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Grace Weitz
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Tweet: Blowing the Whistle on Twitter--The NFL Has Stopped Using it During their Games Should Other Sports As Well?

In today’s social media networking world Twitter has become like an adult playground. We’ve all seen the Verizon commercial where the Dad is sitting on the patio tweeting “I’m sitting on the patio” while his son stands by, admonishing him. It’s taken over not only on the patio, but on the athletic field as well.



At the beginning of last month, the NFL took the axe to… Continue

Posted on October 11, 2009 at 6:45am — 26 Comments

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Star on the Field or Star of David


I feel like it’s not often that soccer and religion mix. Don’t get me wrong there are many, many great athletes who display their faith and use their faith on the field, but religion and sports are like the old oil and water analogy. There’s the sport you play on the field and… Continue

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 4:46pm —

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What if there were no cleats, no shin guards, and no soccer balls?


Mia Hamm was a U.S. soccer icon, but at some point even she had to retire from soccer. Where would the stars of today's WPS be if they weren't out on the pitch playing soccer?

It’s hard to imagine… Continue

Posted on July 24, 2009 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

Grace Weitz

Following the Footprints


The recent slew of events surrounding the 2010 WPS expansion teams’ Atlanta Beat, which just announced its inclusion in the WPSContinue

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 7 Comments

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Translating Soccer

Take a look at the word we Americans know as soccer in six different languages:
Le football (France)
fotboll (Sweden)
futebol (Brazil)
サッカー(Japan)
英式足球 (China)
football (Australia, England, Scotland and many others)

Now ask yourself this: If the word soccer isn’t even the same in every language can you imagine how difficult it might be to try and teach an international player what it means to “step up”, “get wide”, or “pressure” ?

As I mentioned in my previous blog, the international players i… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 10:54am — 3 Comments

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At 7:35pm on November 20, 2009, Amanda Vandervort said…
Hey Grace! First, Did you win the Journalism contest at your school for your Social Media campaign? Second, you're the WPS Featured Fan of the Week! Congratulations :-)
At 4:02pm on July 1, 2009, DC DC n MB said…
Hi Grace. Yes, I'm an NU grad. We follow NU soccer when we can (here in MD); fortunately the Big 10 Network shows more and more. Hope all goes well in your job and thanks for the good articles...
 
 
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