Soccer's new kids on the block will feature an old, familiar face next year, as veteran goalkeeper and Northwest-native Kasey Keller has signed with Seattle Sounders FC. After a stellar career in Europe, Keller brings a wealth of experience to a team which begins its inaugural season in the MLS in less than eight months. The 38-year-old Keller was born in Lacey, and played at the prestigious University of Portland, before beginning his professional career.......

The Seattle Sounders will advance to the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup after defeating the Kansas City Wizards 1-0 in quarterfinal play at Qwest Field Tuesday night. Play was scoreless after regulation time and 30 minutes of extra time, leading to an exciting penalty kick shoot-out, with the Sounders winning 6-5 on Zach Scott's PK conversion. The Sounders now advance to the face USL-squad Charleston Battery on Aug. 12 in a road showdown. The......

The Seattle Sounders face MLS-club Kansas City Wizards in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup tonight at Qwest Field. The tournament pits top professional and amateur clubs from across the country. The Seattle Times is reporting that KC may be planning to field a reserve squad, due to scheduling considerations. Tickets are still available. Kick-off is 7 p.m.......

For the second time in less than a year, the Seattle Sounders have upset MLS-side Chivas USA in the US Open Cup, defeating the top-flight team 2-0 in last night's third round action at the Starfire Sports Complex in Renton. MLS-bound Sebastien Le Toux and Taylor Graham scored in the contest. The Sounders next face the Kansas City Wizards (another MLS squad) in the quarterfinals at Qwest Field next Tuesday night.......

Our USL champion Seattle Sounders take on MLS-side Chivas USA Tuesday night in the third round of the US Open Cup. Tickets are on sale now for the 7:00 p.m. kickoff at Starfire Sports Complex in Renton. Due to the limited space at Starfire and anticipated demand, advanced ticket purchased is strongly suggested. Chivas USA is coached by Preki Radosavljevic, and Seattlest can't type that enough, really. Also, note to local photogs: The Seattlest Flickr......

The first five seasons of Major League Soccer in Seattle will be brought to you by Microsoft and Xbox 360 Live. The team and the Redmond software giant announced the sponsorship today at a press conference. Microsoft has offered the Sounders $20 million for a five year sponsorship. Their sponsorship guarantees that the Sounders' uniforms will have "Xbox 360 Live" stitched across the front in a prominet place. Former Seattlest editor Seth Kolloen got......

Seattle's new Major League Soccer team, Seattle Sounders FC, has signed its first player: Sebastien Le Toux. Le Toux, a 24 year old French national, is a forward. He's not Thierry Henry, but he is a start! Le Toux is not unknown to Sounders staff or fans, he is a member of the current Seattle Sounders team in the United Soccer League, where he has excelled. Every whisper of a new player, and now......

As we told you yesterday, the MLS will announce the name of the city's new soccer franchise, set to start play in 2009. We think the league learned their lesson from Houston when they named that franchise Houston 1836, the year that city was founded. This, however, was also the year that Texas won its independence from Mexico, and the name didn't sit well with many Mexican-Americans in the area who the team would be......

We're getting a new Major League Soccer team and everyone either is or should be excited. Drew Carey's walking around town, season tickets are flying off the shelves and the MLS Cup is approaching this weekend. On the field Houston faces New England, but there's sure to be a lot of talk during the broadcast about Seattle, our new team and the interesting ideas that have been associated with it. Unfortunately, no one in Seattle......

It's cool that Drew Carey has been the face of the new Seattle MLS team, appearing at the G&D and showing up in the booth for Monday Night Football to talk about the team's plans in Seattle, but he's kind of a Cleveland guy. Couldn't we get a Seattle name that's about on par with Carey? Like....oh god there is no Seattle name on par with Drew Carey. Long live Seattle guy Drew Carey! And......

Few details in this report by the Seattle Times' Larry Stone, but he confirms that we'll have an MLS team in '09. Press conference on Tuesday. Says Seattlest David: "Best of all, no David Stern."......

Is there any women's sports franchise that's tied to a men's sports franchise in Seattle that has yet to get screwed over by the guys? The Storm--the WNBA contingent of the Super Sonics, and arguably the most passionately-followed team in the city--are dangling on a finer thread than the Sonics themselves under owners who want nothing more than to move the whole franchise to Oklahoma City. The Seattle Sounders soccer team has a much brighter......

Sometime this week it's going to be announced that Seattle's soccer team the Seattle Sounders will be entering the MLS. GOALSeattle says tomorrow. Our friend in Chicago who knows about these things says it'll be announced at MLS Cup, which isn't until November 18, so we'll discount that and say tomorrow. It seems pointless, by now, to argue whether or not it will be announced. The Sounders aren't selling 2008 season tickets, Paul Allen......

Both the Mariners and the Sounders are in second place in their respective divisions, and both played the teams ahead of them last night. We'd promised a friend we'd go to the Sounders game as they were playing their archrivals, the hated Portland Timbers. The Sounders dominated throughout, they had more speed than Portland, and more energy. Frenchy Sebastian Le Toux provided much of the latter, he flew all over the field. By the second......

National soccer correspondent Jason McDonald covered Saturday's Sounders home opener for Seattlest UPDATE: Holy crap, the Economist was there too! After watching the--let’s call it "considered discourse"--in the comments section of Seattlest Seth’s post on how to hate the Portland Timbers, Seattlest decided to stand with the ultras of each team (one per half) during the Sounders' home opener. Here is how each group fared. First Half: Emerald City Supporters (ECS) We applauded their passion......

When a Californian real estate developer announced this week that he was determined to bring a Major League Soccer team to the Pacific Northwest it was good news for some and bad news for others. Fans of the game in Seattle and Portland, where Michael Keston is proposing to set up the MLS expansion team, should welcome the chance at entry into the U.S.'s highest league. MLS in Seattle has always been a long-shot with......

By hurling themselves to their deaths over the Aurora Bridge, local Grumpy Guses have area workers miffed.Sarah Edwards drives on the left side of the street near her office because the body of a suicide from the bridge towering above once crashed onto the hood of a co-worker's car. The bloody aftermath of suicide is so common in the upscale neighborhood that grief counselors regularly visit the offices of Cutter & Buck, the sportswear company......

The PI's John Cook offered the best short summary of what's new at Zillow in his Venture Blog today: Big changes at Zillow.com today, with the company overhauling its Web site to include user-generated for sale listings, a real estate wiki and a new service called "Make Me Move" that allows any home owner to set a dream price for their home on the site. You can get more sober and insightful discussion from Zillow's......

Initiative 91 is one answer. We just voted against spending public moneys on sports stadiums. Major League Soccer wants all its teams to play in small, soccer-specific stadiums, but we don't currently have one of those laying around and one would be tough to build in the current environment. Too bad, because those are really cool stadiums that have great atmosphere and look sexy on TV and professional soccer at the highest (American) level would......

Overheard while trying to buy a ticket to last night's Real Madrid vs. D.C. United match: "You ever see a soccer game before?" "No, man, I'm an American." Sixtysome-thousand Americans apparently saw their first soccer game ever last night at Qwest Field between a big name Spanish team loaded with stars and past its prime and a MLS team that likely doesn't sell 20,000 tickets to its home matches in the Capitol. These are......

The professional team with the world's most talented roster--Beckham, Raul, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos among them--will play at Qwest August 9th. Real Madrid of Spain will play D.C. United of the MLS (the team of phenom Freddy Adu) in the soccer event of decade in Seattle. Doubtful that all of these players will be in the game. A few might. Real Madrid will also play an exhibition in Salt Lake City as part of a......

Seattlest joined a subdued crowd of about 80 at Greenlake's Kiwi and Kangaroo for this morning's US-Ghana game. Though we arrived in a red, white, and blue "Git 'er Done" hat and waving a small, plastic U.S. flag, our fellow fans displayed little national pride. A U.S. jersey there, a red and blue shirt here. Pretty pathetic. Ok, the last six years haven't been our best, but come on--first colony to break away from the......