He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer).

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The three games MLS Fantasy Challenge, Salary Cap game, and Pro Soccer picks, are designed through Facebook, and allow players to score points with a myriad of categories as opposed to simply goals, assists, wins, and saves.

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Over the past few years the energy drink maker, which has become a mainstay of extreme sports athletes, has treated its pro gamers just like its soccer players, skateboarders, surfers and NFL players.

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And European soccer leagues are, after all, money-churning pro-sports leagues, and all that implies spoiled athletes and, in the Premiership, the most free-spending vanity owners in sports.

WSJ: Why Soccer Is Better Than Football

Antonucci, the commissioner of Women's Professional Soccer, is tirelessly pitching sponsors and television executives on the notion that the start-up league will not repeat the mistakes of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the ill-fated pro league that failed to capitalize on a U.S. World Cup title nearly a decade ago.

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