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Cat Osterman has decided to retire after years of college, Olympic and professional softball dominance.

Opening Day for baseball coincided with the unofficial start of the 2013 National Pro Fastpitch season. The professional softball league's four teams won't play their first games until June 5, but the college draft starts to bring the rosters into focus.

Alex Morgan is just 23 years old, but she already has become the voice and the face for the National Women's Soccer League.

At first glance, dividing 23 American soccer players, in addition to 32 Canadian and Mexican players, into eight equal groups in the allocation process for the eight founding teams in the National Women's Soccer League might seem easy. Not really.

This season showed just how much the game and the competition have changed since the days when the Tar Heels dominated the sport.

Injuries forced both teams to revise their lineups, and the result has paid dividends for defenders Hanna Gardner of North Carolina and Whitney Church of Penn State.

Morgan Brian is trying to win a national championship with her Virginia teammates after having been a part of the U.S. team that won the U-20 World Cup.

A number of ACC teams are poised to challenge for the College Cup. But with the championship held in San Diego, No. 1 Stanford plans to keep the trophy in California.

This weekend's big game will take place in L.A. with UCLA and Stanford set for a top-two showdown that could determine the Pac-12 title and a favorite for the national title.

Maryland lost so much from its Sweet 16 team last year -- 12 seniors and its head coach -- but the team sits in second place in the ACC thanks to some senior leaders and a perfectionist new head coach.

Colleen Williams helped turn around the Dayton soccer program, and her charitable program assists those in need off the field -- one dollar at a time.

National Pro Fastpitch's season ended as an ugly, soggy shambles, fingers raised not skyward to celebrate a championship but instead pointed accusingly in every direction.

The National Pro Fastpitch season ended without a champion for the first time in the league's nine-year history because of weather delays and what the league cited as scheduling conflicts for players on both teams.

Monica Abbott was her usual brilliant self in the pitcher's circle for Chicago on Saturday. But it was the Bandits' catcher, Shannon Doepking, who was the star in the opener of the NPF championship series.

The Akron Racers beat the USSSA Pride 8-7 in the National Pro Fastpitch playoffs to force a Saturday Game 3 in their series.

Kristen Butler found her missing stroke. Her long home run sparked the defending-champion Bandits to a romp in their NPF playoff opener.