The Collapse of the Women’s Professional Soccer League Should Surprise No One

Mar 9, 2012

By Jordan Kobritz   Six days before the Super Bowl, a celebration of America’s most popular sport, the Women’s Professional Soccer League (WPS) announced it was suspending operations for the 2012 season. Fittingly, the announcement hardly registered among sports fans. During the 2011 season, the league operated with only six teams and the total announced attendance was a mere 190,000.   WPS was the second incarnation of women’s professional soccer in the U.S. The Women’s Uni
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