Coach Sigi Schmid promised "the real Monday Night Football" before the Sounders took on the Los Angeles Galaxy. But if that is an example of the Sounders' response to the prime-time lights of national TV, they need to book noon Thursdays at old Memorial Stadium.

READ MORE»

Chad Marshall and midfielder Osvaldo Alonso were selected Saturday to the MLS All-Stars, giving the Sounders a league-high five players, most in club history. Clint Dempsey, Obafemi Martins and DeAndre Yedlin were named to the Fan XI earlier in the week.

READ MORE»

The Sounders and Tottenham Hotspur gave 56,349 at the Clink a little glimpse of high-end soccer in an entertaining 3-3 draw on a warm, breezy Saturday afternoon, with Sounders youngsters Tristan Bowen and Sean Okoli teaming up for a late goal that gave the Sounders brief hope of an upset of the EPL powerhouse.

READ MORE»

In advance of the Sounders' friendly at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Clink, it’s appropriate to set aside the notion of Tottenham Hotspur as a touring team from the English Premier League in the heart of its preseason preparations.

That’s all true, but the substance of the visit from one of England’s oldest squads might be better understood as the appearance of a long-lost relative, the one you heard your parents, aunts and uncles talked about but never had the opportunity to meet.

READ MORE»

Midfielder Clint Dempsey, defender DeAndre Yedlin and forward Obafemi Martins were selected to the MLS All-Star Fan XI Wednesday. The Sounders not only lead the MLS standings, they have the most players on the Fan XI. The MLS All-Stars play Bayern Munich at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at Providence Park in Portland. The game will be televised on ESPN2, UniMas, TSN and RDS. 

READ MORE»

As part of the Make-a-Wish Foundation project, the Sounders signed for the friendly with Tottenham at 1 p.m. Saturday an 18-year-old midfielder from West Virginia whose favorite player is Clint Dempsey. Xander Bailey will be signed to a one-day contract.

READ MORE»

As far as national-TV optics, the ESPN suits couldn't have asked for better -- on the day the World Cup ended an entertaining run in Brazil, soccer transitioned back to the U.S. Sunday night to a racous stadium of 64,207 for a regular-season Major League Soccer match bathed in intensity, tifos and a glorious sunset. One Copacabana beach short of the real deal.

READ MORE»

TUKWILA -- It took extra time in a Starfire Stadium darkened by a partial power outage, but the Sounders finally prevailed 3-1 over the Portland Timbers Wednesday night in a U.S. Open quarterfinal match. The Sounders will play the Chicago Fire in an Aug. 13 Open semifinal at Starfire.

READ MORE»

Mere moments after his return to the warm bosom of Sounders soccer came news Monday that World Cup darling DeAndre Yedlin is being wooed by the siren call of top-flight European soccer.

As is often the the case when a boy goes off on an adventure, he comes back a man.

READ MORE»

Missing five regulars, the Sounders couldn't mount a consistent attack and fell to the Whitecaps 1-0 Saturday night before a B.C. Place sellout of 22,500 in Vancouver, a weak start to three games in nine days against Cascadia Cup foes.

READ MORE»

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION

OF SEATTLE SPORTS FANS

July 4, 2014

When in the Course of sporting events, it becomes necessary for one city's fans to dissolve the pejorative rhetoric that has connected them with others, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of reverse drafts entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

READ MORE»

As the game wore on, there was little doubt about the identity of the superior team. Which made the drama all the more compelling for a nation that loves the underdog. For a nation that for a century has been world's overdog, that's some irony. But let's not allow geopolitics to get in the way of a good story.

READ MORE»

Despite a record-setting performance in goal by Tim Howard, the United States lost to Belgium 2-1 in the World Cup knockout round Tuesday in Salvador, Brazil. Belgium scored twice in extra time, eliminating USA step shy of the quarterfinals for the second consecutive tournament.

READ MORE»

READ MORE»

No Clint Dempsey. No DeAndre Yedlin. No Obafemi Martins. No big deal.

As MLS regular-season play resumed after a three-week hiatus for World Cup group play, the Sounders saw no diminution of form that led them the league's best record, now 11-3-2 after a 1-0 win in Washington's RFK Stadium over D.C. United. Chad Barrett's 39th-minute header, his fourth goal of the season, was the difference.

READ MORE»

Contributing to the many fascinating feats at the World Cup in Brazil, the United States national team Thursday managed to fall up. In a monsoon, no less.

The contravention of the laws of physics came at the expense of Portugal and Ghana, the members of the s0-called "Group of Death" that fell down. How unoriginal.

READ MORE»

Although the USA lost to Germany 1-0 in Recife, Brazil, it survived the dreaded "Group of Death" and advanced to the World Cup knockout round Thursday by virtue of Portugal's 2-1 victory over Ghana. The U.S., reaching the knockout round for the third time, will play  Belgium at 1 p.m. Tuesday.

READ MORE»

On track to win their fourth Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in six years, the Seattle Sounders will host the Portland Timbers in a quarterfinal match at 7:30 p.m. July 9 at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila. The Sounders advanced Tuesday night after defeating the San Jose Earthquakes in a penalty kick shootout following a 1-1 draw.

READ MORE»

READ MORE»

U.S. soccer star Hope Solo entered a plea of not guilty Monday after police charged that she assaulted two relatives -- her sister and a nephew -- at her Seattle-area home early Saturday morning. Solo was released without bail after a weekend in lockup in South King County on the conditions that she have no contact with the victims and that she not drink alcohol.

READ MORE»