Wizards 'keeper Kevin Hartman sat down with Kurt Kloeblen of Sun Publications (The Johnson County Sun) yesterday after practice for a feature story on Kevin's book Boots Saves the Day. Kurt's story will come out next Wednesday, so check it out if you get the Sun or can get your hands on a copy of it. Click to continue reading...

Gareth Maher over at Setanta sports' website listed XI MLS players capable of playing in the English Premier League. The usual suspects for this type of list (Michael Parkhust, Sacha Kljestan, Taylor Twellman) were there, but listed 3rd and featured in the photo at the top were our own left back/ right mid Michael Harrington. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards have put out an official release about the upcoming MISL reunion game before the Wizards take on the LA Galaxy. The match will take place at the KC SoccerDome the Saturday the 13th at noon. After that, you can head over to Arrowhead and get autographs from the former KC Attack/Comets players as well as the former players from the St. Click to continue reading...

Allen Hopkins points out two things in this clip that really do make you think "WTF?". The first is how is LA not scoring of Becks corners? Is it that he's serving up weak-sauce, his teammates not knowing what to do with ass this good or have the league's other teams actually found a way to stop Goldenballs? Click to continue reading...

This week, The Jimmy Conrad Show will take on a new look, as usual play-by-play voice Sean Wheelock will be out of commission. In his absence, Conrad's usual fill-in Davy Arnaud will join
Captain Kansas City for a little footie banter. Head down to McFadden's in the Power and Light District for the show from 7-8, or listen to it live at kcwizards. Click to continue reading...

The Kickapoo Chiefs, coming off of their 3rd place finish at State last year, now have a second member of this years team scheduled to play Division I college soccer next year. Senior Ryan Moses recently accepted an offer from Head Coach Dan Donigan to represent the nationally ranked St Louis University Billikens, where he will join his friend and club teammate Devon Newport (Glendale).

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It seems that headlines of athletes and other stars screwing up are often above the fold but praise of good efforts are buried near the back of the paper. Here's a story from a few weeks back from a mother of an autistic child who participated in a clinic put on by Jimmy Conrad, Kerry Zavagnin, Davy Arnaud and Ryan McMahen. Click to continue reading...

FC Dallas midfielder Victor Sikora has suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee and will miss 4-6 weeks of action, according to club officials. The injury occurred during FCD's 1-1 draw against Kansas City on Saturday when the former Ajax star was tackled by the Wizards' Sasha Victorine just minutes into the second half. Click to continue reading...

Captain Kansas City now has five goals on the year. Not bad. His latest effort, our last-minute equalizer Saturday against FC Dallas has been nominated for Sierra Mist Goal of the Week. Come on Wizards fans...go vote and get Jimmy on the end-of-the-year ballot!

Take a look at the goal here, if you don't remember it:



He is now our leading scorer with a new career-high. Click to continue reading...

Didn't check in with these yesterday, so start your Monday off with some notables from Saturday night's comeback tie.

Notables:

· Following the match, Kansas City sits 6-7-8, 26 pts. in a tie for 5th place tie in the Eastern Conference Toronto FC, who tied the New England Revolution Saturday. Click to continue reading...

Thad, over at The Back Post, and myself are continuing our weekly interview polls.

We pick a few players from the last game and put up a poll for you to decide on who should be interviewed (if possible). Vote either on this site, or over at The Back Post. In addition to that, feel free to post any questions you might have in the comments section of one of the two blogs. Click to continue reading...

Last week's match at Columbus set a precedent for FC Dallas, giving up a lead and then going on to lose. This Saturday's match at Kansas City continued a worrying trend of losing leads, although the circumstances were quite different. Wizards' defender Jimmy Conrad scored a tap-in goal in stoppage time to share the points with Dallas and keep both teams alive in the race for the MLS playoffs. Click to continue reading...

Here are a few of the stats from after last nights 1-1 draw against FC Dallas.

Jack Jewsbury tied Diego Gutierrez for 11th on the all time games played list with 147 games played.

Jewsbury's assist last night gives him 5 on the season good enough for the team lead.

Last night was Michael Harrington's 50th MLS game. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserve players topped UMKC easily this morning out at the Swope Park training center, 8-1. The game was as close as it was, as the reserves dominated the performance for long stretches of the game. Here's how the reserves started out:
Kronberg
Myers - McMahen - Wahl - Watson
Marinelli - Souter - Morsink - Espinoza
Pore - Trujillo

The scoring started early, as in the 9th minute, Kevin Souter overlapped Carlos Marinelli, who backhealed the ball as he went by. Click to continue reading...

Back on July 4th, the Wizards looked to be getting a big win against FC Dallas at Pizza Hut Park, when in second half stoppage time, Abe Thompson scored to give both teams a point from the game. Fast forward to Saturday night, when the Wizards were trailing 1-0 to Dallas, and looking like Dallas was going to steal all 3 points from the Wizards. Click to continue reading...

Good late equalizer tonight...back later or tomorrow morning with full tidbits and quotes from the match. Forgot to post earlier that the reserves play tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. against UMKC at Swope. See some of you there! Click to continue reading...

The Wizards are two-thirds of the way through this MLS season. And with only 10 games left, the Wizards currently find themselves outside the playoff picture right now. Bob Rusert had a column out yesterday talking with Onalfo about the last third of the season and what Onalfo expects. In it, Onalfo mentions that he wants to make home a fortress the rest of the season, as well as picking up 6 points from the teams final 4 away games. Click to continue reading...

There are 10 games left in the Wizards season (more on that later tonight). Tomorrow night the Wizards will be at home to take on FC Dallas. Neither team has any suspension issues heading into this game, but there are some injury concerns. Duilio Davino is out for FC Dallas, and apparently Marcelo Saragosa did not travel to KC with the team. Click to continue reading...

U.S. international forward Eddie Johnson has been loaned out by Fulham to Championship outfit Cardiff City, the team announced today.Johnson, 24, made four appearances for Fulham (two starts) during the 2007-08 English Premier League season, failing to register a goal or assist in that time. He was not part of the club's 2-1 loss to newly-promoted Hull to open this season, but will hopefully see more playing time with the Bluebirds. Click to continue reading...

For months we've been waiting around to hear a final word of sorts that the Kansas City Wizards new stadium would be good to go for construction. It appears some more snags have gotten in the way of that initial construction starting up. An article came out today in the KC Business Journal talking about the [. Click to continue reading...

For the second straight year, the Wizards will partner with the Kansas City Irish Festival, coming up next weekend at Crown Center. Some Irish-Fest themed events will take place at our match tomorrow night. The Gaelic Athletic Association will be out in a tent, showing off the sport of "hurling" for all to see. Click to continue reading...

Major league soccer: Kansas City Wizards are meeting FC Dallas Sunday August 24th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here. Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today Click to continue reading...

An article has come out today in the KC Business Journal talking about the redevelopment of the 3 Trails area, that includes the construction of the Wizards soccer specific stadium. Unfortunately, it's not good news. Due to the increase in construction costs recently, Lane4, OnGoal, and the other redevelopers are having to up their request for state tax credits from $10 million to $30 million. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards are auctioning off a lot of different pre-game things for the upcoming game against the LA Galaxy. You can bid to be the pre-game entertainment, the national anthem singer, pick the charity to be the Kicks for Kids Donation, and the Color Guard Donation. Auctioning anything they can with the pregame has gotten the Wizards noticed by Freakonomics, a blog with the New York Times (thanks to Peter for sending this my way). Click to continue reading...

August 9 was our Community Night out at CAB. We're now auctioning off all the jerseys from the match at kcwizards.com. Check out the press release below, then visit the auction page here to bid on your favorite player's jersey.

Wizards Jerseys Available for Auction to Conclude Community Night Activities

Game-Worn Jerseys from 18 Wizards Players Available now at kcwizards. Click to continue reading...