Rachel Bachman
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Senior sports reporter, @WSJ . @SJI_Update . Olympics / Women’s World Cup / college sports.
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Not many sports stories are big enough for The Wall Street Journal to send as a news alert to subscribers.
This one is:
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Megan Rapinoe responding to criticism that Alex Morgan’s tea-sipping celebration was distasteful: “Wah, wah, wah. It’s like, we’re at the World Cup. What do you want us to do?
“We work hard, we like to play hard.”
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What’s happening with the Indiana Fever is head-spinning.
As third-year player NaLyssa Smith said: “We used to play in a barn with six fans. Now we’re going to be playing in sold-out arenas.”
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Simone Biles is leaving Nike for Athleta, a smaller activewear brand focused on women.
“I feel like they also support me, not just as an athlete, but just as an individual outside of the gym.”
News from
@louiseradnofsky
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Megan Rapinoe minced no words about Colin Kaepernick at Glamour's women of the year awards Monday:
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On the Michigan football sideline: the first female graduate assistant at a Power 5 program
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Tonight is the fifth time this season that Caitlin Clark (41) has scored more points than the 2022 Iowa football team did in any of its games.
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One reason why South Carolina leads the nation in attendance: Dawn Staley gives local TV stations lots of access. They, in turn, cover the team intensely.
Here they are lined up in Albany, NY, to talk to her after the Gamecocks clinched the Final Four:
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US Soccer sponsor Coca-Cola statement to the
@WSJ
on the federation’s recent court filing in pay-discrimination case:
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Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 7, the White House announces.
It's the United States' highest civilian honor.
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She did it again
Tonight is the fifth time this season that Caitlin Clark (41) has scored more points than the 2022 Iowa football team did in any of its games.
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The WNBA champion Lynx weren't invited to the White House. Today, they'll visit a low-income DC elementary school and donate shoes and socks to all students. Shoe distribution will include cleaning the children's feet:
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The great
@des_linden
, post-NYC Marathon, where she finished 6th
Reporter: Is it a bourbon or whiskey night?
Linden: Bourbon is whiskey, Larry.
🥃
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@gavreilly
Here’s the
@WSJ
story Cena read, prompting him to make the mom’s promise to her son come true:
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Spain leaving its Women’s World Cup base camp due to “boredom” is amazingly on-brand.
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In attendance at Caitlin Clark’s last game at Carver-Hawkeye: Lynette Woodard, the Kansas star whose pre-NCAA scoring total Clark just passed.
At left is Lark Birdsong, Iowa’s first women’s basketball coach.
(1/2)
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The NCAA women’s gymnastics championship was moved to an earlier window to accommodate ABC’s new Saturday afternoon NHL package.
Then it outdrew that NHL package by 29% in ratings and 15% in viewership (922K to 786K).
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Five years ago, the NJ/NY soccer team trained at facilities that lacked running water, working toilets and showers.
Last year it finished last in the league.
Tonight, with new part-owners
@s10bird
+
@elimanning
watching,
@GothamFC
won its first NWSL title.
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Fox announces the
@USWNT
opener was the second-most watched Women's World Cup group-stage broadcast ever on English-language TV.
It ranks just behind 2019 USA-Chile game's audience of 5.3 million.
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Looks like the NCAA changed its Final Four logos and social-media channels.
@FinalFour
, which last spring called itself "the official" event feed, referring only to the men's tournament, no longer exists.
Today:
@MFinalFour
+
@WFinalFour
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Hannah Gavios, a former competitive runner, was paralyzed in Thailand 3 years ago after falling 150 feet from a cliff as she tried to escape a sexual assault from a man she asked for directions.
On Sunday she'll run the NYC Marathon:
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1 - There's been some inaccurate information bubbling around about how much $ the USWNT is getting from this men's World Cup under the new equal-pay agreement, and what it’s earned at past Women's World Cups. Here's a thread:
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NEW: U.S. Soccer Federation is receiving backlash, including from sponsor Coke, for arguing in court documents that a “higher level of skill” and “more responsibility” are required of members of the men’s team than the women’s team.
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The 2023 Women’s World Cup will generate $500 million and break even financially, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said at the opening news conference.
That’s significant for the women's tournament for a few reasons:
(1/4) 🧵
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South Carolina coach Dawn Staley is wearing a jersey from Cheyney, the nation's oldest HBCU, roughly 30 miles from her hometown of Philadelphia.
In 1982 its women's team became the first and only HBCU to reach the Final Four.
v
@GreenvilleNews
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U.S. men's soccer team players association issues statement supporting U.S. women's "pursuit of fair compensation," and takes issue with US Soccer's accounting in its letter yesterday:
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“I don’t want to coach in the men’s game.”
— Dawn Staley, two-time NCAA champion coach of the South Carolina Women’s basketball team, on suggestions that she could coach the Temple men’s program
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NCAA women's volleyball championship drew 696K viewers on *ESPN2*.
Mets-Cubs drew 630K on ESPN last week — the most-watched MLB weekday game since Opening Day, via
@paulsen_smw
The Wildcats make history! 🏆
@KentuckyVB
captures its first ever Division I
@NCAAVolleyball
championship in program history!
|
#NCAAVB
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In an earnings call today, Nike said apparel revenue from the 2019 Women's World Cup was *four times* what it was in 2015.
h/t
@lainehiggins17
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NEW: US Soccer says pay differences between its men’s and women’s teams are due partly to revenue differences. But in recent years the U.S. women brought in more game revenue than the men:
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⛹🏿💃🏽Kevin Garnett copied Beyoncé to train himself to talk while playing without getting winded:
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The UConn women’s basketball team generated more than twice as much ticket revenue as UConn’s football team in 2021-22, v
@Sportico
$2.4 million compared w $1.1 million.
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🏐 Big Ten Network took an already popular women’s sport, volleyball, and strategically boosted it.
The results are striking:
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NEW: When Trinity Rodman played youth soccer, opposing fans would yell that she was overrated. They thought she was wealthy and that having a famous father smoothed her path.
Neither was true.
Now she’s headed to the World Cup.
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"Covid Toe is a casual name for something medically known as pernio or chilblains, which is a condition that causes symptoms such as discoloration and lesions. It can be extremely painful and turn the toes purple."
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@andrewlbeaton
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NEW: Des Linden is running the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon trials.
AND
51 days later, she's running the Boston Marathon.
Linden on her audacious double:
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NEW: The National Women’s Soccer League is set to add teams in Utah, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, with the coastal teams agreeing to record $50 million expansion fees.
w/
@jtoonkel
:
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NEW: Ohio State football probe didn’t attempt to recover deleted texts; AD Gene Smith had practice of deleting texts, in possible violation of state law. via
@WSJ
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The Redskins wanted to partner with a Chinese firm dubbed a national-security threat to provide WiFi in a stadium frequented by senior US government officials.
Then this amazing exchange happened:
@andrewlbeaton
@stuwoo
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A $300 apartment. No cable TV. Team-issued clothes. No car.
How a soon-to-be NFL draft pick skimped and saved more than $15,000 in college:
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Yolett McPhee-McCuin, the women's basketball coach at Ole Miss, which just upset 1-seed Stanford, has an *amazing* story about how she got her job:
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Sophia Smith, one of the top young scorers on the USWNT, just said she’s never used a CD player.
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Classic Twitter reply to news that OU quarterback was arrested:
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Why are the Tokyo Olympics being held in the middle of Japan's typically sweltering summer, instead of in October, when the 1964 Tokyo Olympics were held?
Well....
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NEW: Nike co-founder Phil Knight has been trying for a year to buy the Portland Trail Blazers franchise.
The Paul Allen estate, which owns it, is obligated to sell it.
But Allen’s heir, his sister, still says it isn't for sale.
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This sign on a Tokyo Olympics media bus sums up the approach to these Games
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"Staff is complaining bitterly because no one will make a decision about anything."
US Soccer is operating without a CEO and its men's team continues to struggle two years after failing to qualify for the World Cup:
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Texas overtakes Ohio State for nation’s most valuable college football program.
The Longhorns are worth $1.1 billion:
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She’s not far off on the barn comment. In 2022, the Fever played at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum, a state-fairgrounds arena opened in 1939 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (part of the New Deal).
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I'm a little surprised Jim Harbaugh is staying at a hotel. Based on Michigan fans' reaction, I expected a manger.
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Nika Mühl, UConn, with ‘ZG’ initials on her teeth for Zagreb, Croatia
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Megan Rapinoe says FIFA should feel “on notice” about the World Cup prize-money gap, now that the US women have reached an equal-pay settlement agreement.
“They should feel like they’re next.”
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NWSL is in its ninth season. For perspective, the decisive game of the ninth-season NBA finals drew a crowd of 6,697.
Thank you to all 10,360 here for the
@NWSL
Championship!
It's the largest crowd to see a women's soccer game at Lynn Family Stadium.
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After Megan Rapinoe knelt before games in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, US Soccer passed a rule requiring players to stand during the anthem.
Today US Soccer said it was wrong:
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Just in: This game averaged 1.93 million viewers, the most-watched regular-season women’s college basketball game on any network since 2010.
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Women’s college basketball has always had stars.
It hasn’t always had: strong school funding, lots of televised regular-season games, social media, NIL deals to amplify star power, conference networks, every NCAA tournament game on national TV.
A record 12.3 million viewers for Monday's Iowa-LSU NCAA women's Elite Eight game, the largest NCAA women's basketball audience ever measured by Nielsen. Previous high was 11.8 million for Cheryl Miller's first title game in 1983.
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This is the best-informed, best-written story you’ll read on Tonya Harding:
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For those wondering why news isn’t free:
A
@WSJ
reporter in China mountain-biked to an old copper mine that’s home to the closest known virus to the one that causes Covid-19, and was detained + questioned for five hours by police.
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NEW: Volleyball is packing college arenas, setting TV records and drawing millions in investment for new pro leagues.
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Saturday's
@NWSL
tournament kickoff, Portland v. North Carolina, is the first time professional women’s club soccer will be seen live on a national broadcast network in the U.S.
That's significant.
12:30 ET, CBS.
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US forward
@sophsssmith
paid tribute to Brazil legend Marta after her team was eliminated from the World Cup.
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NEW: Phil Knight is giving $400 million to rebuild the Black community in his hometown of Portland, Ore. The Nike co-founder said he wants the initiative to “give the whole city hope” in a time of crisis.
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80% of all TVs turned on in the UK on Sunday were tuned in to England lifting the Women's Euros championship trophy.
A peak of 17.5 million watched in the UK.
17.9 million watched in Germany.
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NEW: Advertisers spent nearly $100 million on U.S. TV commercials in and around the 2019 Women’s World Cup, far higher than an earlier estimate.
With
@alexbruell
:
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“After the Women’s World Cup ended, Nike initially made only about 1,000 jerseys available and they sold out immediately.”
1,000?
After the World Cup final drew 16 million viewers in the US alone?
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🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾Runners live about three years longer than non-runners, study says.
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A few weeks ago, Seattle's
@OLReign
set the club's attendance record of 10,746.
So far, it's sold about 18,000 tickets for Sunday's
@NWSL
playoff semifinal v
@thekccurrent
.
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Some people say Nike has alienated millions of customers by partnering with Colin Kaepernick. But Nike sales + stock are up. Why? 80% of the sneaker industry’s biggest enthusiasts are under age 35. And they tend to stand with Kaep.
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This game had 1.19 million viewers, the most-viewed women’s college volleyball match ever on ESPN networks.
The game was on ESPN2.
It drew a higher rating than the recent MLS Cup final on ABC (1.14 million viewers).
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Two years ago the NCAA didn’t let the women’s basketball tournament use the ‘March Madness’ logo.
On Sunday the women’s championship drew a record of nearly 10 million viewers, double last year’s audience.
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Nice of the volleyball team to let them use the stadium
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Five years ago, some NCAA women’s tournament games weren’t televised nationally and the Final Four was on ESPN2.
Today, the women’s tournament has two first-round games on ABC: UConn at 1 ET and Iowa at 3.
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Presidential campaign ad spending by sport, via
@sbjsbd
. The overlap between Trump + Biden is NFL, college football and soccer:
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The best lesson from sports is how to lose with honor and grace.
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Women’s World Cup data from
@Fanatics
:
It sold more USWNT Championship merchandise Sunday than was sold for the entire month after the 2015 champions clinched
Best-selling player merch is Rapinoe
Best-selling shirt is this:
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1 million watched
@USWNT
-Vietnam across Telemundo (incl. streaming), Peacock and Universo--the most watched WWC group stage match in Spanish-language history.
So across English and Spanish US broadcasts, nearly 6.3 million watched.
Fox announces the
@USWNT
opener was the second-most watched Women's World Cup group-stage broadcast ever on English-language TV.
It ranks just behind 2019 USA-Chile game's audience of 5.3 million.
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Why would the US men’s soccer team agree to pool and share prize money with the US women?
Because the deal helped the men reach a new contract with US Soccer that gave them significant raises, revenue sharing and $11 mil in back pay.
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Just overheard a woman getting out of Uber in Brooklyn say: "You're psychotic. I'm giving you four stars."
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In 1999, seven million girls in the US were playing soccer. The chance of making this US Olympic soccer team was 0.00031%.
Sam and Kristie Mewis both did it.
How their parents helped get them there:
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“I want people to walk in the door just thinking this is a regular sports bar and feeling super comfortable. And then when they sit down, they realize all the TVs are playing women's sports.”
Coming in April to Portland: The Sports Bra.
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Baby Yoda has never known a world where Michigan beats Ohio State
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NEW: For years, the NCAA has denied the women’s basketball tournament the use of the powerful ‘March Madness’ brand, even though it’s trademarked for both the men’s and women’s tournaments.
w/
@louiseradnofsky
@lainehiggins17
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Grant Wahl was an outstanding journalist, an early and prominent advocate for women’s soccer and a kind, wonderful human being.
Devastating news.
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Of all Australians watching broadcast TV last night, nine in 10 were tuned into the Matildas.
Combined with anticipated figures from streaming, the total is expected to top the 8.8M that watched Cathy Freeman at Sydney 2000 Olympics.
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