by admin | Oct 4, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Lisa Baird resigned Friday in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving a high-profile coach and growing criticism of the league’s handling of it and other cases of alleged abuse. The league confirmed that it had...
by admin | Oct 4, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Alex Morgan brought the receipts. NWSL, commissioner Lisa Baird and other team executives can be sympathetic. Their sentiments can even be genuine. But what’s done can’t be erased by a crafted statement. Especially when those statements are effectively rendered...
by admin | Oct 3, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the WNBA and the efforts they’ve made to get and educate about the covid vaccine. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Coach Paul Riley, who has been accused of sexual coercion spanning multiple...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Andrea Yoch was at the home of Chad Greenway, the former Minnesota Viking who spent 11 years in the NFL, and she had a project she wanted to tell him about. Greenway, a good friend and regular collaborator in her marketing work, heard it and immediately called his...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The National Women’s Soccer League Players Association has called for an investigation into allegations spanning over a decade of sexual coercion and inappropriate comments about players’ weight and sexual orientation against North Carolina Courage coach...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
On a July night in 2014, in the waning minutes of a NWSL regular season match between Portland Thorns FC and the Chicago Red Stars, Sinead Farrelly collapsed on the field at the Benedictine University Sports Complex. She had stepped up to defend an opposing player...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The demand for women’s sports is growing, but women’s sports fans and consumers already knew that. The NWSL and WNBA were the only professional sports leagues in North America to experience increased TV ratings during 2020 amid the pandemic. Star athletes like Naomi...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With all due respect to the in-the-hunt-for-a-championship Orlando Pride soccer team, the best action tends to go down after the pros have left the pitch. That’s when Alex Morgan will bring 15-month-old daughter Charlie to run around the field at Exploria...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Pro soccer officially has a young superstar on its hands. Olivia Moultrie — a 15-year-old wunderkind who waged a legal battle against the National Women’s Soccer Leagueover her eligibility to play at the highest level in the United States — scored her first...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Megan Rapinoe would like you to stop asking when she’s going to retire. When the U.S. women’s soccer team fell to Canada at the Olympics, a shocking upset for a team that has come to dominate the sport, journalists descended on the 36-year-old forward, pressing her...
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