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Wow - it has been a LONG time since I blogged, and it was high time to fix that. Maybe it's because when I blog, I write a novel instead.. Hmmm....sounds like that's MY problem.

Anyhow - given the interest and questions we've received in response to the free agent's list being published today, I thought I'd talk a bit about player transactions at WPS.

September has been a BUSY month - wow - with a LOT of player transaction activity. Two drafts for the expansion teams, option exercises happenin… Continue

A scene from the WPS offices. A staff meeting?

HARDLY. More like a pizza lunch, everyone gathered in the conference room behind laptops as we multitask with work stuff, AND listening to the LA Sol v Athletica game & following it on match tracker. Amanda Vandervort… Continue

If you were driving down highway 880 near the Alameda exit in Santa Clara sometime after 3pm PT this past Sunday, you might have been hit by a flying monkey. It was the one that had been sitting on Mary Abigail Wambach's back for the past few weeks, that was flung into orbit at around 3:25pm when a thundering header off a Cat Whitehill serve hit the back of the net. Holy Cow - did you see that?!.

Well, in case you missed it, get your DVR set to FSC this coming Friday and catch the… Continue

Well, Easter may be over, but the days before and since have certainly been colorful!

Could pink be making a comeback? Dissed as a diminutive, Jonsson wears it and has an blinder vs. Washington. Barnhart wears it and gets a point on the road at Sky Blue... and, so that the third game wouldn't be without a goalkeeper in pink (even an over-the-hill-one), I wore a bright pink coat to the Boston-St. Louis game.

And speaking of that game, I saw the Boston Breakers' fan section (hanging out in an ar… Continue

With our first full weekend behind us, this week has been about debriefing what we learned from the home openers for the Bay Area Gold Pride, St. Louis Athletica and New Jersey..... and trying to give as much info to the 3 teams remaining who will open this coming weekend or the weekend after. Boston and Washington both have their home openers, and Sky Blue FC in NJ has their second game at TD Bank ballpark out in Somerset, NJ. Met with the operations directors yesterday, the coaches today, and… Continue