MLS Teams have three primary sources of revenue: gate receipts, sponsorships and television. Over the last few years, MLS has found ways to increase revenue from all three sources. Stadia In order to improve gate receipts, MLS teams have spent the last decade finding...
MLS’s national television deals provided approximately $23 million from ESPN, Fox, HDNet and Univision in 2007. That amounts to less than three percent of the Premier League’s new three year, $850 million-a-year television rights deal. But just because the big...
MLS’ desire to improve the quality of the league is complicated by its expansion efforts over the last decade. Growing a sports league and improving quality of the game are difficult objectives to achieve simultaneously. The four major U.S. sports leagues all...
European Football Explained I’m going to take a short amount of space here to give my best attempt at an explanation of the structure of the European football scene. The future of MLS is intertwined with the future of European football. MLS is (or will be)...
MLS Expansion Will Result in a European Super League I tried to explain the structure of European football leagues for two reasons. First, I don’t think that many American sports fans understand it and I believe that failure to understand it is an impediment to...
