The San Francisco Bay Area was once briefly home to a powerhouse including Marta, Christine Sinclair, Camille Abily and Kelley O’Hara. But nobody cared enough to keep the club afloat.

Decades after Cesar Chavez made the union a power in California fields, it has lost much of its clout. Membership dropped precipitously, from 60,000 to 5,500. It hopes a new law will turn the tide.

The risqué new landmark is the site of joyful selfies—and arson.

Plans for 2028 will exacerbate housing crisis – and low-income residents have no voice in the matter, tenant activists say.

In Peru, where girls are warned against presenting themselves as masculine, being a female soccer player is more accepted than it has ever been. After years of obscurity, it was a grassroots movement that provided them with the screen-time and opportunity.

Only for a brief moment did the Mission High School Bears pose a threat to the onslaught by Lincoln High at Kezar Stadium. Down 14-0 at the beginning of the second quarter of the city championship game, junior receiver Julian Milton took a kickoff 79 yards to the Mustangs’ nine. “Touchdown! Touchdown!” his teammates screamed.

Scouts and coaches with ties to Mexico have always had a presence in Salinas. What’s different now, coaches say, is the number of players taking their offers. In the last year alone, three current or former Alisal players signed professional contracts in Mexico. 

More than 70,000 people were displaced to make way for last year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Today some are satisfied in their new houses. Others had to start over and are struggling, bitter at the pressure from city officials and real estate speculators to relocate.

A general strike disrupted major cities across Brazil as union workers protested President Michel Temer’s proposal to loosen labor rules and trim pension benefits. Temer’s work rule proposal before Congress would make it easier for employers to hire temporary workers and pay fewer benefits.

Singing popular songs, members of Rio de Janeiro’s samba schools protested against the mayor’s proposal to slash city funds for next year’s Carnival. The demonstration came in response to Mayor Marcelo Crivella’s decision to cut by half the city’s contribution to the annual celebration.

As soon as the Rio Olympics were over, synchronized swimmer Mariya Koroleva knew her career was, too. “I came back from Rio with literally zero dollars in my bank account. Pretty much the Olympics left me broke," said the 26-year-old Concord resident, one of the many Bay Area Olympians who must rely on themselves to fund their athletic ambitions.

Simone Biles is not perfect, but gymnastics does not require it anymore. A profile of the 19-year-old Olympic champion and Rio 2016 darling, whose rise cannot be explained without the disappearance of the perfect 10.