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EMERGENCY POD: Columbus Gets an NWSL Team, and the Calendar Might Flip
22 Apr 2026
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USWNT vs. Japan, Round 3: Emma Hayes Enters Final Boss Mode
20 Apr 2026
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USWNT vs. Japan, Round 2: The Kids Couldn't Lock It Down
16 Apr 2026
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USWNT vs. Japan, Round 1: Is This Emma Hayes's Preferred Lineup?
14 Apr 2026
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NWSL Week 4: Checking in on All 16 Teams
09 Apr 2026
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NWSL Week 3: Angel City is Top of the Table, and the Houston Dash are Evolving
02 Apr 2026
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NWSL Week 2: Portland Thorns Go Spelunking on the Seattle Reign
24 Mar 2026
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USWNT Star Catarina Macario Joins the San Diego Wave! Plus, the Boston Legacy's Entry to the NWSL
18 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Gotham FC, with Jenna Tonelli of Sports Illustrated
13 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Washington Spirit, with Riss Willett of Shea Butter FC
13 Mar 2026
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PATREON BONUS: Last-Minute NWSL Offseason Moves Galore!
12 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Kansas City Current, with Cindy Lara of KC Soccer Journal
12 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Portland Thorns, with Phuoc Nguyen of Stumptown Footy
12 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Orlando Pride, with Abigail Segel of Defector
11 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Seattle Reign, with Kari Anderson of Yahoo! Sports
11 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: San Diego Wave, with Bridie O'Toole of Busy Watching Women's Soccer
10 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Racing Louisville, with Bekki Morgan of Butchertown Rundown
10 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: North Carolina Courage, with Dr. Meredith Shea
09 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Houston Dash, with Dr. Meredith Shea
09 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Angel City, with Trebor Tracy of Angels on Parade
08 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Utah Royals, with Catalina Bush
08 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Bay FC, with Anna Daccache of Everything Bay Goals
07 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Chicago Stars FC, with Lesley Ryder of Gal Pal Sports
07 Mar 2026
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NWSL Season Preview Week: Denver Summit, with Catalina Bush & Kieran Doyle-Davis
06 Mar 2026
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NWSL SEASON PREVIEW WEEK: Boston Legacy with Emma Healy of the Boston Globe
06 Mar 2026
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USWNT in SheBelieves, Portland Thorns' New Coach, and Gabi Portilho's Move to San Diego
03 Mar 2026
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Breaking Down the USWNT SheBelieves Cup Roster
24 Feb 2026
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Croix Bethune and Claire Hutton Spark the NWSL Offseason to Life
20 Feb 2026
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xOG Live in Houston 2026, with Catalina Bush & Chloe Dhillon!
06 Feb 2026
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Jessica Berman and U.S. Soccer Fail to Meet the Moment(s). Plus, USWNT and Trinity Rodman's Contract
27 Jan 2026
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EMERGENCY POD: Trinity Rodman Stays with the Washington Spirit!
23 Jan 2026
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RECORDED BEFORE DETAILS OF RODMAN'S $2 MILLION AVERAGE ANNUAL VALUE WAS REPORTED Hot off the presses and straight from the most important press confe...
NWSL Offseason: What on Earth Are the San Diego Wave Up To?
21 Jan 2026
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Lindsey Heaps is Coming! Sam Coffey's Going! The USWNT is on the Move in the NWSL!
14 Jan 2026
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PATREON BONUS: Our Biggest Own Goals of 2025
05 Jan 2026
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EMERGENCY POD: The NWSL Releases Their "High Impact Player" rule. Um, WHAT?!?!?
23 Dec 2025
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The xOG NWSL Best XI!!!
17 Dec 2025
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The Trinity Rodman Saga, Explained
09 Dec 2025
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USWNT Recap: The U.S. finishes the year strong against Italy
03 Dec 2025
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NWSL Championship Recap: Gotham FC Take Down Washington Spirit, Earn 2nd-Ever Title
26 Nov 2025
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Fly Bats, fly! Gotham FC won their second NWSL title on Saturday, squeaking past the Washington Spirit 1-0 on a miracle goal from Rose Lavelle in the ...
NWSL Championship Preview: Washington Spirit vs. Gotham FC
22 Nov 2025
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The moment has finally come! In the now-most-played fixture in NWSL—and in what may now finally be called a true rivalry—the Washington Spirit and...
PATREON BONUS: The State of Gotham FC, with Yael Averbuch West
21 Nov 2025
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Yael Averbuch West will be the first to tell you she didn't fully grasp what the job of General Manager would entail when Gotham FC tapped her for the...
PATREON BONUS: Steering the Washington Spirit to Another Championship Game, with Nathan Minion & James Hocken
20 Nov 2025
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Washington Spirit GM Mark Krikorian stepped down from his position back in March, but instead of rushing to find a replacement, owner Michele Kang ent...
NWSL Semifinal Recap: Jaedyn Shaw Golazo Sends Gotham Past Pride to Championship
18 Nov 2025
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It was more than 90 minutes of dross, capped by a moment of magic: 2023 NWSL champs Gotham FC squeaked past 2024 champs Orlando Pride thanks to Jaedyn...
NWSL Semifinal Recap: Spirit Deliver the Goods and Send Thorns Packing
18 Nov 2025
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The Washington Spirit are headed to their second straight NWSL Championship game on the heels of a commanding performance against a depleted Portland ...
NWSL Semifinal Preview: Orlando Pride vs. Gotham FC
14 Nov 2025
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Our second semifinal preview looks at the other two recent champs, Orlando and Gotham. Gotham has the better and deeper roster, but are they invincibl...
NWSL Semifinal Preview: Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns
13 Nov 2025
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The first of our two semifinal previews drills down on the Portland Thorns coming to Audi Field to try and force an upset on the Washington Spirit. Th...
PATREON BONUS: The 2nd Annual xOG Goalkeeping Symposium with Jill Loyden!
13 Nov 2025
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NWSL Quarterfinal Recap: Orlando Outlasts Seattle
13 Nov 2025
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There was only one NWSL quarterfinal that wrapped in regulation time, but it wasn't exactly a classic. The Pride's early goal let them wait Seattle's ...
NWSL Quarterfinal Recap: Portland Take Down San Diego in an Attritional Grindfest
13 Nov 2025
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Everyone knew that the Portland Thorns and San Diego Wave could go any number of ways. But a raucous home crowd and a moment of magic from Olivia Moul...
NWSL Quarterfinal Recap: Aubrey Kingsbury Heroics Get Washington Past Louisville
11 Nov 2025
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The Washington Spirit played like the no. 2 seed by the end of the regular season. They offered a genuinely strong attacking performance. But Racing L...
NWSL Quarterfinal Recap: Gotham Defeats Kansas City in an All-Time Upset
11 Nov 2025
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Though some may have predicted it—and Gotham didn't exactly play like a no. 8 seed this year—the Bats delivered the upset of the decade, beating t...
PATREON BONUS: The NWSL Bad Team Postmortem
06 Nov 2025
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Now, the hard work begins. For the Houston Dash, Angel City, Chicago Stars, Utah Royals, and Bay FC, there is much work to be done to get back to winn...
NWSL Playoffs Preview, with Abigail Segel!
04 Nov 2025
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The 2025 NWSL regular season is in the books, but the fun is just getting started. Defector columnist Abigail Segel joined us to walk through al...
USWNT Friendlies Recap, plus the Laura Language Model
31 Oct 2025
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RECORDED BEFORE SARAH GORDEN'S STATEMENT ON ELIZABETH EDDY'S NEW YORK POST ARTICLE The U.S. women's national team logged three more friendlies on t...
NWSL Week 25: Trying to be Proud of Orlando
22 Oct 2025
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Four more teams punched their tickets to the NWSL playoffs, while Racing Louisville and the North Carolina Courage are staring each other down. Meanwh...
NWSL Week 24: How Do You Beat the Kansas City Current?
14 Oct 2025
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The Kansas City Current have officially become the best regular-season team in NWSL history. Their win over Gotham ensures that they will break the al...
NWSL Week 23: Are Louisville In? Are North Carolina Out? Will San Diego Hang On?
07 Oct 2025
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Only three games left in the NWSL regular season, and Racing Louisville pulled off an emphatic road victory over the North Carolina Courage to solidif...
NWSL Week 22: The Great Seattle Reign Caper
02 Oct 2025
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The Seattle Reign—who take fewer shots than anyone, and whose defense is mediocre at best—are somehow in fourth place in the NWSL standings. How d...
The NWSL Stretch Run Heat Check
25 Sep 2025
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Only five games remain in the NWSL regular season, and hardly anything separates those teams on either side of the playoff line, not to mention those ...
NWSL Week 20: Are Gotham on the Ascent? Are San Diego on the Decline?
16 Sep 2025
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Savannah DeMelo's collapse on Lumen Field on Sunday quickly became the most important story in the NWSL. DeMelo was responsive and alert before she wa...
EMERGENCY POD: Jaedyn Shaw to Gotham for $1.25 million?!?!?
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, this reminds us of our early days: Gotham FC drops a massive, shocking transfer for a U.S. women's national team player, bolstering their galácti...
NWSL Week 19: How Utah, Houston & Chicago Have Found Rich Veins of Form
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though all three are still firmly planted in the bottom half of the table, the fortunes of the Utah Royals, Chicago Stars, and Houston Dash have chang...
EMERGENCY POD: Alyssa Thompson's transfer fee was HOW much?!?
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to scratch our heads at the $1.3 million (or almost-$1.5 million, or $1.65 million) transfer fee pai...
NWSL Week 18: Angel City Win the Battle Against Bay FC, but Did They Lose the War for Alyssa Thompson?
03 Sep 2025
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A very intense Labor Day shaped up for the NWSL. After the guys whip around the league, they drill down into Angel City's first-ever results against B...
NWSL Week 17: San Diego and Louisville, Fully Transformed
26 Aug 2025
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The NWSL acted semi-normal this week, so we can concentrate on the actual soccer. The guys whip around the league and touch on the Morgan Gautrat loan...
NWSL Week 16: Draws, Heat, Misery Define the Weekend's Action
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
RECORDED BEFORE THE ALYSSA NAEHER - LIZBETH OVALLE INSANITY For the second week in a row, we do not have a featured game of the week. That's becaus...
NWSL Week 15: Derbies, Oppressive Heat, and Unpacking the Sean Nahas Firing
12 Aug 2025
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For the first time in over six years, we saw the second straight weekend where more than half the games ended in a draw. Oppressive heat? Weather dela...
NWSL Week 14: Rodman and Sentnor and Copa América NARRATIVE CHAOS
05 Aug 2025
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The NWSL is back! And boy oh boy not much happened, until everything did. The guys dissect the blockbuster transfer of Ally Sentnor to the Kansas Cit...
Euros Final Recap: It's (Sorta) Coming Home, as England Best Spain on Penalties
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After more than three weeks and 31 games, we have a new Euros champion and...it's the old champion! England have won their second trophy thanks to som...
Euros Quarterfinal Recap: England and Germany Miraculously Go Through, Spain and Italy Await
21 Jul 2025
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Spain took care of business against Switzerland. Italy exposed Norway's weaknesses. Sweden, England, France and a 10-player Germany chucked haymakers ...
Euros Group Stage Recap: Sweden, France Top Groups, England Still with Much to Do
15 Jul 2025
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The group stage of UEFA Women's Euro 2025 has officially concluded, and France is looking pretty unstoppable. Are they? Les Bleues took the Netherland...
Euros Group Stage, Round 1: France Put England to the Sword
08 Jul 2025
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The first round of the group stage at UEFA Women's Euro 2025 is in the books! Evan and Eric round up all the action, plus the second round from groups...
UEFA Women's Euro Preview, Pt. 2: Groups B + C
02 Jul 2025
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Part 2 of our Euros preview attacks groups B and C. Spain and Germany are the group favorites. Could Sweden pip the Germans to the top group spot? Doe...
UEFA Women's Euro Preview, Pt. 1: Groups A + D
02 Jul 2025
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The Euros are here! Kicking off Wednesday in Switzerland, 16 teams vie for the biggest trophy in European women's football. The guys analyze Groups A ...
USWNT Recap: For the Irish, Denver & Cincinnati are Houses of Pain
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The USWNT tore off a couple friendlies over the weekend, hammering the Republic of Ireland 8-0 across matches in Commerce City and Cincinnati. There w...
NWSL Week 13: We Need to Talk About Utah
24 Jun 2025
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We've reached the halfway point of the 2025 NWSL regular season, and though we've been putting it off as long as possible, we have no choice but to di...
NWSL Week 12 Recap: Bay's Home Loss to Orlando; plus, Angel City Head Coach Alex Straus!
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another week, another slightly chaotic result. Bay FC lost 1-0 at home to the Orlando Pride, but not without producing some scintillating stuff in the...
NWSL Week 11: San Diego Returns to Baseline, Seattle Sacrifices to Sufferball Gods
10 Jun 2025
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NWSL clubs came out of the international break a little rickety, and with plenty of fire. The guys whip around the league to hit the officiating contr...
USWNT Recap: Two More First Caps, Plus NWSL Messiness
05 Jun 2025
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The U.S. women's national team put two more friendlies in the books. What can a 7-0 aggregate scoreline against China and Jamaica really tell us about...
NWSL Week 10: Understanding the Sam Laity "Era" of Angel City
27 May 2025
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Six games, 27 goals: 4.5 goals per game this weekend marks the second-highest per-game goal total over a single NWSL matchweek in league history. It's...
NWSL Week 9: HEAT CHECK Part II
21 May 2025
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The numbers? Still Sticky! But before they dive back in, Eric and Evan briefly discuss the latest USWNT Roster and one very notable omission (hint: it...
NWSL Week 9: HEAT CHECK Part I
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The numbers are sticky (or, at least, stickier)! Finally, we have a clearer picture of which teams are contenders and which teams still have some (or ...
NWSL Week 8: Chicago Stars are Blind
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Believe it or not, the guys were already planning on featuring the Chicago Stars' 3-2 loss at home to the Washington Spirit as their game of the week,...
NWSL Week 7: Parity 4evr????
06 May 2025
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The top-4 only managed to grab a single combined point over the weekend. Does this mean last year's us-and-them table is a thing of the past? Maaaayyy...
NWSL Week 6: Chaos League Whiparound
29 Apr 2025
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All games from this weekend are our featured game, because too much insanity occurred for one match to pull focus. The guys go through all of it, from...
NWSL Week 5: The Wave Go Surfing in Louisville
22 Apr 2025
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The whiparound, like the weekend's NWSL action, doesn't exactly quicken the guys' pulses on today's episode (00:41). But there are many important thin...
NWSL Week 4: Gotham on Fire, North Carolina Courage Adrift
15 Apr 2025
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Seven games, six road victories, four of them shutouts. It was a weird weekend in the NWSL, and the guys scan the ups and downs from all of the action...
USWNT Recap: A Split Card against Brazil
10 Apr 2025
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One for them, one for us. The USWNT beat Brazil fairly comfortably in Trinity Rodman's return to the U.S. lineup in front of over 32,000 in Los Angele...
NWSL Week 3: Angel City's Up, Seattle Reign are Wayyyyy Down
01 Apr 2025
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More draws! With even fewer goals! The guys whip around the league to gawk at some less-than-stellar matches (1:40) before diving into this week's fea...
NWSL Week 2: Clash of the Top-4 Titans
25 Mar 2025
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The top four all played each other this weekend, in a couple of tasty fixtures filled with drama and intrigue. After the whiparound of the league's fi...
NWSL Week 1 Power Rankings
18 Mar 2025
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One down, 25 to go! The first round of NWSL matches is in the books for 2025, and it was a morass of beatdowns and 1-1 draws. Who's up and who's down ...
NWSL Preview Week: Gotham FC, with Jenna Tonelli
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bats took flight across the regular season, but were felled in penalties to Washington in the NWSL playoffs. Then the rumors of behind-the-scenes ...
NWSL Preview Week: North Carolina Courage, with Kim McCauley
14 Mar 2025
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The Courage made a massive splash in getting Jaedyn Shaw in the winter. After Kerolin moved on, the club needed a creative artist to help unlock a mor...
NWSL Preview Week: Kansas City Current, with Thom Bomb of Shea Butter FC
13 Mar 2025
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The Kansas City Current were the best team on paper last year. They rostered the league's MVP and producer of one of the greatest seasons in league hi...
NWSL Preview Week: Portland Thorns, with Kim McCauley
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who is going to play for the Portland Thorns? With Sophia Wilson gone for the year, and Morgan Weaver on the bench for potentially all season, their a...
NWSL Preview Week: Bay FC, with Anna Daccache
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bay FC made the playoffs in their first season, and are rolling out a solid lineup with some high-upside college signings this year. But an investigat...
NWSL Preview Week: Chicago Stars FC, with Lesley Ryder
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Chicago (Red) Stars squeaked into the playoffs on the backs of a completely new regime, from the owners to the GM to the head coach. Very little w...
NWSL Preview Week: Utah Royals, with Kieran Doyle-Davis
11 Mar 2025
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RECORDED BEFORE THE SIGNING OF BIANCA ST-GEORGES & JANNI THOMSEN Kieran returns to share his pitch to NWSL front offices about potential partnership ...
NWSL Preview Week: Angel City FC, with Michelle Chavez & Mark Parsons
11 Mar 2025
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Angel City became the first club in NWSL history to be docked points for violations of the league's policies—namely, violations of the salary cap. T...
NWSL Preview Week: Racing Louisville, with Bekki Morgan
11 Mar 2025
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Four straight ninth-place finishes. A roster that has more or less stayed the same from the end of last season. What can we make of Racing Louisville'...