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Eugene Melnyk, owner of Senators Sports & Entertainment (SSE), will hold a news conference to officially launch the bid to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Ottawa and present details to build a new world-class stadium. The news conference will take place Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 9 a.m. at Scotiabank Place's Gate 1 entrance. Melnyk will be ...

The New York Mets are looking into purchasing a Major League Soccer club after completing construction of Citi Field, the new $600 million home the baseball team will move into for the 2009 season, said David Howard, the club's executive vice president for business. Howard said an MLS team likely would play in a different venue that would give the ...

With the newest MLS franchise set to kick-off in under two years, Goal.com staff writer Shane Evans takes a close look at the naming of Philadelphia's newest professional sports team. Image via NationalGeographic

FC Barcelona has had preliminary talks with the MLS about expanding their empire to the United States with the creation of a sister team in Miami, Florida. According to a report from Univision, steps are being made by La Liga team Barcelona to expand its reach to the US by creating a sister team in Miami. The team would be named something along the ...

Little was known about Geoff Sheard previous to recent reports of his buying up shares to take control of debt plagued Sheffield Wednesday. The source of the Lancashire-based businessman's income has been described as "kit manufacturing" although specifics are hard to find and he has done few interviews. It is rumored Mr. Sheard is a front-man for a ...

As our boy Shawn already showed you... Portland city leaders are willing to talk about borrowing as much as $75 million to help bring Major League Soccer to Portland. At a news conference today, City Commissioner Randy Leonard and Merritt Paulson, owner of the Portland Timbers and the Portland Beavers, agreed it will take public participation to ...

St. Louis Stadium Developer May Balk at League Fees. The attorney who has spent a year wooing investors to fund a $573 million mixed-use soccer stadium complex now admits a key piece of the plan - a new Major League Soccer expansion team to be housed on the Collinsville site - may be too costly. "We have to look at this as a business decision," ...

Keystone Sports and Entertainment LLC, the ownership group for the Major League Soccer Philadelphia expansion team, received the initial stadium designs from Rossetti Architects. The multipurpose stadium will be home to the MLS Philadelphia team making its debut in 2010, an expansion team for the Women’s Professional Soccer league team set to ...