The much rumored March 21st Rio Tinto Stadium Open House can now be confirmed. Just one week before heading to the great Northwest to kick off its 2009 MLS campaign, RSL will host the Austin Aztex of the USL-1 in an exhibition affair at Rio Tinto Stadium at 1:00 p.m. MT. What’s more? It’ll be [...]

RSL announced this afternoon that second year midfielder Alex Nimo has been loaned to the Portland Timbers of the USL-1 for the duration of the 2009 USL season. The 18-year-old Nimo was drafted 17th overall in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft and appeared in 10 of RSL’s 12 MLS Reserve Division matches (notching a team high [...]

RSL announced today that it is slated to play Seattle Sounders FC on April 28 to kick off its qualifying campaign for the 2009 U.S. Open Cup proper. The match will be held at 8:00 p.m. MT at the Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, WA and will take place exactly one month to the day [...]

This week’s RSL merchandise offer is geared towards, well, gearing you up to get on the pitch. For the rest of the week you can score yourself a “combo pack” of the official RSL training top (regularly $45) and training shorts ($30) for just $50. Throw that stuff on and you’ll look just like the [...]

Joining you fans a bit late due to the friendly skies, but here is tonight’s starting RSL lineup: GK – Seitz; DF – Beltran, Olave, Horst, Wingert; MF – Johnson, Beckerman, Morales, Cox; FW – Escalada, Movsisyan D.C. United’s lineup is as follows: GK – Louis Crayton; DF – Bryan Namoff, Marc Burch, Dejan Jakovic, [...]

After three weeks, the Soccer Unites Utah Memorabilia Auction has finally come to a close, and we can say without reservation that the auction was more successful than we could have imagined, with over $7,000 being raised on behalf of the cause. We’ll give the full rundown of what the 26 items up for bidding [...]

Folks, tune in to KALL 700 Sports at 7:00 p.m. MT tonight as Spencer Checketts and Trey Fitz-Gerald will be hosting a 2009 MLS season preview edition of First Kick. Spence and Trey will spend the 7 o’clock hour giving the low-down on all things RSL, including offseason acquisitions, preseason games, and interesting storylines. Throughout [...]

With their lone day of work between the Florida and South Carolina legs of the preseason, the team took to the training field at XanGo headquarters in Lehi this afternoon. It was a good, intense training session that, with the tighter group that has spent another two weeks together, was recognizably sharper than the previous [...]

Garth just confirmed that RSL has claimed former San Jose Earthquakes midfielder Ned Grabavoy in today’s Waiver Draft. A five-year MLS veteran, the 25-year-old Grabavoy brings plenty of experience, both in MLS and on the international level, to the Salt Lake roster. “At this point in the preseason, we feel fortunate to be able to [...]

Garth announced this morning that RSL has come to terms and inked defender Chris Wingert to a contract extension that will keep him wearing Claret and Cobalt through the 2012 MLS season. It is a well-deserved reward for a guy who established himself as a core player for the future of this franchise. “We have [...]