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Hope Solo won't be in goal for the U.S. against Norway. She won't even be on the bench, as Greg Ryan left her off the roster after Hope was critical of his decision to put Brianna Scurry in the match against Brazil over her.

Maybe Hope should have kept her mouth shut, but can Ryan afford to have Scurry in goal for the third-place match. Scurry's already proven she's not exactly ready to be playing at this level again, as she was out played in the Brazil match. The 36-year-old Scurry just isn't fit enough as the first full game she played in three months was against Brazil. With Hope off the team, the U.S. can only hope that Scurry is ready for this match, because it would be a travesty for the U.S. to walk away from the World Cup with nothing to show for it.

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Greg Ryan's decision of putting Brianna Scurry in goal over Hope Solo failed miserably. As Scurry let in not one, not two, but four goals in against Brazil.

It just wasn't the American's night, as the first goal was an own-goal, then later Shannon Boxx was sent off for a second yellow.

Now the U.S. will play Norway on Sunday for the third-place match.

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U.S. Women's National Team coach Greg Ryan will either be seen as a genius or as crazy depending on how the semi-final game against Brazil goes.

Ryan's decided to bench keeper Hope Solo for 36-year-old Brianna Scurry. The decision probably has a lot to do with the fact that Scurry has been in goal the last two times the Women have played Brazil. Both games ended with a victory for the U.S. team.

But one has to wonder if this is the best move, not only hasn't Scurry played a full game in three months, but also this young squad is very close and something like this could disrupt their concentration.

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With rain pouring down, the U.S. Women defeated Nigeria 1-0 to finish in first place in Group B, more importantly they booked their ticket to the Women's World Cup quarterfinals. Although the African side had possession for most of the game, they rarely tested American keeper Hope Solo. With three points in hand, thanks to the game winner from Lori Chalupny, the Women will now play in England in their quarterfinals match.

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First it seems that Chinas was spying on Denmark's Women's National team, and yesterday, right before Denmark played New Zealand, FIFA announced that they were suspending Denmark's head coach, Kenneth Heiner-Moller, for two games because he apparently came into physical contact with a referee.

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This has been a week of scandal and cheating it seems in the world of soccer, and the Women's World Cup hasn't been ammuned to these issues.

It turns out that during one of Denmark's team meets two men with cameras were hiding between a two-way mirror. It turns out that right before Denmark was to have their strategy meeting for their game against China, two men with cameras were discovered hiding between a two-way mirror.

FIFA decided that the men weren't connected to any of the teams, but here at OBJ, we still find it a little suspicious. Whethere or not they were afflilated with any teams, the matter still remains that they were trying to record Denmark's meeting - it seems a little fishy.

China won that game 3-2.

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The Kristine Lilly-Abby Wambach team strikes again. In the must win game against Sweden, Wambach proved why she's so important to the team. She scored both goals, but the second being the goal of the tournament so far. (Check out her goal here.

That second goal was Wambach's third of the tournament...as well as her 80th goal in 98 games.

All the U.S. needs now is a draw to make it to the next round.

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The Women's World Cup is off to an amazing start. The first game of the competition saw 11 goals, that's right 11 of them. Of course, all 11 goals were scored by Germany against their Group A competitor Argentina.

It seems that all teams except for Argentina have scored so far. The U.S., Japan, North Korea and England teams each scored two goals a piece. And, Nigeria and Sweden each scored once.

If these first few games say anything about this tournament, it's going to be an interesting one.

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