Word: baseness
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...meaningful professional sports league in America. It means that we are important in the lives of our fans. Our teams resonate in their communities and have a deep connection to the local fan base. We have a presence on television for all our games. Most importantly, soccer will have become an important part of the lives of many Americans, and MLS will have been a big driver of that. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
When you're deciding when and where to expand, to what degree do you consider the composition of your fan base...
...want to have successful teams, whether they're in Canada, in large markets, or in small markets. At this point, what we're trying to do is build a passionate fan base. One of our most successful teams is in Toronto, and nobody really thought years ago that that would be a successful pro soccer market. It's got 16,000 season tickets on a waiting list and sells out every game. We need to go where the fans are and continue to think about how we create a geographic footprint that makes sense...
...lauding the Islamic army of Iraq, a hard-line Sunni group loosely affiliated with al-Qaeda, are prevalent in many parts of west Mosul. Iraqi security forces have crossed out some of the writing on the wall, but it's proving harder to erase the insurgents and their support base. "I knew AQ [al-Qaeda] was a problem, but I didn't know to what extent," says Lieut. Colonel Thomas W. Cipolla, battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment. Cipolla, who is on his third tour in Iraq, took command of his battalion in mid-February after...
...have doubled over the past several months, according to Col. Gary Volesky, brigade commander of the 3rd Heavy Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. January's provincial polls also brought a Sunni party, Al-Hadba, to power, a development that is expected to lessen some elements of the insurgents' support base...