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Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, as well as other U.S. women's soccer stars, need to exercise patience and sacrifice to help the new women's professional soccer league succeed.

In ESPN The Magazine, soccer star Megan Rapinoe chats with Lizzie Haldane about coming out, representing Team USA and the future for women's soccer.

lympic gold medal winners Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe of the United States are among 10 candidates selected for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year.

Football has returned, as if it ever really went away. In this week's pod, Michael and Roger welcome the return of the English Premier League like an old friend. A friend that always makes you pay for drinks, sleeps with your wife, and reverses its H...

London 2012 was a spectacularly social Olympics, with fans in attendance, fans overseas, athletes on site and individual nations and teams joining in. Naturally, Team USA -- and its prolific medal count -- was right there, sharing not only news bu...

First, the good news: The U.S. is now leading China in the medal count, and it looks like a permanent margin. BOOM! U.S.: 81 Medals, 34 Golds China: 77 Medals, 36 Golds My man Daniel G., inventor of Saber-Medal-Trics — a system that uses...

The United States' 4-3 victory over Canada was an instant classic. We asked our writers to reflect on the match and predict what might be coming in the gold-medal match against Japan on Thursday.

The women's game, banned in Great Britain for 50 years, is catching up. Tuesday, for every Wayne Rooney jersey in the stands at Old Trafford, there was a Megan Rapinoe jersey. For every Alan Stubbs, a Hope Solo.

Megan Rapinoe's confident approach has helped carry the U.S. women's soccer team into the Olympic quarterfinals.

The U.S. women's soccer team made it two wins in two games Saturday and remembered an injured teammate in a 3-0 win over Colombia.

"We're focused on us." There are no gimme games in the Olympics. That is what the 18 members of the U.S. women's soccer team took from their Thursday afternoon outing to watch Spain -- a gold-medal favorite in the men's tournament -- take on Japan...

Raised in Canada, Sydney Leroux has dual citizenship in the U.S. She, and her mom, decided her best opportunity to play Olympic soccer was in America.

Here's six stories to follow for the women's Olympic tournament, writes Jeff Carlilse.

The U.S. faces a tough and creative France side in both teams' opening-round match in the 2012 Olympics. Jeff Carlisle breaks down the match.

The U.S. faces a tough and creative France side in both teams' opening-round match in the 2012 Olympics. Jeff Carlisle breaks down the match.

Megan Rapinoe has fought her way back into the starting lineup and is now poised to help lead the U.S. to gold at the London Games, writes Jeff Carlisle.