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Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy dance the jive Monday night, Sept 26, on Dancing With The Stars. The dance was very entertaining. They make a very cute couple!

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Hope Solo is paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy in Season 13 of “Dancing With The Stars” scheduled to premiere Monday night, Sept. 19, on ABC. Hope and Maksim are considered to be one of the frontrunners along with Ricki Lake and Derek Hough.

Hope Solo and Dancing With The Stars partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy

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The United States Women’s Soccer team has two heroes today – Hope Solo and Abby Wambach. Each player received widespread attention on Sunday after a thrilling win over Brazil in the quarterfinal round.

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Trailing by a goal and with time running out in extra time, Abby Wambach with just seconds to spare saved the Americans, and Hope Solo the new hero in the penalty shootout, stopped an attempt by Brazil as the USA came back to win. ... Read Full Story

Olympic gold medalist skier, Lindsey Vonn, along with Olympic track athlete Monica Hargrove and Lauren Cheney of the USA national soccer team, appears in the latest commercial for Under Armour. The company wants to expand its market to women and what better female athlete to choose for an endorsement than Lindsey Vonn.

Lindsey Vonn endorses Under Armour helping the company expand the womens market

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JOHANNESBURG – Little did we know that an octopus named Paul would be right about the outcome of the World Soccer matches. After a game marked by 14 yellow cards, Andrés Iniesta’s gave Spain its first World Cup title over The Netherlands.

Kerim Okten/European Pressphoto Agency Andrés Iniesta after the winning goal. His shirt carried a tribute to Dani Jarque, a defender who played with some of the Spanish players on youth national teams. Jarque died last August at age 26.

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Landon Donovan and the U.S. soccer team scored the game winner in the 91st minute of their match with Algeria. Donovan helped US soccer set a number of records in its 1-0 win today, which made it the top-scoring team in the World Cup Group C.

LANDON DONOVAN: United States' goalkeeper Tim Howard (L) celebrates with Landon Donovan after the 1-0 victory against Algeria in a 2010 World Cup Group C soccer match at Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria on June 23. Brian Snyder/Reuters

On one of the biggest nights in American soccer history the USA at last played as if it deserved the victory. ... Read Full Story

NELSPRUIT, South Africa – New Zealand could not quite pull off a win over Italy in their second Group F game on Sunday but a 1-1 draw still represented an extraordinary achievement. World champion Italy was aided by a controversial penalty against New Zealand in earning a 1-1 draw at the FIFA World Cup in Nelspruit on Sunday.”

Italy's Vincenzo Iaquinta fights for the ball with New Zealand's Tony Lochhead (R) during their 2010 World Cup Group F soccer match at Mbombela stadium in Nelspruit June 20, 2010. REUTERS/Howard Burditt (SOUTH AFRICA - Tags: SPORT SOCCER WORLD CUP)

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“I think that stopped the nation,” New Zealand coach Ricki Herbert said. “It’s the most incredible result we’ve had across the board. As a football coach, it’s way above anything we’ve achieved in the history of the game. ... Read Full Story

The United States overcame a two-goal deficit to force a draw against Slovenia on Friday, but the Americans may have deserved to win outright. Shortly after tying the game in the 81st minute, the U.S. had a free kick near the Slovenian goal.

Landon Donovan, who scored the first U.S. goal of the game, lobbed the ball towards the goal and teammate Maurice Edu knocked it in. A referee called the goal off, apparently because he thought the American committed a foul. ... Read Full Story