NYCFC Kicks Off Season Sunday

NYCFC star David Villa. USA Today Sports.

New York City Football Club begins their third season in the MLS this Sunday at Orlando City.

Patrick Vieira will be entering his second season as the head coach, and European soccer legends David Villa and Andrea Pirlo will be back for their third season in New York. English soccer star Frank Lampard retired in the offseason after two injury-filled years with NYCFC.

The home opener at Yankee Stadium will be on Sunday, March 12. They will then host the Montreal Impact on Saturday, March 18, and the San Jose Jose Earthquakes on April 1. All three games have 2 p.m. kickoffs.

Red Bulls Out Of Champions League

Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles. @NewYorkRedBulls.

The Red Bulls have been eliminated from the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League on Thursday night after they lost 2-0 on the road to the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.

The Whitecaps win the two-leg quarterfinal matchup, 3-1, on aggregate. The first leg was a 1-1 draw at Red Bull Arena on Wednesday, February 22.

Barclays Center The Home Of Premier Boxing Champions

Danny Jacobs after winning at Barclays Center in October 2012. Photo by @LolitaLens.

On Thursday, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment announced that their venues, Barclays Center in Brooklyn and Long Island's Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Presented By New York Community Bank (NYCB), will be the sites for select Premier Boxing Champions Series (PBC ) events in 2017.

This Saturday’s PBC welterweight showdown between Danny “Swift” Garcia and Keith “One-Time” Thurman in Brooklyn will be the first of a multi-fight schedule at Barclays Center and The New Coliseum Presented By NYCB in 2017. 

NYCFC Releases 2017 MLS Roster

NYCFC star David Villa in action against LA Galaxy last season. Photo by Jason Schott.

New York City FC released its roster for the 2017 MLS Regular Season, which begins this Sunday at Orlando City.

The 2017 roster features 12 new offseason additions, including new Designated Player Maxi Moralez, 2015 MLS Cup champion Rodney Wallace, Venezuelan international midfielder Yangel Herrera and former Chicago Fire goalkeeper, Sean Johnson.

Turner Sports and CBS Broadcast Pairings For March Madness

Jim Nantz of CBS Sports. Photo by Jason Schott.

March Madness is right around the corner, and CBS Sports and Turner Sports announced on Thursday that they will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their seventh year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship.

All 67 games from the 2017 NCAA Tournament will be televised across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday, March 14, with the NCAA First Four on truTV presented by Northwestern Mutual.

Red Bulls Expand Youth Team Platform

Red Bull Arena. Photo by Jason Schott.

The New York Red Bulls Academy will expand its Regional Development School (RDS) programming with the addition of six new full-time, regionally based teams in 2017, the club announced today.

The New York Red Bulls youth programs are widely recognized locally and nationally as having a history of developing players for the Red Bulls first team.

NYCFC Intoduces Maxi Morales

Maxi Morales with students at P.S. 83 / P.S. 182. @NYCFC 

New York City Football Club introduced its newest Designated Player Maxi Moralez on Tuesday.

Maxi spoke to media before an appearance at P.S. 83 / P.S. 182 (BBMS) in East Harlem, a current ‘City in the Community’ site where the Club supports free soccer programming, where he played small-sided games with the students.