

Expansion Teams
Player Announcement Coming Thursday
By: Steve |The next Sounders FC player signing will be announced on Thursday, August 14th at 2:00PM at Qwest field.
Sounders FC in the 2009 Champions League?
By: Steve |As far-fetched as it sounds, MLS and cup officials may have to ask themselves that exact question. The CONCAFAF Champions league gives 2 spots to teams from the US and Canada. One spot goes to the winner of the MLS Supporter’s Shield, the other to the winner of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. If a USL team were to win the Open Cup, they too would be given a spot in the competition.
Henry staying on the MLS radar
By: Akeem Samuels |French striker Henry spent this past weekend with his good friend and compatriot, NBA star Tony Parker, cruising the Big Apple and playing in the Steve Nash charity soccer game. Naturally, his presence in NYC was hard to ignore for both MLS fans and the press.
Seattle Sounders FC meets Matchmaker.com
By: Akeem Samuels |The Seattle Sounders FC has come out with an exclusive site that resembles matchmaking or social networking sites such as Match.com, Harmony.com or Facebook. Such a site was originally a demand made by Drew Carey to secure his participation in the establishment of the team.
The new site will match season ticket buyers [...]
Better Know Your Sounder, pt. 1: Sébastien Le Toux
By: Steve |On May 8, 2008 (though some reports were leaked as early as March), Le Toux became the first and, so far, only player in Seattle Sounders FC’s history. He is one of between six to ten players from the current Seattle Sounders who are expected to be signed to contracts with MLS’s Seattle Sounders FC.
REPORT: MLS Fattest
By: Akeem Samuels |Two scientists, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine recently wrote that “obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass — and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves [...]
Sports Illustrated Takes Their Cues from Seattle Offside
By: Steve |Breaking News: After the success of the MLS Hair Report, Sports Illustrated has decided to latch on to and leech off of my and Akeem’s brilliant and creative ideas.
To quote the article:
A distinctive mullet that soon would light up MLS matches identified Juan Carlos Toja to FC Dallas players during their 2007 preseason trip to [...]
Who Be Poppin’ the Bubbly?
By: Steve |by Akeem Samuels and Stephen Rosenshein
Adrian Hanauer would like us to believe that he and fellow Seattle Sounder FC owners, Roth and Allen, are assembling a world-class squad with talent from around the globe. He has been scouting in Africa and South America, looking for players that will propel the squad into the so-called “major” [...]
Great Expectations
By: Steve |One day I was sitting in my parents living room playing some FIFA 07 on my dads big screen TV. He came home from work, saw I was downstairs and came down to say hello. All of the sudden he was fixed on the screen. He sat down next to me.
“Who is [...]
Mock Up Kit Designs
By: Steve |Here are some designs made by an Everett company called Luminous Creative
Apparently they were reviewed and rejected by the Seattle franchise, who chose to go with a different firm.
Here they are:









