1. There is still much going on in the soccering worlds, and while the most important thing remains the belated reckoning that is taking place within the NWSL and women’s soccer, the more local bit of big news seems to be the now made official announcement that Minnesota United will host the 2022 MLS All-Star Game. All-star games are, of course, rather odd: games without much consequence or meaning or depth, they are an indication of how much sport here is often more spectacle than anything else. And how much all sporting consequence and meaning is constructed through the stories we tell within the rules we create.