Newsmakers: Lack Of Juergen Klinsmann A Loss For U.S. Soccer

THE DAILY each Friday offers our take on the performances over the past week of some people and entities in sports business. Here are this week’s newsmakers:

Cowboys’ Renderings Of New $1B Stadium In Arlington

WIN: COWBOYS — JERRY JONES and family travel the world to come up with an eye-catching design of a stadium that pushes the architectural and functional boundaries. It offers a combination of the old (the hole in the roof) with a new approach to suites and sideline seats. Never underestimate Jones, who has visions of this facility giving Dallas a massive piece of the big-event business.

LOSE: U.S. SOCCER — JUERGEN KLINSMANN, heralded as the savior of soccer in this country and the sole focus of SUNIL GULATI’s search for a new national team coach, says no thanks to managing the American side. If it wasn’t money or control that turned him away, as Gulati claims, then what was it? Despite Gulati not closing the door on Klinsmann’s future involvement with U.S. Soccer, ESPN SoccerNet’s Jeff Carlisle calls it a “terrible development for both” American soccer and Gulati.

DRAW: DAVID STERN — Interesting week for the NBA Commissioner. He gets headlines for bringing back the leather ball — which is applauded by BILLY HUNTER and several others who credit him for listening to the players — and admits the league didn’t manage the transition well. But Stern keeps moving, as he visits to IMG in Florida with eyes on a basketball academy, stops by two NBA markets in need of support (Memphis and Charlotte), and sees ownership of another WNBA team relinquished by one of his franchises.