The Sounders play the Timbers tonight! It's such a big deal that the Wall Street Journal covered it, presenting a detailed article (in the sports section! the WSJ has a sports section?) not about the merits of the players but about the hippieness of the fans. The article finds a 15-year-old Sounders fan willing to call all Portlanders "meth-headed" and "jobless," a Seattleite willing to say Mac & Jack's is better than Deschutes, and a Portland grad student worried that "Seattle has Republicans." The article is such an amazing clusterfuck of stereotypes, uglier than six players on the ball at the same time, that it's hard to believe it came from the WSJ and not the Onion. Based in part on the article, we came up with our own (not-very-skill-related) list of characteristics for judging the teams. Portland scored a lot of points, but Seattle eked by on the shoulders of one tall bald man. Is it a preview of tomorrow evening? Let's hope so. more ›

Both the Mariners and the Sounders are in second place in their respective divisions, and both played the teams ahead of them last night. more ›

National soccer correspondent Jason McDonald covered Saturday's Sounders home opener for Seattlest more ›

The Sounders "kick" (HA!) off their home schedule Saturday night, at Qwest Field, vs. the hated Portland Timbers. Why are they hated? We asked Sounders fan Eric Gilbertson to explain. more ›

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 the players we have (Paul Allen, Adrian Hanauer who co-owns the Seattle Sounders) either not interested in or not capable of bringing a team here. This new guy--despite being from out of town, despite being from California, despite being a real estate developer, despite his intentions of handing the team to his son to manage--might be the guy who can get an MLS team into Qwest Field. Good news for soccer fans. more ›

The Sounders played a home-and-home over the weekend with their hated rivals, the Portland Timbers. Often, rivalry games devolve into foul-fests, but Friday's game, at least, had a good tempo. Both teams screwed up unscrewupable scoring chances--though the goalkeepers had some pretty bold plays. The Sounders' Chris Eylander made five saves, three of them gasp-inducing, for his third shutout in a row. more ›

When Seahawk Stadium, er, Qwest Field, was erected back in 2002, there was promise of the building hosting more than just football. After seeing Molly Hatchet warm up for Super Bowl XXXIX, Seattlest thought perhaps that Qwest Field might bring the mighty Hatchet to town for a night of unruly southern fried fun. Unfortunately, that will probably never come to fruition. The next best non-Seahawk Qwest field event, however, begins tomorrow when the Seattle A-League soccer team, the Sounders, begin their 2005 season by hosting their I-5 corridor rivals, the Portland Timbers, tomorrow night. more ›