Jillian R. Bernas

There are about 9,500 air miles between Seattle and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. If you are lucky to find a direct flight, you will be in the air more than 18 hours. About the same is true for traveling the 8,800 air miles between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Indianapolis. However, bridging those distances would be the easy...

In the United States, we refer to the sport as soccer; every other country refers to it as football. We might not agree on what to call it, but we can definitely agree on the game’s popularity worldwide and its growing popularity in the United States, especially with the performance of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team at the...