The issue is bigger than Jay Caspian Kang's disastrous article in the NYT Mag: the Grey Lady downplays the very relevance of the sport in its own backyard.
I wonder if the sports staff of The New York Times is yet capable of understanding the depth of the mistake it made in budgeting, editing, approving, and publishing Jay Caspian Kang's July 12th article, "The Dark Side of American Soccer Culture," a gross misrepresentation that effectively cast Seattle soccer fandom as a cabal of "stunted" white men desperate to co-opt a European flavor while largely excluding Latino fans from the process.