What You Need to Know: Sports Edition
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Tag: soccer
7 Things to Know About Tonight’s USA/Panama Match
The 6:30 start time on your ticket is a lie perpetrated by the lamestream media. ESPN’s coverage of the game begins at 7 p.m., and they’ll want to fit in their pre-game twaddle, so 7:08 is the official game time. Continue reading 7 Things to Know About Tonight’s USA/Panama Match
A Winny Loss: UANL Tigres 1, Sounders FC 0
Show me 100 postgame coach reaction shots, and I’ll pick the losing coach 99 percent of the time. A losing coach looks like a kid who just threw a baseball through a window — head down, moving quickly away from the scene of the crime. Though the Sounders had just lost to CONCACAF Champions League foes UANL Tigres 1-0 — on a questionable goal, no less — Sigi Schmid kept his head up, shook his assistants’ hands, and moseyed off the field at a medium pace. Continue reading A Winny Loss: UANL Tigres 1, Sounders FC 0
Sounders Fans Sign Petition for MLS to “Evaluate” Ref Salazar
Change.org is now the home of a petition asking that Major League Soccer “evaluate” the performance of referee Ricardo Salazar. The petition went up sometime after Salazar pulled out a red card for the Sounders’ Zach Scott in Wednesday night’s game against Real Salt Lake. Continue reading Sounders Fans Sign Petition for MLS to “Evaluate” Ref Salazar
Could Soccer Be the Sport Seattle Finally “Beats L.A.” In?
Those late ‘80s Lakers/Sonics matchups may be the best comparison to the Sounders/Galaxy rivalry. Like those Lakers teams, the Galaxy are studded with stars. The supreme stud: David Beckham, one of the best-known people on Earth. The Galaxy also have Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane, who’ve both captained their respective national teams and are well-known to soccer fans worldwide.
The Sounders are a good team. But who the hell are they? Continue reading Could Soccer Be the Sport Seattle Finally “Beats L.A.” In?
The Sounders Are a Mac, The Mariners Are a PC
The Seattle Sounders debuted four seasons ago with a marketing strategy that should seem very familiar. The Sounders targeted hip, young fans. The strategy is that if “the cool kids,” as Sounders’ top executive Adrian Hanauer calls them, go to Sounders games, families will want to follow. The Mariners, who feature fun-for-all-ages schtick like dancing groundskeepers, directly target families.
The Sounders market like Apple, the Mariners market like Microsoft. Continue reading The Sounders Are a Mac, The Mariners Are a PC
Sounders Play “Biggest Game Ever” Tonight–Will Anyone Be There?
Tonight the Sounders play their first game of the season, the first leg of the team’s CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal against Mexican team Santos Laguna. Everyone from Q13 to the Sounders organization itself contends that this is a key game in franchise history. Yet it seems likely to be played at a half-empty Century Link Field. Continue reading Sounders Play “Biggest Game Ever” Tonight–Will Anyone Be There?