Sources: MLS Owners "Unlikely" To Vote On Expansion This Week

It is "unlikely" MLS team owners will "pick the league's 28th team at their spring board meeting this week," according to league officials and sources cited by David Hunn of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. The owners are "scheduled for a 60- to 90-minute session" at their meeting tomorrow to "discuss league expansion and the hot race for the last team spot this year." A league official said that neither of the two "front-runners -- ownership groups from St. Louis and Sacramento -- are scheduled to be present." Meanwhile, MLS owner committees will meet today "as expected," but the six-member expansion committee is "no longer scheduled to convene." MLS Exec VP/Communications Dan Courtemanche said that the expansion committee "met last week" after a U.S. Soccer Foundation event in L.A. He added that the committee "discussed bids in several cities, not just St. Louis and Sacramento." Hunn notes St. Louis "did not present at that meeting" and it is "unclear whether Sacramento did" (STLTODAY.com, 4/17).