All Entries Tagged With: "Don Garber"
The Dilution Delusion: MLS Expansion
By Andrew Villegas Even the most casual followers of soccer around country have heard this tune before: Startup sports league with huge eyes identifies niche, sees potential for growth, money, more TV coverage, better press and eventually a multi-tiered youth academy system that feeds a multi-tiered league system. Glory, praise and football — all with Pele. [...]
Rivalries May Not Be Enough For MLS To Expand Into Southeast
What ties together NCAA Division I Soccer, the recent Galaxy/Red Bull game, and the future of MLS as a nationwide league? It’s all impacted by Title IX. Title IX is that rarely criticized federal law from 1972 that seems at first glance so worthy of vocal praise. But in reality, Title IX will prevent MLS [...]
MLS Rewind: Week Two
Quite the weekend for sports, Yanks fans. Butler looks to complete their Cinderella story tonight on a high note against the Blue Devils of Duke for the 2010 Championship. The UConn women’s team won their 5739th straight came by a meager 20 points to advance to play Stanford for the title Tuesday night. The Sox [...]
