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Amid scandal, women's pro soccer hits the big stage — a primetime NWSL Championship

One of the NWSL's most accomplished teams — The Portland Thorns — is taking on the Kansas City Current, an expansion squad that joined the league just last year.

WEKU

RANKED! The 10 best goalkeepers in women's football

Who are the best women's goalkeepers in the world? Here are our top 10

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The NWSL’s Failures Are a Familiar Turn in an Endless Cycle of Abuse

The Yates report was not the first time we’ve seen widespread misconduct hidden in sports, and it almost certainly won’t be the last.

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Vahe Gregorian: How the brilliant tale of the KC Current team stands for a Kansas City on the move

Whenever friends from around the country ask me about Kansas City, I tell them it’s a welcoming and eclectic place with world-class attractions, such as the National World War I Museum and Memorial, the Nelson-Atkins, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and BBQ-mania.

Tribune News Service

Washington holds breath as Thorns and Current collide in NWSL final

Two-time champions Portland Thorns are the favourites in Saturday’s game, but Kansas City Current have the belief

The Guardian - UK

USA Curling is in open revolt over its CEO

Members of a diversity, equity and inclusion panel are calling for the firing of CEO Jeff Plush over his handling of sexual abuse allegations when he was head of the women's pro soccer league.

WEKU

Red Stars are eliminated from NWSL playoffs

San Diego advances with a 2-1 victory.

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As NWSL playoffs begin, players' ‘just want to do their job’

The Red Stars are tasked with once again putting their issues aside for a game as they make their seventh consecutive playoff appearance Sunday, playing the San Diego Wave on the road.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tom Krasovic: Alex Morgan, Wave react to NWSL-abuse report on cusp of playoff match this weekend

SAN DIEGO — Between the Wave's season finale Sept. 30 and the upcoming playoff game Sunday night in Mission Valley, a bombshell report was released that chronicled alleged abusive behavior, sexual misconduct and predation in the National Women's Soccer League before the San Diego team's arrival.

Tribune News Service

How Sam Kerr became one of the greatest strikers in women's football

Over the past 13 years, Sam Kerr's trajectory has paralleled the rise of women's football. Now she's a finalist in the Ballon d'Or, world football's most prestigious individual award. This dataset traces her evolution from nervous teen to goal-scoring superstar.

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USWNT’s World Cup Group Possibilities Come Into Focus

Losses to England and Spain raise questions for the U.S., but with the World Cup draw on the horizon, the reigning champs can turn their attention to group possibilities.

Sports Illustrated

Joanna Lohman ‘was fooled by Paul Riley’ in Philadelphia, where he allegedly coerced her teammates

PHILADELPHIA — In the vast swirl of emotions that followed U.S. Soccer’s investigation of alleged abuse in the NWSL, two similar forms flowed next to each other.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Alexis Ohanian gets sports award, calls for reforms in NWSL

Angel City FC founding investor Alexis Ohanian says there needs to be a safe work environment in the National Women’s Soccer League

The Independent UK

USWNT legend Brandi Chastain talks coaching high school soccer, NWSL abuse, Title IX

DALLAS — Since scoring the game-winning penalty against China in the 1999 World Cup Finals, USWNT legend Brandi Chastain has gone on to coach, commentate and advocate for women’s leadership in sports.

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The Independent UK

Man Utd’s Marc Skinner calls on women’s game to ‘change, adapt and evolve’ in wake of abuse report

US Soccer last week said it would move immediately to implement reform after abuse and misconduct were found to have ‘become systemic’ in the NWSL

The Guardian - UK

‘Lean on each other’ – how USWNT players are dealing with abuse report

Three of the USA team talk about what must happen after the Sally Yates report revealed ‘systemic’ abuse in the NWSL

Salon

Abuse in women's soccer was no secret

Many players saw the NWSL's abuse problem, but only a handful reported it. "Bystander training" might have helped

Sports Illustrated

Paulson Removes Himself As Thorns, Timbers CEO Amid NWSL Scandal

He neglected to mention whether or not he would consider selling either franchise.

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Thorns, Timbers CEO steps down amid soccer abuse scandal

Merritt Paulson removed himself Tuesday in the wake of an investigation that found abusive behavior, misconduct and administrative failure throughout the women’s pro soccer league.

Sports Illustrated

NWSL Terminates Orlando Pride Coaches Following Investigation

Head coach Amanda Cromwell and first assistant Sam Greene had been on administrative leave since early June.

Sports Illustrated

NWSL’s Red Stars Players Demand Owner Sell Team

Chicago’s board of directors voted to remove Whisler last week over his handling of claims of emotional and verbal abuse from players against former manager Rory Dames.

Chicago Tribune

Julia Poe: Chicago Red Stars — from owner Arnim Whisler to those who knew — face a turning point after damning Yates report

For nearly a decade, the Chicago Red Stars and the National Women’s Soccer League sold fans and players a lie.

Sports Illustrated

U.S. Soccer President: More Abuse Cases Emerged After NWSL Report

Cindy Parlow Cone announced new reports came to light in the wake of an investigation that uncovered systemic emotional abuse and sexual misconduct in the National Women’s Soccer League.

Chicago Sun-Times

Removing owners like Arnim Whisler from NWSL is only the start

Women’s sports are facing a larger issue, one that’s reflective of society as a whole: the conditioning of women to accept abuse.

Tribune News Service

Vahe Gregorian: ‘Don’t you feel it?’ KC Current stadium will be groundbreaking in more ways than one

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just over 200 hundred years after French fur traders landed here via the Missouri River and settled in rough cabins along its banks, Kansas City Current owners Chris and Angie Long with other dignitaries and family arrived Thursday at the Berkley Riverfront by motorboat to embark…

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