The 2009 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 2, 2009, at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. The match determined the winner of the 2009 edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 96th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. The match was won by Seattle Sounders FC, who defeated D.C. United 2–1. Seattle became the second expansion team in Major League Soccer history to win the tournament in their inaugural season. D.C. United entered the tournament as the competition's defending champions. Both Sounders FC and D.C. United had to play through two qualification rounds for MLS teams before entering the official tournament. Prior to the final, there was a public dispute between the owners of the two clubs regarding the selection of D.C. United to host it at their home field, RFK Stadium. As the tournament champions, Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League. The club also received a $100,000 cash prize, while D.C. United received $50,000 as the runner-up. Read the rest of this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Lamar_Hunt_U.S._Open_Cup_Final> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1580: The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Hind> 1789: For his presidential administration, George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as the first U.S. Secretary of State, John Jay as the first U.S. Chief Justice, Samuel Osgood as the first U.S. Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph as the first U.S. Attorney General. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_Washington> 1907: Newfoundland and New Zealand became dominions within the British Empire. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Newfoundland> 1969: Abbey Road, the final album recorded by The Beatles before publicly announcing their breakup, was released. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles> 1983: Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a possible worldwide nuclear war by deliberately certifying what otherwise appeared to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: ridibund (adj): Inclined to and easily brought to laughter <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ridibund> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Whatever we inherit from the fortunate We have taken from the defeated What they had to leave us — a symbol: A symbol perfected in death. And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well By the purification of the motive In the ground of our beseeching. --T. S. Eliot <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot>