Rapids tickets on sale Tuesday, Conor Casey in the Nats camp, rugby at Dick’s, a new seating section at Dick’s, and more!

The Colorado Rapids will host the Seattle Sounders at 7 p.m. March 19 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park to raise money for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Major League Soccer released the finalists for the league’s 2009 awards today, and Galaxy striker Landon Donovan certainly was among them. Inside, I list all the finalists and whom I voted for in the process. Donovan, left, was among the finalists for the league’s Most Valuable Player award, and I think he’s the likely winner. All of the award finalists earned the most votes in polling of MLS players, general managers, coaches, referees and members of the media, including yours truly. Check out all of the finalists inside.
(photo by Jonathan Ingraham/ ColoradoSoccerNow.com)

To commemorate Conor Casey being named Major League Soccer’s player of the week, The Tuesday List looks at everyone who has received the honor so far in 2009. …

I enjoyed the 2009 W-League season so much that I decided to put together an All-Conference team based on all the games we covered at ColoradoSoccerNow.com. Pictured, from left: Sally Cole, Brittney Macdonald, Iris Mora and Jenae Gibbons. (photos by Tom Auclair, George Tanner/ColoradoSoccerNow.com)

The Tuesday List focuses on two topics this week: most goals allowed and fewest goals scored by the Colorado Rapids and Chicago Fire; also, we vote for Omar Cummiings for player of the month for June and take a look at a long list of Rapids honors in 2009.

Nate Jaqua and Fredy Montero combined on all three goals as the Sounders beat the Colorado Rapids 3-0 on Sunday afternoon in Seattle.

The Colorado Rapids waive striker Gregory Richardson, right; the Colorado Force ties the Sounders in Tukwila, Wash.; former Rapids goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul surfaces in New York; striker Conor Casey checks in with his club from South Africa; the W-League honors Lisa Franke; and more! (photo by George Tanner/ ColoradoSoccerNow.com)

In the interests of openness, here’s how I voted in the North American Soccer Reporters’ balloting for Major League Soccer’s player of the week … (photo by Tom Auclair/ ColoradoSoccerNow.com)

As the Colorado Rapids prepare to travel to Utah to face Real Salt Lake on Saturday, The Tuesday List looks at yellow cards and fouls.