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...year, a record 7.5 million U.S. women and girls registered for soccer teams, just under half of all player registrations. "Part of our mission statement is gender equity, and we've taken it very seriously, investing heavily in the women's game," says Steinbrecher. Cindy Parlow, 21, a slinky striker from Memphis, Tenn., has been in organized soccer since she was four. Like seven of her teammates, she attended the University of North Carolina, a perennial soccer power...
...police, the courts and sometimes the crowds of suffragist opponents still makes shocking reading. Women were battered in demonstrations and, on hunger strikes, brutally force-fed in prison. When these measures risked taking lives, the infamous Cat & Mouse Act was passed so that a dangerously weakened hunger striker would be released and then rearrested when strong enough to continue her sentence. Under its terms, Mrs. Pankhurst, age 54 in 1912, went to prison 12 times that year. No wonder she railed, "The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women...
...absolutely must win [tomorrow] if we are to have a chance at [making] the [NCAA] tournament," freshman striker Marko Soldo said...
...polls out of France's progress to the final; presenting the trophy to Les Bleus while wrapped self-consciously in a soccer scarf will no doubt bring Chirac even greater political gain. He shouldn't, therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering for the son of Algerian immigrants, not to mention the rest of a team that Le Pen described as "unrepresentative...
...World Cup, Sampson has installed a new formation, 3-6-1 in soccer parlance, that features six midfielders and a lone striker up front, to take advantage of the team's speed, and the fact that Sampson hasn't been able to find a pair of forwards who work well together. Most teams use two strikers and three or four midfielders. The idea is that there are two midfielders whose role is primarily offense, two who hang back to defend, and two wing halves who do both...