Yesterday we posted a poll to determine what you think the best candidate destination would be for Major League Soccer’s 20th team. The overwhelming winner was Minnesota, and although an e-mail and Twitter campaign may have significantly contributed to the success of the Twin City area, there are definite upsides to moving MLS up North. [...]
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Our discussion of MLS expansion drew some interesting responses. So we thought it worth asking the question directly, where should MLS expand next? We have discussed the merits of New York, Las Vegas, Atlanta and more over the years. Tell us what you think? In the comments section, tell us why.
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Women’s Professional Soccer has announced appointment of Jennifer Pogorelec O’Sullivan as the League’s new Chief Executive Officer. O’Sullivan formerly served as the Vice President of Labor and Legal Affairs for the Arena Football League. She is a law school graduate and sports industry veteran. According to the league press release, “O’Sullivan joins WPS following [...]
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Busy weekend in Major League Soccer as the playoff picture is starting to crystallize with just about a month of the season remaining. Before we get into our weekly attendance review, here are a couple of other items of business note from the last couple of days. We’ll start in Vancouver, where the Whitecaps wrapped [...]
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Every so often, we like to take a look around the web to see how local newspapers are covering soccer in the United States. This was an extremely interesting time to take a look, given the rare soccer controversy that became a big story (Rafa Marquez’s scathing comments directed to his own teammates), on some [...]
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As I type this post, I am watching the Red Bulls self destruct on Major League Soccer’s excellent MatchDay Live service. Yet at the same time, the game is blacked out on DirectKick, the league’s television game package. What makes the blackout mysterious, is the unavailability of MSG Network (the RSN that carries the Red [...]
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The online soccer community is abuzz with recent statements from Commissioner Garber (courtesy of Steve Davis), that MLS has raised its expansion fee for a 20th team to $100 million for the New York market. According to Davis’ article, the league remains focused on New York for team 20, but has not set a timetable [...]
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We are on the road tonight, so here is a vault piece from earlier in the season. This was part of our series that looked at the art of televising soccer. The Major League Soccer 2011 season got started on Tuesday night with a nationally broadcast match carried by ESPN. Fans of all sports are [...]
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Big weekend in Major League Soccer as teams are jockeying for playoff position in the last few weeks of the season. Whatever the downsides of the over inclusive MLS playoff setup, the 10 team system does keep more teams in the hunt until the end of the season. The possibility of playoffs keeps an informed [...]
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Every so often we take a global look at the development of soccer specific stadiums in MLS. Today, we will focus the entire post on the structure rising in downtown Houston. According to an official press release from the Dynamo, the team has sold out 20 sections for 2012 through season ticket sales. According to [...]
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