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NWSL Week in Review: Concussions Are No Fun
by All White Kit
posted April 29, 2013 at 9:07pm

  It was 10 minutes into one of the final games of the high school season last fall, and our tall center back – perhaps the biggest key to anything we did in keeping from conceding goals – went up for a lofted ball into our box, somethin...more

Sponsorships ~ Endorsements ~ Investment = HUGE Differences
by HeraeaMarketing
posted April 29, 2013 at 8:10pm

Athletes Know the Difference...more

NWSL – Fantasy Preview – Round Three
by All White Kit
posted April 27, 2013 at 10:30am

  (As always, Fantasy NWSL is free to play with great prizes for weekly winners, at nwslfl.com) It’s been a bit harrowing these opening weeks in fantasy as we’ve tried to figure out what stats are going to be kept and getting a feel for...more

Article on NWSL's Washington Spirit's Diana Matheson and Robyn Gayle living in a Rockville, MD retirement community
by Swish Appeal
posted April 26, 2013 at 8:54am

We're a basketball blog, and there aren't too many places to put other women's sports articles in a nice place which we want to mention, so it's in this update in the Open Thread StoryStream. This is a really good article from the Washington Post in rega...more

NWSL – The Peculiar Case of Elizabeth Guess, the Portland Thorns, and Ever Puzzling Roster Rules
by All White Kit
posted April 25, 2013 at 9:04am

  I’ll freely admit that this column has taken a turn since I first began mapping it out last night when more questions began to be asked in lieu of the Breakers’ unexpected move of waiving Elizabeth Guess after the former UNC player had...more

NWSL – SoccerMeter Stats – Washington Spirit 1 – 1 WNY Flash
by All White Kit
posted April 24, 2013 at 8:59am

  Western New York Flash Game Total Washington Spirit 1 Goals 1 13 Shots 9 36:36 Time of Possession 34:25 52% Time of Possession % 48% 609 First Touches 546 377 Passes 314 62% Pass Completion % 58% 65 Number of Pass Strings 46 4.4 Av...more

NWSL – Round Two SoccerMeter Stats Comparisons
by All White Kit
posted April 24, 2013 at 8:57am

  Full Match Possession % 52% – WNY Flash 50% – Portland Thorns FC 50% – Seattle Reign FC 48% – Washington Spirit Passes 377 – WNY Flash 353 – Portland Thorns FC 316 – Seattle Reign FC 314 – Washin...more

NWSL Week in Review: Roses For All in Portland
by All White Kit
posted April 23, 2013 at 9:46am

  It was the worst of times, not in the women’s soccer world, but in just about everyone’s world in America last week as sports receded into the background while the nation searched for two terrorists. It’s weeks like this where ou...more

Overflow crowd watches Spirit come back late to draw Flash
by All White Kit
posted April 22, 2013 at 9:29am

  Canadian international Diana Matheson scored the Spirit's first-ever home goal The west stands were packed. The east stands were packed. The beer garden was packed. The south hill was packed. All in all, 4,569 fans squeezed themselves into a st...more

NWSL – SoccerMeter Stats – Boston 1 – 1 Washington
by All White Kit
posted April 18, 2013 at 9:17am

  Washington Spirit Game Total Boston Breakers 1 Goals 1 10 Shots 19 32:57 Time of Possession 43:07 43% Time of Possession % 57% 609 First Touches 759 342 Passes 493 56% Pass Completion % 65% 53 Number of Pass Strings 75 4.6 Average ...more

NWSL – Round One SoccerMeter Stats Comparisons
by All White Kit
posted April 18, 2013 at 9:14am

  Here’s a side-by-side comparison of NWSL Week One stats from SoccerMeter. Full game stats for SBFC-WNY not available, which is why they aren’t listed under the full match comparisons. Full Match Possession % 57% – Boston 53% &...more

NWSL – SoccerMeter Stats – Chicago 1 – 1 Seattle
by All White Kit
posted April 17, 2013 at 7:45pm

  My shot counting is apparently not that great. Half-by-half stats after the jump: Seattle Reign Game Total Chicago Red Stars 1 Goals 1 4 Shots 12 33:38 Time of Possession 35:30 49% Time of Possession % 51% 513 First Touches 600 274 Pass...more

NWSL Week in Review: About Those Little Things
by All White Kit
posted April 16, 2013 at 9:11am

  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times? Well, you’ve pretty much got me for life, don’t you? And so, here we are again with another women’s professional league, the NWSL opening up this weeke...more

NWSL – SoccerMeter Stats – Sky Blue FC 1 – 0 WNY Flash (Second Half Only)
by All White Kit
posted April 15, 2013 at 8:17pm

  (Note: The league only posted the second half of this match, likely due to streaming problems. Will analyze first half if it’s posted later.) WNY Flash 2nd Half Sky Blue FC 0 Goals 0 6 Shots 12 18:52 Time of Possession 17:05 52% Time ...more

NWSL – SoccerMeter Stats – FC Kansas City 1 – 1 Portland Thorns FC
by All White Kit
posted April 15, 2013 at 8:15pm

  So I’m going to try something out for this NWSL season. Using the excellent SoccerMeter tracking app for the iPhone, I’m going to try and keep passing/possession stats for each game that’s archived on YouTube this year. Please b...more

NWSL: Spirit hang tough, earn draw on road in inaugural match
by All White Kit
posted April 15, 2013 at 9:00am

  I wasn’t in a positive mood about this match this morning, not after seeing the team embarrass themselves against college teams they should have stomped. I worried that we had nothing more than a W-League team with delusions of grandeur. I e...more

NWSL – The Impossibly Long, Quite Potentially Inaccurate Season Preview
by All White Kit
posted April 13, 2013 at 9:56am

  Warning: This is a rather lengthy read and shoved all together since eight different posts in a day would be a bit much. Therefore, here’s the TL;DR-averse predictions from yours truly: 1. WNY Flash 2. FC Kansas City 3. Portland Thorns FC ...more

5 Questions about the Washington Spirit
by All White Kit
posted April 12, 2013 at 9:00pm

  I was going to do a conventional season preview of my local team but quickly realized I had so many questions that I’d be hard put to say anything coherent. So instead I’m going to ask the questions I’m wondering about, figurin...more

Maryland defeats ACF Torino, 3-0
by All White Kit
posted April 11, 2013 at 8:56am

  Maryland's #10 Riley Barger scored twice to lead her team to the win (file photo from 2012 regular season courtesy of Ken Herriford/KLH Photography) You’ve got to think that ACF Torino was licking their lips a bit after the Washington Spi...more

NWSL: Spirit embarrassed by Virginia in 6-3 loss
by All White Kit
posted April 8, 2013 at 8:48pm

  Kaili Torres scores for Virginia as Chantel Jones is unable to make her third successive save Time was, it wasn’t all that unusual to witness a match at the Soccerplex in which one team scored five goals in a half. However, that team was...more

NWSL – Updated Preseason Dossiers
by All White Kit
posted April 5, 2013 at 9:11am

  I’ve gone ahead and updated the preseason dossiers with the additions of a handful of discovery players who’ve officially been announced, while updating a few other profiles and team needs. Note that the formations projected graphical...more

Shorthanded Spirit fall to Terrapins, 2-0
by All White Kit
posted April 5, 2013 at 9:07am

  The only goal-scorer of the evening, Maryland's Alexis Prior-Brown, takes on Julia Roberts and Ingrid Wells This was almost the mirror opposite of Saturday’s game against North Carolina: team A has the run of play for the first twenty min...more

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