Sandy • There’s no guidebook for an expansion franchise, let alone one with the loftiest of expectations in its first year of existence. So much of the experience, as Utah Royals FC have found out, is just rolling with it, making the most of the good and learning from the early missteps along the way.
But what Laura Harvey knew when she walked out of the stuffed Providence Park in Portland, Ore., last Friday night was this: That wasn’t her team. That wasn’t what this organization was going to stand for, a 4-0 drubbing to a rival.