Abby Wambach

Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and 2015 World Cup Champion, Abby Wambach, has her sights set on a new goal. Wambach aims to finish the New York City Marathon in under four hours this Sunday as she makes her long-distance debut.

In a now-deleted tweet ESPN posted a graphic created by an artist on Instagram meant to highlight the Greatest of All Time in the world of sports. The image included Muhammad Ali, Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods and more standing in a stadium mingling with a few actual goats. But where were the women?

Stina Blackstenius scored early in the second half and Sweden advanced to the quarterfinals at the Women’s World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Canada on Monday night. Blacktenius scored in the 55th minute. Canada had a chance to pull even in the 69th but goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl stopped Janine Beckie’s penalty kick after a handball was called on Kosovare...

Members of a Nebraska girls’ soccer team have chopped their hair short in support of a teammate, Mili Hernandez, who said her team was disqualified from a youth tournament because she looks like a boy. Hernandez, an 8 year-old player on Omaha’s Azzuri Cachorros Chicas team, went viral over the weekend when her family said that tournament organizers focused on...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that women are suffering “new assaults on their safety and dignity” around the world, pointing to extremists subjugating women and governments curtailing women’s freedoms and rolling back laws against domestic violence. He told the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women that educating and empowering women will unleash their potential and prevent...

Portland police Sgt. Peter Simpson said in a statement Sunday that a sergeant stopped the 35-year-old Saturday night after she reportedly ran a red light in her Range Rover near downtown.

For a few moments over the past month, the Women’s World Cup seemed to push aside the FIFA scandal that is simmering a half planet away.

The Americans get a rematch against Japan on Sunday when the teams meet again in the final, this time in Canada. The U.S. women are favored, and there figures to be a mostly pro-American crowd making the short trip across the border to Vancouver’s BC Place.

Familiar with their Asian rivals, Australian Stajcic said the key was pressuring Japan’s ball carriers and clogging up the middle so they couldn’t generate chances off their crisp-passing attack.

The fields are heating up, there are little black rubber pellets everywhere, and feet are covered with blisters: The artificial turf at the Women’s World Cup is taking a toll.

Carli Lloyd scored in the 51st minute to lead the U.S. over China, 1-0, in the quarterfinal round of the Women’s World Cup.

U.S. Women’s National Team midfielders Lauren Holiday and Megan Rapinoe won’t be able to play in the quarterfinals match against China after they received their second yellow cards in Monday night’s 2-0 victory over upstart Colombia.

Alex Morgan scored her first goal of the Women’s World Cup and the United States advanced to the quarterfinals with a 2-0 victory over Colombia on Monday night.

Abby Wambach is used to scoring with her head. She’s not sure how she got her latest goal. “I think it was my shin guard, to be quite honest,” she said. “I’m not 100 percent sure.” Doesn’t really matter to Wambach. What does is that she scored, pulling the U.S. national team to a 1-0 victory over Nigeria and into...

Brandi Chastain believes that if youth coaches can reduce the risk of concussions by focusing on footwork and special awareness rather than headers, it will also allow players to develop stronger fundamental skills.

Megan Rapinoe scored twice and the United States overcame early defensive shakiness to beat Australia 3-1 Monday night in the Americans’ opener at the Women’s World Cup.

Christine Sinclair converted a penalty kick in the second minute of second-half stoppage time, giving host Canada a 1-0 win over China on Saturday in the opening match of the Women’s World Cup.

Canada, ranked No. 8 in the world, opens women’s soccer’s premier tournament with a group-stage match against No. 16 China on Saturday in Edmonton, one of the six Canadian cities hosting the monthlong event. The final is July 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The USA Women’s World Cup team tied South Korea 0-0 in a first-round warm-up game.