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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 Commish Don Garber made himself available this
afternoon to address the SuperLiga prize money issue and
the union's statement this morning that, as a form of protest, the Dynamo and Revolution will pool the first- and second-place bonuses ...
(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...
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 ...
(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...
Vancouver Whitecaps FC are expected to announce today
that they are applying for a Major League Soccer
franchise and that basketball superstar Steve Nash will be a partner in the bid. The Whitecaps did not comment yesterday, but have scheduled a press ...
During halftime of Thursday's MLS All-Star game, MLS
commissioner Don Garber said that there would be an
announcement regarding Brian McBride on Friday. "It got resolved today," said Garber when asked about trade talks involving the Fire and Toronto ...
Time is of the essence, or so the
saying goes, and it appears that the MLS alarm
clock has gone off again, causing them to leap from their comfortable chairs and scream the word everyone loves to hear: expansion . It is a wonderful, romantic ...
The MLS All-Star Game is a focal point
of the Major League Soccer season where the entire
league gathers to discuss and celebrate the events of the previous year. It was therefore only fitting, said MLS Commissioner Don Garber, that the 2008 All-Star ...
(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...
According to a Vancouver radio station, Toronto FC
may soon be getting some Canadian company in the
MLS. The TEAM 1040 is reporting that MLS Comissioner Don Garber will lift the original ceiling of 18 franchises and announce Thursday a new expansion ...
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...














Catching up with MLS Commissioner Don Garber