Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig fanmail.mlssoccer.com. NS
Answer
fanmail.mlssoccer.com. 2 NS ns2.exacttarget.com.
fanmail.mlssoccer.com. 2 NS ns1.exacttarget.com.
fanmail.mlssoccer.com. 2 NS ns4.exacttarget.com.
fanmail.mlssoccer.com. 2 NS ns3.exacttarget.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0