Michael Gspurning lost his mind against the Colorado Rapids
Michael Gspurning settled Seattle’s keeper dispute in bizarre fashion on Wednesday. With the Sounders clinging to a 1-0 lead in their one-off playoff battle against the Rapids at CenturyLink Field, an...
View ArticleHow Tim Cahill explains Clint Dempsey’s possible rise in 2014
In 2012, Tim Cahill played in 12 regular season matches for the New York Red Bulls, racked up 1,080 minutes on the field and scored one goal. By most accounts, his initial transfer-shortened MLS season...
View ArticleThe Sounders, a new USL PRO venture and stretching developmental boundaries
SEATTLE – A panel of nine sat spread shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday on a dais inside a pavilion at the Chihuly Gardens, an ornate snake of red glass flowers clinging to the ceiling crawling above their...
View ArticleFive Burning Questions ahead of Saturday’s Supporters’ Shield Showdown
With the MLS Supporters Shield set to come down to a single clash between the LA Galaxy and the Seattle Sounders, plenty of ink has been spent analyzing the matchup, with tactics, lineups, form and...
View ArticleToil and Treble: Sounders’ chase for a third marches past FC Dallas
SEATTLE — Nervy days, but the job is done. And now MLS gets the matchup everyone wanted. Dempsey vs. Donovan. Keane vs. Martins. Galaxy vs. Sounders. The Sounders, expected by just about everyone to...
View ArticleS2′s Pablo Rossi is doing bad things with a soccer ball already
When we talk about high level development in the U.S., you can hear the crackling static when we talk about the 18-22 age bracket. At least in recent history, nobody’s quite sure where to go from...
View ArticleClint Dempsey’s back heel was the MLS highlight of the weekend
The Sounders cruised past NYCFC 3-1 on Sunday afternoon in the capper to the MLS weekend. It was a good game in the sense that it had goals and both teams tried passing it around a bit. Hard not to …...
View ArticleSigi Schmid’s quotes after finishing a cup match on 7 men were the best
The Sounders and Timbers staged a U.S. Open Cup match filled with an atypical amount of drama, even for this series. Brad Evans was sent off first with the match tied at 1-1, and then hell opened....
View ArticleRodney Wallace did a fake throat slash and stabbed an invisible Sounder maybe?
The yearly Amazing Soccer Ritual in Portland between the Timbers and Sounders went off in similarly riotous voice on Sunday. Tied into half, the Timbers scored three goals in the second half – two from...
View ArticleThe Sounders CONCACAF’d so hard on Wednesday
We love CONCACAF, primarily because it flaunts the idea that soccer has become polished to a high, glossy sheen in our 21st century digital age. While Europe’s top leagues have their own fair share of...
View ArticleWatch a soccer mom politely troll Chad Barrett about playing time
Every now and then, MLS teams resume the time-honored tradition of pulling a couple players into the marketing department to make a couple calls to season ticket holders. It’s typically a good time:...
View ArticleThe goal that ended the LA Galaxy’s season was mostly their own fault
Finally, for the first time in four tries, the Sounders knocked the Galaxy out of the postseason on Wednesday night. The game was as entertaining as it gets in MLS, and after four goals in the opening...
View ArticleJordan Morris (probably) made the right decision by choosing Seattle
Jordan Morris is probably choosing to stay home. There is an old truism in life that you do your best work out of a place of comfort. This is often mistaken for a vague idea of something called a...
View ArticleJordan Morris just became the highest profile Homegrown in MLS history
Jordan Morris cleared the final step to the showroom floor at Seattle’s The Ninety and the flashbulbs popped and crackled like fireworks. Flanked by Adrian Hanauer, Garth Lagerwey, Sigi Schmid and...
View ArticleClint Dempsey’s free kick the highlight for MLS teams in Tuesday’s CCL action
Every year, the return of CONCACAF Champions League play consistently triggers the debate of the tournament’s format, MLS’ need to actually win the thing and excuses as to why they don’t. The...
View ArticleThis old Seattle Sounders NASL commercial advocates blunt force trauma
Let’s for a moment remember that soccer happened in the U.S. in the 1980′s, and in large part it was just one giant party of men in excessively short shorts kicking the side of an innocent barn....
View ArticleMorris nets first professional goal for Seattle
A year and a day after scoring his first and only goal for the U.S. men’s national team, Jordan Morris found the back of the net at the professional level for the first time. Morris scored in the 71st...
View ArticleCristian Roldan scored his first goal for the Sounders on Wednesday
You may remember Seattle Sounders midfielder Cristian Roldan from such feature-length fun as That One Adidas Commercial With the Plastic Bag and The Highly Prized Generation Adidas Signing and How Did...
View ArticleJordan Morris scores goal while Cristian Roldan talks about Jordan Morris
Jordan Morris is on some kind of form lately. As if directly responding to Jurgen Klinsmann’s bizarre and empirically incorrect decision to leave him off the Copa America 23-man roster, Morris has...
View ArticleWith the exit of Sigi Schmid, the Garth Lagerwey era in Seattle is here
Garth Lagerwey hustled. He hustled for weeks and months, days tumbling into one another as the fish squirmed on the end of a line plunged deep below the darkest spaces of the water. This was the...
View ArticleNico Lodeiro is edging toward the best half season in MLS history
If Steven Gerrard’s truncated half season with the LA Galaxy in 2015 was not a full fledged dumpster fire, then it was something resembling a small blaze in a dirty trash can. Gerrard was OK in spurts,...
View ArticleJordan Morris is a learning computer
Jordan Morris is not – nor likely will ever be – a hold-up striker. There was some doubt about this early in his career. At Stanford under Jeremy Gunn, Morris was used as one of the two attacking...
View ArticleNo Drogba, no problem as Montreal smashes D.C. United
Heading into Thursday night’s MLS playoff clash between D.C. United and Montreal, Didier Drogba dominated the headlines. Much of that is the player’s stature in the global game. No matter what he does,...
View ArticleStefan Frei’s unreal save told in eight different languages
We’re all agreed (I will fight you if we’re not all agreed) Stefan Frei’s fingertip save on Jozy Altidore was the biggest save in MLS Cup history. The Sounders were cooked in the attacking third, and...
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