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Marta Returns to WPS, Signs with Expansion Club in Western New York

She is, without question, the best women's soccer player in the world -- a five-time FIFA award winner whose stunning skill would impress even Andy Gray and Richard Keys. Her talents have translated to Women's Professional Soccer, where she led her clubs to first place in each of the league's two seasons while scoring 29...

Women's Soccer In Crisis As St. Louis Folds Mid-Season

It's becoming more and more apparent that America fell in love with Mia and Brandi in the summer of 1999 and not women's soccer. For the second time in four months, Women's Professional Soccer has lost a club. At least the Los Angeles Sol, which featured four-time FIFA World Player of the Year Marta, had the decency to...

Women's Soccer Takes Hit as Sol Flame Out

Women's soccer just cannot get a break. After a five-year stretch notable for bad news (two World Cup semifinal blowout losses), and more bad news (the retirements of just about all the players you'd ever heard of), the sport found a pulse again in 2009 with the launch of Women's Professional Soccer. The league started...

Soccer Star Marta Scores Goal on Kobe

Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. NBA Superstar Kobe Bryant is a huge fan of Brazilian soccer star Marta. In this video we hang out with Kobe, Marta and players of the Los Angeles Sol, a new professional soccer team which is...

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The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA () is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States.

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