More Sounders Stuff

Here's some more Sounders mania in the media:

Ten days ago, I checked out the NY Times homepage and was shocked and delighted to see raucous, painted, mohawked Sounders fans taking over the front page (especially since it replaced the gloom and doom of the Times' obsessive coverage of the recession, war and Bernie Madoff). It's a great story written by William Yardley, the NY Times' NW correspondent.

The NY Times also covers the MLS in its Goal blog.

Loving the Seattle Times' coverage of the team. They've smartly moved resources from their football and soccer coverage onto the soccer pitch.

The Seattle Times' Sounders reporter Jose Miguel Romero gives non-soccer the basics they'll need to enjoy the new MLS squad and the "beautiful game" itself.

Times' columnist Steve Kelley writes about how, growing up during the Great Depression (er, 50s/60s), soccer was a mysterious sport until he was mesmerized by the Premier League final in 1961. Later, he goes on to talk about the Sounders and how he feels the fan base is more rabid and more working-class than Seattle soccer fans past.

Budding Sounders superstar Freddy Montero was back at practice yesterday. The other Fred, Freddie Ljungberg, was also back at practice, but is suffering from knee problems.

Here's the link to the Romero's Sounders blog.

Here's the team's official site.

There's also a bunch of other independent Sounders blogs out there. Who knew? Oh yeah, probably the thousands of Sounders fans taking over Seattle sports. We'll do a Sounders blog review this weekend.