Sheryl Martinez Fremont, Calif. I have waited patiently, but still see your publication as sexist. There are new things happening daily regarding the professional women’s league, yet your publication never, I repeat, never prints anything. Can you please devote some print, preferably an entire issue, to women’s soccer, not college, that will discuss venues, coaches, salaries, and the draft. We have brought attention to the sport, it’s pay back time! Thank you. Mike Woitalla: Soccer America put womenÆs soccer on its cover in 1975. Can you find another publication that did that? We are the only magazine that staffed all three WomenÆs World Cups, dating back to the inaugural tournament in China in 1991. Brandi Chastain was Soccer AmericaÆs 1986 College Freshman of the Year, 13 years before her world famous disrobing. Eighteen of the 20 1999 World Cup winners were honored as Soccer America College MVPs — long before the mainstream media discovered the womenÆs game. We at Soccer America can be proud of our coverage of womenÆs soccer, both past and present. Associate Editor Dean Caparaz is the nationÆs leading expert on the womenÆs game. You will not find another journalist who has written as extensively about womenÆs soccer as Dean has. Sheryl, I will assume that you hadnÆt yet seen the April 17 issue, in which Senior Editor Scott French did an excellent job outlining the womenÆs pro league proposals. (The article is available on this Web site, though please note that only a portion of our weekly magazine is posted online.) The subsequent issue, which went to press at the time of your e-mail, included a follow-up on page 4 that revealed WUSAÆs salary information, and on page 38 we addressed the TV plan. What follows is an index of our recent womenÆs coverage (issue dates reflect date until which issue remains on newsstands). Please keep in mind that in the college offseason (now) there is only a sprinkling of activity on the womenÆs soccer front. During the college season you would see even more womenÆs soccer in Soccer America: April 24 — Associate Editor Dean CaparazÆs feature on Shannon MacMillan; USA-Iceland game wrap-up; womenÆs pro league TV deal update; WUSA-MLS proposals and conflicts on womenÆs league; U.S. U-18s update; U.S. U-21 roster; China league note; Overbeck health note; Youth Soccer Letter is at least 50 percent dedicated to girls soccer. April 17 — Senior Editor Scott FrenchÆs editorial on womenÆs league; Paul Kennedy editorial on MLS role in womenÆs pro league; notes on Akers health, U.S. U-18 tour score; U.S. U-18 roster. April 10 — Associate Editor Dean Caparaz feature on three keepers who are vying for Briana ScurryÆs goalkeeping job. Youth Soccer Letter includes ODP girls winners. April 3 — Coverage of U.S. Algarve Cup win; notes on womenÆs college soccer: UCLA, Maryland, Stanford, Portland, Seattle Pacific; Q&A with Kim Morris, owner of A-League and W-League teams. March 27 — ôThen and Nowö interview with retired world champ Mary Harvey; Carla Overbeck feature; U.S. U-21 roster; Camp Directory includes 100s of camps for girls. March 20 — Michelle Akers interview; Algarve roster; Project Gold facility information. March 13 — Senior Editor Ridge MahoneyÆs feature on Hank Steinbrecher includes comments on his role in womenÆs national team negotiations; tournament calendar lists scores of female tournaments. March 6 — Dean Caparaz feature on April Heinrichs assistant John Ellis; notes on UCLA, Virginia, Albany, Mississippi State; Youth Soccer Letter includes profile of coed youth club with emphasis on girls team, and notes on female soccer leaders. Feb. 28 — Detailed look by Scott French at WUSA proposal with background on investors and major questions about challenge of a womenÆs league; notes on Norway, Brazil, Germany, Nebraska. As far as devoting an entire issue to womenÆs soccer? Soccer America always tries to cover all the interesting and newsworthy areas of soccer in each of its issues. We do not dedicate single issues to just one topic at the expense of other areas. We do have special issues, often relating to major events, that devote extra space to a certain facet of the game. The 1999 WomenÆs World Cup issue, for example, included 22 pages of womenÆs soccer. More than you would have seen anywhere else in a sports magazine. (If you have a question for a Soccer America Magazine editor, click “Q&A with SA Editors” in the left column of the home page under “Interactive.”)