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...Major League Soccer (MLS) sank its cleats into the U.S. sports scene as an upstart 10-team league in a nation weaned on a different type of football. But MLS has steadily grown since its inception, and on March 18, the league announced it would award its 17th franchise to Vancouver, which in 2011 will become the second Canadian city to field a club. With its 14th campaign about to kick off, TIME spoke to Commissioner Don Garber about the league's growth, its goals, and its most famous player, David Beckham...
...imagine one of the challenges of building a league from scratch is marketing the game as an attractive career destination for the very best athletes. How is MLS planning to position soccer, in this respect, against the NFL or NBA or Major League Baseball...
...think when we reach that point, we'll have established ourselves as the major league that we hope it will one day be-that is, competitive with other major soccer leagues around the world. We reach that point when we have the economic foundation, when we have the fan base, and we have further evolution of the American consumer. That's our goal: to be the destination point not just for soccer fans in this country, but for [U.S.] soccer players. We've not yet fully achieved that...
...that its exposure to AIG was "immaterial" and fully hedged. But some rivals point to the fact that Goldman had uncharacteristically piled into contracts with a single counterparty. "I am shocked that Goldman had this much exposure [with AIG]," says an analyst at a competing bank. "This was a major failing, but they got bailed...
Digital 3-D, which has slowly been gaining steam over the past few years, is finally ready for its closeup. Just about every top director and major studio is doing it--a dozen movies are slated to arrive this year, with dozens more in the works for 2010 and beyond. These are not just animations but live-action films, comedies, dramas and documentaries. Cameron is currently shooting a live-action drama, Avatar, for Fox in 3-D. Disney and its Pixar studio are releasing five 3-D movies this year alone, including a 3-D-ified version of Toy Story...