Soccernet is out; SI.com is in

There’s a lot of movement these days in our little niche market of U.S. soccer writers. Scribes (and editors, too) are scurrying about like roaches when the lights flick on, in fact.

So you might need to sleuth around a bit to locate your favorite writer, editor or blogger right now. As for yours truly, you’ll no longer find my work at ESPN Soccernet. Rather, the folks over at SI.com asked me to pick up my pens and pencils and wander over to their site. I was thrilled to oblige.

I’ll mostly be covering MLS, perhaps occasionally sticking my journalistic oars into international waters. (I’ll also continue to write for the MLSnet site and for this site, of course.) My first piece at SI.com went up yesterday.

The move from Soccernet wasn’t a difficult call. You needed a CSI techie to find MLS articles these days over at Soccernet now, not just my own, but those written by esteemed former ESPN colleague Jeff Carlisle. Ives Galarcep moved over to FoxSoccer.com earlier this year. New management is in charge at Soccernet, and I don’t get the feeling that MLS is a big part of the plan going forward.

There is some other shifting, zigging and zagging in the domestic soccer journo world. As I know that much yawning will greet that news, I won’t beat down the audience with particulars. But more good stuff is on the way; it will benefit readers and supporters as the options expand. There will be more folks talking and squawking soccer on ever increasing and improving platforms. That can’t be a bad thing.