We’re tight on space in the Thursday paper, so here’s a lot more on the Athletica win over Los Angeles than we can fit there.

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Everyone in the WPS knows the road to the championship game is going to go through…

After the game last night, I was talking to Sol coach Abner Rogers. “They’re a good team,” he said. “They’ll bounce back and they’re definitely going to cause problems.”

The Athletica are now past the halfway point of the WPS season,…

After a slow start that left them in last place and without a goal after three games, the Athletica moved into sole possession of second place with a 1-0 win over Boston on Sunday.

The Athletica are still 11 points behind…

Catching up …

National team coach Pia Sundhage was on hand. She’s making the rounds, trying to get to a game each weekend, and I suppose there’s a good chance she got to two this weekend if she drove up to Chicago on…

In what I think is the first in-season trade in WPS history, Athletica got defender Kendall Fletcher and forward Christie Welsh from Los Angeles in exchange for a conditional draft pick in 2010 and a first round pick in 2011. Both players…