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Boston/Washington Reaction, Player Ratings
by All White Kit
posted July 19, 2010 at 1:49pm

First off, a big congratulations to the Boston Breakers for coming from a goal down to win their third straight tonight. What’s perhaps most impressive about this Boston team is really its “role” players. Liz Bogus and Jordan Angeli managed to get o...more

5 things learned in WPS Week 14
by All White Kit
posted July 19, 2010 at 1:24pm

5.) The Washington Freedom Has Some Issues Last week some fans expressed their disapproval over the job that head coach Jim Gabarra has done. It’s probably no use reiterating this but the Freedom have now gone winless in seven games. Abby Wambach hasn�...more

Five questions for WPS Week 14
by All White Kit
posted July 16, 2010 at 6:50pm

5.) How Will Philly Fare Against FCGP Without A-Rod? And Lindsey and Larsson. Philadelphia had the bye last weekend so the team wasn’t affected by the first round of national team call-up’s. Now PHIINDY will need to deal with three gaping holes in it...more

A conversation with Ella Masar
by All White Kit
posted July 16, 2010 at 3:41pm

How’s this for a story: Let’s say there’s a player who signed professionally with a team that plays just minutes away from where she grew up. She’s already made quite the name for herself at the local and collegiate levels and big things are ex...more

WPS Week 13
by Pretty Tough
posted July 16, 2010 at 1:03am

Week 13 of WPS held a lot of action as two games were played in the middle of the week in addition to the 3 regular games on the weekend. First off, the Chicago Red Stars and Atlanta Beat played to a 1-1 draw, and Sky Blue FC and the Washington Freedom pl...more

What's Next, Jail Time?
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 14, 2010 at 5:20pm

WPS is not a criminal justice body. This is worth mentioning because according to Dan Lauletta, Kia McNeill has been "ordered to perform four hours of community service" as part of her suspension from the league following a nasty, cleats-up swoop on Bar...more

5 things learned in WPS Week 13
by All White Kit
posted July 12, 2010 at 5:08pm

5.) Things Are Only Getting Worse In Atlanta Who’s to say if the three goals Atlanta conceded in under five minutes to the Boston Breakers would have been prevented if Hope, Kia and Tina were there. Perhaps it was a given that Atlanta’s lone positive...more

Joy for FCGP, Boston while the misery continues for Washington, Atlanta
by All White Kit
posted July 12, 2010 at 11:59am

While members of the United States Women’s National Team may have been absent from WPS Week 13, the goals certainly weren’t. The victors of the night FC Gold Pride and the Boston each tallied a triplet of goals while respective losers Washington and ...more

World, meet Ella Masar. Again.
by All White Kit
posted July 11, 2010 at 3:13pm

(Photo by Tracy Smith/isiphotos.net) Both the Chicago Red Stars’ Ella Masar and Uruguay’s Diego Forlan scored circus goals today. One difference: Ella’s actually counted for something. Her goal helped lift the Red Stars over Sky Blue FC...more

5 Questions For WPS Week 13.5
by All White Kit
posted July 9, 2010 at 7:13pm

5.) Will Ella Masar Shine Yet Again? We just might be witnessing the transformation of one Ella Masar here. The Red Stars forward scored her first WPS goal two weeks ago (it was two for the road, in fact) and scored her third in three games on Wednesday ...more

Philadelphia acknowledges it has an attendance problem, does something about It
by All White Kit
posted July 9, 2010 at 6:07pm

For all the great things that are going on with the Independence, it’s a shame that few Philadelphians seem to care. Philadelphia is coming off of last weekend’s game against Boston which took in a paltry gate of 2,093; the lowest of the 2010 sea...more

Show Your Support: The Washington Freedom’s Bravehearts
by All White Kit
posted July 9, 2010 at 1:34pm

In the third installment of All White Kit’s Show Your Support series, James Dougan introduces us to The Bravehearts, the Washington Freedom’s fanatical supporters group. James founded the Bravehearts with his friend and fellow DC United supporter J...more

Time to abolish ties in WPS
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 8, 2010 at 4:01pm

If this summer's World Cup has taught us anything, it's that Americans continue to have little patience for the concept of an important sporting event ending in a draw, let alone a 0-0 draw. True soccer fans understand the value of a come-from-behind ti...more

Things remain just the same after WPS midweek matches
by All White Kit
posted July 8, 2010 at 2:46pm

(HAO-face in all its glory. Photo by Howard Smith/isiphotos.net) Several rungs in the WPS standings ladder were ready to be scaled by all four teams competing tonight. But not a single team could capitalize as both SBFC/Washington and Chicago/...more

WPS Week 12
by Pretty Tough
posted July 6, 2010 at 9:28pm

If there’s one thing I’ve learned this season is that you really can use “anything can happen” in WPS. The Boston Breakers got their first win since Week 1 (when they defeated the Washington Freedom in DC) against the Philadelphia Independence aft...more

5 things learned in WPS Week 13
by All White Kit
posted July 5, 2010 at 6:15pm

5.) Marta Is Pretty Much Unstoppable At the Moment Of the past three matches Marta has appeared on the score sheet in, they’ve been multi-goal games. Make that four if you count the All-Star Game. And it’s not just her. FC Gold Pride bounced back ...more

An interview with Camille Abily
by All White Kit
posted July 5, 2010 at 3:57pm

The French midfielder discusses why she loves playing with FC Gold Pride, the difference between living in the Bay Area to Los Angeles and why France’s WNT’s World Cup will be different from the men’s. AWK: You sustained an ankle injury d...more

McLeod saves the day As Washington draws Chicago 0-0
by All White Kit
posted July 5, 2010 at 1:44pm

The Red Stars and Freedom tallied WPS’ fourth goalless draw under a sweltering Maryland sun this evening. Freedom goalkeeper Erin McLeod recorded 10 saves to preserve Washington’s point. (Side note: both teams have now been part of three of those f...more

Rodriguez vs. Cheney
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 4, 2010 at 4:05pm

The best thing about this debate is that it's not, in fact, Rodriguez versus Cheney. They will play on the same U.S. national team for the foreseeable future and if they both turn out to be stars, all the better for American soccer. But when I praised...more

Sky Blue FC meets the President…of the United States
by All White Kit
posted July 3, 2010 at 12:58pm

(Photo by Howard Smith/ISIPhotos.net) No snark from me for this one. This is actually pretty cool. Particularly this quote from the President about the team’s 2009 season: ““This team came together when it counted,” said President Obam...more

5 Questions for WPS this weekend
by All White Kit
posted July 2, 2010 at 7:17pm

5.) Will Kristin Luckenbill Magically Become A Good Goalkeeper In the Next 4 Days? SBFC has a bye this weekend (which they celebrated well by chilling with the Prez) but that shouldn’t taper over their gloomy predicament. FACT: You will not win a lot o...more

An Interview with Lauren Cheney
by All White Kit
posted July 2, 2010 at 4:04pm

The rookie striker scored a powerful header for Abby’s XI on Wednesday night. Here she talks about what the goal meant and why the All-Star game was so special. She also touches on the Boston Breakers’ recent struggles and what it will take to turn it...more

Marta leads her team to 2010 WPS All-Star game victory
by Pretty Tough
posted July 2, 2010 at 2:09pm

After the All-Star Game teams were picked by the team captains and coaches on Monday, Abby’s Starting 11 in green and gray kits took on Marta’s starting 11 in white and blue and gave the 4,610 fans at KSU Soccer Stadium, home of the Atlanta Beat, plen...more

20 memorable moments from the All-Star game
by All White Kit
posted July 1, 2010 at 6:19pm

20.) The Atlanta Beat Swag In the Hotel Shop. The hotel was nice enough to put some Beat merch out in its store. 19.) “It was the U.S. against the world and the world won” – Christine Sinclair after the United Nations’ emphatic win. 18.) Liqui...more

Individual talent outshines group work In the 2010 WPS All-Star game
by All White Kit
posted July 1, 2010 at 5:27pm

Judging by Hope Solo’s grin after conceding two back-to-back goals from Marta, the 2010 WPS All-Star Game was clearly about the show. The consensus objective amongst the players was to have fun, score goals and keep everyone fit and un-injured. (Perhap...more

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