It’s been three weeks since round three and almost exactly two months since first look at the number of followers each Major League Soccer team has through its ASN Twitter account. Time to revisit!

When David Estrada was announced as the Seattle Sounders’ first round pick in last week’s Major League Soccer Superdraft, came as a bit of a surprise to fans and, it turns out, player alike. Estrada told his hometown newspaper, the Salinas (Calif.) Californian, that he didn’t even plan to watch the first round of the [...]

It’s been three weeks since round two and six weeks since our first look at the number of followers each Major League Soccer team has through its ASN Twitter account. With a bit of a lull in the news cycle ahead of Thursday’s MLS SuperDraft, today is as good a day as any to get caught up.

It’s been three weeks since our first look at the number of followers each Major League Soccer team has through its ASN Twitter account. With the onset of the Christmas to New Year’s week, and its corresponding dearth of real news activity, we figured now would be a good a time as any to revisit the standings.

The Columbus Crew announced Sigi Schmid would not return as head coach for the 2009 season (ASN, Dec. 10, 2008).

In a match that featured intense physical play (Nate Jaqua, left, literally bled through all his game jerseys), defensive dominance, atrocious refereeing and a near-brawl, the Seattle Sounders drew 0-0 with the Houston Dynamo on Thursday night at Qwest Field. Seattle defender Patrick Ianni, a last-minute replacement in the starting lineup, came closest to scoring by hitting the crossbar late in the first half.
Check out the photo gallery of the match,

One of ASN’s beat writers praises the Sounders’ impact on the local sports scene and hopes the best is yet to come.

Finally, the Major League Soccer regular season is over and the playoffs are upon us. Four matchups await, to ultimately determine the two clubs that will meet at Seattle’s Qwest Field in the 2009 MLS Cup game on Nov. 22. Will the defending champion Columbus Crew avoid being upset by Real Salt Lake, who snuck [...]

The Sounders beat FC Dallas 2-1 on second-half goals by Nate Jaqua and Brad Evans Saturday night, terminating the playoff dreams of the Texas team in the last match of the regular season.

An 86th minute goal by Roger Levesque decided the 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championship, as the Seattle Sounders held on to beat DC United 2-1 in the final match at RFK Stadium Wednesday night. It is the first trophy for the expansion franchise and sends them to next year’s CONCACAF Champions League. But Sounders players and fans won’t be thinking about next year for a while. They’ll be enjoying the biggest win for any Seattle sports franchise in recent memory.