After Atalanta

The Washington Freedom has invited Michelle Obama and her daughters to a game this season. No word on whether not the female members of the first family will attend, but Freedom players, especially Abby Wambach, is excited by the possibility. They believe it will generate some good press (not they are getting bad press--they just are not getting any national press) and set an example for other fans. Not sure why they didn't invite the president himself to join his wife and daughter. After all it is the president that believes women can be seen playing sports on television all the time (false) and who apparently was not aware that one could fill out a bracket for the women's NCAA b-ball tourney. Maybe he could learn a thing or two about women's sports from attending a game.

Abby Wambach's tackle that resulted in Athletica star Daniela's injury last week has also resulted in Wambach's one-game suspension . A suspension not handed down by the WPS disciplinary committee that reviewed the game, including the many egregious fouls by Athletica defenders on Wambach. (See the video posted on Women's Sports Nation.) WPS commissioner Tonya Antonucci reviewed the game footage and issued one-game suspensions to both Wambach and Athletica defender Kia McNeill. Which is all basically crap. If the refs had done their job and issued yellow cards for those fouls, it would have sent a message that they were watching. But the game got out of control. Wambach's challenge to Daniela was clearly yellow-card worthy but not suspension worthy. The disciplinary committee thought so. That Antonucci gets to overrule is a little problematic. Injuries happen. As I mentioned, Wambach herself was the victim of a foul-worthy challenge that took her out of the last Wor...