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USWNT 13, Guatemala 0: Records Will Fall
by All White Kit
posted January 23, 2012 at 5:31pm

  The USWNT obviously didn’t get all the goals out of its system on Friday against the Dominican Republic. The team put 13 past Guatemala last night in its second CONCACAF Olympic qualifying group stage match. With respect to Kelley O’H...more

Memorable Result: USWNT/Dominican Republic Report and Quotes
by All White Kit
posted January 21, 2012 at 3:41pm

By Gavin Day The onslaught started just 38 seconds in and didn’t let up for the rest of the 90 minutes as the United States came out flying and flattened their ill-fated opponents. Abby Wambach got that first goal and one other as the U.S. began it...more

USWNT 14, Dominican Republic 0: Lots of Goals, Lots to Talk About
by All White Kit
posted January 21, 2012 at 3:13pm

  So, the USWNT/Dominican Republic game. Where to begin? Any soccer match that ends with a two-touchdown score line is sure to ignite debate.   The U.S. ran up the score against hopelessly inferior opposition. But the team showed respect by n...more

AWK’s CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Coverage Plans and WPS/Borislow News
by All White Kit
posted January 19, 2012 at 11:00am

  CONCACAF Olympic qualifying is just days away and AWK has got you covered. We’ll have a man on the ground throughout the duration of the tournament. Gavin Day has done freelance work for The Canadian Press, CONCACAF, Major League Socce...more

2011 Review: Names We Won’t Soon Forget, Part II
by All White Kit
posted January 2, 2012 at 1:09pm

And the list continues. It will be hard to forget Genoveva Anonma’s electrifying performances this summer. Equatorial Guinea may have been well out of its depth, but Anonma singlehandedly kept her side afloat in its three group games. The expl...more

Tiffany Weimer: “Mom, if you ever have to make me go to practice, that’s how I know I’m done playing.”
by Tiffany Weimer
posted December 31, 2011 at 10:39am

“…it’s a choice you make.” This is the end of a conversation I had with a young soccer player recently. She told me she wanted to play professional soccer when she was older. And I told her what it takes. Well, I told her one th...more

My 2011 On AWK: At Least We’ll Always Have Germany
by All White Kit
posted December 28, 2011 at 1:51pm

  Mere seconds after Abby Wambach’s dramatic equalizer in the World Cup quarterfinals back in July against Brazil, I got a text message: “Wambachhhhh” was all it said. What was significant was not the message itself, but...more

Soccer by Searchlight: looking for the future in the past
by From A Left Wing
posted December 26, 2011 at 12:00pm

It's a little known fact that the earliest night matches were women's games. Amazing how far we've moved in the wrong direction. In 1920 enough people were excited by the idea of watching women play that they packed the terraces. The media thought the m...more

The CanWNT Announces Olympic Qualifying Roster
by All White Kit
posted December 26, 2011 at 11:18am

  With approximately one month until the 2012 CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifiers kicks off in Vancouver, B.C., the Canadian Women’s National Team announced their 20-player roster earlier this week. Head coach John Herdman retains a cor...more

Soccer Notables: USWNT vs NZL in Dallas, Kirin Challenge Cup, WPS transactions and more
by All White Kit
posted December 23, 2011 at 11:35am

  Texas-based fans of the USWNT received an early Christmas present on Wednesday. The USSF announced the team will face New Zealand in a friendly in Frisco, Dallas on Saturday, February 11. The match will occur between Olympic qualifying ...more

Soccer Notables for Black Friday 2011
by All White Kit
posted November 25, 2011 at 5:15pm

  This article in the New York Times ran yesterday and provides an overview of the current WPS/USSF situation and features recent quotes.   WPS this morning released a statement on the status of the sanctioning. It didn’t c...more

Soccer Notables for November 17th, 2011
by All White Kit
posted November 17, 2011 at 4:44pm

In a rare but welcomed move, U.S. Soccer has announced plans to stream Saturday’s friendly in Glendale, Arizona between the USWNT and Sweden. The match kicks off at 9 P.M. EST. Phoenix native Kenn Tomasch will team up with Kyndra de St. Aubin to ...more

Canada Brings Home Pan American Gold
by All White Kit
posted October 29, 2011 at 9:44am

Mexsport; CSA That title has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? The Canadian Women’s National Team captured the top prize at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico by defeating Brazil in dramatic fashion. Following a come-from-behind 1-1 d...more

Canadian Women Win Gold at the Pan Am Games
by Bench Warmer
posted October 28, 2011 at 5:43pm

A redemption gold medal win for the Canadian women’s soccer team in an exciting match against the third ranked Brazilians at the Pan American Games held in Guadalajara, Mexico. Brazil scored four minutes into the first half with a long ranged shot from...more

P.S. One's a Lesbian
by After Atalanta
posted October 26, 2011 at 11:23pm

I've had over a day to sit on this story because of other obligations. This has meant that the highly acerbic tone laced with expletives that I was going to use yesterday has been slightly tempered by time. I'm still a little irked by ESPNW though. I real...more

Abby Wambach Honored by Women's Sports Foundation as Sportswoman of the Year
by anngaff
posted October 20, 2011 at 11:59am

via release  (Photo credit: Women's Sports Foundation) SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 20, 2011) – Women's Professional Soccer Star Striker Abby Wambach was honored as the Women's Sports Foundation as the Sportswoman of the Year (Team Sports) at t...more

Picturing Hope Solo
by From A Left Wing
posted October 20, 2011 at 10:38am

Hope Solo survived her fifth week on Dancing with the Stars. I'm glad: she is a smart, outspoken athlete and the challenge of that program requires that she confront the different ways by which her image, as a woman, is regulated. I, for one, am glad...more

The Case for a Connecticut WPS Team, and Other Notables
by All White Kit
posted October 19, 2011 at 8:45am

As Jeff Kassouf reports, WPS expansion in Connecticut appears imminent. Jeff’s piece has all the latest information, and according to another rumor that’s slipped through the cone of silence, at least one of the team’s owners is no stranger to ...more

NACWAA Convention: Day 3: Christie Rampone honored and more
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted October 12, 2011 at 11:17am

Author: Jen Fried, National Convention Correspondent Day three started with more COFFEE. The morning kicked off with Dr. Vonda Wright presenting “A Guide to Thrive: How to Achieve with Vision, Action and Attitude.” ...more

Hope Solo Makes Sexy Face on DWTS
by From A Left Wing
posted October 5, 2011 at 12:27am

There is no getting around the subject of Hope Solo's song choice. This week the contestants were supposed to dance to a song that meant something to them personally. She chose Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight," which she described the "team's song."Really? ...more

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