WPS

The Bay Area remains in the waiting area when it comes to landing a franchise in Women's Professional Soccer, scheduled to open play in the spring of 2009. The league has agreements with franchises in seven other cities, and the Bay Area is in a group of five possibilities for the eighth spot.

The league has been talking to Lew Wolff's A's/Quakes ownership group. "They have a keen interest in it," WPS Commissioner Tonya Antonucci said. "However, they're in a holding pattern with respect to a stadium. We're starting to talk to other groups who might move more quickly and have a different stadium solution. We really need another team on the West Coast, and this is one of the strongest soccer communities in the whole nation."