Four months after announcing they had canceled the 2012 season but hoped to return in 2013, Women’s Professional Soccer’s owners called it quits on Friday. “We sincerely regret havingto take this course of action,” said Atlanta Beat owner T. Fitz Johnson, who was the WPS chairman. A lingering dispute between DanBorislow, owner of magicJack, and […]
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European powers stock up with ex-WPS players
[AMERICANS ABROAD] WPS’s loss is Europe’s gain. Refugees from the women’s league, which suspended operations for 2012, are dotted on Europe’s top clubs. FiveAmericans — all former WPS players — started in Wednesday’s first leg of the UEFA European Champions League quarterfinals. Keeper Alyssa Naeher earned the 2-0win as Germany’s 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam beat […]
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'Negative issues' consume women's league
[WPS SPOTLIGHT] WPS isn’t the first business to have a legal dispute between partners. And WPS isn’t the first league to have a maverick owner. Indeed, maverickowners are part and parcel with what sells sports. But the year-long dispute between MagicJack owner Dan Borislow and WPS and its owners consumed the fragileleague. Could the owners […]
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Borislow and 'infidels' make peace
[WPS] It was something few thought possible: maverick Dan Borislow, owner of magicJack with women’s soccer superstarsAbby Wambach and Hope Solo, not to mention rising national team star MeganRapinoe and captain Christie Rampone, made peace with Women’s Professional Soccer. MagicJack, kicked out of the league following the 2011 season, won’treturn to WPS in 2012, but […]
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Beat takes Leroux with No. 1 pick
[WPS] The Atlanta Beat picked UCLA striker Sydney Leroux with the first pick in Women’s Professional Soccer’sdraft. Three players from national champion Stanford — Cam Levin, Soccer America Player of the Year Lindsay Taylor andHermann Trophy Teresa Noyola, went 4-6-7 in the first round. The only other team to have more than one player taken […]
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Leroux and Stanford trio head draft standouts
[WPS] Down to five teams, Women’s Professional Soccer will hold its 2012 college draft Friday at the Kansas City Convention Center. Unlike the MLS SuperDraft,WPS’s event won’t be open to the public. It will air on a live webcast on www.WomensProSoccer.com. The No. 1 pick, held by the Atlanta Beat, is expected tobe Sydney Leroux […]
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Women's league imperiled by Borislow suit
[WPS] Women’s Professional Soccer isn’t done with Dan Borislow and his magicJack just yet. Borislow won a victory in aPalm Beach County Circuit Court on Monday as Judge Meenu Sasser ruled WPS failed to follow the proper procedures to resolve disputes in kicking magicJack out of the league aftera tumultuous 2011 campaign. The judge set a […]
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“Being patient, right and investing time into something will ultimately pay off. Just like not telling the truth, incompetence, stealing and immorality all have their consequences,too.” — Dan Borislow, owner of magicJack, continuing his attack on Women’s Professional Soccer, in an email to the New York Times. Borislowwon a preliminary victory in his bid to […]
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Sinclair heads Canada squad for qualifying
[OLYMPIC COUNTDOWN] Five players each from WPS — including Christine Sinclair of the champion Western New York Flash –the W-League and Scandinavian clubs were among the 20 players reigning Concacaf champion Canada called up for the 2012 Concacaf Olympic women’s soccer qualifying tournament at Vancouver’s BC Place inJanuary. Sinclair is Canada’s all-time leader in both […]
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Women's league gets conditional sanctioning
[WPS] U.S. Soccer’s Board of Directors has given Women’s Professional Soccer the green light to go ahead as a Division I league for its fourth season, eventhough it will likely have only five teams. The waiver is conditional on the five teams agreeing on certain conditions that were not identified. “After a positivediscussion,” U.S. Soccer […]