Development News: San Diego 2008 MLS Season Updates - Part 1

Discussions between soccer and extreme sports leaders blossomed at the ASR Winter Show in San Diego...

As always the Winter show was a rousing success, and as always the Summer one will be, too !  We had the good fortune to hang with many of the new soccer and extreme sports event organizers who are all very excited about the possibilites for Major League Soccer in San Diego.  Everyone seems to agree that this should be the very next major league sports team here, and it is certainly the one that the general public wants most.  The younger generation would enjoy MLS here, just as they would love the X Games to return  ( has it already been 10 years since Summer X was here ? - yes, it has ! )  It has now been over 3 years since San Diego had a true professional soccer team... so time is ticking away, guys !

The San Diego MLS Project has a new 2008 Season Blog.  Read the Welcome message here... http://mlsdevelopment.typepad.com/san_diego_mls_project/2008/02/welcome-to-the.html 

This group has existed in its current form since 2005, and they are expanding this year.

Note from the Project:  The local San Diego FOX TV station, under fire for completely ignoring the Winter X Games - also shows the least soccer news of any local TV news in all of southern California.  Makes no sense, becasue they have they have a younger viewing audience than others.  They show no local college or high school highlights (but the others do), and last season they went three months without a single MLS mention - almost the entire second half of the season, up until the day of the MLS Cup final !  They refused outright to show some of the major matches from the SDSU Aztecs, from Women's World Cup, USA men's national team, as well as stories on local pros in MLS.

Here is the ASR article on Fox 6 XETV...

ASR Talking Heads: "If you are reading this blog, there’s a good chance you know how much Shaun White has accomplished—from being one of the best in two sports (skateboarding and snowboarding) to winning a gold in the 2006 Olympic Games, so you would think that his hometown station would be interested in doing a story on him."  More... ( http://www.asrtalkingheads.com/2008/02/biased-against.html )