MLS can handle a long layoff better than others
Major League Soccer is a newer organization with more built-in flexibility to its schedule compared to European leagues, which are struggling during this hiatus.
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Source: MLS may cut employee pay 25 percent
The league will decrease the salaries of most of its full-time employees in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
MLS players keeping busy, focused during hiatus
One of the biggest challenges for athletes is trying to remain on a consistent workout schedule to keep fitness levels up. Teams and players are doing their best.
MLS team to employees: Pepsi is hiring
Out-of-work employees of the Minnesota United MLS club were told they could find jobs elsewhere, but no support was offered.
MLS Cup could be delayed to December
In anticipation of a lengthy shutdown due to coronavirus, the league could postpone its championship match until December and play it at a neutral site.
Finances will be shattered by sports suspensions. But it won’t be the stars who suffer
Most of North America’s major leagues have shuttered during the Covid-19 outbreak. The effects will be particularly hard on stadium workersOn the surface, the Wednesday afternoon matinee between the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles back in April…
MLS and NHL suspend seasons as coronavirus delays start of MLB campaign
Baseball season had been scheduled to start at end of monthDavid Beckham’s Inter Miami had been due for home openerNBA season had already announced suspension of seasonThe coronavirus outbreak has torn into the US and Canadian sporting calendars as two…
Major League Soccer suspending its season
Following the NBA’s suspension Wednesday night after one of its players tested positive for COVID-19, MLS will take the time to “fully assess the situation.”
NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS ban non-essential personnel from locker rooms
Move by major US leagues is a reaction to coronavirus outbreakDecision means journalists will be banned from locker roomsThe NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all non-essential personnel, including media, in res…
MLS to become bigger than baseball? Why the need for comparison?
Figures around the league like to make glorious predictions of the future. But the competition is successful enough in its own rightEvery so often, Major League Soccer likes to beat its chest. Great strides have been made over the past 25 years and tho…