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In our first segment, Chris Wittingham and I will talk about global soccer news.

The second segment will be my interview with John O'Rande of the Sports Business Journal

on the huge new NBC Premier League deal, and in the third segment we'll talk about the

NWSL final and the MLS playoffs.

Let's bring in Chris Wittingham.

How are you Chris?

I was trying to figure out the number of zeros that it takes for $2.7 billion, so I can

figure out that math.

That is a crazy TV deal, and you're going to talk about it with John O'Rande who broke

the story on, was that Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon?

Thursday, I think, that was pretty seismic in the soccer world, especially in the United

States.

I don't even think my calculator goes up to $2.7 billion when you think about it, my

old-fashioned calculator, which shows you how much is being spent on soccer in America

right now.

Pretty incredible stuff.

We'll get into more detail on that here in just a bit, but let's start with World Soccer

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