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REVOLUTIONARY WAR EDITION

MLS is winding down, or up, depending on your perspective, but all eyes here at TIAS are on the Women’s World Cup, where the quarter finals are set, and as usual the Washington Post has the strongest domestic run-down. New York Times should be embarrassed (again). The Goal Blog, including the curious if poorly written thoughts of Altidore (add: I know he is a teenager, but it’s the TImes - call it jealousy if you want), doesn’t make up for it.

But even the Post has to give a nod to the BBC which has the global tournament in its world wide grasp, a very good thing this week since the US WNT drew England. It led me for the first time to their “Editor’s Blog,” where Lance Hardy looks at Saturday evening’s match-up in Tianjin (that’s early morning for those on the U.S. East Coast).

Keep your friend’s close and your enemies closer with a few interesting reads after the jump…

Which one of those - friend or enemy - is ESPN? Depends on the sport for me, and though I barely ever read soccernet, they do have a nice homepage dedicated to the ladies. It’s just that there is always something better than the supposed World Wide Leader. Which with the global game is unmasked as a false proclamation.

England having trouble recruiting women to pro socccer. Lots of young kids playing, fewer teens and adults. Sound familiar?

England has a WUSA star on its roster: Kelly Smith

And just for the love of it – the World Cup wasn’t the only place with fireworks from Mother Nature this week: Villagers fall ill after fireball hits Peru