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SPORTS Friday, March 8, 2019 East Oregonian B3 Megan Rapinoe looks toward NWSL season, World Cup By ANNE M. PETERSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Just a bit of fi ne tuning and Megan Rapinoe should be ready for the World Cup. The outspoken 33-year- old winger with her shock of blond hair is not new to this process. She’s been to the last two World Cups, including the 2015 tournament in Can- ada that the United States won. While she’s physically fi t at this point, Rapinoe said she isn’t as “sharp” as she’d like to be — yet. The game’s pre- mier event is being held this time around in France, start- ing in June. Rapinoe and the national team just wrapped up the SheBelieves Cup, a round- robin tournament with England, Brazil and Japan. The results weren’t ideal for the Americans. After draws with England and Japan, the United States downed Brazil 1-0 to fi nish second. “Just getting kind of back into rhythm,” she said. “I haven’t really played a lot of games like this in a few months. Toward the end of last year, I was able to take time off and get my body right. But now I’m just con- tinuing to get sharp and be more consistent.” Rapinoe sat out of the team’s fi rst exhibition of the year, against France, because of a slight hamstring injury. But she’s played ever since and scored in the 2-2 draw with England in the second SheBelieves match. The United States has 10 total games on its pre-World Cup schedule this year, with the next coming on April 4 in Commerce City, Colorado, against Australia. The team, ranked No. 1 in the world, will begin the defense of its World Cup title on June 11 In Reims against Thailand. Part of Rapinoe’s pre- tournament preparation will include time spent with her club team, the Seattle Reign. The National Women’s Soc- cer League team started pre- season workouts this past week and opens the season on April 14 at the Houston Dash. Rapinoe, who won an NCAA title with the Port- land Pilots, made her debut with the senior national team in 2006. She played in all six U.S. games at the 2011 World Cup in Germany, memora- bly picking up a microphone after a goal and singing Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” At the 2012 London Olym- pics, she scored directly from a corner kick in the semifi - nals against Canada. She is the only player — male or female — to have such a goal in Olympic competition. AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File In this March 7, 2018, fi le photo, United States midfi elder Megan Rapinoe (15) dribbles the ball in front of England midfi elder Keira Walsh (22) during the fi rst half of a SheBelieves Cup women’s soccer match in Orlando, Fla. Considered one of the top players in the world, Rapi- noe was key to the team’s ultimate success at the 2015 World Cup. “She’s a player that you just have to have on the pitch, in terms of set pieces, in terms of game-changing moments,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis said. Rapinoe is also one of the team’s most personable players and she’s unafraid to speak her mind. She’s been particularly vocal about equi- table pay and treatment of female athletes. In the run-up to this year’s World Cup, she has pushed FIFA to use video review, or VAR, in the women’s event after it was used for the men’s World Cup in Russia last year. Soccer’s international governing body is expected to make a fi nal decision on the matter next week. She has also spoken out about the disparity in prize money between World Cups — France, the winner in Russia, was awarded $38 million, while the winner of the women’s tournament in France will take home less than a quarter of that, just $4 million. She was one of fi ve U.S. women’s national team play- ers who joined in a 2016 com- plaint fi led with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over unequal pay. In 2017, Rapinoe drew attention when she knelt during the national anthem before an NWSL game. She said it was an act of solidar- ity with Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who knelt during the anthem to call attention to racial inequality. After she also knelt before two national team matches, the U.S. Soccer Federa- tion adopted a new rule that says players must stand for anthems. She said she’d abide by it. For now, Rapinoe’s focus has turned to the Reign. The NWSL, entering its seventh season, is considered among the strongest domestic pro leagues in the world. Nor- mally the club season is gru- eling, but in a World Cup year the players who are going to France are managed closely by their federations. As a vet, Rapinoe also knows where she needs to be come June. “It’s just knowing yourself as a player. I have a pretty good understanding of what I need. I feel I have a good rela- tionship with my club as well and just being honest and open in exactly what I need,” she said. “The national team’s a priority and me personally, I’m the priority for myself, making sure that I’m in the best place to perform the best I can at the World Cup.” AP source: Broncos trading Keenum to Redskins By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer AP Photo/Gary Landers, File Denver Broncos quarterback Case Keenum looks to pass in the fi rst half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 2, 2018, in Cincinnati. ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Case Keenum is on the move again. The Den- ver Broncos have agreed to trade the veteran quar- terback to the Washington Redskins, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. The teams will also swap 2020 draft picks, with Denver receiving a sixth-rounder and Wash- ington a seventh-rounder, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal cannot be announced until next week. Keenum’s contract will be reworked with the Bron- cos and Redskins each picking up half of the $7 million he was guaranteed in 2019. The Broncos decided to move on from Keenum last month when they agreed to acquire Super Bowl-win- ning veteran Joe Flacco from the Baltimore Ravens. Like the Keenum trade, the Flacco trade cannot become offi cial until the start of the league year on March 13. For the second con- secutive offseason, the Redskins opted to trade for a quarterback. Keenum enters the equation to try to replace 2018 addition Alex Smith, who broke his right tibia and fi bula in Novem- ber and is expected to miss the entire 2019 season. Keenum will likely compete with longtime Redskins backup Colt McCoy to be their Week 1 starter. 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