

Articles tagged with "los-angeles-sol"
Some sort of vague attempt at an update
By Melissa | October 31st, 2009Who am I kidding? If you are checking this blog for news, then you know nothing. Here's my (second) recap of Thursday's USWNT ...
Leslie Osborne is an inspiration
By Melissa | October 21st, 2009The official news is supposed to be out today but the fans already know Leslie Osborne will sign with the Boston Breakers after turning down ...
i lurv x factor more than pie n chips
By Melissa | October 11th, 2009Karen Carney just twittered that today. Homegirl knows what's up with popular tv programs (or is it programmes?). Anyhoo, a lot has been ...
Something Happened!
By Melissa | September 22nd, 2009Today was all a-twitter as Philly and ATL got to pick five international players each to stock their rosters. But, assuming similar rules apply ...
Playoff Picture: the high fashion edition
By Melissa | August 7th, 2009That's Kristen Graczyk and what's-his-face modeling something or other for a local San Jose California rag called The Wave (more pics plus full article here). ...
Red Stars and Fox Soccer Channel serve up a little flip throw in slow mo
By Melissa | August 2nd, 2009You gotta wait til around minute 2 in the above video to see Natalie Spilger perform a flip-throw throw-in. A what? you say? ...
St Louis clinch second place
By Melissa | August 2nd, 2009...and an automatic bye to the semi-final... August 19... in St Louis. They beat Boston 1-0. Tony DiCicco sat this one out per ...
Playoffs. Playoffs? Playoffs!
By Melissa | July 28th, 2009who is this guy? It's been a busy week in the world of pro, semi-pro, and not-at-all pro women's soccer so let's review... WPSL The final ...
Sol are regular season winners
By Melissa | July 24th, 2009No cristal for this bunch. With Thursday night's 0-0 tie to FCGP, LA Sol get that one elusive point to make them the WPS ...
WPS is full of statistics
By Melissa | July 22nd, 2009My guess is they make the interns collect all that data. Not only does the WPS site have league stats, they also break it ...
Picture of the Week
By Melissa | May 24th, 2009Source Kandace Wilson leaves Sunday's FC Gold Pride game against LA Sol on crutches after a second half hip check from Marta caused Wilson to be ...
Who should buy the LA Sol?
By Melissa | May 21st, 2009Grahame Jones' recent interview with Phil Anschutz Tim Leiweke may have many Bay Area soccer fans surprised by the brutal honesty coming from AEG, and ...
This weekend's theme = DON'T PANIC
By Melissa | May 18th, 2009Teams that perhaps looked a bit shaky at the start of the season are finally finding their mojo. And they're slowly making their way ...
Whut up it's a weekend review
By Melissa | May 4th, 2009Talk about bizzarro weekend. The big word these teams can't seem to get a good grasp on is consistency. Also, the veetle channel ...
It's yer damn preview and I don't care what week we're at anymore
By Melissa | April 30th, 2009Okay y'all. DO read Dan Loney's assessment of WPS so far. Funny, hopeful, and insightful. And he's on the mark when it comes ...
You better catch a game before swine flu cancels CONCACAF: week 4? 5? review
By Melissa | April 28th, 2009Sorry I'm a bit late on this but I just got so busy cornify-ing the WPS website. Here, I took a screenshot: Booootiful I say. ...
Me & this Sapporo 'bout to get comfortable and whip up a WPS preview
By Melissa | April 24th, 2009How long do you think it will take Ally Wagner to sneak a reference to Advocare into a tweet? Not only is it the ...
Week "who with the what now?" 3? 4? Review
By Melissa | April 22nd, 2009I stop paying attention for like a week and a bunch of new blogs spring up to cover me (well, in MY mind that's what ...
Better late than never? Your review + preview
By Melissa | April 9th, 2009To put it mildly, my entire April is out of whack. I will be slippin a bit. Moving on. There were some ...
Is this Week 1 or Week 2? Whichever it is, here's your preview
By Melissa | April 3rd, 2009And this coming Hangover Football Sunday is packed with three games! So lucky you if you happen to be near Edwardsville, Illinois or Bridgewater, ...
La Sol 2 - Washington Freedom 0
By Melissa | March 30th, 2009I'm gonna make this one quick because there's a pile of work waiting for me and if I don't get any headway into it, I ...
WPS Debuts, Marta Shines, AP Report Doesn't
By Daryl | March 30th, 2009Women's Professional Soccer kicked off in the US yesterday. A better than expected crowd of 14,832 turned up at the Home Depot Center to see ...
First Ever Ever Ever Game Preview
By Melissa | March 26th, 2009Hello and welcome to the preview of the first ever game of this country's second ever women's professional soccer league! And hello and welcome ...
The preview of the preview
By Melissa | March 26th, 2009With game-time around the corner, I'm getting ready and excited to post regular previews and reviews every week. If you ever stopped by when ...
Rosters set... and include our Lyonnais players
By Melissa | March 25th, 2009Today was the day for each team to finalise their rosters down to 18 players plus 4 development slots. the results are here. ...
Cool Videos...
By Melissa | March 23rd, 2009Find more videos like this on Women's Professional Soccer Find more videos like this on Women's Professional Soccer ...got to give credit where ...
Picture of the Week
By Melissa | March 22nd, 2009Jairo of the Brazilian football team Figueirense, was forced to wear the above during practice because he was underperforming. According to coach Roberto Fernandes, ...
Half-assed preview otherwise known as pre-season round-up
By Melissa | March 6th, 2009I'm at home today anxiously waiting for the UPS guy to show up with the $200 netbook I just bought on super-sale. Woo Hoo!. ...
Lyon Say F*ck You to the WPS, Plus Some Nude Photos
By Inara | March 6th, 2009I'm going to take a quick break from the men's team to cover the ladies. Even if you don't care about women's football, I advise ...
Pic of the Week
By Melissa | March 6th, 2009Kobe Bryant welcomes Marta to LA and apparently Amway does too. So does this mean pyramid schemes will slowly make their way into ...





