Strap on Your Shin Guards

After last season’s playoff debacle, you retired your ratty Miami Heat T-shirt, and you can’t even remember what you did with your Dolphins jersey after Ricky left for the last time. But don’t let your current state of discontent force you to completely abandon all of South Florida’s sports organizations. We think it’s simply time that you find a new team to obsess over, maybe one a little further off the beaten path. Meet the Florida International University women’s soccer team and its unique brand of ball-kicking. Forget trying to bend it like Beckham; after today’s game versus Binghamton, you’ll be trying to figure out how to bend it like a Golden Panther.

Legs and balls will be flying, but professional-size egos will definitely take a bye this week. The game begins at 7:00 p.m. at the FIU University Park Soccer Stadium. Visit www.fiusports.com.
Thu., Sept. 13, 7 p.m.