VIDEO and LINKS: Rapids 0, Kansas City 1
The Rapids fell to Kansas City 1-0 on Saturday night, evening their record at 1-1-1 early in the season. Click here for the game recap and lineups. Click here for a sidebar with notes and quotes from...
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Training in KC - Sunday
About 12 hours after arriving at the team hotel following Saturday's game, the Rapids were at the Kansas City Wizards training center beginning preparations for Tuesday's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup...
View ArticleU.S. Open Cup Qualifier: Rapids at KC, Tonight at 6:30
The Rapids begin their quest for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tonight with a play-in game against the Kansas City Wizards at 6:30 p.m. MT. Click here for more on the 2010 pairings and how Colorado and...
View ArticleVIDEO: Thompson, Smith on Open Cup Play-In Victory
The Colorado Rapids defeated the Kansas City Wizards 2-1 on Tuesday in a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup play-in game. Wells Thompson scored both goals for the Rapids, one in the 24th and one in the 80th, to...
View ArticleVideo Clips: Thompson, Bunbury goals
Below are some highlights of Tuesday's game between the Rapids and Kansas City, courtesy of the Wizards. Due to some technical difficulties, they unfortunately (for Rapids fans) missed Thompson's...
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Notes: Sunday's Home Game
The team is back home after the two games last week in KC. On Sunday, April 18 the Rapids will welcome Toronto FC for a 3 pm MT kickoff at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Click here to read a bunch of...
View ArticleVIDEO: Highlights and Smith on 3-1 Win over Toronto
The Rapids took advantage of three set piece goals to defeat Toronto 3-1 on Sunday at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, extending the team's unbeaten run at home to seven games dating back to last...
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The New ColoradoRapids.com
Today we launched the new ColoradoRapids.com, in beta form. We'll be keeping our current (old) site live for the short term as fans get used to the new site and as we continue to fine tune it.Click...
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VIDEO and LINKS: Rapids 2, Revs 1
On Saturday, the Rapids received goals from Mehdi Ballouchy and Pablo Mastroeni to beat the New England Revolution 2-1 at Gillette Stadium. Colorado is now 3-1-1, 10 points on the season and in second...
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Photos, Links, and Notes...
We don't want to make the weather a point of conversation here all the time, but spring time here in Denver varies so much that it often forces the team to adapt from one day to the other. For...
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UEFA Champions League Final
Who is your pick for the UEFA Champions League final? This Saturday, May 22, Inter Milan will take on Bayern Munich for the final. The preferred viewing location, for the Colorado Rapids, is downtown...
View ArticleRapids partner with Maximized Living Chiropractic
The Colorado Rapids are proud to announce their partnership with Maximized Living Chiropractic in an ongoing effort to increase the development of soccer and healthy living in Colorado. Maximized...
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The South Africa Blog - Intro
The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins on Friday, June 11, and for the next few weeks, I’ll be hoping to provide a first-hand account of what it’s like in South Africa during the world’s biggest sporting...
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A Coloradoan in England
One of the guys that I'll be traveling to South Africa, Brett, is originally from Grand Junction, Colorado, and even spent time working with the Rapids back in the day. Though he now lives in England,...
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South Africa, first view...
I've made it to South Africa. It was a long flight, about 3.5 hours from Denver to New York, and then 14.5 hours from New York to Johannesburg.When you arrive in South Africa, you immediately notice...
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Rustenburg - Royal Bafokeng Stadium
On Friday, upon landing, we found out at an airport info booth that there were buses scheduled to take fans from Petroria to Rustenburg for the USA vs England game. A nice lady at the info booth had...
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Africa Unite!
We wake up on Sunday morning and had already made plans to attend the Ghana versus Serbia game, which was being played at Loftus Versveld Stadium, about a 10 minute walk from where we are staying.The...
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The Argentina game
After a failed attempt at scalping tickets for the South Africa vs Uruguay game that was right down the street, we moved on to our next attempt. On Thursday morning, we drive down to Johannesburg to...
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The Annoying Vuvuzelas
If you've been watching or reading anything about the World Cup, you surely have an opinion about the vuvuzelas, the trumpets that are now a symbol of South Africa and this World Cup.I'm going to take...
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Ellis Park, USA Game Two
Our group with the two local kids entering the USA vs. Slovenia game.---------------------------------------------With USA gear on, we depart Petroria for Johannesburg, an hour drive to Ellis Park for...
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Witness to the drama!
Where do I begin; or better, how do I begin to explain what it was like to be in the stadium yesterday to witness the USA’s 1-0 win over Algeria. It was game day, and the game was being played in our...
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Time to return...
It's been a couple of days since the U.S. lost to Ghana 2-1 in the second round of the 2010 World Cup. It was time some of us needed to get over the disappointment, yet, hopefully, look positively at...
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Find the Jumbo Jabulani
For the past month, the Colorado Rapids and a handful of local bars have come together to show every match of the 2010 World Cup. Today, tomorrow and Friday the Colorado Rapids will be releasing...
View ArticleUndercurrent & ColoradoRapids.com Update
Hey Rapids fans (and others that visit this blog) –As some of you may have noticed, we’ve been moving away from providing updates on the Rapids Undercurrent blog to communicating with fans via the...
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