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✍️ @TheAthletic , covering the USWNT, NWSL and more. 🎙️ Full Time with Meg Linehan, returning this May.
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Looking at ISI Photos and saw that
#USWNT
players have all taken the field wearing their warm-up jerseys inside out, hiding the U.S. Soccer crest... but not the four stars.
Yeah, that feels intentional.
📸 Brad Smith/ISI
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It is very important to watch this video with sound. (I have many questions about how this dude was just allowed to wander, but I also need you to watch this with sound.)
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don't u just love love?
This crowd loooooved the Pinoe and Sue Bird kiss, lemme tell you.
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One thing I am trying to choose to think about this morning is Kristie Mewis making her PK with her first touch and Alyssa Naeher converting hers like a stone-cold killer.
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(men’s teams and leagues you are also allowed to put out statements today js)
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USWNT lose, 0-0.
(Okay for real: the
#USWNT
have advanced to the Round of 16 despite one of the worst performances I have ever witnessed from them with my own two eyeballs.)
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Really don’t think social media is the place to process everything, but spent a lot of time over the years in multiple countries shoulder to shoulder with Grant in mixed zones and press boxes. It’s going to be absolutely fucking unimaginable to not see him there next time.
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pulled over to take this with my actual camera, zero regrets
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Wow can’t believe Carrie Fisher now owns “always” as a phrase and we never have to associate it with Sn*pe again, what a miracle.
The saga will end, the story lives forever. Watch the final trailer for
@StarWars
:
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
in theaters December 20. Get your tickets now:
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1. I resent having to write this.
2. It was never about protecting women’s sports.
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Amid institutional failure, former
#NWSL
players accuse a prominent coach of sexual coercion.
An investigation at
@TheAthletic
, with
@KatieJStrang
:
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Truly an all time moment for the
#USWNT
. If I’m still voting on Hall of Fame when her name comes up I’m just gonna play this video in the meeting and yell THAT’S ALL YOU NEED.
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weird how bad faith approaches have actual consequences, who could have seen it coming
Clay Travis says WNBA ‘refused to credential’ OutKick for draft after transgender athlete question
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we gotta cling to the good news in 2020 and we got some tonight
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FIFA and UEFA are so clearly scared to do the right thing, for plenty of reasons, but also because who knows what happens when you set an actual precedent of accountability? You might be next.
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Kelley O'Hara on what she told Rose Lavelle:
"I just wanted her to know how much her presence on the field tonight had such an impact, her energy & her fight & her aggressiveness & just her flair. Everything about her was was huge for us & I don't want her to forget that."
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This woman is roughly one million times more patient than I would have been.
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If you celebrated Clark for doing this but not Angel Reese you gotta take a long, long look in the mirror.
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If you don’t have ESPN+, take the minute to watch this Millie Bright goal for Chelsea because goddamn.
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I just truly hope Rosalind Berhalter has a good support network at this time. An absolute betrayal of her privacy and agency.
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Alyssa Naeher just won an award for most under appreciated, and refused to even go on stage to accept. A legend.
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brb mounting a rescue operation for Kate Abdo bc she does not deserve this
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BREAKING: The players of the
#USWNT
and U.S. Soccer have settled the equal pay lawsuit/appeal — players will receive $22 million, contingent upon new CBA deal being ratified.
Plenty more details here at
@TheAthletic
:
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what if i run for u.s. soccer president next election on the single platform issue of requiring teams to post their starting xi graphics in the actual formation
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Sinead Farrelly and Mana Shim. Alex Morgan. And every other player and source I spoke to who asked for protection. This is their story.
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I would trust Naomi Girma with basically anything, at this point.
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Do you ever feel blessed that we live in the age of Megan Rapinoe?
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BREAKING: Multiple sources have told
@TheAthletic
that both NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird and NWSL general counsel Lisa Levine have been ousted from their roles today.
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Kelley O'Hara wrapping Rose Lavelle up in a massive hug immediately post-whistle with some words for her.
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“I wasn’t overly emotional about it. I mean, fucking yeeted my Achilles in the sixth minute in my last game ever in the literal championship game.”
Hate it happened, but
@mPinoe
is going to have one of the most epic quotes of her career tonight re: her injury.
#NWSLChampionship
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Jokes aside, the global game just changed with that win. Bigger than England, by a lot.
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This is what women’s sports could and should look like on a weekly basis, if not held back for decades for the dumbest goddamn reasons.
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These two changed this league. Then they won it.
Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly.
NWSL Champions 🏆❤️
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The
#NWSL
is heading to Los Angeles.
My first story of the day on
@weareangelcity
, featuring a lengthy interview with founder Natalie Portman.
At
@TheAthleticSCCR
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This tiny moment in which Marta thinks she needs to answer a fan's phone instead of taking a selfie is so pure.
#NWSL
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Here's the full text of the letter sent to USSF president Cindy Parlow Cone and and candidate(/former prez) Carlos Cordeiro from
#USWNT
players Christen Press, Crystal Dunn, Tobin Heath, Carli Lloyd, Sam Mewis, Alex Morgan, Kelley O'Hara, Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn.
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Megan Rapinoe: "I don't think Merritt Paulson is fit to be the owner in Portland. I don't think Arnim is fit to be the owner in Chicago."
#NWSL
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“I have been championing gender equity in sport for a long time, and I am done seeing transgender youth being cruelly targeted to score political points.”
@beckysauerbrunn
with pure heat in this op-ed.
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LFG — the incoming HBO doc on the
#USWNT
players and equal pay — has a poster as of today.
Will debut at Tribeca on June 17th, available on HBO Max June 24.
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The Ferns have won the opening match of this World Cup, and have also won their first World Cup match ever, in front of a record setting crowd. A magical, magical night after a heartbreaking day.
#FIFAWWC
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A source has confirmed to me that Vlatko Andonovski has handed in his resignation as
#USWNT
head coach (first reported 90min), plan is to announce tomorrow. Andonovski has interest from multiple clubs already.
@TheAthletic
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The best part of that goal was 100% Kelly checking the goal stood before ripping off the shirt to celebrate.
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That game both absolutely sucked but is now instantly the stuff of U.S. vs. Canada lore, and is going to be really high in the "Alyssa Naeher gets voted into the Hall of Fame" story after the World Cups and stuff.
#USWNT
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This ref is making DVD and Horan do "I feel" statements to work this out on the field right now or something idk
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just before we get started here... it really, really sucks that grant isn't with us at this match.
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Alex Morgan’s reaction to the equal pay chants as USSF President Carlos Cordeiro takes the podium.
#USWNT
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Really thrilled to experience a Tigres game before we leave, definitely feels like a soccer bucket list sort of game.
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Sinclair: "I hope that we'll see some investment in the women's game. I think it's time Canada gets a professional league or some professional teams. And if a gold medal and three Olympic medals doesn't do that nothing will, so I think it's time for Canada to step up."
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Just sent
#NWSLChallengeCup
opening game between
@ThornsFC
and
@TheNCCourage
ratings info from a source.
572K total viewers on CBS, 178K for the 18-49 age group.
(2019 Championship drew 166K via ESPN, for comparison.)
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I just refused to move out of a man’s path on the sidewalk and you would think he had just been gravely wounded by his reaction. 😂
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17.4 million peak viewers in England for the Euros win — in 2019, the World Cup match between England and the USWNT had a peak of 11.7 million.
That's already some absurd growth right there.
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GOOD.
🇧🇷 Marta will receive a life-sized statue of herself that will be placed next to the statue of Pelé in the Brazilian National Team Museum.
A new wing of the museum will also be designated to the history and achievements of the Brazil women's national team.
[Source:
@MidiaNINJA
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Latest statement from Molly Levinson, spokesperson for the
#USWNT
players just hit my email on last night’s filings.
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Inbox: The
#USWNT
vs. England match in October will air on big Fox — massive chance to blow out the ratings.
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Couldn’t they just... give a signature show to a woman athlete instead so we can show our support 🤔
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Plenty of players have had plenty of praise for Naomi Girma, but Megan Rapinoe really laid out why she thinks Girma is a generational player for the
#USWNT
today here in Frisco.
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Yes, Emma Hayes to
#USWNT
.
With
@David_Ornstein
at
@TheAthleticFC
⬇️ Emma Hayes to leave Chelsea at end of season; set to take USWNT job
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Can we strip them of the rights for 2023 for this video alone?
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"That is not the kind of fan that we will welcome," Rapinoe says of the photo of a woman in a
#USWNT
shirt and Trump mask following the attempted coup at the Capitol.
"Don't bring that bullshit here."
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This crowd loooooved the Pinoe and Sue Bird kiss, lemme tell you.
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this is just honestly very fucking cool and I am very happy to be here
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the WNBA and NWSL exist but okay
Forget just baseball. A woman never has been the general manager of a major American professional sports team period until Kim Ng was hired by the Miami Marlins today. Their COO is Caroline O'Connor. The Marlins' three highest-ranking officials are two women and an ex-shortstop.
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as soon as you learn who she is as a human you immediately stop sharing her weird outfits so have some additional evidence about who she is
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Someone here at City Hall has a two sided sign. Side one: GAYS RULE. THAT’S JUST SCIENCE. Side two: KELLEY O’HARA I HAVE BOOZE FOR YOU. Honestly incredible work.
#USWNT
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300+ cars for the distanced
@HoustonDash
celebration today. Dash say “The lines to enter the celebration stretched around BBVA Stadium and across the freeway into downtown Houston.”
Also this happened 🍻
#NWSL
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I’m sorry, I was told time and time again no one watches women’s sports.
US-Canada women’s gold medal hockey game on NBC averaged 3.54 million viewers. That’s more viewers than any NHL game this season. And second most watched hockey game in United States since 2019.
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Laura Harvey admits “it frustrates the hell out of (her)” that it took Rapinoe retiring to earn 34k attendance when they’ve had her playing in Seattle for over a decade.
#nwsl
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