The MLS All-Star Game on Saturday in San Diego was "an
artistic success on the field but not off it, and MLS
commissioner Doug Logan was second-guessing himself
yesterday for putting the league's annual showpiece game in
a non-league city in the first place," according to Ike
Kuhns of the Newark STAR-LEDGER. The attendance of 23,277
was the lowest in the four-year history of the game. Logan:
"I thought that the game on Saturday was a pretty terrific
game, but from the standpoint of the promotion ... I am not
pleased with our performance or my performance in it. I
don't know if it was a good judgement to put in a neutral
site two years in a row, and once we put it in a neutral
site I probably should have found the resources to put five
or six or seven of our own people in there to control the
promotion of the game. ... From my standpoint I am not
pleased with the way we promoted the game" (Newark STAR-
LEDGER, 7/21). MLS said that ABC "plans to repay the
league" for moving the All-Star telecast to ESPN2 after
Saturday's news on John F. Kennedy, Jr. The network will
apparently air another game, but "nothing has been yet
confirmed" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 7/21).
