At first, fans tossed back balls that were kicked into the stands, but some took home souvenirs. for US Soccer appear equally audacious – and as the federation’s first director of high performance he will bear a large share of the responsibility for delivering them. Chances of winning Zilch, but we will get to see endless replays of Stephenson blowing into LeBron James’s ear in this first series, so in a way we’ll all be winners. The league managed to get a handful of late-season and playoff games televised – on ESPN’s networks in 2014, on Fox’s networks the other three years.