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NEW YORK -- Chivas USA might not play in 2015 and perhaps longer, a decision that wont be made until a new owner takes over the Major League Soccer team. Randy Jones Padres Jersey . "We expect to be able to close an agreement by the end of the season," MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Thursday after a news conference to launch the leagues new logo. "Once we get an ownership group in place, well sit down with them and make a decision as to whether or not were going to keep that team operating in 2015 and beyond." The league hopes to have a schedule by late fall. With the addition of New York City and Orlando, MLS will have 20 or 21 teams next year, depending on whether Chivas USA plays. Chivas USA was formed in 2004, and MLS announced in February it had assumed operation of the team from Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes, who have controlled the Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara since 2002. Former Chivas USA youth coaches, Daniel Calichman and Theothoros Chronopoulos filed a discrimination lawsuit against the team in 2013, a case that was resolved without a trial. Chivas USA is last in the Western Conference at 6-16-6 and is averaging 6,942 for home games this season, less than half the figure of the team with the second-lowest average. Chivas USA shares the StubHub Center with the Los Angeles Galaxy in Carson, California, and Garber has said the new ownership group must intend to build a new stadium, perhaps at the site of the L.A. Sports Arena. Garber also said the league had fined Los Angeles Galaxy coach Bruce Arena $20,000 for criticizing MLS over the uncompleted deal to acquire American midfielder Sacha Kljestan from the Belgian club Anderlecht. During an Aug. 25 interview with The Washington Post, Arena was quoted as saying: "We had all of our ducks in a row. We were positioned to sign a player. I wont go into detail, and just say forces within the league worked real hard to make sure that didnt happen. ... because they are children and there have to be adults in the process, and we didnt have enough of them. I think we are back into the old days in the league when the rules are somewhat arbitrary." Garber said "it was a deal that did not come to the league for approval, and had it we would have not approved it." He differentiated Kljestan from goalkeeper Julio Cesar, who spent the early part of this season on loan to Toronto from Queens Park Rangers, by saying "we had certain rights in the Julio Cesar deal that we didnt have in this deal." "All of our employees, whether they are league executives or they are club executives, even going so far as to including our owners, are bound by an agreement that we will not criticize the system that our ownership is fully committed to," Garber said. "It pains me to have to fine him for making comments that he obviously feels strongly about but which he is required by league rules to keep to himself." Galaxy spokesman Brendan Hannan said the team declined comment. Garber also said the league is reviewing criticism by Toronto midfielder Michael Bradley of Canadian referee David Gantar who called a foul and disallowed what would have been a go-ahead goal in the 90th minute by Gilberto in a 1-1 tie against Chicago last weekend. "That referee did not get it right in that game, and we shouldnt be ashamed of saying that," Garber said. "I feel for Toronto FC." The leagues new logo, replacing the ball-and-cleat image in use since MLS started play in 1996, has a shield with a slash that extends on the lower side in a tail and three stars representing club, country and community. It will be used starting next season in various colours to match different teams. "If you look around at all the league logos around the world, they all have a ball in it. The shield represents an identity that we think is very soccer- or football-oriented," Garber said. "We dont believe that we need to take elements of the game to tell the world or our fans that were a soccer league." The logo is part of an "MLS Next" rebrand that was announced at a venue in New Yorks Meatpacking District, an area where Garber said "many of the millennials and those that are supporters of our league live and hang out. The new logo represents our commitment to whats next." On other topics, Garber said: --He is back at work following prostate cancer surgery that was successful. --MLS hopes to volunteer for video review experiments FIFA may authorize "so that we can ensure that games are not determined by calls that in retrospect can be looked at as being wrong." However, goal line technology such as the systems used by the Premier League and FIFA "is incredibly expensive, and for the amount of times that thats an issue throughout the year, we dont believe that its an expense that should be a priority for us." --David Beckhams group continues to seek a site for a downtown stadium in Miami and is not considering the suburbs: "Right now were really focused on having a downtown stadium. Weve seen how that has worked for us in so many other markets." --New York City FC, which starts play next year at Yankee Stadium, continues "to work with the City of New York to try to find a permanent stadium solution." Rollie Fingers Jersey .The Hamilton Tiger-Cat defensive back always has the required receipt. But he also walks around with a tangle of metal screws, rods and plates after breaking his neck in 2006 playing high school football in Louisiana. Aaron Loup Padres Jersey . 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United on Saturday, March 22 at 4:30 p.Glendale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - No legacy really needed to be stamped for the greatest coach/quarterback duo in NFL history but for all the naysayers who wanted validation, it was a little known cornerback from the University of West Alabama who affirmed it all. Malcolm Butlers interception at the goal line in the waning seconds preserved New Englands 28-24 win over Seattle in Super Bowl XLIX, the fourth championship in the Bill Belichick/Tom Brady era and the first in a decade. Its been a long journey, Brady said. Its just a great win. We left it all on the field. Brady did his part, setting a new Super Bowl completion record and throwing a 3-yard touchdown pass to Julian Edelman to put the Patriots on top with 2:02 remaining, but it Butlers pick with 20 seconds left that sealed things. Brady, who finished 37-of-50 for 328 yards and was named Super Bowl MVP, threw two of his four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to bring New England back from a 24-14 deficit against the NFLs best defense. Seattle, vying to become the first repeat Super Bowl winner since the Pats accomplished the feat following the 2003 and 2004 seasons, moved down to the Pats 5-yard line in the final seconds, however, after Jermaine Kearse came down with a miraculous 33-yard catch, reminiscent of David Tyree in Super Bowls past against New England. It looked a fait accompli that the Seahawks would earn their second straight Lombardi Trophy after Marshawn Lynch bulled just short of the goal line on the ensuing play, but inexplicably Seattle went to the air instead of letting Beast Mode finish the Patriots off. We sent in our personnel, they sent in goal line, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. Its not the right matchup to run the football. Instead, Russell Wilson threw an ill-conceived slant pass toward Ricardo Lockette that Butler jumped and snared to secure the contest and Bradys fourth Super Bowl title as New Englands quarterback, matching his boyhood idol Joe Montana as well as Terry Bradshaw for the most in NFL history. I just had a vision that I was gonna make a big play and it came true, Butler said to NBC Sports just after the game. Carroll, meanwhile, was left to defend some tortured logic. On second down we throw the ball really to kind of waste the play, Carroll said. If we score, we do, if we dont then well run it on third and fourth down. Unfortunately Seattle never go that opportunity. The guy (Butler) makes a great play and jumps in front of the route and makes an incredible play that nobody would evver think he could do and that changes the whole outcome, Carroll said. Wil Myers Padres Jersey. Theres really nobody to blame but me. Perhaps, but in a nip-and-tuck game where one play was going to decide it, the difference was that the Patriots backup cornerback, Butler, was better than Seattles reserve option, Tharold Simon. Seahawks nickel corner Jeremy Lane tried to send a message late in the first quarter when he intercepted a Brady pass intended for Edelman at Seattles own goal line but when trying to return it, Lane suffered a gruesome right wrist and arm injury that ended his night. The domino effect was startling as Brady, one of the smartest signal callers to ever play the game, targeted the overmatched Simon early and often. Simon simply couldnt handle the short-area quickness of Edelman or the Pats complicated combo routes. It was Simon who got beaten badly on back-to-back plays that resulted in the Patriots first TD, an 11-yard Brady strike to Brandon LaFell, and it was Simon who was victimized again on what turned out to be Edelmans game-winner. Conversely, after falling behind 14-7 Seattle probably never would have gotten back into the game if not for little-known wide receiver Chris Matthews having his way with Pats CB Kyle Arrington. With Darrelle Revis glued to Doug Baldwin, Kearse wearing Brandon Browner like a glove, Percy Harvin long gone and Paul Richardson convalescing with a torn ACL, Wilson was unable to complete a pass until 19 1/2 minutes of game time elapsed. Its almost as if Carroll looked around and said What the hell, lets try that tall kid over there. And the 6-foot-5 Matthews, an ex-CFL player who was working at Foot Locker before the Seahawks reached out to him in December, kept catching 50-50 balls over the overmatched Arrington. Matthews, who didnt catch one pass in the regular season, snared four balls for 109 yards and an 11-yard TD. He also set up Lynchs 3-yard run in the second quarter with a 44-yard gain. For a while it looked like Matthews would join ex-Redskins running back Timmy Smith as one of the most unlikely Super Bowl heroes. That is until Belichick made his own adjustment, a seemingly innocuous tweak which changed history and made Butler the most popular man in New England. I just knew they were going to throw, Butler said. My instincts, I just went with it, just went with my mind and made the play. I just didnt want to be the reason we lost the game. I just went out there and played football, played the best I could to help my team. ' ' '