1. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"We've done a fair amount of work on this. Enough that we're going to keep looking at it."
-- Richard Peddie, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which owns the NHL Maple Leafs, the NBA Raptors, in pursuing an MLS franchise for the Toronto area that would play in a new stadium at York University in 2007. (Toronto Star)
"Along comes the CSA [Canadian Soccer Association] two years ago -- on its own, unilaterally saying it was going to promote a Major League Soccer ownership group in Toronto. As if we needed that, right? As if soccer's doing so really well, we don't need one professional team, we need two teams in Toronto?
-- Bruno Hartrell, chief financial officer for the United Soccer League' Toronto Lynx, now drawing about 2,000 a game to Etobicoke's Centennial Stadium. (Toronto Star)
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