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Chad Barrett Scores Goal In Opening Minute, Injures Self Celebrating
Sounders forward Chad Barrett came off in the second minute due to a hamstring injury suffered while celebrating his goal, scored in the first minute....

MLS Makes Some Shit Up, Suspends Clint Dempsey For Three Games
Earlier this week, Clint Dempsey received a red card for tearing up a referee’s notebook in protest of what he thought was some poor officiating in a U.S. Open Cup match. Today, MLS doled out its punishment, suspending him from all competitions for three games....

Clint Dempsey Red Carded For Tearing Up Ref's Notebook
The Portland Timbers met the Seattle Sounders last night in the U.S. Open Cup. The game ended 3-1, with Portland scoring the three goals and Seattle losing three men to red cards while finishing the match with just seven players on the pitch thanks to a late injury after they had already used all th...

Soccer Player Earns Straight Red For Double-Footed Nutshot
Sounders 2 defeated L.A. Galaxy II 1-0 last night in exciting USL action, but it was a slightly abbreviated evening for Sérgio Mota as the Brazilian midfielder earned a sending-off from the third-tier soccer match after hammering his opponent’s balls with both feet....

Damn, Even We Have To Admit That This Seattle Sounders Goal Is A Beauty
You know how we feel about MLS, but still, even we can't front on a team goal of this quality. This is a textbook three man weave the likes of which you'd be happy to pull off in training, let alone a match. Pure class. Bravo, Sounders....

Is CenturyLink Field Selling Watered-Down Beer?
A Seattle news station purchased multiple beers at Seahawks and Sounders games, had them tested, and discovered that in every case, the samples' ABV were below those beers' advertised numbers—sometimes illegally so....

Pearl Jam's Mike McCready Shreds National Anthem At Sounders Match
We've mentioned this before, but instrumental national anthems are better than vocal performances nine times out of ten. Another example: Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before last night's MLS Cup playoff match between FC Dallas and Seattle Sounders FC....

Timbers Give Fans Permission To Support The Sounders, For One Night Only
Playoff races make strange bedfellows. The Portland Timbers are hanging on for dear life, two measly points up on the Vancouver Whitecaps for the fifth and final playoff spot in the West. The Whitecaps face Portland's hated rival Seattle tonight, and Timbers fans are naturally a little confused....

The Hard Work Of Loving Soccer In 1980s America
Excerpted from The Soccer Diaries: An American's Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game....

American Hero Clint Dempsey Gives Up Shirt For Kid's Popcorn
Clint Dempsey was craving some popcorn after the Seattle Sounders' game against Houston last night, so he gave his jersey to a kid in the stands in exchange for free reign at a bucket of popcorn. Also, anyone in the vicinity interested in seeing a shirtless Clint Dempsey got that view at no extra ch...

Obafemi Martins Scores From Absurd Angle, Astounds Goalkeeper
The sole goal in Seattle's 1-0 victory over San Jose was scored by Obafemi Martins, and it was awesome....

Is This The Best Or Worst Customized Soccer Jersey?
Irfaan Gaffar, who took the photo, believes this customized Seattle Sounders jersey is the worst. I'm not as angry about it. 2 Chainz has been known to kick it like the captain of a soccer team....

Check Out Clint Dempsey's First Goal With Sounders FC
Clint Dempsey notched his first goal with Seattle Sounders FC by finishing Lamar Neagle's cross with a deft tap from the outside of his right foot. It was Dempsey's first MLS goal since 2006, back in his days with the New England Revolution. Deuce's simple finish gave his side a 1-0 lead....

Sounders Fans Spent Three Weeks Making This Enormous Tifo
The Seattle Sounders hosted the Portland Timbers last night, and it was no ordinary match. It was the nationally televised home debut of newest Sounder Clint Dempsey, and it was held in a sold-out CenturyLink Field. So the home faithful pulled out all the stops....

How MLS Made Sure Clint Dempsey Landed In Seattle
SI's Grant Wahl has the tick-tock on how Clint Dempsey ended up a Seattle Sounder, in a deal that caught everyone by surprise. It's a great read for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff, but I was particularly taken by how much of the dealing wasn't by the Sounders at all. Instead, it's ...

Report: Clint Dempsey To Sign With The Seattle Sounders
ESPN is reporting that Clint Dempsey—who was spotted yesterday at the San Francisco airport—will indeed sign with MLS's Seattle Sounders, and the move could be made official as early as tomorrow....

This Own Goal From Chivas USA Defender Mario de Luna Makes Us Sad
Midway through the first half in last night's MLS clash between the Seattle Sounders and Chivas USA, Sounders midfielder Mauro Rosales broke free down the right flank and lofted a ball into the box towards an open Obafemi Martins. But Rosales overshot his target, and the cross floated all the way to...

One Of The Best Goals You'll Ever See Came Tonight In The CONCACAF Champions League
Djimi Traore performs amazing things for Seattle Sounders in tonight's CONCACAF Champions League match against Tigres....