Upcoming Events

As you have all heard many times by now, our season kickoff meet-and-greet is tonight beginning at 5:30 p.m. (for season ticket holders) at Dave & Buster's at The Legends in KCK. Doors open to the non-season-ticket-holding public at 6:30. Fans will be able to take on the players at various arcade games for prizes and submit a bracket to challenge our resident college basketball guru Kerry Zavagnin. Anyone who beats Kerry's bracket (you get a head start; he filled his out yesterday, but you will have the advantage of knowing the results of half of today's games) will be entered into a drawing to win a Wizards jersey signed by Zavags himself.


TVs will be tuned to the NCAA tourney, but D&B's does not have Fox Soccer Channel, so you'll have to TiVo the U.S. U-23 squad's Olympic qualifying match. So that this doesn't happen in the future, we ask that as many of you guys as possible call D&B's to ask about FSC. If enough people call asking the same question, they will be more likely to order the channel and have it available for subsequent events. See you there!

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Saturday we wrap-up pre-season training with a doubleheader in the Saturn Challenge Cup on the University of Oklahoma's campus in Norman, Okla. (suburb of Oklahoma City). The first team will take on Real Salt Lake at 6 p.m., with the reserves facing SMU shortly thereafter. If you're making the trip down, post a comment below so that fellow Wizards fans can meet up and cheer together.

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Next Wednesday will be the first installment of The Jimmy Conrad Show for 2008. Jimmy and voice of the Wizards Sean Wheelock will run the mics and have several guests stop by beginning at 7 p.m. CT. The show will be hosted LIVE at McFadden's across from Sprint Center in the Power and Light District and broadcast live on 810 WHB and streamed live at kcwizards.com. We held the Starting 11 Girls tryouts at McFadden's in February and had a great time. Join us next Wednesday for another Wizards-centric night downtown.

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Then, next Saturday is the day we've been waiting for since the final whistle of the Houston game last fall. At 7 p.m. CT, we take on defending Supporters' Shield winners D.C. United at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in KCK. D.C. is fresh of a trouncing of Jamaica's Harbour View in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup and features several new players this year. In last year's opener, we downed them 4-2 in stellar MLS debuts for Michael Harrington (goal 3 minutes into his professional career) and Coach Onalfo (4-2 victory over a highly rated side). How will new faces like Chance Myers, Ivan Trujillo and Claudio Lopez fare this time around? Find out next Saturday at the Ballpark!