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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts plans to ask Major League Soccer to review the Colorado Rapids' celebration after a 1-0 victory that prompted Checketts to argue face-to-face with Colorado captain Pablo Mastroeni.
Checketts and Mastroeni were in a heated exchange on the field Saturday night when former Salt Lake player Clint Mathis stepped between the two and other Colorado players led Mastroeni to the locker room.
Checketts was still irate well after the game and issued a statement saying the players taunted Salt Lake fans verbally and with the Rocky Mountain Cup trophy, which goes to the winner of the series between the two clubs.
"I am both outraged and embarrassed," Checketts said.
Checketts said he will send video of the postgame celebration, which Checketts said included obscene gestures to Salt Lake fans on "youth soccer night" at Rice-Eccles Stadium, to MLS officials.
"This is not what this league is about, nor is it representative of what Real Salt Lake or MLS stands for as we provide family-friendly entertainment and spirited competition," Checketts said.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-09-03-06 1959MDT
