The late Mike Royko once wrote that soccer's worldwide popularity only proves that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys. I'm inclined to agree, and so is the American public, which has rejected the sport by paying it absolutely no attention. So why then is Commerce City, a working-class municipality, banking its future on a soccer stadium? Last week, Commerce City officials and Kroenke Sports Enterprises announced plans to develop more than 360 acres of land that would house a soccer utopia. (Is that an oxymoron?) The complex would include a 20,000-seat soccer stadium for the...
