Judge hears arguments on US women's team strike rights (The Associated Press)

A federal judge in Chicago has heard arguments whether the world champion U.S. women's soccer team has the right to strike for improved conditions and wages before this year's Olympics. Lawyers for the U.S. Soccer Federation told Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman at a Thursday hearing that a no-strike clause is implied in a still-valid 2013 memorandum with players. Jeffrey Kessler said the federation had ''screwed up'' by not securing a no-strike clause in writing and can't argue three years later that such a provision is implied.