MLS named 2008 League of the Year

[redqueen]

http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20080530&content_id=162104&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp

Eleven winners honored with the Inaugural Sports Business Awards

New York, N.Y. -- Major League Soccer (MLS) was honored as the 2008 Professional Sports League of the Year by the SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily. The award was presented live at a special ceremony held Thursday, May 29th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.

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MLS was chosen from five nominees for Professional Sports League of the Year including, in alphabetical order, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, National Basketball Association, National Football League and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

"The launch of the Sports Business Awards coincides with the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the SportsBusiness Journal and her sister publication, the SportsBusiness Daily," says Richard Weiss, publisher of the SportsBusiness Journal. "After chronicling the leaders in the sports industry for 10 years, we decided the time was right to recognize and celebrate these companies and executives who are at the industry's forefront in a more formal manner."

It was a defining year for Major League Soccer. New in 2007 were a team in Toronto, two stadiums, two television partners, three future expansion franchises and one global star in David Beckham. It was a year that surprised even soccer's most fervent supporters and one that could mark the beginning of unprecedented growth of the game in North America.

(more at link)

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Here's hoping!

[MrCoffee]

1. Once again, the Professional Bowlers Association gets the shaft

[redqueen]

2. I know, and bowling is so exciting too...

maybe next year. :)

[MrCoffee]

3. FACT: My office is in the same building as the PBA world headquarters

Have they once invited us over for a quick frame? No. Rat bastards. The PBA is dead to me.

[redqueen]

4. Do they even have lanes there?

[two gun sid]

5. MLS has been doing a good job...

taking care of business. I had hoped that MLS would make a deal with XM so that I could follow the matches on radio. There was some talk of that during the last World Cup.

Up Celtic!

[redqueen]

6. Yup!

They could do with a few changes (salary cap for one), but overall, lots of progress. :)

You might be able to watch them online I think... I have a friend who watches Arsenal play on Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) online sometimes when the game isn't on where he lives. They show MLS matches at least a couple times a week... and they also show them on Fox Sports Network - Southwest (FSN SW).

:hi:

[two gun sid]

7. My MLS team website has video...

but I really would like to listen on XM. Then I can go to the website and watch the highlights.

[redqueen]

8. Aha... I get ya.

I know little about XM. Except Adam and Joe. I know of them. :)

[RL3AO]

9. Soccer in the country is probably about to explode.

Because ESPN is trying to get rights to the English Premier League to put on ESPN3, which is being transitioned from ESPN Classic.

[Upton]

10. That's not a done deal

but apparently ESPN is going to put in a bid, it would be great. They already shows selected CL games. I get my EPL fix from FSC and Setanta, between the 2, I don't think I missed more than 2 or 3 Arsenal matches.