Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'majorleaguesoccer'
July 20, 2007
Photo of David Beckham by rayxhead These are halcyon days for Toronto soccer fans. Toronto FC, the city's long-overdue Major League Soccer team, is in its inaugural season. The 20,000-seat BMO Field is open for business, and doubles as Canada's new national soccer stadium. The Under-20 World Cup, which culminates this weekend in Toronto, is breaking tournament attendance records. And on August 5, David Beckham (perhaps you've heard of him?) is scheduled to make......
Continue Reading "David Beckham is a Pimp and a Prostitute, Too"May 2, 2007
Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! Yesterday, we featured the Toronto FC in the Daily Photoist, but we can't forget how spring also reveals our Boys of Summer. This minimalist shot of Jays centrefielder Vernon Wells was captured by dave_in_t_o, and we like how it......
Continue Reading "The Daily Photoist: Standing His Ground"March 23, 2007
If you're a red-blooded Toronto sports fan you probably already have your Toronto FC season tickets in hand, waiting for the big kick-off against the Kansas City Wizards and the day Beckham arrives. In the meantime, the most exciting news on the local football front is the unveiling of our Major League Soccer club's uniforms; especially if you're a BMO customer. The FC have decided to go all "continental" which basically means that they're putting......
Continue Reading "BMO Puts its Best Foot Forward"February 27, 2006
A quick look around our sister sites brings back some ISTeresting stories. --- After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse"