Alex Silverman

The Professional Hockey Players’ Association, a union representing players in the AHL and ECHL, has hired Canadian Football League Players’ Association head Brian Ramsay to serve as its new Exec Dir ahead upcoming labor negotiations. Ramsay announced yesterday that he would step down from his role...

USL Chief Commercial Officer Court Jeske has left his role with the soccer league organizer to lead Oklahoma City-based Echo Capital Investments’ sports and entertainment vertical. Echo last month purchased a controlling interest in OKC Energy FC , a dormant USL Championship club set to...

The Predators have reached a multiyear deal with the Nashville-area franchise of a closet manufacturer that is making its first foray into sports sponsorship. California Closets of Nashville will entitle a new premium space at Bridgestone Arena that features high-end finishes and furnishings from the company. Financial...

The Florida Panthers have added another bottle to their already-stocked shelf of sponsored spirits, forging a multiyear marketing deal with Durham Distillery’s Conniption Gin brand. The defending Stanley Cup champions, who declined to disclose specific terms of the deal, will provide Conniption Gin with signage, a...

The Earthquakes’ opening Leagues Cup match against Mexican juggernaut Chivas de Guadalajara drew a crowd of 50,765 to Levi’s Stadium on Saturday, a new attendance record for the second-year tournament featuring all 47 clubs from MLS and Liga MX. The crowd in Santa Clara propelled Leagues Cup...

While MLS’s top players competed against their counterparts from Liga MX in the MLS All-Star Game last week , the league’s emerging ventures team put on a soccer science fair for a select group of stakeholders and suite-dwellers at Lower.com Field in Columbus. The league’s Future...

Chicago-based Intersport is the latest major U.S. sports marketing firm to launch a dedicated soccer partnership practice ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America. The business unit, known as Intersport FC, will be led by soccer industry veterans Alfonso Alanis-Cue and Rob...

MLS Next Pro club Carolina Core FC became the first team in the developmental league’s three-season history to unveil a third kit. The High Point, N.C.-based team’s new alternate uniform, known as the “Golden Hour kit,” was designed by Matthew Wolff , who has previously worked on...

The Columbus Crew’s transformation from cautionary tale to case study under the stewardship of Haslam Sports Group was on full display last week as the North American soccer community gathered in Arch City for the 2024 MLS All-Star Game. “Having this opportunity to...

COLUMBUS -- Lower.com Field hosted its largest crowd since opening in 2021 for last night's MLS All-Star Game, with 20,931 fans on hand in Columbus to cap five days of festivities in Ohio’s capital city. The Liga MX All-Stars pulled away from the MLS All-Stars in the second...