Mayor Kevin Johnson just announced that a United Soccer League franchise will move to Sacramento with hopes up jumping up to MLS.
What causes me to question this is the characterization of the Capital region as a "soccer hotbed." I haven't exactly seen that. I have friends who play soccer, and the younger brother of one of my classmates was just honored with MLS' Goal of the Year, but we're not exactly a "hotbed" in the way that the Pennsylvania mining areas are a football hotbed or the way Texas is crazy about football.
While the owner gets demerits for that, perhaps it's all in the sales job. He DOES get credit for being the guy who brought in the River Cats.
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Sac Lands New Pro Franchise
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SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.