Though soccer is the most played sport around the world, with governing body FIFA recognizing football federations in more than 200 nations, the beloved "beautiful game" has always struggled to be a dominant force in the United States.
As a reward for information rose to $85,000 Wednesday, the president of the police union in Seattle, Washington, said no one in the city is safe while the killer of an officer is on the loose.
For just the second time in MLS history, a team won the Supporters' Shield while compiling less than 50 points during the regular season. Columbus' 13-7-10 record was good enough to lock down the league's best regular-season record, but such a mark doesn't exactly compare well to previous Supporters' Shield winners.
(CNN Student News) -- August 20, 2009
Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.
Temperatures reached 94 degrees by noon in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday and were expected to keep climbling as a record heat wave gripped the Pacific Northwest.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
The family of a Seattle, Washington, woman is searching for answers after her mysterious death at a resort hotel in Thailand.
A free Lamborghini in Miami, Florida.
Seattle is a city of permanent caffeine buzz. As well as being the birthplace of Starbucks, Seattle boasts countless independent coffee houses where the humble cup of Joe is served in all manner of fancy permutations. Fancy an iced maple white-chocolate mocha? Then this is your kind of town. Get your morning fix at the ever-popular Espresso Vivace Roasteria (901 E Denny Way and 227 Yale Ave), or at one of the many branches of local chain Tully's.
Though soccer is the most played sport around the world, with governing body FIFA recognizing football federations in more than 200 nations, the beloved "beautiful game" has always struggled to be a dominant force in the United States.
As a reward for information rose to $85,000 Wednesday, the president of the police union in Seattle, Washington, said no one in the city is safe while the killer of an officer is on the loose.
For just the second time in MLS history, a team won the Supporters' Shield while compiling less than 50 points during the regular season. Columbus' 13-7-10 record was good enough to lock down the league's best regular-season record, but such a mark doesn't exactly compare well to previous Supporters' Shield winners.
(CNN Student News) -- August 20, 2009
Our weekly dose of Major League Soccer quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.
Temperatures reached 94 degrees by noon in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday and were expected to keep climbling as a record heat wave gripped the Pacific Northwest.
Gas prices jumped nearly a quarter in the past three weeks, but the trend is unlikely to continue, according to a survey published on Sunday.
The family of a Seattle, Washington, woman is searching for answers after her mysterious death at a resort hotel in Thailand.
A free Lamborghini in Miami, Florida.
Seattle is a city of permanent caffeine buzz. As well as being the birthplace of Starbucks, Seattle boasts countless independent coffee houses where the humble cup of Joe is served in all manner of fancy permutations. Fancy an iced maple white-chocolate mocha? Then this is your kind of town. Get your morning fix at the ever-popular Espresso Vivace Roasteria (901 E Denny Way and 227 Yale Ave), or at one of the many branches of local chain Tully's.
With the first stage of the MLS season in the books, it's time for our weekly dose of quick takes, plotlines to watch and Power Rankings.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the city's oldest daily newspaper, published its last print edition Tuesday, moving the paper's entire operation online.
The Hearst Corp. announced Monday it will publish its last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Tuesday and shift the operation of Seattle's oldest business wholly to the Internet.
Some passengers on a diverted Aeromexico flight finally reached their destination in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday after spending 16 hours in limbo.
Bartender Chris Daw had plenty of patrons to serve early Saturday at the CC Attle tavern, despite the ricin threats that it and 10 other Seattle gay bars recently received.
Seattle hosts some fantastic events that make the most of the great outdoors and the city's passion for music. Here are some of the best.
More than just the quintessential Seattle shopping experience, Pike Place Market is a tourist attraction in its own right. This historic farmers market is the place to pick up all manner of fresh local produce, as well as handmade crafts, jewelry, antiques and paintings. Keep your camera handy to snap the colorful floral displays and the fishmongers tossing whole salmon to each other.
Whether you're into exclusive bars, dingy dives or the dubious pleasures of a sweaty moshpit, Seattle has plenty to keep you entertained.
There's a good range of accommodation in Seattle, with an emphasis on hotels geared towards the business traveler. With Microsoft's HQ based just across Lake Washington, Seattle has long been at the forefront of new technology and unlike most cities, many of its hotels offer free wi-fi.
Scott grew up in Texas and has lived in Seattle for 11 years. He runs the Central District News blog, which keeps tabs on the news in Quincy Jones's old neighborhood. Here he gives CNN the lowdown on life in Seattle.
First time in Seattle? Here are some hints to help you get the most from the city.
Seattle's character and history are closely linked to its waterside location, so it makes sense to start your sightseeing at the Waterfront.
There are few cities in the world blessed with a more beautiful setting than Seattle. It is surrounded by rugged green wilderness; to the west the Olympic Mountains, to the east the volcanoes and glaciers of the Cascade Range, and all around the brisk waters of the Northwest.
A father and stepmother were charged with withholding their 14-year-old daughter's food and water so drastically that she weighed only 48 pounds, authorities said
Imagine yourself on a ferryboat deck with a latte in one hand, your overnight bag at your feet, and the dazzling Seattle, Washington, skyline filling the horizon behind you. While the boat churns across Elliott Bay, the Space Needle disappears from view and a shoreline materializes in the distance.
Five McMansions were torched outside Seattle in what may have been eco-terrorism. But the locals aren't unhappy
So, honestly, how can a Seattle MLS franchise possibly fail?
A nationwide push to put portable defibrillators in every school may not be worth the cost, a new study concludes
Online retailer Amazon.com is delivering perishable groceries to a Seattle suburb in a pilot program, testing out a possible new food delivery service, according to a report Thursday.
In a world where third spaces -- the places where we spend time away from work and home -- are increasingly privately owned, how can we make our public spaces outstanding?
Juggling work, family, friends and community may seem sometimes like an impossible task. A flexible work schedule may be one solution to a better work-life balance.
The Supreme Court strikes a blow against race-based integration, but the decision suggests it may not be fatal
A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued what is likely to be a landmark opinion -- ruling that race cannot be a factor in the assignment of children to public schools.
School officials in Seattle, Washington, said Thursday they know they cannot use "race-specific" rules to increase diversity in their schools but believe they can accomplish similar goals with "race-conscious measures."
The Supreme Court is poised to issue key rulings in two major cases involving diversity in schools.
In the middle of a nationwide housing slump, a few markets have held their ground - and then some.
The subject in Seattle baseball circles is Ichiro, as it so often is these days, and whether the Mariners can keep their terrifically enigmatic star happy and in the green beyond this season. Or even beyond July.
Online worlds like Second Life have made a successful business out of getting people to buy and sell 3-D virtual real estate.
The year was 1992. Another NBA trade deadline day was in full swing. My phone rang every five minutes with another rumor, some fantastical and others with an element of truth. A few calls came from people inside the league who had very good information, and others were from my basketball fanatic friends, who had absolutely no information, but plenty of imagination.
An insurance company that wants to hold down payout costs has several ways to do that. One involves the software designed to help assess financial damages.
SI.com's Don Banks had a veteran NFC insider assess the divisional-round playoff games.
SI.com's Don Banks breaks down this weekend's four first-round playoff games ...
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For anyone who loves to eat, Seattle is one of the most dynamic and satisfying places to be in the country.
If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its residents age 25 or older have completed a bachelor's degree or higher.
One person was killed and five others were wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle, Washington, police said.
I'm 26 and I'm a compulsive saver. For the past five years I've saved over 70 percent of my net income, and I don't make that much. I track all my spending and have tried to budget "minimum" monthly spending levels, but I can't seem to meet them. I don't consider myself cheap, just frugal. And all my hobbies - music, games, sports - tend to be low-cost. Do you have any suggestions on how I can spend more money?
Federal agents have closed down the first known smuggling tunnel under the U.S.-Canada border and arrested on drug charges the three Canadians who allegedly built it, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.
From October through June, Seattle impersonates London—dark and drizzly, with a climate that's good for field-testing Gore-Tex but not much else. Visit in late summer, though, and the city shakes o...
Ant-Farm Technology is finally marching into the 21st century, thanks to Fascinations, a Seattle-based toy company. The ten-person, $5 million--plus firm is celebrating its 20th anniversary with th...
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There are supermarkets, and then there's the Uwajimaya -- Seattle's largest Asian food store, selling to a growing Asian community.
A monorail train carrying passengers to a Memorial Day festival caught fire Monday afternoon in Seattle, Washington, and fire crews hurriedly rescued passengers from smoky cars about one story above ground.
--CONTRARY INDICATORS As if equity analysts weren't already in the doghouse, a soon-to-be-published academic study finds that their highest-rated stocks underperformed their lowest-rated ones in 20...
Consider the neighboring communities of Fremont and Ballard, on the north side of town. Fremont is Seattle's acknowledged hip and cool spot, the kind of place where you meet people named Sunshine.
San Francisco The Obvious Run: The Embarcadero The Insider Run: Crissy Field
Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Fil...
Okay, you missed out on the 38-acre ranch in Jackson Hole--the one with the horses, the six bedrooms, and the fish-jammed pond. You know, the one that's now worth $7 million and change. Relax. Ther...
Gomorrah got off easy; to see a truly suffering city, look to the Northwest. The biggest body blow to the Emerald City--Boeing's surprise relocation--is just the latest in a string of catastrophes ...
Amid the tech carnage, there's one group celebrating: organized labor. The rout has given unions an opportunity to rally a part of the work force that was previously out of reach.
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." --Benjamin Franklin
Globalization has brought far-flung communities across the world closer together. It has brought Internet access to Rwanda, CNN to Azerbaijan, Japanese investors to the U.S. It has also brought unp...
One of the ironies of modern travel is that, although we typically spend thousands of dollars on a vacation, it's often the first $15 or so that we lay out--for a guidebook--that ends up determinin...
Spring is here, and as a winter-weary nation resumes outdoor activities like golfing and gardening, a resounding cry can be heard throughout the land: Oh, my aching back!
Every Saturday from March through May, managers, bankers, and lawyers from Seattle to Atlanta shed their ties and don their cleats to rumble in one of the world's roughest games--rugby. Started thi...
You're strolling down the street when something shiny on the sidewalk catches your eye. It's a Susan B. Anthony $1 coin. Do you a) scoop it up? or b) leave it for someone who needs it more (or is l...
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This muscular vitamaniac is Nick Skouras, 40, a Seattle personal trainer who consumes $19,130 worth of supplements a year. That is enough money to feed a family of four for more than two years, acc...
In 40 markets around the U.S., including Houston, New York City and Seattle, consumers looking for a dentist can dial 800-DENTIST and get a referral. We were curious -- if not skeptical -- about wh...
If you trekked with 86 million other Americans to Jurassic Park, the top-grossing movie of 1993, and now go to see Disclosure, the newest Michael Crichton novel-cum-film to hit the multiplex, you m...
Nowhere in your story was there an accounting for the time it would take, for example, to wash rubber gloves, dry them, turn them, wash and dry them again, put them in a pocket holder and wrap them...
MONEY delivers! Specifically, we have delivered more than 600 pieces of mail to Tim Carlsen (pictured above), the 33-year-old Seattle investment banker whose high-cost search for a wife was reporte...
First he got involved with a neighbor in his new apartment complex only to learn she was already attached: Her husband suddenly appeared. Next he reconnoitered a nearby beach touted by a colleague ...
Uncle Sam and Washington State transportation officials will spend $5.5 million to find out whether a special wristwatch, among other devices, can help you dodge traffic jams. The Dick Tracy-style ...
Despite inflation and a 7.3% increase in usage, electricity costs dropped in the '80s. The average annual household utility bill fell 6%, from $563 in 1982 to $529 by 1992. To compare electrical co...
With prices for used cars up 8.9% this year vs. 2.3% for new ones, now is a great time to sell your old auto -- especially if you have your eye on a 1994 model. If you sell it yourself, moreover, y...
Naked and exhausted after 20 hours of unproductive labor, a heavyset woman lies in a tiled operating room that smells of dried blood. The room is open to the hall through a small wash-up area where...
Metals analysts say the new one-kilo Australian Koala (left), the largest legal tender platinum coin in the world, could be an attractive investment. Although platinum prices have been flat in rece...
CITIES/COVER STORIES 40 THE BEST CITIES FOR BUSINESS These days they are the places with the workers, services, and other factors that most help American companies compete globally. Here are ten so...
THE two-line lettered sign stood next to a roadside store on a highway heading toward magnificent Mount Rainier and the great green expanse that surrounds Seattle. The sign read: ESPRESSO LIVE BAIT...
Executives who jog don't have to break training on business trips or face unfamiliar terrain or inclement weather. The solution: indoor tracks. Here's a list of tracks near business centers in five...
A significant salmon run goes past Seattle, so you can fish for Pacific salmon in the Puget Sound. Though there are bigger boats and lower rates, consider paying $75 to climb aboard the Obsession w...
Here we go again, ranking America's hometowns and rankling just about everyone in the process. After you scour our list of the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas on pages 82 and 83, you may react ...
Questions abound about Seattle's ''domestic partner'' legislation, and we begin with our puzzlement in respect of Philip Irvin. What did Phil -- an engineer with the local power-and-light company -...
I was perplexed by your September article ''The Best Places to Live in America.'' You state that Seattle was ranked first because it scored 73 or higher in four of the nine categories on which citi...
What a difference a year makes. Last year, in our second annual survey of the best places to live in the U.S.A., Danbury, Conn. headed the list. This time, mirroring the shift in strength of the na...
When Nasser Ordoubadi, 33, moved from New York City to Seattle in 1984, he planned to stay only one year to complete his internship at Virginia Mason, one of the city's leading teaching hospitals. ...
As your March issue illustrates in ''The Pros Flunk Our New Tax-Return Test,'' income taxes are hideously complicated. My simple solution: require all congressmen to prepare their own tax returns, ...
DAVID RICHARDS, 49, and his wife Lonnette, 43, are of an age when they should be battling healthy cases of mid-life crisis. Instead, they are afflicted with an even more modern malaise: the full-ne...
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