Lilly, Matriarch of U.S. Team, Refuses to Fade to Gray
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With another World Cup approaching, the U.S. womenâs soccer team is now captained by Kristine Lilly, who is a month shy of 36 in chronological years but seemingly ageless in soccer years.
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A woman who went into a vegetative state in November of 2000 awoke this week for three days, spoke with her family and a local television station before slipping back on Wednesday. "I'm fine," Christa Lilly told her mother on Sunday &#151; her first words in eight months. She has awakened four other times for briefer periods.
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Dream Team no longer: The U.S. squad is learning a hard lesson in how the rest of the globe plays ball
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When Elie Monteiro caught up with Katelyn Campopiano after her final game suiting up for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell women's soccer team, he was expecting a smile or a laugh.
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FIFA has rejected a request by a professional menâs soccer club in Mexico to sign a female player. Maribel Dominguez had impressed officials of second-division club Celaya enough to give her a chance.
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ATHENS, Greece - When the first whistle chirped, US women&#39;s soccer icon Mia Hamm thought it was merely a foul call. She wondered when the endless, harrowing gold medal match against Brazil would finally end.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece - The U.S. women's soccer team needed only a tie Tuesday and that's all it got - settling for a draw against a team it had always beaten...
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The United States women's soccer team is bracing for Brazil. It knows Thursday's Women's World Cup semifinal will be rough, smoothed a bit by the artistry of Marta, the game's best female player.
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When U.S. reserve defender Tina Ellertson takes the field against Nigeria, she knows her parents will be flying the colors of her opponent in the stands.
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TORONTO -- The powerful Red Sox offense, which last week had the Nation checking Yankee box scores for the first time in weeks, was rendered all but powerless last night by the artistry of Blue Jays lefthander Ted Lilly.
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While it may seem that she has been around forever (a dozen years being a lifetime in this fast-forward age), Michelle Kwan never skated against Maribel Vinson, the woman whose record she's trying to match this week.
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Mia Hamm had a most bully pulpit when she and her fellow pioneers of US womenâs soccer played their last game, a 5-0 romp over Mexico on Wednesday night.
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Maribel Dominguez, a star player in women&#39;s football in Mexico, has been told that she isn&#39;t allowed to play for a professional men&#39;s club.
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Mia Hamm and her longtime teammate Julie Foudy will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame today in Oneonta, N.Y. Along with Kristine Lilly, Brandi Chastain and Joy Fawcett, Hamm and Foudy were the Fab Five nucleus of the United States team that captured the Womenâs World Cup in 1991 and 1999. They also won a gold medal at the 1996 and 2004 Olympics.
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Jason Kidd only needed to see a ticket for Tuesday nightâs game against the Chicago Bulls to draw some inspiration. On it, was a picture of Bulls coach Scott Skiles.
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Abby Wambach's bloody head has been stitched, and her toe needs to be numbed before games. Don't worry about her, she insists. What really matters is if she and her American teammates fail against Sweden in the Women's World Cup.
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NEW YORK -- The Americans are going for the gold _ in gold. The U.S. women's team unveiled its jerseys for the upcoming World Cup, and the look certainly is distinctive. The primary jersey is gold, with red, white and blue trimming.