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Major League Soccer made improvements in both its racial and gender hiring practices, according to an annual report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.MLS received an overall grade of B+ with a combined grade of 84.7, up by a significant 1.5 percentage points from the leagues 2015 overall grade.Richard Lapchick, the author of the report, said MLSs improvements are encouraging.The league office is doing really in the racial and gender hiring practices and were seeing some increases at the team level as well, so thats definitely a plus, Lapchick told The Associated Press on Thursday.Laphchick said that MLS Commissioner Don Garbers office has been the pacesetter with an A+ in racial hiring and an A- in gender hiring and added, The teams need to follow the Leagues example more closely.For its racial hiring practices, MLS earned 88.5 points, up a substantial 2.1 percentage points from 86.3 in 2015. This resulted in a B+, the same letter grade as last year.MLS received an A- for head coaches, a B+ for team professional administration, and a B for team senior administration and assistant coaches when it came to racial hiring practices. There was a major improvement in the general manager position where four GMs who were people of color were hired, prompting the grade to rise from an F in 2015 to a B+ this year.MLS earned a B for gender hiring practices, the same letter grade as in 2015. In so doing, MLS remains the only other mens professional league other than the NBA with a B for gender hiring practices.The most notable achievement for gender hiring practices came at the league office employee level, where the MLS received an A- grade. The team senior administration received a C- and team professional administration received a C+. There was also major improvement for gender in senior administration where the MLS jumped from an F in 2015 to a C- in 2016, although Lapchick said in his report that area remains a serious concern.MLS earned an A+ for its outstanding diversity initiatives for the eighth consecutive season.Some other notes from the report:- The MLS League Office continued to be the standard-bearer for the entire league with people of color comprising 36.4 percent of all professional positions, while women filled 37 percent of these positions.- People of color with head coaching positions increased from 10 percent in 2015 to 20 percent in 2016. The Colorado Rapids, Houston Dynamo, New York City FC and FC Dallas were the four MLS franchises led by Latinos.- Assistant coaches of color decreased by 5.2 percentage points from 18.8 percent in 2015 to 13.6 percent in 2015.- MLS teams have the worst record in professional sport for hiring people of color as team vice presidents. There was a decrease in vice presidents who were people of color in the 2016 season from 6.4 percent in 2015 to 4 percent in 2016.- Alex Leitao with Orlando City Soccer was the only person of color holding the position of CEO/president.- Earnie Stewart, of the Philadelphia Union, was the first African-American GM in MLS since its inception. Mariners Jerseys China . The nimble-footed quarterback got his wish, dashing through the snow and a weary defence all the way into the NCAA record book. Fake Mariners Jerseys . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. https://www.cheapmariners.com/ .Y. - Rob Manfred was promoted Monday to Major League Baseballs chief operating officer, which may make him a candidate to succeed Bud Selig as commissioner. Seattle Mariners Pro Shop . PETERSBURG, Fla. Wholesale Mariners Jerseys . -- The Bishops Gaiters are showing they belong among the countrys top varsity football teams. Nico Rosberg admits it will take a while to recover from his disappointing result in Germany, one which sees him head into the summer break 19 points down on Lewis Hamilton.Rosbergs race unravelled from lights out, as he appeared to get bogged down at the second phase of his start and dropped from first to fourth by Turn 1. Despite a mid-race fightback Rosbergs charge was hampered by a five-second penalty and a Mercedes stopwatch failure at the subsequent stop, meaning he had to settle for fourth position behind Hamilton and the Red Bulls.?In a video message to his fans on Sunday night he tweeted with the caption Disappointed after German GP, Rosberg admitted the summer break has come at a good time as he looks to regroup and get his championship challenge back on track.My little title sums it up, everything went wrong -- it was a really crap day today, crap race, he said. Everything went wrong really. I cant bee bothered to go into details now.ddddddddddddIt was amazing all the support I got, Im really thankful for that -- it was really awesome and Im really thankful for that. Im sorry I didnt get to finish it in celebrations ... but anyways, next time.Happy holidays for those of you taking some days off. Im going to enjoy them for sure, its going to be awesome -- once I recover from this day. It will take a while, but I will get there.The result means Hamilton has outscored Rosberg by 62 points since the pair collided at the Spanish Grand Prix in May. After that race, Hamilton trailed his Mercedes teammate by 43 points in the standings. Since that clash in Spain, which ended a streak of seven consecutive victories, Rosberg has won just one race.The video message can be seen in full below: ' ' '