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Report Suggests FC Gold Pride and Washington Freedom Set To Fold, WPS Denies Imminent Announcement
by All White Kit
posted November 1, 2010 at 10:35am

The Equalizer’s Jeff Kassouf is reporting that 2010 WPS champions FC Gold Pride and the Washington Freedom will be ceasing operations. The official announcement should arrive tomorrow. WPS PR Consultant Rob Penner has denied that an announcement i...more

WPS Expansion Draft Protection Lists Released
by All White Kit
posted October 21, 2010 at 12:52am

Each WPS team has chosen to protect 10 players from the Expansion Draft that will take place on November 4th. There are three lists featured in the article. Each team has only left three players unprotected, with the exception of Boston who have left t...more

The greatest club football (soccer) team ever
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 20, 2010 at 12:26am

Some have anointed this year's FC Gold Pride squad with this moniker, and I think there's a real case to be made. But how soon, also, we forget the past. People in college now would have been in their tweens when the Washington Freedom won the last WU...more

WPS protected lists to be released tomorrow, Expansion draft set for November 4th
by All White Kit
posted October 19, 2010 at 8:15pm

WPS has announced key dates and the format for the Western New York Expansion Draft. Protected lists are due to the league office by the end of the day. Each WPS team is eligible to protect up to 10 players from the Expansion Draft and must leave a min...more

An Interview with Monica Gonzalez, Part 2: Life as a Footballer and Beyond
by All White Kit
posted October 19, 2010 at 2:15pm

In part 1 of this interview series, you found out about Monica’s ventures in establishing Gonzo Soccer and Leadership Academy, the importance of generous people and organizations in sustaining and growing a program, and how Gonzo Soccer players have...more

A Proper Tribute to Kate Markgraf
by All White Kit
posted October 16, 2010 at 3:16pm

Growing up as a complete soccer fanatic and a US WNT maniac, it should come as no surprise that when I came home after my first game in May of 1999, I promptly took down my Hanson, Backstreet Boys, and N*SYNC posters and photos off my walls and replaced t...more

An Interview with Monica Gonzalez, Part 1: Gonzo Soccer and Leadership Academy
by All White Kit
posted October 16, 2010 at 12:46pm

I’m certainly not the first person to point this out, but athletes can and will make differences in the lives of others, especially the young people who come to look up to them. The former captain of the Mexican Women’s National Team, University of N...more

Boston Breakers Decline Options On Cox, Moore, Del Rio and Walsh
by All White Kit
posted October 15, 2010 at 4:33pm

And so it begins. Word on the street was the very few options (even for big names) were going to get picked by WPS clubs. The Boston Breakers have validated this by announcing the release of four players. The decline on the options for both Spanish intern...more

Kelley O’Hara & Rachel Buehler, How well do they know each other?
by All White Kit
posted October 7, 2010 at 2:37pm

They have a lot in common. They both get a regular call from Pia, asking them to step up and represent their country on the USWNT. They are trophy-toting 2010 Champions with their WPS team, FC Gold Pride. And they both graced the Palo Alto area with their...more

Querying about the Western New York WPS Franchise
by All White Kit
posted October 4, 2010 at 3:42pm

The introduction of the Western New York franchise is perhaps the best news the league could have asked for in the offseason. WPS expansion means more storylines, more prospective fans, more new faces and more $ for the league (Western New York team owne...more

Brandi's Game
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted October 3, 2010 at 11:45pm

C and R are still on cloud nine after hanging out back stage with the world class athletes that came out to support soccer great Brandi Chastain in her retirement game. You know, think about it, how many pro athletes careers end with them standing at a po...more

A Few More Suggestions For WPS
by All White Kit
posted October 1, 2010 at 11:17pm

Stream the 2011 WPS Draft. And if streaming doesn’t work, an audio broadcast would be okay too. The fate of a team’s season could be decided in a matter of seconds. It’s exciting stuff and fans (particularly college fans) would appreciate being par...more

Before the WPS Championship, a Kiwi took on a Maple Leaf (VIDEO 2)
by All White Kit
posted October 1, 2010 at 10:18am

Don’t you just love random trivia games? ...more

Brandi's World
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 30, 2010 at 12:13pm

Hey, hope you are planning for the Brandi Chastain retirement party game this Saturday. ‘Member, Brandi wants to “celebrate the end of her professional soccer career with her friends, family, fans, and community. The game will benefit Brandi's new Rea...more

Some offseason suggestions for the WPS powers that be
by All White Kit
posted September 29, 2010 at 4:10pm

With the 2010 WPS season now in the books, there’s no better time to start looking ahead to 2011. Forget the doomsday scenarios that seem to be floating around, there will be a 2011 season. The addition of the Western New York franchise is proof of this...more

Major changes afoot in Washington as Bompastor and Gabarra depart
by All White Kit
posted September 28, 2010 at 7:38pm

Offseason changes are inevitable in sports but it appears as if the Washington Freedom are wasting little time. After months of speculation, French midfielder/outside back Sonia Bompastor has reportedly rebuffed her 2011 option with the Washington Freedo...more

Are FC Gold Pride Simply Unplayable?
by All White Kit
posted September 27, 2010 at 8:23pm

Albertin Montoya’s FC Gold Pride has been the class of WPS this season. They have bamboozled the competition with fluency, offensive potency and a stout defense. The team now has a regular season title and WPS Championship trophy to show for it. As was...more

Philly makes strong run in WPS playoffs, but FC Gold Pride dominates the final
by Pretty Tough
posted September 27, 2010 at 6:55pm

The final four teams standing after WPS ended its regular season were FC Gold Pride in first place, the Boston Breakers in second place, the Philadelphia Independence in third place, and for the second year in a row, the Washington Freedom in fourth place...more

Philadelphia Independence the victims of FC Gold Pride Master Class
by All White Kit
posted September 27, 2010 at 11:54am

As a tuckered out Philadelphia Independence team trudged to the locker room at halftime you got the sense that the team’s fate had already been decided. Regardless of how stirring manager Paul Riley’s team talk was, how were they possibly going to com...more

2010 WPS Championship Game Preview
by All White Kit
posted September 26, 2010 at 1:50am

After five months of regular season action and two lengthy playoff matches, the culmination of the 2010 WPS season will occur on Sunday at 2:30 P.M. ET. The bill could potentially produce a classic as the scrappy underdogs of the Philadelphia Independ...more

Dear New Western New York/Rochester/Buffalo WPS Team…
by All White Kit
posted September 25, 2010 at 4:22pm

Welcome aboard, guys. Pull up a seat and make yourselves at home. More on your admission into WPS next week but here are two quick notes: One.) Ditch the logo. Two.) Keep the kits. Definitely keep the kits. That is all. ...more

Western New York Franchise Approved For Expansion, Will Join WPS In 2011
by All White Kit
posted September 25, 2010 at 3:46pm

As has been reported all week, the WPS Board of Governors have approved the Western New York franchise as WPS’ eighth team. The team is owned by Joe Sahlen whose W-League team the Buffalo Flash won the 2010 W-League Championship this summer. The tea...more

Off the recovery couch thanks to WPS
by Byline to Finish Line
posted September 24, 2010 at 2:04pm

In the process of recovery week, there are moments of fighting of depression. In the midst of my crazy Ironman training, it was hard to imagine missing my two-a-day workouts and weekends which were lost in a haze of running, biking and working. I knew the...more

Women's Professional Soccer
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 24, 2010 at 1:52pm

Good New Everyone (to quote my favorite cartoon, Futurama):Our San Francisco paper had a story about women’s sports. On the front page even. It involved a women’s professional sport, women’s soccer.Bad New Everyone (As the Professor will say on Futu...more

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