Article: WUSA seeking alternative ways of survival in some fashion.

Byline: Mike Jensen

PHILADELPHIA _ There won't be a WUSA next year, not the full women's professional soccer league that existed for the past three seasons. But might there be a WUSA barnstorming tour? Or a WUSA round-robin tournament?

Those are the kinds of things WUSA players and some investors have been looking into since the league announced on Monday that it was suspending operations.

"We have a small window to pursue it, maybe 30 to 45 days," said John Langel, an attorney at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and legal adviser to the WUSA players. "The goal is to have a WUSA product in the year 2004, with appropriate investor and sponsor ...

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