Seattle Sounders FC preps for season opener with fan-submitted hashtags on buildings

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The Seattle Sounders football soccer club gets the 2013 season started this Saturday with a home match against Montreal and as part of the pre-game hype, they’ve put together a neat social media project. As part of their #SoundersRave campaign, the team is putting up Tweets with that hashtag on a Seattle building downtown. @holly98092 Scarves… Read More…

From Shawn Kemp to Edgar Martinez: Favorite phones and apps of Seattle’s sports stars

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In between Washington’s most well-known sports stars from past and present, there was one geek running around Benaroya Hall Friday night asking questions completely unrelated to the Sonics, Seahawks or Sounders. I was lucky enough to attend the annual Sports Star of the Year in downtown Seattle and took the opportunity to find out what… Read More…

Yo, Sounders fan in that Xbox shirt! Be honest, what’s your favorite game console?

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is the title sponsor of the Seattle Sounders FC soccer team — which means that fans show up at games with the Xbox 360 brand across their jerseys. But where do their loyalties really lie? Team GeekWire spoke with some Sounders fans before Sunday’s 3-1 win and asked fans what their favorite game console… Read More…

The death of the ticket stub? Sounders FC offer high-tech tix (and I’m not sure what to do)

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Call me old school, but I still like to head to a sporting event with a paper ticket securely tucked in my billfold. But are the glory days of the ticket stub numbered? After getting an email from my beloved Seattle Sounders FC this week it’s probably just a matter of time before paper tickets… Read More…

Sounders kick off Windows Phone app amid awful playoff showing

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This has got to be one of the more depressing product launches in Seattle tech and sports history. The Seattle Sounders picked Saturday night’s playoff game to unveil the team’s new Windows Phone 7 application, showcasing features such as team statistics, digital yellow cards and live game audio. But for anyone who caught the atrocious… Read More…

What’s at stake for us in the Sounders-Timbers match, and how you can win a free ticket

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They’ve got Mt. Hood, we’ve got Mt. Rainier. They’ve got BridgePort, we’ve got Manny’s Pale Ale. They’ve got Intel, we’ve got Microsoft. That’s right, baby, it’s rivalry weekend as the Seattle Sounders face off on the Xbox pitch this Saturday night against the Portland Timbers. We’re certainly pumped up. And, in the spirit of the… Read More…