Sounders' central defender Taylor Graham will appear on Wednesday’s airing of "The Price Is Right," which, of course, is hosted by FC minority owner Drew Carey.

The show appears on CBS (locally, Channel 7) from 10-11 a.m.

The Sounders are off today. They will return with a rare afternoon training session on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the club announced one coming and one going due to national team duty:

The Seattle Sounders FC announced today that the Jamaica National Team has called in central defender Tyrone Marshall for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Marshall will travel to Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 1, to join the national team.

Marshall, who has 65 international caps, was last called up by the Reggae Boyz for a February 11 friendly in London against Nigeria.

Jamaica faces Canada (July 3 in Los Angeles), Costa Rica (July 7 in Columbus, Ohio) and El Salvador (July 10 in Miami) in Gold Cup group play. Knockout rounds begin with the quarterfinals in Philadelphia and Dallas on July 18-19. The semifinals are July 23 in Chicago and the Gold Cup final is July 26 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Marshall has played more minutes (1,260) than any Seattle player this season, starting 14 games and scoring one goal and one assist.

Meanwhile:

Jarrod Smith will return to training this week after completing his call-up to the New Zealand National Team for much of June. Smith started and played 55 minutes of a June 6 friendly with Botswana, one of three preparation games for the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. He did not see action in any of the All Whites’ three Confederations Cup games. Smith, on the disabled list for MLS games since the start of the season, made his only Sounders FC appearance in an Open Cup Play-In on April 28.

I have already post that Doyle's Public House in Tacoma is planning a bus trip down to Portland for the U.S. Open Cup match on July 1.

And the Sounders report that hundreds of fans have made the commitment to travel to the game. The Emerald City Supporters alone have sold over 250 tickets to date.

Now we also have word that Gorilla FC is also planning a bus trip down, in tandem with NES and Immortal.

Here is some of the information provided:

For $39, you get a ticket to the match, a seat on the bus, and enjoy some adult beverages along the way (as long as you're 21 or over).

You can pay in person at any GFC, NES or Immortal event, mail a check, or pay via paypal or get more information at gorillafc@gmail.com.

The bus will start in Seattle at 2 p.m. and make two addition stops as it heads south.

All ages are welcome. The front is for families, and those wishing to drink can head to the back.

Meanwhile, it also has been announced that if Seattle advances to the Open Cup quarterfinals it would either host Kansas City or visit Minnesota (USL-1) on July 7.

Newcastle United, which for my money had the greatest soccer kit on the planet, has decided that perfection wasn't good enough.

So now they have created new kits that look like what would result from the unholy mating of the old Newcastle uniforms with the Columbus Crew.

But, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

The PDL Tacoma Tide begins a long homestand tonight with a game against the Seattle Wolves at Curtis High School's Viking Field in University Place.

The game begins a long home stretch for the Tide, in which six of their final 7 regular-season games are at home.

Here's the Tide schedule.