Sport

Soccer’s Beckham to Give Galaxy, MLS a Lift with Recent Strong Play

Authored by Jay Baage on June 1, 2007 - 3:58pm.

In a rare stroke of luck for the Los Angeles Galaxy, barely two months before David Beckham is scheduled to begin play in the MLS, he is playing his best soccer since joining Real Madrid in 2003 - a paradoxical resurrection recently crowned by his return to the English national team. After being ridiculed as more of a pop star than a great soccer talent in his stint with Spanish team Real Madrid, the broad consensus is that he’s one of the great pillars of the team’s comeback to lead La Liga with only two games remaining.

Major League Baseball Pondering Public Offering for Internet Unit

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 24, 2004 - 5:19am.

New York -- Major League Baseball (MLB) is considering a public offering for its Internet streaming business that could potentially raise several hundred million dollars, people involved with the plan told The New York Times. The league's Major League Baseball Advanced Media unit has in recent years stepped up its offering of live and archived video and audio coverage of baseball games on the Internet. One analyst estimate valued the unit, which is owned equally by the 30 MLB teams, at $1 billion. Yesterday, MLB announced a two-year, $40 million deal with Microsoft to serve as its streaming partner to deliver games online. "The company has been successful sooner than anticipated and earned a profit a year earlier than we expected," MLB president Bob DuPuy told The Times. "But no decision [regarding a floatation] has been made, taken to the commissioner or taken to the clubs."