alex morgan
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U.S. fans in Baltimore and around the world cheered the national women's soccer team to its record fourth World Cup championship. - The U.S. World Cup team is in this position for the third straight time because Crystal Dunn, a natural attacker, has embraced her position switch.
- Carli Lloyd says the success that the U.S. national team is having at the Women's World Cup in France isn't an extension of the 2015 title run
- County soccer players and coaches seem to admire the intensity with which the international teams play, the U.S. in particular, and they hope it carries over.
- If female soccer players want better pay they need to attract a bigger audience to buy tickets.
- The U.S. women's soccer team makes less than men because of economics and not gender discrimination.
- The U.S. women's soccer team doesn't get paid as much as men because people don't care about women's sports.
- Men who play sports make more money than female athletes because they attract more viewers.
- A women's soccer team that can dominate a World Cup opponent as the U.S. just did to Thailand deserves a level playing field for pay.
- The Washington Spirit, which has not won in three months and scored once in the past 11 matches, fired Jim Gabarra as its coach and general manager Tuesday.
- Crystal Dunn, a rising star with the top-ranked U.S. women's national soccer team, has left the Washington Spirit to sign with English club Chelsea, the second prominent player to depart since the National Women's Soccer League final three months ago.
- Team USA fails to reach semifinals for first time in Olympic history
- "The Bachelor" Episode 3 includes two women on aircraft-related dates, and another contestant walks off the show.
- "We feel like at this time, Kirk Cousins gives us the best chance to win," coach Jay Gruden said.
- Lindsey Moneymaker and Ainsley Yates had stood in line for more than an hour Thursday afternoon, waiting patiently at the Under Armour Brand House with hundreds of strangers who they did not know but could hardly tell apart: mostly girls, likely clutching a soccer ball or a jersey or a cleat, desperately wanting to meet Kelley O'Hara and Lauren Holiday.
- The U.S. women's national soccer team will play a World Cup qualifier in Washington this fall, CONCACAF announced Thursday.
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- A local Howard County U-15 girls soccer team takes lessons, motivation from FIFA Women's World Cup, despite U.S. loss.
- A pair of unlikely heroes -- Robert Andino and Mark Hendrickson -- spurred the Orioles over the Indians, 8-3, on Sunday. ... The Orioles and shortstop J.J. Hardy agreed to terms Saturday on a three-year extension worth between $22 million and $22.5 million. ... Each day seemingly brings more uncertainty to the Orioles roster. ... Brian Matusz pitched seven scoreless innings for Norfolk on Saturday, allowing just three hits and two walks. ... Japan won the sixth Women's World Cup, defeating the United States, 3-1 on penalty kicks, after a 2-2 tie in extra time.
- High-spirited soccer fans, many with their families, jammed the Gunpowder Lodge restaurant and bar on Route 1 Sunday to watch the Women's World Cup final that pitted the U.S. team against Japan.
- American women have a chance to win another World Cup title and make another attempt at getting America to embrace soccer.
