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Women’s soccer pros playing for the love of the game — not the paycheck

Features, Frontpage Featured, Sports / By Vignesh Ramachandran

Maddie Thompson, a pro soccer player in the two-year-old National Women’s Soccer League, plays for Sky Blue FC in New Jersey and is an example of a pro living frugally to play the game she loves.

San Jose Earthquakes Rookie JJ Koval: ‘There’s no such word as can’t’

Culture & Features, Frontpage Featured, Sports / By Vignesh Ramachandran

Stanford grad JJ Koval has established himself in professional soccer, and the San Jose Earthquakes have welcomed the rookie to the “family.”

San Jose Earthquakes’ Tommy Thompson leaves family to pursue the dream

Culture & Features, Features, Frontpage Featured, Sports / By Vignesh Ramachandran

Growing up, soccer brought the Thompson family together. But Tommy Thompson left his brother Tanner at Indiana University, to move westward and play for the Earthquakes.