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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: August 3, 2012
The USWNT is in the semifinals after beating New Zealand 2-0. It wasn’t the brightest game for the Stars and Stripes, but it was enough to leave the Football Ferns out of the Olympic tournament. Pia Sundhage and her girls will face Canada in the semifinal, a team they know well and that they defeated in a preparation match a month before the Olympics. The USWNT will play its fifth Olympic...
Published: July 30, 2012
The United States women’s national team has secured a spot in the quarterfinals. Now, they are ready to face North Korea in hopes to win all of its group-stage matches for the first time since 1996. To do so, the USWNT must improve some things to lock the win against the Asian squad. Even when they are one of three teams to have won all the matches so far—Great Britain and Brazil being...
Published: July 23, 2012
Mexico has never won an Olympic medal in soccer, but El Tri is ready to change that. To accomplish the feat, Luis Fernando Tena has set a young but talented squad with players like Marco Fabián, Hiram Mier and Javier Aquino, to name a few. The under-23 team won the 2011 Pan American Games held in Guadalajara and the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic; something they failed to do in...
Published: July 17, 2012
Next week, the United States Women’s National Team will start their road in hope to grab a fourth gold medal at the Olympics. Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Christie Rampone, Laura Georges, Louisa Nécib and Gaëtane Thiney are some of the players that will bring a lot of action and excitement to the opening match. The last time these teams faced each other in a major...
Published: July 10, 2012
The 2012 London Olympics are less than a month away, and football will be the sport to debut. The United States women’s national team is set to face France in their opening match, and players like Abby Wambach and Hope Solo will be Pia Sundhage’s first pick. In 2011, the USNWT defeated Les Bleues 3-1 at the World Cup semifinals. Lauren Cheney, Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan scored for the...
Published: July 8, 2012
The 2012 U.S Women’s Open is over. As many expected, Na Yeon Choi claimed the third major of the season with an overall score of seven-under-par 73. Choi started her round with a bogey, but she managed to birdie the par-four fourth to stay even for the day. The real trouble came on 10 where she had a triple bogey, her first of the week. This put her five-under and just two strokes better than...
Published: July 8, 2012
The third round of the U.S. Women’s Open is over. As it happened in the previous rounds, there’s a new leader in the clubhouse, Na Yeon Choi who shot seven-under par 65 to lead by six strokes. The leader Choi has never hoisted a major championship trophy, but has won five LPGA titles and seven more on the KLPGA. Na Yeon could become the sixth South Korean to claim the U.S. Women’s...
Published: July 7, 2012
The second round of the U.S. Women’s Open is over and there were some surprises, comebacks and chokes. Everything is set for the weekend at Kohler, Wisconsin, and there’s absolutely no way to miss the best golfers battling to hoist the trophy. The Leaderboard Suzann Pettersen leads at five-under, after posting a 68 and holds a one-stroke advantage over two players: Michelle Wie,...
Published: July 6, 2012
After the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open, held in Blackwolf Run, three American golfers share the lead at three-under-par 69: Cristie Kerr, Brittany Lincicome and rookie Lizette Salas. The players have had a tough time with the heat. According to The Weather Channel, yesterday the temperature in Kohler, WI, went as high as 98 degrees with a 105-degree heat index. About this...
Published: July 5, 2012
The first round of the U.S. Women’s Open is underway and there are several players you can’t miss. From world No. 1 Yani Tseng, to the youngest ever LPGA winner Lexi Thompson. The field includes 156 players—17 of the top 20 players of the Rolex Rankings—that will compete for the first-place check of $585,000. Here are six players that will have a chance to engrave their names...