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Youth soccer tournament play resumes with some significant changes -- get in, play a couple of quick games, get out
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Sunday, July 26, 2020
EDP, the Northeastern organization that runs U.S. Youth Soccer regional conferences and ...
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Title IX compliance: Keep existing sports, add more for women, cut football spending
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
For Title IX advocates, the best defense is a strong offense. ...
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'2012: The Year That Saved Women's Soccer' -- when the WPSL Elite League set a stage for the stars
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Saturday, July 4, 2020
Another league had folded, but this time, the U.S. women's soccer community ...
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NWSL's return: A unique chance to grow the fan base and for new stars to rise
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Is this the year women's soccer develops more hard-core fans? Not just ...
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Varsity Blues' scandal and COVID-19 force universities to rethink priorities
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Saturday, June 20, 2020
So the stereotype of athletes ignoring academics often doesn't apply. But neither ...
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Eight great women's games -- from Mia Hamm at UNC in 1990 to world championships and NWSL
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Saturday, May 30, 2020
I've been privileged to see many great games live, particularly in women's ...
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Girls soccer landscape, shaken up by COVID-19 and DA's demise in 2020, may look different again in 2021
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Sunday, May 17, 2020
In girls soccer, we once again have two leagues chasing the top ...
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The labor path ahead for WNT: the future can still be bright
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Saturday, May 2, 2020
Hints that the women were going to face a tougher time in ...
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Soccer leagues have options ... they might include turning 2019-20 seasons into 2019-21 seasons
Off The Post, Beau Dure - Saturday, April 25, 2020
Depending on who you ask, we'll all be playing soccer in empty ...
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U.S. Soccer's ride back to Earth seems anything but smooth
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Many factors are at work in the federation's finances. Only time will ...
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Sources: U.S. Soccer has fired key executives Brian Remedi and Tonya Wallach
Soccer America Daily, Beau Dure - Thursday, April 16, 2020
They were among layoffs that took place throughout the Federation on Wednesday, ...
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Backup plans: Ideas for finishing European season are imperfect but something will have to be done
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Sunday, April 5, 2020
The discussion of the fairest way to declare champions, European places, relegation, ...
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Will COVID-19 push U.S. women's lawsuit to settlement or catastrophe?
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Officially, the U.S. women and the U.S. Soccer may still face off ...
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Will Wilson, fire chief hired to extinguish soccer's fires and build anew
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Through unhappy accident, Wilson will have some additional time to get up ...
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The Cindy Parlow Cone agenda
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Cone has less than a year before the next presidential election but ...
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Fact- and reality-checking the latest round of U.S. women's lawsuit statements and filings
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Wednesday, March 11, 2020
A couple of court deadlines have come up in the U.S. women's ...
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U.S. women's economist proves it's all about the World Cup bonuses
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Saturday, February 29, 2020
Economists have a spotty track record when it comes to sticking their ...
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There will be no winners in current U.S. Soccer labor negotiations
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Friday, February 14, 2020
In any mudslinging battle, we reach a point at which everyone ends ...
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U.S. Soccer members gather in Nashville with vice presidential election and reform-driven proposals on agenda
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The tug of war between the youth soccer establishment, MLS and would-be ...
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Seth Taylor on child vs. player development, parenting perils, and athletes' anxiety
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, February 6, 2020
Seth Taylor works with players at both ends of the career spectrum, ...
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Jill Ellis' balancing act deserves more credit
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Singling out any one person from the U.S. women's 2019 World Cup ...
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The U.S. Open Cup has identity and scheduling problems. Here's a four-step solution.
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Monday, January 27, 2020
Like the FA Cup, the U.S. Open Cup started as a national ...
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Big Brother, robot and soccer businesswomen highlight Exhibit Hall
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Sunday, January 19, 2020
The United Soccer Coaches convention's Exhibit Hall is always an exhilarating and ...
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'The Selling of Women's Professional Soccer': Valuable insight delivered by an embedded author
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, January 2, 2020
Rachel Allison addresses balancing the traditional youth player-and-parent market with the 21st ...
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USA building a 'Paralympic' pipeline as competition for disabled players changes
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, December 26, 2019
The national team here is the 7-a-side soccer team, also known as ...
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Would U.S. women agree to 'equal pay' deal akin to Australia and Norway? No way
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Friday, November 15, 2019
Australia's new deal giving its women's soccer team "equal pay" with its ...
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U.S. Soccer's problems call for a CEO from the outside
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Friday, November 1, 2019
The blame for the U.S. soccer world's woes can be spread over ...
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What soccer can learn from cricket's transparency -- and other ways to improve VAR
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Thursday, October 24, 2019
In full earshot of the viewing audience, the "third official" walks through ...
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The sky is falling! Making sense of U.S. men's national team fan hysteria
Soccer America Confidential, Beau Dure - Friday, October 18, 2019
Let's review what we've been told we "knew" we had to do ...
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Coaches should learn the rules -- and here's how
Youth Soccer Insider, Beau Dure - Monday, October 7, 2019
The attacking team's coach calmly asked me what I called. I said ...
