An airline employee wheeled Yesuf through security in a wheelchair with the wrong ticket, WUSA reported.

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Adem told WUSA that Delta gave her grandmother someone else's ticket.

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The league is heeding lessons from the failed WUSA, which spent gobs of money trying to capitalize on the 1999 women's World Cup victory only to flop after three seasons.

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By any measure, the WUSA was a flop.

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Antonucci, the commissioner of Women's Professional Soccer, is tirelessly pitching sponsors and television executives on the notion that the start-up league will not repeat the mistakes of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the ill-fated pro league that failed to capitalize on a U.S. World Cup title nearly a decade ago.

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