Archive for the ‘Soccer’ Category
Friday, January 18th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
It’s draft day for the National Women’s Soccer League. Don’t bother turning on your TV or tuning into sports radio. Don’t expect NFL-style high drama.
Thanks to the rise of cheap media, though, you can catch it on Twitter and Facebook (NWSL doesn’t have its own website).
Sure, there is ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
By Katie Culver
There is not a lot of media coverage of female athletes, but when there is I like my daughter, who is five years old, to see it. I try to records as many women's sporting events as I can for her to watch.
Recently, we were watching the U.S. ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
By Laura Pappano
On the heels of a compelling World Cup and on the eve of the 2012 Olympics, Women’s Professional Soccer announced today that they are suspending the 2012 season – with plans (maybe hopes?) to return to play in 2013.
The news, for those who recall the end of WUSA ...
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
By Laura Pappano
SOMETIMES YOU LOSE – AND IT’S OK. The Women’s World Cup championship game between the U.S. and Japan honored the rise and intensity of women’s soccer. The back story was compelling: The U.S. Team’s dramatic run-up with Abby Wambach’s YouTube-play-it-again (and again) headers versus the determination of a ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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 Philadelphia Independence met at Harvard Stadium for a league match in front of over 3,000 ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
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 hurts to lose in PK’s, but give the Japanese team it’s due. I know Abby wanted ...
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Saturday, July 16th, 2011
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 the clock media coverage?
Banked million dollar payouts?
Have they inked hundred million dollar ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Suddenly, the story lines need tweaking.
Admit it: We had resigned ourselves to remembrances of the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Who didn’t watch grainy video highlights and years-later interviews with players and wonder if the Dawn of US women’s soccer and its Golden Age were one and the same?
There ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
By Katie Culver
I was so excited about my son’s first soccer season, that I volunteered my husband and I to share responsibilities as the team’s coaches. The complicating matter: I was 40 weeks pregnant.
My third child was born two weeks later, which meant that – along with rainouts – much ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Somehow, when Kristine Lilly announced her retirement from soccer last week, it felt real -- and appropriate, both a rarity these days among professional athletes trying to figure out if it's time to retire (or not).
Why is that?
Perhaps because she didn't do it impulsively, but took several months ...
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