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The Portland Thorns' season couldn't be going any better. They're sitting atop the National Women's Soccer League's opening-season standings and drawing more than 11,000 fans to home games.

In the last two years, U.S. midfielder Megan Rapinoe has played big games in some of soccer's hallowed stadiums, including Old Trafford, Wembley, St.

A group of four FC Kansas City players will join the U.S. women's national team for its friendly against Canada on June 2. Goalie Nicole Barnhart, defender Becky Sauerbrunn and midfielders Lauren Cheney and Kristie Mewis were part of the 21-player roster selected by coach Tom Sermanni on Tuesday.

Yvonne Rogers, an Adams School eighth-grader, won third place in the Union 93 speech contest on May 9 for her presentation of how a poverty-stricken girl from Uganda became a chess champion.

Washington women's soccer wraps up the spring season on Friday with a matchup against the Seattle Sounders women.

We are still two years out from the Women's World Cup, but with another dominant year underway for the top-ranked Americans, it isn't too early to look at who they will potentially send to Canada.

We're a basketball blog, and there aren't too many places to put other women's sports articles in a nice place which we want to mention, so it's in this update in the Open Thread StoryStream.