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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

The rise of U.S. women’s soccer not all due to Title IX
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 17, 2011 at 12:28am

It’s understandable that Title IX advocates are jumping on the U.S. women’s soccer team’s bandwagon as hard as they did 12 years ago. Then as now, American players roused their nation to care, at least for three weeks, about two things which were un...more

A Thank You, A Milestone, A Relection on an Epic Moment, A Video
by All White Kit
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:28pm

This is our 1,000th post and that’s a Women’s World Cup final over there on the horizon, so here’s something a little different: [Sorry about the lighting, and that last sentence should have been singular.] And lest we forget, the third place...more

Twitter Timeline: Opening Day of the FIFA Women’s Football Symposium
by Soccer Science
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:13pm

I’ve been busy at work on the tweets-machine today posting updates throughtout the FIFA Women’s Football Symposium. So, since I’ve been on the computer for the last 8 hours tapping away, I thought it would be both timely (and time-saving if I’m ...more

[Video] Meet Morgan Brian: Gatorade’s 2011 Female Athlete of the Year
by Pretty Tough
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:49pm

As a recently graduated high school senior, attacking center midfielder Morgan Brian already has career stats that any soccer pro would envy. This past spring season she led her high school, Fredericka Academy in St. Simons, Georgia, to a 17-2-1 record ...more

Let's Hear it for the Girls: 2011 Gatorade High School Female Athletes of the Year
by anngaff
posted July 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

LOS ANGELES (July 12, 2011) - Some of the biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles Tuesday night as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the ninth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year a...more

“Ole ole ole ole, We Have the Right to Play.”
by Women in Sport International
posted July 15, 2011 at 12:02pm

Tweet Earlier, this blog reported the astonishing development that FIFA was disqualifying the Iran national women's football team from competing if the players continue to insist on wearing the hijab (article here). Shawne Forde from Sport for Dev...more

A Love Letter To Women’s Soccer
by Draft Day Suit
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:15am

Kelli Best Oliver (or K.B.O. if you are me) is a former Draft Day Suit writer and one of our very favorite people. She was also kind enough to let us cross post this piece on why she loves women’s soccer from her personal blog South City Confidential. E...more

FIFA Women’s Football Symposium in Germany, Day 2 update
by Soccer Science
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:05am

This is my second day in Frankfurt for the 2011 Women’s Football Symposium (which begins tomorrow) and Women’s World Cup Final (on Sunday). It’s been pretty low key so far and has given me a chance to catch up on time zones and mingle about. Now...more

What causes rivalries: The Rivalry Between Solo and Marta
by Loren Fogelman
posted July 15, 2011 at 9:30am

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." ~Michael Jordan...more

Rachel Maddow: why the US women's national team was the Best New Thing In The World today
by Swish Appeal
posted July 14, 2011 at 2:40pm

This year, in a nation that does not care about the game of soccer; this year in a nation still trying to convince itself it doesn't care about women's sports of any kind; this year the amazing spectacle that is the US World Cup team made bleak Wednesd...more

Against the Run of Play: on USA's win over France
by From A Left Wing
posted July 14, 2011 at 12:47pm

From some perspectives (including that of players on the field), it looks like France outplayed the USWNT in the World Cup semifinal. But France lost.It has been said, too, of France’s game against England, that they dominated possession, played the bet...more

I’ve arrived in Frankfurt for the FIFA Women’s Football Symposium
by Soccer Science
posted July 14, 2011 at 12:23pm

Fair warning that this blog post may not be the most coherent – I’m on 1 hour of airplane sleep in the past 36 hours and I’ve just returned from the Women’s World Cup semi-final match between Sweden and Japan. But I wanted to pop online and sh...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned: U.S. Semifinal Victory Edition
by All White Kit
posted July 14, 2011 at 12:20pm

It was former New York Jets coach Herm Edwards who went on this rant in 2002, with the money quote, of course, being: “You play to win the game.” Less infamously, he continued, “You don’t play it to just play it. That’s the great thing about s...more

Iranian photographer and women’s soccer rights activist disappears in Tehran
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted July 13, 2011 at 4:28pm

By JAMES M. DORSEY An Iranian photographer and activist for women’s soccer rights has disappeared as the Islamic republic battles world soccer body FIFA for its own interpretation of the rights of women in the beautiful game.Maryam Majd, 25, is believ...more

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