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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

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Great West – Last Call?
by All White Kit
posted July 20, 2011 at 4:57pm

Is it game over for the Great West Conference? The ambitious project that started out as a football-only conference in 2004 and eventually spread to sponsoring many more sports a few years later could be grinding to a halt in the very near future. Ins...more

2011 NCAA Soccer Preview – Division I Independents
by All White Kit
posted July 20, 2011 at 12:00pm

Longtime contenders at the NAIA and Division II levels, SEATTLE University is already making their presence known at the highest level of college soccer after just three full seasons in Division I. After a couple of seasons just inside the top half of ...more

Beckham debuts custom pink cleats with kids' names
by A Glam Slam
posted July 20, 2011 at 10:53am

David Beckham is a family man. It’s not often we see him photographed without his boys in tow. Fresh off the news of the birth of his baby daughter, Harper, the soccer star debuted new kicks during a game against Real Madrid, which paid tribute to all o...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

2011 NCAA Soccer Season Preview – 5 Burning Questions
by All White Kit
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:14am

Part one of a whole lot of previews to come over the next month. Previews of DI Independent teams coming late tonight. 1. Can Notre Dame Repeat As National Champions? History would certainly seem to be against them. The only team to have repeated as ...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

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