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Friends again? After World Cup, your rival is your WPS teammate
by Fair Game News
posted July 30, 2011 at 5:10pm

By Megan Wood Nearly two weeks after an intense World Cup tournament and a riveting US-Japan final that captured international attention, Women’s Professional Soccer has settled back into its season. On Wednesday, the Boston Breakers and the Philadelp...more

The 60 Most Valuable Players In the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup: 40-21
by All White Kit
posted July 29, 2011 at 1:55am

And the list continues. Counting down this time. 40.) Nilla Fischer – The steely Swedish midfielder was immense against the U.S. and Japan and succeeded in disrupting opponent’s attacking rhythm. It’s a wonder how Fischer would have done agai...more

WPS making a concerted effort
by After Atalanta
posted July 28, 2011 at 4:23pm

There have been many, many article about the potential effects of the Women's World Cup on the WPS. I haven't even bothered to blog about them or to even read all of them. They basically boil down to: 1) the WPS will benefit from the very exciting WWC, 2)...more

The 60 Most Valuable Players In the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup: 41-60
by All White Kit
posted July 28, 2011 at 2:17am

Remember the World Cup? It ended about a week and a half ago, and it was pretty amazing. In a bid to refresh the memories, here’s a countdown of the tournament’s 60 most distinctive players. These aren’t necessarily in order by individual great...more

Carolina Morace resigns as head coach of Canadian women's team
by Bench Warmer
posted July 26, 2011 at 2:09pm

The happy marriage gone sour between Carolina Morace and the CSA has ended in an unexpected divorce. Wednesday afternoon during the CSA's formal debriefing, Morace announced she'll no longer coach the women's program. "We planned the debrief and we were...more

Morace resigns as Canadian Head Coach following disastrous WWC
by All White Kit
posted July 26, 2011 at 2:25am

Good news? Bad news? Head coach Carolina Morace and her staff, including assistant coach and former Canadian national team midfielder Andrea Neil, resigned Wednesday, July 20 during the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011 debriefing and analysis meeting with ...more

Free at last: letting women’s sports grow up
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 20, 2011 at 7:27pm

Just as the Japanese team began celebrating its victory in the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, soothing Tweets sprang forth to summarize the impact of the gallant U.S. runners-up. One declared that “little girls everywhere win today,” while another pro...more

Notes from Seattle Storm practice: Returns, babies, and soccer
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:16am

Storm F Camille Little returned to practice on Monday after apparently attending the wedding of former North Carolina teammate LaToya Pringle and Byron Saunders. No one from the Storm camp would confirm this however, including Little. It's just all over...more

David (Japan) Beats Goliath (USA)
by Women in Sport International
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:03am

Tweet By JoJo Rennie Japan have came far in this tournament, not only beating European opposition for the first time with their impressive defeat of Germany - but doing it against the two time World Cup champions in their own back yard. A blog in the ...more

Four Things Learned About the USWNT At the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup
by All White Kit
posted July 19, 2011 at 9:58am

Time to remonstrate, remember, and mostly reflect on what was an incredible three weeks. Pia Sundhage is really clever. Stubborn, unchanging, frustrating: all words used to describe Sundhage’s tactical and squad decisions. Up to the World Cu...more

2011 Women's World Cup: Reflecting on the USWNT run
by From A Left Wing
posted July 18, 2011 at 11:32pm

I write this from the train, on the return journey that marks the conclusion of my experience with the 2011 Women’s World Cup. There are sleeping Japanese fans scattered the cars – I can imagine they went directly from their celebrations to the statio...more

The Morning After the Women's World Cup: The Lingerie Football League is the Lead Story in Canada's Capital
by Women in Sport International
posted July 18, 2011 at 4:33pm

Tweet You could imagine my surprise when I checked the Ottawa Sun Sports Page this morning for a recap of Japan's amazing victory yesterday over the United States in the Women's World Cup Final. Finally, I thought to myself, a woman's sports story HA...more

David Beats Goliath: Japan Victorious In FIFA Women's World Cup
by Women in Sport International
posted July 18, 2011 at 2:22pm

Tweet By JoJo Rennie Japan have came far in this tournament, not only beating European opposition for the first time with their impressive defeat of Germany - but doing it against the two time World Cup champions in their own back yard. A blog in the ...more

Women's World Cup: Some good, some bad outcomes of the #wwc2011
by One Sport Voice
posted July 18, 2011 at 2:22pm

1. You have to hand it to Japan. They won the game and many hearts along the way. I’d like to think this a universal sentiment, but unfortunately it is not. To see backlash, racism and jingoism from fans pertaining to the WWC Final click here. 2. I fin...more

Women's World Champions Japan
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted July 18, 2011 at 12:38pm

Japan wins! Homare Sawa pic france24So Nelly the Elephant picked Japan to win the women's world cup and she was right. Huge excitement for Japan winning 3-1 on penalties and devastation for the American team. Penalties, gutting way to finish but what an e...more

Support the American Women's World Cup Soccer Team
by Womens Sports Support Team
posted July 18, 2011 at 9:00am

We wanted to post because this was of course, as we are sure most of you know, this was a big weekend for women’s sports! With the World Cup game against Japan and all of the buzz around the US team’s great success we wanted to put up a quick post abo...more

Did Japan just out-US the US?
by Fair Game News
posted July 18, 2011 at 1:09am

By Laura Pappano In case we thought that dig-deeper, push-harder, find-another-gear quality was American-made, we just discovered a made-in-Japan version every bit as awe-inspiring as the one we’ve seen from Team USA throughout this tournament. It hur...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned: Final Edition As Japan Is Crowned
by All White Kit
posted July 18, 2011 at 1:07am

The rules of athletics (at least knockout style) dictate that there has to be a winner and there has to be a loser. Expert commentary, I know. But (and I realize not everyone reading this is a United States fan, and I love that about AWK, so keep visi...more

2011 Women's World Cup: Thoughts on USWNT and Japan
by From A Left Wing
posted July 18, 2011 at 1:05am

Japan turned the narrative tables: This time it was not the USWNT winning against the run of play. They attacked relentlessly for much of the match, and came awfully close to scoring over and over again. Japan forced the USWNT to bring the game to them....more

The “overhyped” US Women’s World Cup team (seriously?)
by Fair Game News
posted July 17, 2011 at 10:14am

By Rachael Goldenberg Yesterday as I was discussing the amazingness that is the US Women’s Soccer team, my male colleague said to me “the team is ok, but it just seems really overhyped.” Overhyped? Hmmm…. Has the team received obsessive, around...more

20 (or 12) Questions With Anson Dorrance
by All White Kit
posted July 17, 2011 at 9:56am

Courtesy University of North Carolina We have time for one more of our 20 Questions (actually this is only 12, but there’s some good info in there) feature before this glorious World Cup comes to a close, and – perhaps the most legendary women’...more

Tweetering, We Mean Teetering on the Brink of a Championship
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted July 17, 2011 at 12:43am

C and R are so excited, we can hardly stand it. Tomorrow the United States Women’s National Soccer Team plays in the Women’s World Cup final against sweetheart Japan. Never mind that the whole world is supporting the plucky Japanese team that are play...more

Top 10 Predictions: U.S.-Japan World Cup Final
by All White Kit
posted July 17, 2011 at 12:40am

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf My head hurts. It’s not a virus; I’m actually getting a decent amount of sleep in my we...more

Six Things That Happened in the Third Place Match Between Sweden and France
by All White Kit
posted July 17, 2011 at 12:31am

Sweden has officially earned redemption after a disastrous showing in the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The team with the silly goal celebrations (and top-shelf striker) defeated France 3-1 to claim third place. While the game wasn’t nearly as scinti...more

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