Against a backdrop of a blue sky with a few clouds, the new Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City opens with a football game. Albeit not the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Kansas City Wizards taking on arguably the largest professional soccer franchise in the world, Manchester United. A crowd of more than 52 thousand would see the Wizards make history as they beat the Red Devils, 2-1. [Read more...]
Kansas City Wizards whiffs on a sure goal (VIDEO)
April 27, 2010 By
I saw this video on Yahoo yesterday and bust out laughing. I had to watch it about five times. A player for the Wizards last Saturday has the opportunity for an easy goal and a one in a million event takes places denying him the opportunity.
Check it out here.
Wizards release 2010 MLS schedule
February 5, 2010 By
The Kansas City Wizards announced their schedule for 2010, the team’s 15th season in the MLS. The season begins Saturday, March 27, with a home match at 7:30 p.m. against D.C. United at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Kansas City, Kansas. I’ve got the schedule right here.
Former Wizards star headed to soccer HOF
January 15, 2010 By
The Kansas City Wizards have their first Hall of Famer. Preki, the team’s star who helped the Wizards to their only MLS title in 2000 was was elected into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Preki, who’s full name is Predrag Radosavljević. He is the only player to have won the league MVP Award and scoring title twice, doing it once in 1997 and again in 2003 when he was 40. Preki is now the head coach of Toronto FC of the MLS.
Chiefs’ Owner Lamar Hunt Dead at 74
December 14, 2006 By
Kansas City Chiefs’ founder and owner Lamar Hunt has died at the age of 74. Hunt, who had battled cancer since 1998, was recently hospitalized with a partially collapsed lung. He died Wednesday night in Dallas.
Hunt’s association with Kansas City sports began in the early 1960s when he was looking for a new home for his struggling Dallas Texas of the old American Football League. Hunt had attended a Kansas City Athletics-New York Yankees baseball series at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium, was impressed with the huge turnout for the series, and opted to move his Texans north for the 1963 season. A short time later, Hunt played a key role in the AFL’s merger with the National Football League and the creation of what was then called the AFL-NFL Championship Game – whose name was later changed to the Super Bowl. Hunt even gets credit for the name of the biggest event in North American sports, borrowing that name from his kids’ Super Ball toy.
While he was perhaps best known for his contributions to football, Hunt’s association with sports was not limited to the gridiron. This co-founder of the American Football League also formed World Championship Tennis and was instrumental in the birth of Major League Soccer, eventually owning three MLS teams, including the Kansas City Wizards.
Hunt, who inherited his wealth from his father, an oil baron, was involved in numerous business ventures in the Kansas City area under the banner of Hunt Midwest Enterprises. Subsidiaries are Hunt Midwest Mining and Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, which includes SubTropolis – the world’s largest underground business complex. At one time the Hunt family also owned the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun theme parks.
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