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(3:43) Official highlights: Here is a new compilation
from the NYC Chinatown soccer benefit, including exclusive video
of the action; interviews include co-organizers Claudio Reyna and Steve Nash, and MLS Commissioner Don Garber. --- New York Red Bulls stars join NBA players and international soccer stars including Thierry Henry in a free public event held in a Manhattan park. (MLSNet.com)
(from MVN Soccer) Steve Nash, the 2005 and
2006 NBA Most Valuable Player (shown here with Ronaldinho),
accompanied the Major League Soccer commissioner this week on a trip to Montreal to discuss future MLS possibilities there. --- Nash, of the Phoenix Suns, is a native Canadian who comes from a soccer-entrenched family...
(from MLSnet.com) Shown here unedited and in its
entirety, the one-hour State of the League Address is
a part of every summer's MLS All-Star Week (as well as during MLS SuperDraft Week each winter). --- Here, MLS Commissioner Don Garber talks about a wide range of important topics concerning the league, among them; expansion cities, stadium development, changes this season, future expectations...
(Press Release) February 28 --- League's 16th team
to play in new soccer-specific stadium in Chester, PA
--- MLSNet.com: Major League Soccer unveiled plans for the league's 16th team today, as MLS Commissioner Don Garber awarded Philadelphia an expansion team that will begin play in 2010...
(from MLSNet.com) Segment from the latest "Extra Time"
with Steve Nash on his soccer support. --- Show
co-host Shep Messing talks to the recent 2-time NBA MVP about Nash's investment in pro soccer (which includes the new Women's Professional Soccer league in the U.S., and a Canadian investment group hoping for a Vancouver MLS franchise). --- Accompanies his MLS All-Star Game interview on ESPN...
February 29 --- Twelve questions with Oscar De
La Hoya --- The Houston Chronicle: Hours before he
was scheduled to arrive in the Bayou City to finalize the purchase of a significant stake in the Dynamo, superstar boxer Oscar De La Hoya already planned on using his strengths to have an impact on the team...
April 17 --- The Seattle Times: One look
at the crowd of 56,416 and it was easy
to see that Wednesday night's Mexico-China soccer match was a huge success. --- For the fans, virtually all of whom roared their appreciation for Mexico and turned SoDo into a small city of Latinos. --- For the match sponsors. For organizers. And for MLS and one of its newest franchises, Seattle Sounders FC...
The commissioner of Major League Soccer is no
longer concerned about the league's survival. Don Garber is
instead focused on finding soccer-specific solutions to the next set of challenges facing the 13-year-old league.
(from the San Diego MLS Project blog) MLS
Commissioner Don Garber: Dear Friends, For the inaugural World
Malaria Day on Friday, April 25, MLS W.O.R.K.S., the League's community outreach program is teaming up with the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to raise money to purchase long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets. --- Malaria is the leading killer of children in Africa...
by Tripp Mickle / SportsBusinessDaily: Don Garber gave
up an opportunity to work the Olympics in Los
Angeles in order to take a job at NFL Properties. --- The move worked out all right... he was hired for his current job as commissioner of Major League Soccer in 1998. --- He’s attended two Olympics since LA’84 and is making it three this week in Beijing...
The Dynamo will formally announce and welcome the
team's new equity partners, Oscar de la Hoya and
Gabriel Brener, at a rally Friday, Feb. 29, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Jones Plaza in downtown Houston. There will be live entertainment, and Dynamo players, coaches and the mascot will be on hand. http://www.MLSNet.com
(7:00) FOX TV: The FOX Business News TV
series "C-Suite Sitdown" interviews MLS Commissioner Don Garber and
midfielder Ben Olsen (DC United and USA), in a preview of the 2008 season which begins March 29. This is the 13th season for Major League Soccer, and DC United has the most MLS Cup titles so far - with 4. --- This is worth a look; a good overview of current MLS status, and what's ahead...
(from the San Diego MLS Project blog) Excerpted
from our commissioner's blog, on Galaxy v Toronto FC
ratings... I just received a research report on last weekend’s top 50 sports programs among Hispanic men. You might be interested to know that the TeleFutura MLS game (Galaxy v Toronto FC) was more popular than the Lakers/Spurs NBA game, the Yankees/Red Sox game on ESPN and the Masters on CBS...
(Press Release) March 25 --- MLSinSeattle: Seahawks Vice
President Gary Wright will move to a new management
position with Vulcan Sports & Entertainment and serve as Senior Vice President of Business Operations for the new MLS team, the team announced today. Wright will oversee all business operations for the club including ticket sales, corporate partnerships, community outreach, charities...
Following today's announcement in Vancouver that BC Place
will undergo renovations, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber
issued the following statement: "We believe Vancouver is a potential market for a future Major League Soccer expansion ...
The revived Earthquakes make their home debut Saturday.
Lew Wolff, Don Garber, Joe Cannon and others talk
about the two years in the MLS wilderness.
Official MLS highlights, (3:43) Here is a new
compilation from the NYC Chinatown soccer benefit, including exclusive
video of the action; interviews include co-organizers Claudio Reyna and Steve Nash, and MLS Commissioner Don Garber. New York ...
July 21 --- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: On Monday in
a live press conference, the 2009 MLS expansion franchise
in Seattle announced their first broadcast partnership. --- The former 'voice of the Sonics' Kevin Calabro has been pegged by BELO to call the games, and every match will be televised; with a combination of national cable telecasts, and regionally, on local 'free' TV via KING and KONG...
(Press Release) July 31 --- MLSNet.com: Major League
Soccer Commissioner Don Garber has announced the timeline and
application process for the League's next two expansion teams. --- MLS intends to add two clubs by 2011, bringing the League to 18 teams. --- MLS will consider markets in the United States and Canada for the 17th and 18th teams...
During All-Star Week, and during his semi-annual ‘State
of the League’ address last week, Major League Soccer
Commissioner Don Garber announced that the league would go ahead with the plan to add two teams in 2011, and allow for further ...
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