Goal Blog: Cards Could Hold U.S. Womenâs Fate
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The United States, who plays Nigeria Tuesday in the Womenâs World Cup, needs only a tie to advance. But to win Group B, it may come down to the arcane tiebreaker of yellow cards.
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English soccer has been trying to catch up for years with the women's game in the United States.
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Germany and England have claimed the first quarterfinal places in the womenâs World Cup and one of the two teams may face the United States. The Americans play Nigeria Tuesday and are favored to advance.
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On the night that some of the greatest names in women&#39;s soccer retired â-amm, Foudy, Fawcett â -re was a new one on the US team when it took the field for the second half against Mexico at The Home Depot Center.
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ATHENS -- After Australia beat the United States softball team in a preliminary-round game four years ago on a walk-off homer, American ace Lisa Fernandez received a card from the Aussie team with the message, &quot;Lisa, we got your number.&quot;
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The U.S. Women's Open will use a three-hole playoff format starting this year, leaving the U.S. Open as the only major championship with an 18-hole playoff.
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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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Olympic champions the United States narrowly edged Russia 66-62 to reach the final of the women&#39;s Olympic basketball Friday. The last time the American women lost was to the
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Julie Foudy belongs on the short list of prominent women in American sports. She&#039;s also intent on lengthening that list.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The decisive move in the Olympic women&#39;s soccer tournament was soaring toward the head of Abby Wambach when the ball and a thought arrived at her noggin about the same time.
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Where the United States was concerned, there was little unlucky about Day 13 of the Athens Olympic Games. Abby Wambach&#39;s goal in the second overtime vaulted the United States women&#39;s
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com. Svetlana Kuznetsova: After Anatasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova won the French Open and Wimbledon, respectively, earlier this year, the unspoken slogan of the women&#39;s game has been &quot;The Russians are coming.
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Playing in a steady rain from an approaching typhoon, the U.S. Womenâs World Cup team defeated Nigeria, 1-0, and will play England in the quarterfinal on Saturday.
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ATHENS -- They wanted each other. They got each other. One more time. The United States women's basketball team survived a grind-a-thon against Russia yesterday and will go for the gold today against Australia. It's a rematch of the gold medal game from the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, which the US won, 76-54, in a game also remembered for Aussie ...
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Frustrated by fouls, turnovers and a feisty opponent, the United States desperately looked for help. Then along came Sheryl Swoopes to set things right.
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The United States beat world champions Germany 2-1 in a fierce struggle Monday to reach the final of the Olympic women&#39;s soccer tournament.
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ATHENS -- LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and a couple of their Olympic teammates made it over to watch last night's women's game between the United States and China. They saw a team shoot well, pass well, rebound well, and dominate -- everything they are not doing so far.