Why were ESPN, Fox and Univision willing to double rights fees for MLS broadcasts? The key to the new MLS broadcast deal, according to Seattle Sounders GM/owner Adrian Hanauer: Mexican fans. (more…)

Why were ESPN, Fox and Univision willing to double rights fees for MLS broadcasts? The key to the new MLS broadcast deal, according to Seattle Sounders GM/owner Adrian Hanauer: Mexican fans. (more…)
With 38 percent of its players born outside the United States, MLS is the most diverse sports league, outpacing Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. (more…)
Sacramento County is looking at a one-eighth-cent sales-tax hike to pay for a variety of projects, including a potential new Sacramento Republic FC stadium. (more…)
You don’t need professional soccer to create a soccer hotbed. In Winston-Salem, a thriving college soccer program and an energetic youth program causes locals to proclaim their home as Soccer City, USA. (more…)
FIFA is introducing new goal-line technology for the 2014 World Cup, set to launch next month, as high-tech cameras will determine whether or not a goal is valid. (more…)
With MLS teams looking to establish a developmental system after the MLS Reserve League ends this year, Colorado Rapids ownership is looking at working out a game plan for 2015 and beyond. (more…)
Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment is prepared to move on a BMO Field renovation for Toronto FC without any plans to include the CFL’s Toronto Argonauts as a tenant. (more…)
D.C. United would pay $140 million for construction of a new stadium in the Buzzard Point area, with the District of Columbia providing the land, under the terms of a deal presented by Mayor Vincent C. Gray to the D.C. Council. (more…)
Miami-Dade County commissioners ended an effort by David Beckham and his investors to bring an MLS stadium to a waterfront PortMiami site, saying the facility would be best sited elsewhere. (more…)
A proposed new Las Vegas MLS stadium is a step closer to reality after Cordish Cos. and Findlay Sports and Entertainment Group were given the green light to move forward with a development plan. (more…)
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