Will new MLS teams recycle old names? - Los Angeles Times

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REPORT: MLS Board Of Governrors To Meet To Discuss Recycling Old Team Names
Published 3/19/2008 by Rumor Mill at MLS Rumors - For the time between the games
... In a move which would have ramifications for fans in Philadelphia, Seattle and Miami and possibly New York ,the MLS Board Of Governors is going to look at whether new MLS clubs should reuse other names according to this LA Times story. ...

MLS Looking at Club Names
Published 3/20/2008 by drew.epperley at WVHooligan - Soccer Blog
... to discuss a wide variety of topics, one being the naming of MLS clubs in this expansion era of the league. Seattle begins play next year. Philadelphia will follow the year after in 2010. St. Louis is seen as the odds-on favorite for a 2011 expansion bid, and Montreal, Vancouver, Miami, Portland and New York all behind them hoping to either sneak in as club number 17 or 18. With the amount of new teams in coming into the league in the next four years, the league is taking a look at how they will be named . A couple clubs have been renamed since the league started back in 1996. ...