Jimmy Conrad and Josh Wolff will certainly be protected in the upcoming expansion draft. (WVH Photo Correspondent Brian Stevens)

Staying with the two-a-day structure for the expansion draft lists, earlier in the day we looked at the Houston Dynamo now we turn our focus to the Kansas City Wizards.

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The Wizards season is over and it's time to take a look at how the Wizards players stacked up this season grade wise. It wasn't a good season and many of the players grades reflect that. Some fan favorites suffered for the way the team had played this season as well. You can check out the midseason grades here. Click to continue reading...

Let's just post the press release:
Kansas City Wizards goalkeeper Kevin Hartman received MLS Save of the Week honors for the final week of the 2009 MLS regular season for an outstanding save to deny D.C. United's Ben Olsen. Hartman won two MLS Save of the Week awards on the season, taking home the honor in Week 11 and Week 32. Click to continue reading...

The U-17s shaking hands with the Wizards prior to today's match.
Scoring Summary:
KC – Roger Espinoza (unassisted) 32'
KC – Herculez Gomez (unassisted) 47'
KC – Kevin Souter (unassisted) 88'
(October 13, 2009) – The Kansas City Wizards topped the United States Under-17 Men's National Team 3-0 Tuesday night in rainy weather at Kansas City's Swope Park Training Center. Click to continue reading...

The Swope Park Rangers (the Wizards reserves) defeated the US Under 17 national team tonight out at the Swope Park training complex 3-0 on goals by Roger Espinoza, Herculez Gomez, and Kevin Souter. The Rangers dominated their younger opponents for much of the game, but the 17's still did well throughout, having their moments. Click to continue reading...

For the first time this season, Herculez Gomez did not appear in a game for the Wizards. Up until last night, Gomez had appeared in all 25 league games and all 5 in the Wizards other competitions.
Kei Kamara appeared in his 100th game in all competitions in him MLS career last night.
In the 38th minute, Claudio Lopez hit the 5,000 minute mark in all competitions for the Wizards. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards have a chance tomorrow to make up more ground on the pack ahead of them and get even closer to the MLS playoffs this year. Tomorrow, the Wizards take on the Colorado Rapids, who are currently 8 points ahead of the Wizards and currently in the playoffs. Colorado comes into the game on the backs of 2 1-1 draws with San Jose, both on late penalty kick goals by the leagues leading scorer, Conor Casey. Click to continue reading...

Below are the interviews for the remainder of the week looking ahead to our match Saturday against FC Dallas:
Tonight--7:00 pm--The Jimmy Conrad Show--Sports Radio 810 AM
Thursday--7:50 am—Jimmy Conrad in-studio radio interview--Star 102.1 FM
Thursday--8:05 am—Jimmy Conrad in-studio radio interview—Mix 93. Click to continue reading...

Today will be a busy day in KC Soccerland as the Season Ticket Holder Event takes place at our Swope Park Training Center beginning at 4:30 p.m. CT. The Jimmy Conrad Show then airs live on Sports Radio 810 WHB from 7-8 p.m. CT, followed by the Clasico Bud Light between Club America and Chivas Guadalajara at 8:30 p. Click to continue reading...

New York were without their best player, Juan Pablo Angel, and KC had to hold on late, but KC came away with 3 points against the New York Red Bulls last night in New York to finish their road trip with 6 of 9 points. While that's the good news, the Wizards still had trouble finishing off opportunities, and much like Wednesday dominated play but could not find multiple goals. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards are traveling to New York on Saturday to close out their one week/3 game road trip that has had split results. One nice win against the Revolution where they broke out of the scoring funk, followed by a game where they were held scoreless by DC United.

The Red Bulls are on a 2 game winning streak and playing pretty well after the departure of Coach Juan Carlos Osorio.

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Back again. I missed out on commenting about our victory last Saturday against New England which brought some renewed enthusiasm to the KC faithful. This was mainly due to the fact that there was way too much soccer to watch with the WC qualifiers over the weekend. A good dose of soccer overload which was great

I did watch the game against NE but did not really get overly excited because KC really needed to get a streak going after the string of goaless games before one could cheer wholeheartedly and think about a turn around.

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Claudio Lopez made his 50th league appearance for the Wizards.
Herculez Gomez made his 100th start in all competitions in his MLS career.
The red card to Chance Myers was the 13th issued in a Wizards league game this year, setting a new team record for red cards issued in a season, breaking a tie with the 1998 season. Click to continue reading...

Kansas City had all the chances in the world last night to not only take 1 point from their game in DC, but to take all 3. Unfortunately poor finishing from the Wizards, particularly Davy Arnaud ended up costing KC as they fell 1-0 to DC last night. KC could have been on top inside the first five minutes, as Claudio Lopez picked out Arnaud with a low cross, but Arnaud's one time effort was right at Josh Wicks in the DC net and easily saved. Click to continue reading...

It took a trip to Gillette Stadium, the Wizards second home to not only end the team's scoreless streak, but their winless streak as well. KC took care of business and came away 4-2 winners on the road for their first win since beating New England at home back in June.
Coming into the game, the team was minutes away from setting a single season goal scoring futility record. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the lack of posts today everyone, it was a long day of travel from KC to Massachusetts. We just exited the team meal, and the guys are back to their rooms for some down time before tomorrow night's contest against the New England Revolution at 6:30 p.m. CT. Don't forget that we'll be hosting watch parties for both our game and the U. Click to continue reading...

The month of August was not a fun one for the Wizards, KC went 0-4 in the month of August, allowing 10 goals, while scoring 0. Those facts make it hard to even begin thinking about who should be the Wizards Player of the Month for the month of August. Even with the poor results, though, I was set on giving the award to someone. Click to continue reading...

We dropped another one 1-0 tonight, extending our goalless streak to 424 straight minutes. In the process, we outshot RSL 17-5, including an 8-3 advantage in shots on goal. Chris Seitz made seven saves, and Fabian Espindola cleared Zoltan's late header off the goal line to preserve a 1-0 victory in the 5th minute of second-half stoppage time. Click to continue reading...

This might sound cheesy, but while watching the Wizards lose again, and worst of all, not score again a Madonna song from the early 1990s started to go off in my head.

On the game.

Not much to say. Pretty boring and we made a mediocre (at best) team look pretty good and we were incapable of scoring.

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Since scoring 3 goals in the first half against New England back on June 13th, the Wizards have scored 1 goal in the next 13 halves of soccer.
Herculez Gomez is the only player to play in all 25 games the Wizards have played in all competitions this season.
Gomez and Kevin Hartman are the only 2 players to have appeared in all 20 league games this season. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards had looked to pick up a point on the road with a 0-0 draw with San Jose yesterday until late in second half stoppage time. San Jose then found the back of the net through Chris Wondolowski, and the Wizards fell for the third straight game and 4th time in 6 league games. The team's winless streak has now reached 11 games in all competitions when you factor in the Open Cup and SuperLiga. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards once again defeated Kansas City's PDL team, the Brass today at the Swope Park training complex 7-1. KC started their first game under Peter Vermes with what could potentially be a starting lineup against Chicago a week from Sunday.
Hartman
Watson - Conrad - Hohlbein - Besler
Hirsig
Harrington - Jewsbury - Gomez
Zoltan - Wolff
Adam Cristman apparently missed the game due to being sick, while Davy Arnaud, Claudio Lopez, and Roger Espinoza are recovering from minor injuries. Click to continue reading...

A list of all penalties can be found on the league stats page (scroll to the bottom). However, on that page they don't list who earned and conceded the penalties like they used to a few years back. I've always missed that, so I keep track of it myself by looking through match reports.
This seems to be the year of the handball. Click to continue reading...

I've personally never felt as bad about a Wizards game as I did after last night's 6-0 drubbing at the hands of FC Dallas. I mean I'm more embarrassed about this game than I was at the time of the Chicago 7-0 debacle back in 2001. That's because for this game I'd spent hours in the car, and more money traveling down to Dallas for this game than for the game at Arrowhead against the Fire. Click to continue reading...

Had to talk to Herculez today so I could get a close up look at his new hairstyle (or lack there of)...Had to post a photo as well... Click to continue reading...

"I'm so disappointed Dad." My four-year-old son summed it up so well when I told him that Terry Cooke had been waived from the Colorado Rapids. I'm sure Jamie Smith will turn out to be a good player for the Rapids but to see Cooke go is right up there with the departures of Bouna Coundoul and Herculez Gomez. Click to continue reading...

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And those words are: Should've taken three.

I can't remember the last time my frustration from a Los Angeles Galaxy performance was based on the fact that they clearly outplayed their opponent for an entire game, but could not deliver the death blow.

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Check out the lineup and listen in for us this week all over the airwaves:
Today--2:30 pm--Herculez Gomez weekly phone interview--La Gran D 1340 AM (Spanish)
Today--3:30 pm--Herculez Gomez phone interview--weekly segment on La Super X 1250 AM (Spanish)
Wednesday--7:00 pm--The Jimmy Conrad Show--Sports Radio 810 AM
Thursday--8:00 am--Kevin Hartman in-studio radio interview--106. Click to continue reading...

We're a whole lot of stats at the midweek game against Seattle, but plenty of stats from last night's game against New England.
In the 54th minute, Josh Wolff went over the 10,000 minute mark in all competitions for the Wizards. He's the 14th Wizards player to hit that mark. He finished the game with 10,031 minutes played. Click to continue reading...

I'm a little late on getting this out, but with the month of June over, it's time to look at who won the man of the month award for the month of June. June was not a great month for the Wizards, as they only technically won one game (US Open Cup game officially goes down as a draw). Kansas City scored 8 goals in the month, while conceding 10 goals. Click to continue reading...

In the past 3 days, Roger Espinoza has played 210 minutes for the Wizards in all competitions. A big accomplishment at this level.
The first minutes in all competitions this season that Kevin Hartman has not played.
Claudio Lopez and Herculez Gomez are the only players that have appeared in all 18 games this season. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards fell to Santos Laguna ending Kansas City's first appearance in Superliga.Santos Laguna fans filled the stadium.Oswaldo Sanchez making a save...A couple Santos Laguna fans were in the Cauldron?Herculez Gomez goes for the bicycle while Jorge Estrada goes to head the ball...With the result being Estrada is kicked in the head. Click to continue reading...

The performance the entire tournament was lacking, there was little dangerous attack, and poor play overall doomed the Wizards over the course of the SuperLiga tournament. That came to an end 3-1 on Sunday at Community America Ballpark to Santos Laguna. The crowd was overwhelmingly in support of the Mexican side. Click to continue reading...

Kansas City Wizards Remain Undefeated in SuperLiga with Comeback Draw Wednesday at New England Revolution
Wizards Will Advance to SuperLiga Semifinals with Win Sunday Versus Santos Laguna
SuperLiga Game 2
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 – 6:00 p.m. (CT)
English TV: SuperLiga2009. Click to continue reading...

A mix of starters and reserves took the field against New England last night and pulled out a 1-1 draw with the Revolution, leaving the Wizards on 2 points heading into their final group game of this year's SuperLiga. The Wizards can't seem to get away from the red cards either. For the 6th straight game, a red card was issued in a Wizards game. Click to continue reading...