Kansas City Wizards reborn as Sporting Kansas City … whatever that means

The Kansas City Wizards announced today (to fans that somehow missed a week’s worth of online reports) that the club is changing its name to Sporting Kansas City. Team officials assure us that this is, in fact, a name.

The moniker doesn’t come with a mascot or a nickname, but “Sporting” team names have a long history in Europe and South America. Just don’t accuse the team trying to sound foreign the way other Major League Soccer franchises have. Even if they are.