A huge blow: WPS shuts down 2012 season
Dan Borislaw hijacking the magic out of women's professional soccer What a blow to women's soccer after that magnificent exposition by the US national team at the CONCACAF Olympics qualifiers. The WPS has decided to cancel the 2012 season...
Friday Kickoff: De Gea may need eye surgery, Pato hurt again and more
Goalkeeper David De Gea has not exactly lived up to expectations in his first season with Manchester United, and there is pretty legitimate reasoning to explain what has gone wrong. He might need be able to see clearly. De Gea reportedly requires laser surgery to repair a case of farsightedness. The 21-year-old Spaniard plays wearing...
WPS gets conditional sanctioning for 2012
Having faced uncertainty about its future in recent weeks and months, WPS appears to have avoided doomsday. At least for now. WPS reportedly received conditional Division 1 sanctioning for 2012 from U.S. Soccer's board of directors on Monday evening despite it only having five teams and the minimum for Division I status typically being eight....
Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy in DWTS
For all you Hope Solo fans. Here she is in DWTS with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. She lost it a few times with her routine but on the pitch she rarely loses it and that's where it counts. Great to see...
USWNT Get All Rocky IV on our Asses Ahead of 2012 Olympics
About 20sec into this clip --which is quite possibly the greatest Women's soccer mixtape of all time-- we see Hope Solo on a treadmill with a face-mask then a quick cut to a shot of a control panel of some sort that measures God knows what. It's all ...
Veronica Boquete leads Independence into WPS final
If you noticed like I did a pint sized player who took over midfield for the Philadelphia Independence in Sunday's semi-final against the MagicJack and wondered idly, "She is something special", don't go into the scouting business just yet....
Evening Ticker: Cherundolo out four weeks, Brazil wins in WWC and more
photo by ISIphotos.com By FRANCO PANIZO The U.S. men's national team won't be the only team to suffer from Steve Cherundolo's ankle injury. Having picked up the knock in the Gold Cup final against Mexico last Saturday, Cherundolo has been ruled out for four weeks, meaning he will miss all of Hannover 96's preseason preparations....
Evening Ticker: Cherundolo out four weeks, Brazil wins in WWC and more
photo by ISIphotos.com By FRANCO PANIZO The U.S. men's national team won't be the only team to suffer from Steve Cherundolo's ankle injury. Having picked up the knock in the Gold Cup final against Mexico last Saturday, Cherundolo has been ruled out for four weeks, meaning he will miss all of Hannover 96's preseason preparations....
International Ticker: U.S. U-17s draw Germany, Spain U-21s win title and more
Photo by Omar Martinez/ISIphotos.com If the United States Under-17 national team is to progress in the knockout stage of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, it will have to do so at the expense of the most impressive team of the tournament to date. By virtue of its second-place finish in Group D, the U.S. U-17s...
Women’s World Cup: Germany 2 Canada 1
Kriseten Garefekes and Celia Okoyino Da Mbabi score to put Germany up before Canada through Christine Sinclair's brilliant free kick pull one back. The hosts and defending champions get all three points....
