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MLS releases some CBA Details
While the final version of the CBA still hasn't been made public, the MLS has released more details of the major points of the new deal: TERM: 2010 - 2014. GUARANTEED CONTRACTS: The CBA provides for guaranteed contracts for all players who are at least 24 years old with three years of MLS service. ...
MLS CBA teleconference game thread
We will be on the conference call. Don't necessarily plan on asking any questions, but if something is really being begged to be asked, we'll have that option. You can listen at www.MLSnet.com to their feed there. By the way, you may have notice that BayAreaRefugee has hosted a vast majority of...
1PM EDT Conference Call with Garber, Foose and Cohen
Its all over twitter now, and speculation about details is all that remains. Here's the AP story that says a 5 year CBA has been reached. Major League Soccer and its players called a joint news conference for Saturday and were near agreement on a five-year contract that would avoid a strike...
A new voice and new perspective on a potential MLS Strike and a "nuclear" option?
We have heard from the lawyers on both sides, the players, the owners, the bloggers, the mainstream media, but here is a new voice to the conversation about the possible impact of a potential MLS strike. It comes from Sandy, UT as their mayor Tom Dolan talks to the Salt Lake Tribune about how a...
Time for MLS fans to Unite
Listen I know what I am about to ask you to do is hard, but we need to ensure that over the next couple days that our voices are heard by both the players and the owners. This isn't about sides anymore, if there were no fans there would be no league. No owner would purchase a franchise if they...
My solution to the MLS CBA situation
It is clear with just a week until the regular season is due to start, and just days before the players threaten to strike that a solution is needed and while I like a lot of things that Peter Wilt offered up in his recent post, I think he actually falls short on a number of...
Preview: Community Shield, Sounders vs. Timbers
Today's Inaugural Community Shield match ensures that the Seattle-Portland rivalry will continue its 35-year run in which the two teams played every season they both fielded teams. The rivalry has stretched across three leagues. Although it's being billed as a friendly, the 13,000-plus fans who...
MLS Players not striking -- yet
Fears of a MLS players strike appear to have been kicked down the road. How far, though, is anyone's guess. The Major League Soccer Players Union released a statement saying that while they weren't going to be signing an extension to the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, they wouldn't be...
The other side (a closer look at "Worse than Wal-Mart")
So a number of players and thus a number of blogs have picked up on an article written on soccer365.com recently, the name of that article/post was "Worse than Wal-Mart" In the article the author tries to portray the situation of KC Wizards keeper and all around good guy Kevin Hartman and how...
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