Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer is skeptical that Mexican players will soon dot MLS rosters, but he thinks new TV deal can bring Mexican-American fans to the the U.S. league.
Author: Mike Gastineau
Mike Gastineau
Mike Gastineau recently wrapped up 21 years as a talk show host at Seattle's first sports talk station Sports Talk Radio KJR. He arrived in Seattle in 1991 after five years as the play-by-play voice of James Madison University football and basketball. He graduated from Indiana University in 1982. In 2009 he co-authored (just the good parts) the book "The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists" with Art Thiel and Steve Rudman.
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