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How To Make a Major League Soccer Holiday

The NFL has Thanksgiving, the NBA has Christmas and MLK Day, but what about MLS?

I don't know about you, but there's nothing I like more than a three-day weekend, especially when the third day is a Monday. Fridays are always fun, regardless of whether you have to go to work or school, but avoiding responsibility on a Monday always seems like cheating the devil a little.

This last particular three-day weekend, with Martin Luther King Jr. Day falling on Monday, was particularly nice because the NBA has made a little tradition of MLK Day games. A day with no work, afternoon tip-offs and extra national TV games added to the schedule?