Yesterday we learned the rules for this year's expansion draft, where the Philadelphia Union will select 10 players from the 15 current MLS teams to help to begin their process for building their roster. The Wizards are allowed to protect 11 players and 3 of the team's 4 international players will have to be protected. Click to continue reading...

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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Goalkeeper Kevin Hartman has three nominees up for the Degree Men Save of the Year honor. His stops from Week 8, Week 11 and Week 32 are among 40 nominees for the award. Go vote here to help narrow the field to the top 10 saves of the year for another round of voting. The top 10 saves will be announced November 11. Click to continue reading...

Join us next Tuesday, November 3 at The Sports Radio 810 Zone in Leawood for a UEFA Champions League watch party. Watch Atlético Madrid take on Chelsea starting at 1 p.m. CT on Fox Soccer Channel. There will be prize give-aways, and fans will be able to get all the insight on the game from Nate Bukaty from Sports Radio 810 WHB as well as midfielders Davy Arnaud and Jack Jewsbury. Click to continue reading...

In what can be conservatively called a Bad season, Kansas City came back to tie D.C. United and kill their chances of moving into the playoffs.

Kansas City started with a different look using Kamara and Zoltan at the same time but kicking Kei off to the wing and leaving Zoltan up top with Josh Wolff; yes an improvement but not by much since Wolff did look slow on a couple of breakaways.

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Kevin Hartman made his 100th start in all competitions for the Wizards. He's the 19th Wizard to hit that mark.
The 33 goals scored by the Wizards in league play, ties for the lowest goal output in team history. The 1999 and the 2001 Wizards both scored 33 league goals.
Claudio Lopez's goal was his 13th in league play for the Wizards, moving him into a tie for 12th place all time with Matt McKeon, Jose Burciaga, and Sasha Victorine. Click to continue reading...

I decided not to comment on our 2-0 loss against Chivas since my arguments are the same as the Houston tie except for the Zoltan goal. This week we didn't even score and it would seem that playing those players in a slump (Wolff, Arnaud, Jewsbury) has brought nothing good.

The game did have a horrible offside non-call on the first Chivas goal, but in all honesty should be blamed on the assistant and not the ref (Mike Kuhn has all the evidence, and the video is clear also).

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In the second minute last night, Jack Jewsbury moved past Tony Meola and into 9th place for the most minutes played in MLS play for the Wizards, Jewsbury finished the game with 11,420 minutes played.
Josh Wolff made his 110th league start for the Wizards, tying him with Jose Burciaga for 11th on that list. Click to continue reading...

Jack while starring at SLU.
Props to midfielder Jack Jewsbury for his inclusion on Saint Louis University's Half-Century Team, as selected by an online vote. Jewsbury is the most recent alumni included on the team, leaving SLU one year later than Sunday's opponent Brad Davis of Houston. Check out the full team that includes former Wizards Matt McKeon and Mike Sorber and one-time Wizards draftee Kevin Kalish. Click to continue reading...

One current Wizard and two former Wizards will be honored later this week for their contributions before coming to the Wizards. Jack Jewsbury, Mike Sorber, and Matt McKeon have all been named to St. Louis University's Half-Century Team as the Billikens celebrate 50 years of soccer at the university this year. Click to continue reading...

Yes Kansas City played better yesterday than their last game against Colorado; yes they could have won to keep the slim playoff hopes alive. But NO we didn't win; no we didn't finish off a team that played almost 70 minutes a man down and missing one of their best players; no, we aren't that much better with Peter Vermes than we were with Curt Onalfo; and no Peter Vermes should NOT survive the house cleaning that should take place in KC this offseason.

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It's getting close to just saying "let's prepare for 2010". After today's result down in Houston, the Wizards playoff hopes get even more faint. Up a man for over 70 minutes, the Wizards had to fight back from a goal down to salvage a draw against the Houston Dynamo this afternoon.
KC came out and tried to push the game from the start getting into Houston's end multiple times early on. Click to continue reading...

If the Wizards want to make the playoffs this year, they're likely going to have to win out. Sure they are only 6 points out at the moment, but with so many other teams between them and the 8th playoff spot, KC is going to likely need to grab all 12 available remaining points to get into the post season. Click to continue reading...

Needing a win against a depleted Colorado team on their 3rd game in one week the Wizards earned a point at home and basically kissed their playoff aspirations good bye. Only winning out and getting a lot of help will keep KC from watching the MLS playoffs from home.

So the Wizards, in their typical "must win" situation, playing a team on their 3rd game this week, which was missing at least 4 starters, finished the game with 4 defenders and a holding mid and not getting a goal.

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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...

Josh Wolff's goal was his 10th in league play, tying a career high.
It was also Wolff's 82nd in all competitions, tying him with Cobi Jones for 14th on that list.
Wolff's goal was his 40th in league play for the Wizards, breaking a tie with Chris Klein for second on that list.
It was also Wolff's 43rd in all competitions for KC, tying him with Chris Klein for 3rd on that list. Click to continue reading...

Last time KC and Dallas faced each other the Wizards took in 6 goals, alot of embarrassment and Curt Onalfo lost his job. Today, KC is looking for payback.

KC will be missing Jack Jewsbury who in all honesty needs a timeout since his level of play, just like Davy Arnaud's has been sub par.

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This weekend, the Wizards welcome FC Dallas to Kansas City in what is a must win for both teams if they want to make the playoffs this year. Both teams can only barely see the playoffs and getting 3 points tomorrow night out at CAB will be big for either team. Dallas comes into this game having put another half a dozen on the board, this time out in LA against the Galaxy. 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...

In a battle of teams sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Conference the Wizards made the most of a huge Jorge Rojas mistake to score the only goal in a game where the winning team just made one less mistake than the loser.

A Josh Wolff goal that came off a Claudio Lopez breakaway rebound allowed the Wizards to come home with 6 points out of a possible 9 in this 3 game East coast swing.

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Josh Wolff's goal was his 71st career MLS goal, tying him with Ronald Cerritos for 14th on the all time MLS scorers list.
It was Wolff's 5th MLS (and in all competitions) goal against New York in his Wizards career, tying him with Preki and Chris Klein for the most goals by a Wizard against New York. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards finish their 3 games in 8 days East Coast road trip tomorrow in New York where they take on the Red Bulls. Over the course of this season, the Red Bulls have been the worst team in the league, for a long time flirting with being the worst ever. Since Juan Carlos Osorio resigned though, the Red Bulls are 2-0 under Richie Williams (aka ABMOD). 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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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...

You might not have realized it, but there were MLS matches this past weekend. Three matches were on the slate on a full day of World Cup qualifying, so it was easy to miss it.

What you missed, if you didn't notice, were some pretty significant results. New England Revolution saw its three-match winning streak snapped as a controversial red card issued to Shalrie Joseph set the tone in a 4-2 loss to Kansas City.

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You might not have realized it, but there were MLS matches this past weekend. Three matches were on the slate on a full day of World Cup qualifying, so it was easy to miss it.

What you missed, if you didn't notice, were some pretty significant results. New England Revolution saw its three-match winning streak snapped as a controversial red card issued to Shalrie Joseph set the tone in a 4-2 loss to Kansas City.

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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...

Down a goal, up a man for about 60 minutes, against a Real Salt Lake team that was missing a few starters and decided to play only one forward, the Peter Vermes strategy called to have, on paper, 5 defenders on the field. Wow, and I thought before the game that things couldn't get any worse.

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I'm tired. So tired. I'm tired losing. So tired.
Ok, so it doesn't work out as well as Weezer's "Tired of Sex", but the sentiment is the same, I'm plain tired of losing at this point. It's been over 2 months since the team won a game. It's been over a month since the team scored a goal, and that continued last night back at CAB as Real Salt Lake came in and got only their second road win of the season, beating KC 1-0. Click to continue reading...

Jack Jewsbury signs autographs after a clinic at Northeast Elementary Thursday. Photo taken from KC Star website.
Yesterday, nine Wizards players and members of the Wizards Wives Club headed to Northeast Elementary School in the Kansas City Missouri School District to donate items collected during the Stuff the Bus school supply drive surrounding our match against the Galaxy. Click to continue reading...

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...

Not a lot of stats from today's game, but in the coming weeks we should have a few more, big stats coming up for players, so stay tuned.
The Wizards tied a team record for the most red cards in all competitions in a season. Zoltan Hercegfalvi was the Wizards 8th red card of the season in all competitions, tying the record set in 2002. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards dropped a 2-0 result Sunday to the 2nd place Chicago Fire at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Peter Vermes' first game as Technical Director/Interim Head Coach. Chris Rolfe opened the scoring in the 13th minute, with Mike Banner sealing victory in the 89th. Zoltan made his Wizards debut in the 63rd minute, showing some nice touch and high work rate before he was shown a red card in the 85th. Click to continue reading...

Lots of the guys will be in studio Thursday. Hopefully they'll have a USA win to talk about in addition to our match Sunday versus Mexico star Cuauhtemoc Blanco and the Fire.
Tonight--7:00 pm--The Jimmy Conrad Show--Sports Radio 810 AM
Thursday--7:50 am—Jimmy Conrad in-studio radio interview--Star 102. Click to continue reading...