The Sounders announced their new goalkeeper. Will he be a good fit? more ›

Let us take a moment to express gratitude for Seattle's alternative professional sports: If it weren't for the Seattle Storm and Sounders, local sports fans would have no reason to celebrate in a town where the majority of its traditional sports teams seem to be "in a re-building phase." more ›

What do we love this week? The gold guy at Occupy Seattle, the Cinerama, feminist Ryan Gosling, probiotics, soccer, and splatter, to name a few. more ›

What's on tap this Wednesday evening? You could get megalomaniacal at El Corazon; partake of enjoyable cheese at the Central Cinema; or cheer on our Sounders past the challengers from Panama. And before that all gets going, take a long lunch and march yourself down to South Lake Union for cupcakes and creole. more ›

Several Seattle sports teams suffered defeats over the weekend, but one squad showed that we know what winning streaks look like, too. more ›

This was a banner weekend for Seattle's sports teams. Catch up on all the stats with Annie's AM sports roundup. more ›

What's the latest from the Sounders, Storm and Mariners? Annie's got all the scores and stats to keep you in the know. more ›

Annie Durkin wraps up the weekend sports: Both active local teams are either winning or have won lately, optimism abounds. more ›

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 ›

Golf, baseball and soccer news. Read up if you want to sound informed. more ›

This is a day of double- and triple-verifying facts and taking everything you hear with a grain of salt. For the tired, the gullible and the stressed, this is perhaps the worst holiday ever. more ›

SDOT has just sent us a freaking packed list of weekend events that will result in traffic jams, parking space jams, and closed-street jams. Capitol Hill is basically closed to cars starting tonight, and that's not counting the Greenwood Car Show, Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, Children's Ride, or the Sounders game. more ›

We are sitting in front of the TV watching the Issaquah-Skyline 4A championship game, still working on a heaping plate of leftovers from last weekend. (Does turkey have an expiration date?) This game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but was moved to accommodate Bellevue, who plays Union in the 3A final. Bellevue played a rescheduled game earlier this week after their bus rolled over on the way to last week's game. Here...grab a plate. more ›

• We're going to start with good news, rather than bad today. One guess where the opening game of the coming MLS Season is going to be? That's right, Seattle: the first Sounders MLS game will be the season opener for the whole league. Maybe, just maybe, the Sounders will actually win that game.
• The West Seattle Blog reports a really lovely random act of kindness, with photo evidence. Basically impossible to not feel warm and fuzzy about this story.
• Central District News has what must seem an all too common refrain for parents and teachers of Central District Schools; this time the plea is why T.T. Minor should not be closed.

For local sports fans, March can't come soon enough for two reasons. First, the Seattle Sounders begin their first season of play and the home opener will be March 19 against the NY Red Bulls on national TV. more ›

The Seattle Sounders will announce the signing of Swedish winger Freddie Ljungberg later today at Qwest Field. The 31-year-old is reportedly signing a deal which will pay him $2.5 million a year for two years. Ljungberg will become the Sounders "Designated Player" which by MLS rules, allows each team an exemption from the league's salary cap. more ›

A few years back, we braved a soccer match between two top flight teams in Buenos Aires. A 'super-classico' as they call it. Barbed wire and riot police ringed the field and more than once a cannon was fired. The tension was palpable. Early in the match, the visiting goalkeeper was hit in the head with what the papers later reported was a keychain. Bleeding, the goalkeeper was stitched up on the sidelines and his head was wrapped up Frankenstein style. Later, with the game scoreless, the visiting team was awarded a penalty shot. The coach waved at the goalkeeper, and as the home crowd lost their collective minds, the goalkeeper trotted down, took the shot, scored, then proceeded to jog back to his net, flipping off the crowd the entire length of the field. He spent the rest of the night tucked under his goal, with a big grin, we imagine. more ›

Who is the best quarterback in the state? Matt Hasselbeck? We don't think so. Jake Locker? Sorry Husky fans. You are only half right. more ›

It could be worse. Somehow. We guess SoDo could have been swallowed up in a giant sinkhole. Or the Mariners could keep playing for another three months. Thankfully, their season ended Sunday, bumbling to a 61-101 record, and our long civic nightmare appears to be over, or at least delayed for a few months. more ›

In the 11th grade, we busted our Mom's lava lamp playing soccer in the house. (Yeah, she had a lava lamp. Whatever.) Our seemed-like-a-good-idea solution was to vacuum the two quarts of red oily goo with the family's shiny new Electrolux. About a week later, an odd smell started emanating from the storage closet where the vacuum was kept and we were grounded for two weeks. On Day 9 of the Great Grounding, we had a chance to see Lollapalooza. We begged to get a reprieve. We pleaded. We begged some more. We succeeded. That night we rocked out with Les Claypool and then didn't bother coming home until noon the next day, when there were more groundings. more ›

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. more ›

The Seattle Sounders fell to the Charleston Battery tonight in the semifinal of the US Open Cup, succumbing during penalty kicks 4-3. Regulation time ended with a 1-1 tie, and the teams failed to break the deadlock during the extra period. The Battery advance to play DC United in the final on Sept. 3. The Sounders resume USL play on Friday at the Starfire Sports Complex. more ›

Tonight's semifinal US Open Cup match between the Seattle Sounders and the Charleston Battery will be streamed live tonight on USLlive.com and best of all...IT'S FREE! The game is being played in Charleston, and kick-off is 4:30 p.m. Want to watch the game with local fans? Atlantic Crossing Pub is hosting a viewing party for today's game. Atlantic Crossing Pub is located at 6508 Roosevelt Way NE. Atlantic Crossing has agreed to extend their happy hour for anyone who has an ECS scarf, which will be available for $5. more ›

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 Battery recently defeated the Sounders 1-0 on July 5 in USL action. more ›

SALMAN RUSHDIE: He'll be hitting Town Hall tonight to read from his latest effort, The Enchantress of Florence. According to the press release, it sounds like it's one of those quasi-fictional tales pitting opposites against each other (and, possibly, in the process, showing how opposites attract?). Tickets are available at University Bookstore for $5 a pop, or you can just buy a copy of the novel and use that as your entry. more ›

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 a sneak peak of the uniforms at the press conference today and had this to say about them:

They are lime green, with "XBox 360 Live" across the chest in white, and a "Sounders FC" patch about where you'd put your hand to your heart. There are sea blue accents at waist level. All told, pretty sharp-looking.

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. more ›

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. more ›

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 is involved, Qwest Field, although not a fan favorite as a MLS venue, is ready and willing. It's happening. Tomorrow. 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 ›