Tomorrow, our good friends at M&I Bank will be "tackling hunger". If you have time, stop on by and
make a donation for a great cause. From M&I's release: M&I Bank and its partners, including Sports
Radio 810 WHB, Mix 93.3 and Hampton Inn & Suites Country Club Plaza, will host the Tackle Hunger
Food Drive to benefit Harvesters Community Food Network on Tuesday, Nov.
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First of all, go vote for the AT&T Goal of the Year and Degree Men Save of the Year awards. Both
Arnaud and Lopez are up twice for the Goal of the Year honor and Hartman is up three times for the
Save of the Year award. You can find links to the highlights of these plays at previous posts
below.
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A More Splendid Life, a football blog out of Canada, is looking for stories from footie fans that
have experience with MLS. Read the author's appeal below and shoot him an email with your favorite
MLS/soccer stories!
I would love it if you could send me (amoresplendidlife[at]gmail.com) a unique story or experience
with your time in Major League Soccer, even if it's only a few sentences, or even one sentence.
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Kartik of Major League Soccer Talk took some time to interview our own Technical Director/Interim
Head Coach Peter Vermes about his playing days, the Claudio Lopez signing, the 2000 Kansas City
Wizards team and more. Click over to MLS Talk for the podcast. If you haven't yet bookmarked the
site, it's also a good one to browse on a regular basis.
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The National Examiner is expanding, bringing its online-only content to Kansas City. The Wizards
now have a blog/page on Examiner, run by Mr. Brent Lager. Welcome him to the world of online
Wizards coverage by reading his post from yesterday. You can follow him regularly by visiting the
cleaned-up URL www.
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Or Does He? PV on the left giving trainer Chet North a bath last year on his birthday.
Wizards fans have known for a while that Technical Director turned Interim Head Coach Peter Vermes
doesn't pull any punches. The guys over at The Shin Guardian, a new blog on the soccer block, found
that out yesterday.
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Technical Director/Interim Head Coach Peter Vermes speaking to Jimmy Conrad and Kurt Morsink at
this morning's training session.
PV speaking to the media at this morning's press conference.
Look at all those cameras. Watch the news tonight (and read the Star and the Kansas city Kansan's
site) for coverage from today's presser.
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Rauwshan McKenzie battles with the Galaxy's Alan Gordon last weekend.
Today, a few stories came out after Zoltan's introduction press conference yesterday. Terez Paylor
of the KC Star chimes in, focusing on the language barrier. The Kansas City Kansan's Nick Sloan
offered up his version of the story.
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Picture courtesy of the Back Post author and photog extraordinaire Thad Bell. Check out his blog
and his photo site.
Zoltan was officially introduced to the KC media today at our weekly press conference. It ran on
Metro Sports at 3 p.m., but check the listings to see if it replays over the next few days.
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Whitney Mathews, local blogger and social media extraordinaire, came out to our match against the
Galaxy on Saturday, talked to some fans in the stands and got the full Wizards experience (plus
some Beckham-induced mania). She (and her boyfriend/camera helper) had a great time and could be
coming out more often to look at different parts of the experience at CAB.
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Zoltan
Zoltan Hercegfalvi has officially been added to the Kansas City Wizards roster with the receipt of
his P-1 Visa and International Transfer Certificate. Zoltan, which will appear on the back of his
#20 jersey, will be available for selection immediately as soon as he is deemed fit enough to
contribute.
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While this video includes some language and visuals that are not appropriate for all ages, it
clarifies reports surrounding the incident between LA's David Beckham and fans at CommunityAmerica
Ballpark this weekend. Watch and enjoy this excellent piece of bloggerism from Ramsey Mohsen from
Saturday night's match (if you're not at work and don't have young children around):
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Ouch!
It was the play of all plays. It was something Kevin Hartman had never seen in his long MLS career.
It was pretty darn hilarious. Check out Thad Bell's recount of Aaron Hohlbein being nutmegged while
being...nut...megged yesterday after training.
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Wow, a whole week day without a post? Shame on Hillcrest. With training yesterday morning and
immediate departure for New England, we slacked yesterday. Apologies! There's a big secret we can't
yet tell you. But it's not much of a secret I guess.
Also, big props to Thad at The Back Post for his new video interviews.
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Wizards Goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, the 2nd victim of the du Nord Questions.
I'm sure most of you have stopped by dunordfutbol at some point. If you haven't, it's the best
place to go on a daily basis for links from around the world of soccer/football/futbol. Bruce
McGuire, du Nord's excellent purveyor, is based here in the Twin Cities area and took advantage of
our trip to face his beloved Thunder to set up a du Nord Questions session with our #1 Kevin
Hartman.
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As you might remember, defender Matt Besler is now blogging at MLS Daily on a weekly basis. Check
out entry II of Across the Midwest Pitch. Feel free to comment and let him know what you think. He
offers a complete breakdown of what he did last Saturday before/during/after our 3-1 win over New
England.
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Rookie defender Matt Besler has posted his first entry over at MLS Daily. Check out the rook's
first try and let him know what you think. I, for one, am looking forward to what Matt writes each
week.
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MLS Daily, one of the up-and-coming blogs in the U.S. blogosphere has touched base with our
favorite Blue Valley West grad and convinced him to do a weekly update via their site. Head over to
MLS Daily to read the details of the upcoming series or post questions for Matt. Check MLS Daily
often, as they have some good information on our League and U.
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Conrad in last year's All-Star game.
We talked about All-Star voting a little earlier...but just a reminder. You can vote up to ten
times per day (and, in theory, ten times per computer per day). We encourage you to let the voting
page know just how much you love your Wizards. Help Kevin, Lance, Jimmy, Aaron, Matt, Michael,
Herculez, Jack, Santiago, Davy, Josh and Claudio get on the field to take on Everton in July.
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That's right folks, as you already saw, his "Be Champions" sign got some major props at the
beginning of the latest Special1TV episode. Now Jack Bell of the New York Times is giving him
shoutouts. We'll make sure to post some pictures of the t-shirt once Mike dons it for an upcoming
match. I have no doubt it will look great in the Cauldron.
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decided to throw up a ton of interesting links for footie fans.br /br /-First, Curtis Kitchen gives
some details on the a
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div style="text-align: justify;"Lots of people are talking about the Wizards at the
moment. Check out some of the stories below and see the interview schedule after that. As expected,
we're getting a little less love this week with the team on the road. Look for this to pick up
again next week when we play at home.
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The Offside did its yearly preview about the Wizards. Travis did the writing, and generally said
that he thinks the Wizards will be better this year than last year. Do you agree? Let us know what
you think. They're also looking for a fan blogger to cover the Wizards beat at The Offside. If
you're interested, read the story then let them know.
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Souter.
Wizards midfielder and former Open Tryout star Kevin Souter took time last week to do a nice long
interview with Graham Fox of the soccer blog Advantage Played. Take a look at what Kevin said about
all kinds of stuff, including his early years over the pond, his time at Graceland, the NAIA in
general and his time with the Wizards.
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As many of you have now seen, yesterday was Jimmy Conrad's birthday. He turned 32. In the post
below, you'll see a portion of the cake his wife brought to the Swope Park Training Center for the
guys to enjoy. Here you will read a write-up posted yesterday at Soccer365.com about Captain Kansas
City's birthday.
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As many of you have now seen, yesterday was Jimmy Conrad's birthday. He turned 32. In the post
below, you'll see a portion of the cake his wife brought to the Swope Park Training Center for the
guys to enjoy. Here you will read a write-up posted yesterday at Soccer365.com about Captain Kansas
City's birthday.
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I really thought we had seen it all in regard to Wizards players and some of their interests. This,
however, takes the cake. Jimmy Conrad, our captain and beloved center back, is apparently
moonlighting as Dr. Drew and giving relationship advice. Head over to The Red Card, Luis Arroyave's
blog that covers the Chicago Fire and soccer for the Chicago Tribune.
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I really thought we had seen it all in regard to Wizards players and some of their interests. This,
however, takes the cake. Jimmy Conrad, our captain and beloved center back, is apparently
moonlighting as Dr. Drew and giving relationship advice. Head over to The Red Card, Luis Arroyave's
blog that covers the Chicago Fire and soccer for the Chicago Tribune.
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"Ooooh that's pretty."
As some of you have seen, our good friend Thad has taken some shots from Bannister Mall yesterday.
See a few more of them here at kcwizards.com. Also, jump over to Thad's site
www.tpbinkc.smugmug.com (here's a link specifically to the gallery from yesterday). He's got some
really great shots from inside the mall there that not too many people have seen.
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Hartman.
Those of you who sit close to the goals know Hartman usually speaks a lot, but this time he did it
in journal fashion in the KC Star. Check out part one of a multi-part journal series from Bradenton
and later Guadlajara in which our players will let you fans know first hand exactly what is going
on in camp.
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A little soccer-volleyball action from last year's trip to Bradenton.
Some of you may have seen this, but the U.S. Nats have retained Jack Jewsbury for their extended
camp ahead of the Mexico game. As you know, several Europe-based players will probably be called
in, but Jack and the other 19 guys still have the chance to impress Bob Bradley ahead of a very
busy international calendar in 2009.
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Check out Jack Jewsbury starring in the latest video from U.S. Soccer's current National Team camp.
Jack talks about adjusting to the National Team level and some other fun nuggets.
Apologies for the lack of posts earlier in the day, we're at the PR League meetings. Hopefully the
new look of the blog has kept you busy and entertained.
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I wouldn't normally pump up someone else's blog specifically, but when a soccer blog is up against
some of the best from the other big sports in the U.S. for a major award like the Best Sports Blog
from the 2008 Weblog Awards, I feel it's time to change the rules a little bit. Ives Galarcep and
his in-depth news blog Soccer By Ives is in the final 15 against some of the biggest sports blogs
from other American sports.
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Look at those hot white Pumas.
Not that kind of Jack folks, a little Jack Jewsbury. As we posted a few days back, Jack has
recently taken up the sport of writing/blogging over at SGFSoccer (soccer site based in
Springfield, MO). This time our favorite #14 checks in regarding some OnGoal-related issues,
including our upcoming stadium project and our beautiful Swope Park Training Center.
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Conrad Kuhn posing with Santa Claus at Saturday's Wizards Wonderland event.
Made you look. The results are in and Mike Kuhn, father of Conrad Kuhn and author of Down the
Byline, has to try out for the 2009 Wizards and let some players rate his performance. This should
be fun. Give your best guess as the ranking they will give our blog-writing friend in the comments
section below.
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