And here they are:

The Seattle Sounders FC will host the Colorado Rapids in a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup play-in match on Tuesday, May 26 at Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

Pre-sale tickets will be offered to season ticket holders before being made available to the general public on May 9 at 10 a.m. All tickets are general admission and priced at $15 for covered grandstand seating and $10 for uncovered bleacher seats. There will be limited seating capacity.

For information on Open Cup tickets please visit www.soundersfc.com and www.ticketmaster.com.

If Seattle defeats Colorado, it will advance to the Open Cup Round of 16. The other MLS play-in game features New York Red Bulls at D.C. United.

The top six Major League Soccer teams from 2008 qualified for the Open Cup, while Sounders FC and the other seven MLS teams must qualify to reach the tournament. Seattle defeated Real Salt Lake, 4-1, at Starfire on April 28 in its first play-in game.

The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation’s National Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. It is the oldest annual team tournament in U.S. sports history and among the oldest soccer tournaments of its type in the world.

The LA Galaxy picked up a point on the road tonight with a 2-2 draw at Salt Lake.

Here's a recap from the MLS website.

LA is an odd 1-5-1 on the season, and hasn't lost in six games dating back to the season opener.

The Galaxy now has a quick turnaround, as they will be in Seattle on Sunday to meet the Sounders at Qwest Field.

This blog comment from JoePublic seemed worth a free-standing post on today's game:

We've had some interesting conversations about referee decisions on this blog, so I'm figuring people will have something to say about the two or seven in this game.

1: The Barcelona sendoff seemed a phantom to me -- in all the replays I couldn't see the defender make any contact at all with Anelka. But if it was a foul, it was definitely a last-man situation.

2: The Pique handling in the area -- not given -- sure looked like it could have been given for a penalty. The arm was straight out -- not in a natural position. But in fairness to Pique, he had his arm out there even before the Chelsea attacker played it into him.

3: The alleged handling at the end, the one the Chelsea players were so irate about, was definitely NOT handling -- especially not handling worthy of a penalty at that late stage of the game. The defender turned his back, had his arm in a natural position and it looked like the ball hit his shoulder more than anything else.

It is amazing though how a team so deep and talented like Barcelona can only play one way. They came at Chelsea with the same maddeningly patient buildup and possession. If only they would have had some other option than Dani Alves, who was terrible and really hurt them with wasted balls again and again. Chelsea just soaked it all up.

Great drama. Shocking behavior by the Chelsea players at the end. Controversial refereeing decisions. The play was not anything of beauty but man what an exciting game.

The Sounders are off the rainy practice pitch for another day without much news breaking.

I spoke to Peter Vagenas -- who was the only player expected not to be available this week -- and he said he might be available this week. And, of course, he'd love to return this weekend, since the Sounders are facing his old team: the LA Galaxy.

We also asked coach Sigi Schmid about the game against his one of his former teams -- and the only one that fired him -- but he gave the respectful, professional just-another-game-worth-three-points answer. Still, I'll prop that up into a full story for tomorrow's paper.

Meanwhile, things are probably a little more active with the Galaxy, who aren't yet focusing on Seattle, but instead on Real Salt Lake, who they visit tonight. Here's a preview of that one, from the MLS site.