Women's Soccer League to Start in 2009
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Abby Wambach and her U.S. teammates will have a new pro soccer league to look forward to after the Women's World Cup and the Olympics.
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The United States national team leaves today for the Womenâs World Cup in China and will open play Sept. 11 against North Korea. In the teamâs final tuneup, Kristine Lilly, Shannon Boxx, Lindsay Tarpley and Heather OâReilly scored Saturday night in a 4-0 win over Finland in Carson, Calif. Lilly became the second woman to reach 100 goals and 100 assists in international play. Mia Hamm was the first.
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ATHENS -- The US women's soccer team, determined to reclaim the Olympic crown it lost to Norway in overtime in Sydney, begins the knockout stage tonight when it takes on vastly improved Japan in the quarterfinals.
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U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil GulatiÃÂ says Monday the federation will formulate a bid to host the 2018 World Cup, its first since 1994.
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Matches to be played overseas for the first time, and season to be extended to 39 games
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Major League Soccer could be on the way to finding a successful playoff format. The lack of playoff tradition in soccer, plus a lack of lead-up time to promote games, contributed to uneven success in the league's first 11 years.
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The New Jersey Nets will play most or all of the 2009-10 NBA season in New Jersey instead of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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The Washington Freedom have reassembled as a semi-pro team and are practicing on a makeshift field in hopes that the WUSA, a women's professional soccer league that last saw the light of day in 2003, fulfills a promise to re-launch in 2008.
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Playing girls' soccer in the Bay State Conference is a tough business. Last season the league boasted a Division 1 state champion (Braintree), a Division 2 state finalist (Dedham), and a Division 2 EMass finalist (Framingham).
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Major League Soccer's 10th season will start April 2 with six games, including the openers of its two expansion teams.
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World soccer&#39;s governing body rejected the signing of a female player by a professional men&#39;s team in Mexico. &quot;There must be a clear separation between men&#39;s and women&#39;s football,&quot; FIFA said from its Swiss headquarters Sunday.
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Australia's "Matildas" salvaged a 1-1  draw against the United States at the Athens Olympics on  Tuesday to join the Americans in the last eight of the women's  soccer tournament.
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Abu Dhabi will host a Formula One Grand Prix race from 2009.
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Some local women's soccer and field hockey teams are ready to make some noise in the NCAA tournaments.
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Cities like Hong Kong, Dubai and New York could be playing host to English Premier League matches by 2010 under radical plans put to the top flight's 20 clubs here on Thursday.
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Manager-less Scotland will begin their bid to qualify for the 2010 World Cup against Macedonia on September 6, 2008, according to official fixtures released Friday.
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Now headed to England, Lorrie Fair played for Philadelphia in the Womenâs United Soccer Association and was the youngest member of the 1999 U.S. national team that won the Womenâs World Cup.