The assistant captain of Stanford’s women’s soccer team Sammy Smith is a dual-sport star heading to Italy in February.

While Americans refer to this sport as soccer, it is called football or association football outside the United States. Two teams with 11 players each try to kick the soccer ball into a net and score ...

the United States knows it won't necessarily have a Dutch treat in China this August. One reason is that the U.S. will take on the European champion Netherlands in one of its Group B matches. The ...