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A number of different groups and individual TV
viewers in San Diego are banding together in coming
days to fight what they consider to be unfair and discriminatory business practices by XETV - the local FOX affiliate - in relation to their utter lack ...
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MVNsoccer
posted 15 days ago from
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David Beckham’s move to Los Angeles last summer
was a big score for MLS and U.S. soccer.
The Galaxy’s attendance for the league matches he played averaged 37,659, which is 57% more than the team’s previous record. --- Ratings for ESPN2, one of MLS’s national television partners, rose 25%... FORBES estimates Beckham made $49 million in 2007 to make him the highest-paid player in the world...
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/10/2008 from
mvn.com
(w/videos) MVN Soccer: The North American Soccer Reporters
named midfielder David Beckham the MLS Player of the
Week for round two...
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MVNsoccer
posted 3/27/2008 from
mvn.com
March 27 --- MVN Soccer: As we prepare
for the kickoff to Major League Soccer’s 13th season
this weekend, I thought it the perfect time to get you up to speed on the most recent data on the league and sport's growth in popularity in the U.S. --- If you were reading this and did not know our MLS season kicks off this weekend, then that is all the more reason you should read this list...
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MVNsoccer
posted 24 days ago from
mvn.com
(from MVN Soccer) LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan
was voted Major League Soccer's Player of the Week
for round 4 of the 2008 season. --- Donovan scored a pair of goals as the Galaxy (1-2-1) drew with Houston Dynamo 2-2 on Saturday. --- David Beckham - who assisted on both goals - was MLS POTW 2 weeks ago. --- Donovan now leads MLS in goals with 5, and the only player with multi-goal games.
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MVNsoccer
posted 5 days ago from
mvn.com
May 11 --- MVN Soccer: The saga has
a happy ending…after all ! --- Fulham FC completed
their remarkable end of season run with a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth to guarantee Premier League football at Craven Cottage next season. --- Roy Hodgson’s side made it four wins in five games on Sunday - a truly remarkable achievement. --- Danny Murphy scored the Cottagers’ goal in the 75th minute…
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/5/2008 from
mvn.com
(from MVN Soccer) ...This was not only the
season-opener for the 2008 expansion team, but also the
home opener for the Galaxy, with many luminaries and press there to bear witness. --- The hoopla - which also included a marquee primetime telecast as part of a doubleheader on ESPN’s networks - made it all the more exciting for fans anxious for some positive result from the team...
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MVNsoccer
posted 11 days ago from
mvn.com
(w/video) MVN Soccer: David Beckham put on a
scoring clinic Saturday night in Utah, bending a pair
of beautiful balls from outside the box to nearly identical spots inside the left post. --- Both his efforts have been nominated for this week's Sierra Mist Goal of the Week...
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/7/2008 from
mvn.com
April 7 --- MVN Soccer: On Monday at
noon Pacific Time, the fans’ choice for Seattle’s MLS
team name was announced to the world via a live webcast with video presentation and press conference on MLSinSeattle.com --- The team owners were profiled (and they include among them Hollywood producer Joe Roth as majority owner, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and comedian Drew Carey)...
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MVNsoccer
posted 27 days ago from
mvn.com
April 20 --- MVN Soccer: With their two
goals scored together for the Galaxy last night, both
Landon Donovan and David Beckham have jumped to the top of the MLS season stats lists - Donovan for goals scored and Beckham for tallied assists (after first four weeks). --- Donovan has five goals total - two more than anyone else. Beckham has three assists, and they are all on goals scored by Donovan.
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MVNsoccer
posted 27 days ago from
mvn.com
(from MVN Soccer) Update: Here is a number:
16,770. That number is the 2007 league-wide attendance average
for Major League Soccer. --- The NHL’s league-wide average was 16,486, and the NBA’s was 17,757 in their seasons ending in 2007. --- Now, in the first 3 weeks of their new season, the MLS attendances have continued to increase...
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frankfso
posted 13 days ago from
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MLS round 6 — GALAXY @ REAL SALT
LAKE Saturday, May 3 — from MLSNet, “The Galaxy
defense was under pressure early as goalkeeper Steve Cronin saw his first bit of action just five minutes into the match. Espindola came racing into the penalty area and struck a high shot that Cronin swatted away and let bounce over the end line. Two minutes later Cronin met up with ...
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MVNsoccer
posted 24 days ago from
mvn.com
(from MVN Soccer) Although I am not a
fan of either team playing in today’s 1st leg
semi (I am a Gooner, baby), I did just about suffer cardiac arrest when I saw what happened at Anfield in the 90+5 minute ! …
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excerpted from GOAL Blog of the New York
Times , ( Bold links via MLSnet ) “(For
the Galaxy this season,) Donovan has been the catalyst on offense, scoring eight goals to lead the league going into the first weekend of May. His closest ...
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/4/2008 from
mvn.com
(from MVN Soccer) This was the kind of
night that Galaxy fans had waited for since Beckham’s
arrival. --- Here was a regular-season match, but as a part of a marquee doubleheader on ESPN networks. --- Everything came together...something to behold !
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/6/2008 from
mvn.com
(w/videos) April 6 --- MVN Soccer report on
the Week Two matches of the LA Galaxy and
Chivas USA. --- Both games (on ESPN and Fox Sports Net, respectively) were the teams' season home-openers. --- Both teams won at the Home Depot Center...and with style !
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/10/2008 from
mvn.com
April 10 --- MVN Soccer: The US women’s
national team will join the U.S. men at the
2008 Beijing Olympics, it was determined last night. --- The U.S. men qualified last month (by defeating Canada in their semifinal); then on this Wednesday night, the ladies did the same by winning their CONCACAF qualifying semifinal versus Costa Rica...
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MVNsoccer
posted 4/11/2008 from
mvn.com
(w/video) There was an amazing match on Fox
Soccer Channel's slate of UEFA Cup Quarterfinals that had
to be seen to be believed. --- Thankfully, you are able to watch FSC’s own highlights here if you missed it — it is too exasperating to try to explain without video !
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MVNsoccer
posted 18 days ago from
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(w/video) “FutboLucha 2008” is the first major soccer
and wrestling entertainment event ever held in the United
States and will be held during the Cinco de Mayo weekend on Sunday, May 4, in conjunction with the Colorado Rapids’ home match against DC United...
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MVNsoccer
posted 16 days ago from
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April 30 --- MLSNet.com: As hosts Wednesday night,
Real Salt Lake decided to dub this match their
first-ever “Green Awareness Game”…RSL teamed up with four environmentally-conscience sponsors to present the match on a hill at the Rice-Eccles complex - rather than in the stadium itself, while the RSL squad donned special green XanGo/adidas jerseys (shown here) for the game....
San Diegans act against ’soccer-challenged’ Fox news ...