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U.S. Women’s Soccer: A Cure for the Lockout Blues
With lockouts dominating the sports summer, fans need something to lift their malaise. Enter the U.S. Women’s Soccer team and their bid for the World Cup
Sean Gregory
Sean Gregory is a TIME staff writer who has covered sports extensively over the last decade. He has penned profiles on athletes ranging from LeBron James, Novak Djokovic, Usain Bolt and Eli Manning, and explored issue like football's concussion crisis, and the treatment of young baseball players in the Dominican Republic. Sean has covered the the last four Olympic Games, and filed dispatches from Super Bowls, the NBA Finals, and the World Series for TIME. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Sean enjoys firing lots of shots in pickup basketball games.
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