There won't be grass, but CenturyLink Field will have a new turf for the 2012 Seattle Sounders season. The latest generation of FieldTurf will be laid down in February, shortly after the end of the Seahawks season and just in time for the Sounders to get used to it prior to their game against Santos Laguna on March 7.

By JASON MITCHELL

SEATTLE, WA - New York Greek American in the late 1960s. A St. Louis brewery side in the 1930s. The Seattle Sounders. After the Sounders topped the Chicago Fire 2-0 Tuesday night before a raucous, record-breaking crowd, those are the lone teams to three-peat in the 98-year history of the Lamar Hunt U.

This story is written by new IMS contributor, Chris Martz from Atlanta, Georgia.

When the Atlanta Silverbacks announced their return to professional soccer last November, many challenges faced the dormant franchise. After not fielding a team for two seasons, the Silverbacks had to start from scratch in almost every aspect of building a professional sports team.

Forgive me. I didn't want to sit through this game again. You have got to understand its an ESPN televised game which means having to try and ignore the stupid scroll for two hours. Plus the announcing, while not bad, is incredibly boring. Do these guys like the game? I have no idea. Would it have killed them to let Max Bretos call this game so I could have gotten over the top goal calls?

Thanks to Joshua Mayers' reporting, we know the possibility of installing grass at Qwest Field is formally being explored. To get a little more information about the situation, I talked to Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer.

First, a little background. The current FieldTurf was installed before the 2009 soccer season.

Apple Valley boys soccer team has won the 2010 FieldTurf award for the Great Lakes Region High School Team of the Year. Apple Valley went undefeated this year for the second consecutive year and ended the season 24-0-0. The team ended the season with their 48th consecutive win started in August of 2009.