leicester City’s form dips considerably, but the race for fourth and fifth should be fierce. We may know whether fifth is a Champions League place after scheduled June 8-10 meetings to hear Man City’s appeal over its European ban.

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With between nine and 10 matches left for everyone and eighth potentially being a Europa League spot, all the teams between fourth and 11th still have European hopes in the balance. That would change should Norwich City or Newcastle win the FA Cup, so call it 13 clubs.

The action is going to come fast and often, with the league putting together a staggered schedule of kickoff times that will make matches even more of an all-weekend affair.

Below are the Premier League standings in full, as we will updated them throughout the remainder of the 2019-20 season.

PREMIER LEAGUE STANDINGS

Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Home	Away	PTS
Liverpool	35	30	3	2	76	27	49	17-1-0	13-2-2	93
Manchester City	35	23	3	9	91	34	57	13-2-2	10-1-7	72
Chelsea	35	18	6	11	63	49	14	9-3-5	9-3-6	60
Leicester City	35	17	8	10	65	36	29	10-4-3	7-4-7	59
Manchester United	34	16	10	8	59	33	26	10-5-2	6-5-6	58
Wolves	35	14	13	8	48	37	11	7-7-4	7-6-4	55
Sheffield United	35	14	12	9	38	33	5	10-3-5	4-9-4	54
Tottenham Hotspur	35	14	10	11	54	45	9	11-3-4	3-7-7	52
Arsenal	35	12	14	9	51	44	7	8-6-3	4-8-6	50
Burnley	35	14	8	13	39	47	-8	8-3-6	6-5-7	50
Everton	35	12	9	14	41	52	-11	8-6-3	4-3-11	45
Southampton	34	13	5	16	43	56	-13	5-2-10	8-3-6	44
Newcastle United	35	11	10	14	36	52	-16	6-8-3	5-2-11	43
Crystal Palace	35	11	9	15	30	45	-15	6-4-7	5-5-8	42
Brighton & Hove Albion	35	8	12	15	36	52	-16	5-6-7	3-6-8	36
West Ham United	35	9	7	19	44	59	-15	5-3-9	4-4-10	34
Watford	35	8	10	17	33	54	-21	6-6-6	2-4-11	34

Bournemouth	35	8	7	20	36	60	-24	5-6-7	3-1-13	31
Aston Villa	35	8	6	21	38	65	-27	6-3-9	2-3-12	30
Norwich City	35	5	6	24	26	67	-41	4-3-11	1-3-13	21

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Leicester ‘too soft, lacked courage’ after stunning collapse at Bournemouth

By Joe Prince-WrightJul 12, 2020, 4:48 PM EDT

Bournemouth stun self-destructing Leicester

By Joe Prince-WrightJul 12, 2020, 4:09 PM EDT

Three things we learned, Bournemouth – Leicester

1. Bournemouth up for the fight: This was the first time in two years Bournemouth came from behind to win a Premier League game and boy did they time it to perfection. Howe’s young side made the most of awful errors from Leicester and you could see them grow in confidence throughout the second half. This is a huge result for Bournemouth in their relegation scrap as they now face Man City, Southampton and Everton in their final three games of the Premier League season. Two wins from those three games should keep them up as they battle with Watford, West Ham and Aston Villa to try and stay up. At half time they looked relegated. At full time they looked anything but.

2. Leicester implode to leave Champions League dream in tatters: Brendan Rodgers watched on in disbelief as his side collapsed in the second half to leave their Champions League dream. Three minutes of madness saw a mistake from Schmeichel led to a penalty kick, then Soyuncu got himself sent off for lashing out as the Foxes just lost the plot. This has been coming. They haven’t played well for months and both Man United and Chelsea look better set to finish third and fourth. If Leicester don’t qualify for the Champions League it will be one of the biggest collapses in PL history. After 24 games of the season, they were 14 points ahead of Man United. Tomorrow they could fall two points behind Man United. Leicester face Sheffield United, Tottenham and Man United in their final three games and the way they are playing, and now without the suspended Soyuncu, they could easily lose all three.

3. Bournemouth have belief: Sure, they were given this win by Leicester but Bournemouth grabbed the opportunity with both hands. This is a massive boost in their relegation battle. They have to get at least six points from their last three games but that is doable. West Ham and Watford square off on Friday and ahead of their big South Coast derby against Southampton on Sunday, there is huge belief Bournemouth can drag themselves out of trouble.

Man of the Match

Early on Bournemouth whipped in some good crosses but Callum Wilson just couldn’t connect in the box as the hosts started well.

Ayoze Perez and Kelechi Iheanacho went close as Leicester woke up and a mistake from Dan Gosling then allowed Leicester to open the scoring.

Iheanacho’s effort was flicked off the line but Vardy was waiting to pounce and tap home his 23rd goal of the season, as the ultimate fox in the box put the Foxes 1-0 up.

Danjuma with a terrible ball back and set up Vardy as Nathan Ake deflected his shot over the bar. Ake injured himself with that block as Steve Cook replaced him, while at the other end Kasper Schmeichel kept out David Brooks’ fine effort.

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In the second half Bournemouth put pressure on Leicester and Cook clipped a low ball to the back post which just evaded Wilson.

Out of nothing, Kasper Schmeichel smashed the ball against Wilfred Ndidi from a goal kick and the ball bounced to Wilson who was brought down by Ndidi and a penalty kick was awarded. Stanislas slotted home to make it 1-1 and moments later Bournemouth were ahead.

Solanke was played in and his low shot squirmed under Schemeichel and just over the line, as Bournemouth’s players went wild and in the aftermath it got even better as Caglar Soyuncu was sent off after a mad moment which saw him kick Callum Wilson while he was on the floor in the net.

Late on Bournemouth went 3-1 up as Stanislas’ shot deflected off two Leicester defenders and in, then it got even better as Solanke poked home his second and Bournemouth’s fourth to complete a truly remarkable comeback.

Sub Sam Surridge could have scored twice as he hit the bar and headed over as Leicester totally gave up.

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