Redemption for goalkeeper Hope Solo, revenge for the Americans and a delay in declaring a Brazilian women's soccer dynasty as the U.S. tenaciously hung on to win 1-0 today in China over Brazil to win the gold medal. Game story. The box score tells the story - including 14 corner kicks for Brazil - of the Brazilian dominance.

• RIZZO SPORTS BLOG passes along news that U.S. women’s soccer goalie Hope Solo can get some redemption in Thursday’s Olympic gold medal match against Brazil. • LARRY BROWN SPORTS bets you’ll enjoy Pete Rose’s recent radio quips about Tony Gwynn & Marge Schott . • YOU BEEN BLINDED learns that Tiger Woods can really walk on water . Hallelujah! • HUGGING ...

from US Soccer, The U.S. Women’s Olympic Soccer Team put together a near perfect defensive performance to hold powerful Brazil scoreless for 120 minutes while getting a goal from Carli Lloyd just six minutes into overtime to record a historic 1-0 victory and earn the gold medal. This victory marked the third gold medal for the U.S. women in four Olympic Games. The USA also won gold in ...

In honor of the US women’s soccer team gold medal victory over Brazil earlier today: awesomely-named goalie Hope Solo. And because she earned a yellow card: Heather Mitts . Unrelated: Probably too gross to link, but if you feel like vomiting, read this . So, uh, just how bad is Peyton Manning’s knee? ( National Football Post ) Bolt or Phelps or God?: “Sports being both ...

Has American's women atheltics seen day like this before??? photo: AP Hope Solo leads the US Women's National Team to a gold medal, by beating Brazil. Capping off her incredible storyline. While the US Softball team losses a heart-breaker to Japan, in softball's final Olympic game. photo: reuters   RizzoSports Blog   www.rizzosports.com   FLTV 23 - Live ...

from US Soccer, The U.S. Women’s Olympic Soccer Team put together a near perfect defensive performance to hold powerful Brazil scoreless for 120 minutes while getting a goal from Carli Lloyd just six minutes into overtime to record a historic 1-0 victory and earn the gold medal. This victory marked the third gold medal for the U.S. women in four Olympic Games. The USA also won gold in ...

from US Soccer, The U.S. Women’s Olympic Soccer Team put together a near perfect defensive performance to hold powerful Brazil scoreless for 120 minutes while getting a goal from Carli Lloyd just six minutes into overtime to record a historic 1-0 victory and earn the gold medal. This victory marked the third gold medal for the U.S. women in four Olympic Games. The USA also won gold in ...

CARSON, Calif. — Former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena was hired Monday as coach and general manager of David Beckham’s Los Angeles Galaxy, who haven’t won a game in over two months. Article A team searching for redemption hires a coach looking for redemption. The genius tag that Arena liked to consider himself quickly faded after U.S.A’s pitiful ...

Well, maybe not. Here I am watching women’s Olympic basket soccer on TV.  I think it’s called team handball, but I like basket soccer better.  You have dribbling, and just like the NBA you get to take up to three steps with the ball and nobody calls it.  Then the ball carrier throws the ball at the net and tries to get it past a goal keeper. Basket soccer.  ...

How to offend one billion people First came Ronaldo at the 2002 World Cup. Then, in 2008, it was Spain's men's basketball team, followed closely by the Spanish tennis team. And now Argentina's Olympic women's footballers have been caught in... > >

  I know most soccer fanatics such as myself will be up nice and early (the middle of the morning for us West Coasters) to watch the Olympic semifinals for men’s soccer. As I mentioned yesterday, Nigeria/Belgium is at 6 a.m. ET, while the...

From the US Soccer website : The U.S. Women???s National Team will take on Ireland in a three-match tour following the 2008 Olympic Games, hitting stops on the East Coast and Midwest shortly after their return from the 2008 Olympic Games in China. The Fall Tour gets underway on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. ET at Lincoln Financial Field, and continues on Wed., Sept. 17 at ...

Olympic Soccer is coming to a close this week, with the Women’s finalist having been determined this morning (no spoiler’s here for those who have taped it or are watching online later). The Women’s Gold Medal game is Thursday morning at 8:00 am CT, with the Bronze Medal game at 5:00 am. I’m thinking I may be able to watch it at the new Library downtown on USA. Hmmm. ...

The U.S. women's soccer team is back in the gold medal game after playing its best match of these Olympics in beating Japan today. Japan scored in the 15th minute and led 1-0 for most of the first half, and the American women at times looked like they were dragging, perhaps even resigned to the idea that they simply weren't good enough without their injured star Abby Wambach to repeat as gold ...

Good morning all. Today marks the Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the United States and Japan (9am, MSNBC) in a rematch of the group stage match won by the Americans, 1-0. You can watch the action in live streaming video on the NBC Olympic website . If you will be watching today's match, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the ...

From the US Soccer website The U.S. team will play Japan in the semifinal at Beijing Workers Stadium on Monday, August 18th. The match kicks off at 8:00 am CT and will be broadcast live on MSNBC , Universal HD and the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel. The Americans have made the semifinal round in all nine world championships FIFA has held for women’s soccer, including the last four Olympic ...

As she has done increasingly of late, Hawaiian-born Natasha Kai scored - and scored big - for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team, this time making the game-winning goal, eliminating Canada in the quarterfinals Friday night and booking the Americans - defending Olympic champions - a place in the final four… A severe thunderstorm, which started around kickoff time in Shanghai, ...

The U.S. women's Olympic team is taking on Canada today in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament. The U.S. team has done a good job of shaking off its opening-tournament loss to Norway, rattling off two wins to win its group and secure a match-up against a Canadian team it has dominated in recent meetings. If you will be watching the match please feel free to share your ...

FIFA has a pretty decent summary of the Brazil-Nigeria women’s Olympic soccer match on their site, and there is a great blow-by-blow from kickoffnigeria.com , so I’m not going to give the detailed account I gave for the Super Falcon’s battle against Germany . Watching today’s entertaining match, I found myself mulling over the way the word “profligacy” was ...

Written by du Nord reader Adam. USA 4-0 New Zealand After an uninspiring 4-0 rout of New Zealand, and thanks to some help from Japan, the US finished atop group G and will now play Canada in the Olympic quarterfinals. Heather O’Reilly opened the scoring 43 seconds into the match with the fastest goal in women’s Olympic soccer history, after lofting a shot from distance over New Zealand ...