Recent Sports Business Journal Articles
ESPN Booting MLS From Its Thursday Slot
by Tripp Mickle and John Ourand (Analysis | Sports Business Journal - January 19)
Major League Soccer is not quite ready to carry its own night on TV. more details | go to article

MLS Attendance, Tv viewership Numbers Slip
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - November 3)
David Beckham helped kick up MLS’s attendance and ratings in 2007, but the league wasn’t able to build on that growth in 2008. more details | go to article

American Renews With MLS, Allstate With Mexican Team
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - January 12)
Soccer United Marketing has netted two major renewals, signing American Airlines to a multiyear deal with MLS and Allstate to a multiyear deal with the Mexican national team. more details | go to article

New MLS Corporate Sponsorships Yield Early Dividends For Visa And Volkswagen
by David Broughton (Article | Sports Business Journal - January 5)
Visa and Volkswagen, two of MLS’s newer marketing partners, appear to have been noticed by fans for their involvement with the league, according to the results of a sponsor awareness survey conducted exclusively for SportsBusiness Journal/Daily. more details | go to article

MLS Sells International TV Rights To MP & Silva
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - December 22)
Soccer United Marketing and ESPN have sold international broadcast rights for all Major League Soccer games to MP & Silva in an eight-figure agreement that extends through 2013. more details | go to article

Labor Lawyers Cry Foul Over MLS Agent Policy
by Tripp Mickle and Liz Mullen (Article | Sports Business Journal - December 15)
The MLS board of governors voted unanimously last month to prohibit agents from simultaneously representing MLS players and coaches, a policy that top labor lawyers say may violate both U.S. antitrust law and labor law. more details | go to article

Sounders Grant Fans Decision-Making Power
by Greg Lamm (Preview | Sports Business Journal - December 8)
The Seattle Sounders are hoping to tap into the social-networking craze to help build fan support leading into their inaugural season next spring. more details | go to article

Ticket Revenue Takes A Back Seat In U.S. Soccer's Venue Choice
by Tripp Mickle (Analysis | Sports Business Journal - January 26)
The U.S. Soccer Federation isn’t exactly buying a win, but it will try to do the next best thing when its men’s national team plays rival Mexico in a World Cup qualifier Feb. 11. more details | go to article

MLS Ticket Renewals Bucking The Economy
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - February 2)
Less than two months before the start of the MLS season, the league’s clubs are reporting that ticket sales are keeping pace despite the economic downturn. more details | go to article

Bidders Line Up For U.S. Rights To Premiership
by Tripp Mickle and John Ourand (Article | Sports Business Journal - January 26)
At least three networks have emerged as serious bidders for the U.S. media rights to the English Premier League, the world’s most popular soccer league. more details | go to article

WPS Sets Salary Cap, U.S. Team Guarantees
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - February 16)
Women’s Professional Soccer has agreed to a standard player contract with U.S. women’s national team players that will guarantee national team players a minimum salary of $40,000 a year and impose a $565,000 salary cap on teams, industry sources say. more details | go to article

MLS Braces For Beckham's Exit
by Tripp Mickle (Analysis | Sports Business Journal - February 16)
If Jan. 12, 2007, was the day that David Beckham put Major League Soccer on the world stage, then February 2009 will be remembered as the month he prepared to exit the stage early. more details | go to article

MLS Renews Panasonic For 3 Years
by Tripp Mickle (Article | Sports Business Journal - February 9)
At a time when renewing corporate sponsors is no guarantee, Major League Soccer has completed a three-year extension with Panasonic to remain the league’s official consumer electronics partner. more details | go to article

How Don Garber Helped MLS Get Its Game On
by Tripp Mickle (Profile/Interview | Sports Business Journal - March 16)
In a decade as commissioner, the Queens native has built up the league by not backing down and by making character count more details | go to article

Lalas Challenges League To Prove Itself To World
by Tripp Mickle (Profile/Interview | Sports Business Journal - March 16)
Alexi Lalas has been making headlines in soccer throughout his life. He did it as a player on the U.S. national team that beat Colombia in the 1994 World Cup and as a general manager and president of the Los Angeles Galaxy when the team signed David Beckham in 2007. This season the outspoken redhead will be making headlines for ESPN as one of the network’s studio analysts. He recently took time to share his thoughts with SportsBusiness Journal reporter Tripp Mickle. more details | go to article

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