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WPS 2008 General Draft Results

On Monday, October 6, 2008, the Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS) held its general draft for players not yet selected in the WNT player allocation or the International Player Draft. Here are the picks.

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WPS Gets TV Deal

Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) has announced that it has a deal in place with Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) to air a live game of the week on Sunday nights starting in 2009, the WPS’s inaugural season.

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WPS Initial International Draft

Here are the results of the Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) drafting of negotiating rights for international players in preparation for the league’s inaugural season in 2009.

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WPS Player Allocations From the WNT

The new WPS (Women’s Professional Soccer) issued its player allocations from the United States women’s national team (WNT). The seven inaugural teams of the league will each be assigned three players. Here is the list and some comments:

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Coming Soon: WPS – Women’s Professional Soccer

After many years of work and restructuring, and hot on the heels of the USA’s win over Brazil in the 2008 Olympic Games, a new women’s soccer league in the United States is about to spring forth: the WPS (Women’s Professional Soccer). If history is any indicator, the play will be exciting and the players entertaining.

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A Pox on Collective Nouns

I have a major peeve with soccer announcers…not football/fútbol announcers, but soccer announcers (you know, the American kind). Almost every soccer match I watch is infected with a grammatical irritant that I’ve tried to scratch, but the itch persists. What bug is annoying me this time? The inappropriate application of verb agreement with collective nouns.

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VICTORY!!!

Brandi Chastain’s top-twirling celebration after she kicked the goal which secured the USA victory over China in the 1999 Women’s World Cup spoke volumes about the changes women in sports have seen

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