Feb 13
No. 17 Oklahoma hosts Cal Poly in Beauty and the Beast event Friday
Feb. 13, 2008
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Feb 13
“‘It’s definitely Philly,” said a Major League Soccer source, declining to be quoted by name in advance of an official announcement. ‘It’s the market size, the ownership group. These are wealthy people. They’re going to be strong owners.’”
Failing some sort of ‘impossible-to-foresee cataclysm’, Philadelphia is set to become the 16th MLS team. League officials and the new team’s ownership group have spent the last two days finalizing the draft version of the expansion agreement, while the ownership group has also been talking with Pennsylvania officials concerning how exactly they can use the $47 million in state funding.
This move is in no way unexpected, as the league has wanted to be in Philadelphia since it began in 1996, they just could not find a way to make it work.
St. Louis is the big loser in all this, but lead investor Jeff Cooper is not giving up on the dream as he is now focused on the 17th spot. It is not clear if the city of Collinsville will change their level of support, as most of it was based on landing a team.
No official date has been set for such an announcement, but my guess is right around the start of the MLS season at the end of March.
Labels: Collinsvile, MLS, MLS expansion, Philadelphia, St. Louis
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Feb 13
PARIS — Tour de France organizers have excluded the Astana team from competing at this year’s race, forcing winner Alberto Contador to ride for another team if he wants to defend his title.
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Feb 13
My guest at Wembley was Daria Kulesh, a Russian lady who interviewed me a few months ago for a magazine called “British Style”. I now employ my own personal stylist, whose sole job is to keep my anorak suitably crumpled and covered in bird droppings.
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Feb 13
RETIRING star Adam Gilchrist believes international commitments will reign supreme and the Indian Premier League (IPL) could become cricket’s equivalent of a gold watch.
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