The Colorado Rapids will open their 2012 Major League Soccer regular season on March 10 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Their opponent and the time of the game have not yet been announced.
The contest marks just the fifth time in 17 seasons that the Rapids will kick off their season at home.
Major League Soccer will have a new format for the 2012 regular season. Although teams will still play 34 games, 17 at home and 17 away, the Rapids, as part of the Western Conference, will play each West opponent three times and each East opponent once.
Single-game tickets for the Rapids’ 2012 opener will go on sale in early February.
A Mammoth deal for Prout.
The Colorado Mammoth have signed forward Gavin Prout, the franchise’s all-time leading scorer, to a three-year agreement.
Colorado, a member of the National Lacrosse League, won four of the six regular-season games Prout appeared in during the 2011 season, en route to the team earning its eighth playoff berth in nine seasons.
Prout is entering his 11th year in the NLL and eighth as a member of the franchise.
