Jan 17, 2012
MLS Gives D.C. a Yellow Card for Scandals
If you own a baseball or football team, getting the attention of your local D.C. legislators isn’t particularly hard. If you own a soccer team, well, good luck with that.
Just in case you thought Major League Soccer was not-too-serious about helping to facilitate D.C. United’s exit from Washington — even though they’ve been surveying Baltimore residents about potentially relocating United to the city — well, think again.
Mar 24, 2010
MLS Commissioner Levels Ill-Timed Criticism at D.C.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber He may have had a good excuse to not be paying attention — having just spent weeks hammering out a vital labor contract that likely saved his league — but MLS Commissioner Don Garber showed no signs of understanding D.C.’s fragile financial state yesterday, expressing public frustration regarding the city’s failure to build D.C. United a new stadium. “I just can’t understand why we can’t make progress in D.C., and…