Results tagged “majorleaguesoccer”

We spend a lot of time on Twitter, doing our best to deliver a good mix of our headlines and real-time updates. And, in case you're not following us yet, or aren't on Twitter at all, you should know that ours is a very Twitter-friendly city.That's why we've decided to start a daily post lining up some of the more interesting tweets that fellow Phillyists have pushed out into the statusphere. In most cases, we leave the details to the original tweets, so click through, read, and follow your fellow Philadelphians. But, all alliteration aside, if you're on Twitter and we haven't found you yet, leave a link to your profile in the comments!

After word leaked late last Thursday night that the Philadelphia MLS franchise would be called the Union, this morning's "official" announcement was nothing if not anticlimactic. But those who attended the official announcement did get the first crack at buying official Union merchandise—which the rest of us can now get at the team's official website.

Isn't it annoying when people say, "Can I ask you a question?" "Umm, well, you just did." Yeah, maybe it's just us. We generally kind of have the same reaction to when we get press releases about upcoming announcements, meta-announcements if you will. But this Phillyist got one today, and being a soccer fan with season tickets for Philadelphia's MLS team already reserved, I'm actually pretty happy about it. The Philadelphia MLS team name, colors, logo, and ticket pricing will be announced on Monday, May 11, at 11:30 a.m. The honors will be done at City Hall by Mayor Nutter. (Buzz on the Internets is that the team name will likely be AC Philadelphia, with Union Philadelphia still as a possibility. But given that's what we've read on message boards and the like, take it with a bag grain of salt.)

With a preliminary hearing for the case scheduled for tomorrow, the Inquirer takes another look at the 41-year long murder of Police Officer William Barclay. Pennsylvania officials will decide soon whether to spend $45 million to build a stadium in Chester as the final step toward securing a Major League Soccer team for the Philadelphia area. Right now, Philly is second behind St. Louis for the remaining expansion slot, its chances contingent on a stadium...

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt, who has completely covered her house in mosaic tiles.

Phillyist is, of course, just as patriotic as all of our other Ist brethren out there. And while we might not go crazy flouting it the way we suspect our friends at Londonist will over the next few weeks, we'll still be rooting hard for the good ol' U-S-of-A. Specifically, we'll be rooting for two players on the U.S. roster who hail from Philadelphia: Bobby Convey and Chris Albright.