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The Sounders Tuesday acquired goalkeeper Stefan Frei from Toronto FC in exchange for a 2015 conditional first-round SuperDraft pick. The deal comes a day after the Sounders parted ways with former keeper Michael Gspurning, who lost his starting job for a couple of games as Seattle lost nine of its final 10 matches.

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Goalkeeper Michael Gspurning will not be back with the Sounders, a club spokesman said Monday. The club will not pick up its contract option in 2014. Gspurning lost his starting job late in the season and becomes the biggest casualty so far of the Sounders’ collapse in which the club lost nine of its final

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Firing back at scathing criticism in the Seattle Times made by former Mariners manager Eric Wedge and other former baseball employees, general manager Jack Zduriencik wrote in a club release that Wedge did not complain of communication problems as manager and suggested his anger came from being denied a contract extension for more than a

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San Diego State used an 18-2 run to start the second half to make up a nine-point deficit and send the Aztecs on their way to a 70-63 victory over the Washington Huskies Sunday afternoon in San Diego. The loss evened Washington’s record at 4-4 and ruined the Huskies’ chances of scoring their first win

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The NFL status of Brandon Browner, a source of irritation for the usually upbeat Pete Carrroll Friday, won’t be resolved until around Christmas, according to sources that talked Sunday morning to the league’s broadcast partner, ESPN. Browner turned down the chance to have his one-year suspension by three months, believing his appeal will result in

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