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Musician, writer, small mountain bear | Newsletter queen and host of The Late Sub for @justwsports, in your inbox 5x a week and in your ears every Weds. She/her
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2009
🚨 A little bit of my own news 🚨 . The Late Sub w/ Claire Watkins, a new women’s sports news and analysis podcast premieres tomorrow, wherever you get your podcasts. Boy, do we have a lot to talk about:
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Oh my god Simone Biles just ROLLED HER EYES MID ROUTINE and then won gold.
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Enjoying the Paris presentation but it’s also got me brainstorming for LA in four years. Kendrick Lamar performs Not Like Us while Glen Powell fights a tornado. Jaws the shark is there as a VIP.
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So if she correctly writes her name on the test.
Biles needs better than 8.864 to clinch the gold medal.
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I know Simone is the headliner but I can’t think too long about Suni Lee making it back to a second Olympics or I will: cry.
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Suni Lee and Simone Biles are clearly overheard planning their victory tiktoks on the peacock stream.
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Simone Biles and Rebeca Andrade treating this competition like just two friends having a nice day out stomping routines is so fun to watch.
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Simone Biles is our country’s greatest gymnast but have you also considered she might be our greatest comedian
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The ‘sneakup’ joke format where the subject of your joke dunks on you is pretty common for SNL but I think Che was legit surprised how much his setup joke bombed.
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WNBA draft day is so wonderful and illuminating for example I never realized Caitlin Clark is a tiny purse kinda gal.
#WNBADraft representatives Kamilla Cardoso & Caitlin Clark flipping the ceremonial Empire State Building switch 🍎🗽
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Ridiculously, incredulously, against truly all odds this stat still stands: the USWNT has never, in the history of women’s soccer, not followed a World Cup loss with an Olympic gold medal.
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The Sky gave Teresa Weatherspoon a fundamentally broken roster when she took the job and she handled the development of two rookies and multiple requested trades with a lot of grace. You can’t do that to people, man.
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Have been thinking a lot today about 15-year-old Melanie Barcenas holding her wrists up in support of Jenni Hermoso last night. The importance of this fight is inter-generational
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You guys don't get it the Sweden shootout changed Alyssa Naeher on a molecular level.
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Mallory Swanson is gonna earn her 100th USWNT cap in the gold medal game of the Olympics.
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This will probably always be my favorite Alex Morgan finish. Just insane control and fearless on the follow through contact
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If Julie Ertz isn’t in the midfield against Sweden when I wake up bright and early Sunday morning I will literally just go back to sleep.
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This is such lovely news and also this baby is gonna have the craziest accent of all time.
Congratulations to Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis on the exciting news — they’re expecting their first child! 🌟. 📸 Sam Kerr (on Instagram)
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Find someone who looks at you the way Danielle van de Donk looks at Lindsey Horan while wearing a swim cap due to bleeding after scrapping for 90+ minutes
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I think the USWNT’s improvement is also a good example of how the problem wasn’t the players, but the system. If inserting Emily Sonnett, dm for all of 15 games makes this much of difference, this isn’t a “who wants it more” scenario.
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Also I could be totally wrong, but the dancing after the USWNT game looked to me like Crystal Dunn trying to cheer up young teammates who were struggling emotionally with that result.
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Only just realized Ali Riley was wearing rainbow nail polish during New Zealand’s opening game as a work around for FIFA’s inane cause support rules what a star and actual icon.
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On full display on Fox
Only just realized Ali Riley was wearing rainbow nail polish during New Zealand’s opening game as a work around for FIFA’s inane cause support rules what a star and actual icon.
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The USWNT: We want the world to fear us again. Australia and Japan: We’re playing a 5-4-1 today. The USWNT: Wait no not like that.
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Here's a fun USWNT fact that I hadn't considered til now: Tomorrow is the first time the US has played anybody but Canada in an Olympic semifinal since 2008.
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Dansby Swanson has been talking this whole Olympics about how he can’t stop crying and I hope someone has a camera on him today.
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Alex Morgan is now fielding a question from Naomi Girma! “Can we still bring Charlie on away trips” the final question of the presser 😭.
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Also where in the world would the U.S. be without Naomi Girma. At home, probably.
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There she is miss America
The routing of this international break really did work out perfectly for Rose Lavelle’s family to be able to comfortably bring Wilma Jean to celebrate her big day.
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A thing you have to remember about USWNT captain Rose Lavelle is just days ago she was on camera slapping Kristie Mewis in the face with a tortilla.
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One last chance for Caitlin Clark.
🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨. We interrupt your normal timeline content to tell you…. 🗣️ THE OLYMPIC ROSTER DROPS TOMORROW
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Not to be corny but this is really what it’s all about.
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Biggest platform I could possibly think of for Rodman to put this to bed for good.
USWNT star Trinity Rodman is this week’s guest on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast. This interview segment touches on her relationship with her father, Bulls legend Dennis Rodman. “I lost hope in ever getting him back. … He’s not a dad. Maybe by blood, but nothing else.”
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Alex Morgan: "The inclusion of trans kids in sports is the inclusion of kids in sports. Everyone should have the ability to play sport." (@itsmeglinehan)
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Vlatko Andonovski went from the guy who had binders full of tactical schemes as a club coach to a national team coach who can’t counter the basic principles of a 3-5-2 life comes at you so fast.
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Seems like a really gracious thing to do for fans who traveled thousands of miles, especially after a performance you’re probably still processing.
Trinity Rodman graciously signed every autograph and took as many pictures as she could before absolutely having to depart from the field. Something beautiful to witness 🥹
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Remember when Danielle van de Donk put on a swim cap. We were so young then.
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It’s already been said on the west coast but it’s so frustrating to watch some of the best womens sports programs in the country just have to sit and wait for their conference to disintegrate on the whims of college football.
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Sophia Smith bursts into tears talking about Christine Sinclair on the Prime broadcast to which Sinc responds “I’m not, like, DYING”.
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I know they’re already building a statue of Dawn Staley in Columbia but have we considered making her the new Statue of Liberty.
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The USWNT and Canada getting ready to face each other in a knockout game in a Concacaf competition
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Katie Ledecky wielding the cowbell like it was a flaming sword.
Here's your final medal count from the pool at the Paris Games:
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Megan Rapinoe vs Ali Krieger for it all, the NWSL rocks.
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History at the women's World Cup this weekend: First Olympic champ out in group stage (CAN), first host out in group stage (NZL), COL hands GER their first group stage loss since 1995. It's a new era.
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You: hey what’s u-. Me: Iowa vs LSU drew 12.3 million viewers on ESPN on a Monday.
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You can tell who the Stanford grad is based on the unadulterated glee on Naomi Girma’s face.
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Sue Bird rocking the "Ali Krieger Fan Club" tee at Game 3 of the WNBA Finals while Pinoe rocks the same shirt at her final regular season game in Chicago.
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Naomi Girma saw the Ballon d’Or results and said well I guess I’ll just score my first international goal.
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You blink and suddenly Alex Morgan doesn't play professional soccer anymore.
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Korbin Albert has issued a statement on her Instagram story addressing her social media activity which included sharing posts with transphobic and homophobic views on TikTok. Megan Rapinoe made a statement earlier today that’s been shared by many former and current USWNT players.
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Sam Mewis retires both a USWNT and NWSL legend. I’d say the game will miss her but the game has already been missing her it is simply a fact.
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Julie Ertz alluding to her own impending retirement on FOX just now.
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Gio Reyna might be the first person to actually be really good at something that is primarily a meritocracy only to be brought down by nepotism.
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No disrespect to the 2023 Philadelphia Eagles but this particular Super Bowl clinching win doesn’t quite have the magic of Ashlyn Harris telling Julie Ertz that Zach was going to the Super Bowl after literal final whistle on the field with the USWNT.
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Well, that very likely ends the Andonovski era of the USWNT. Much better by the Americans today, but the ball is round.
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Obviously Pinoe and Lavelle get a lot of deserved play as 2019 World Cup final heroes but it’s our task now to convey to new fans forever how much Sam Mewis was Not Having It that day.
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Always loved this quote from Becky Sauerbrunn a few years ago: “I would say that I would hope that I am remembered, but that I’m not missed. Because if I’m missed, then I didn’t do my job. But if I’m remembered, then I had an impact. And I would be just fine with that.”.
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Alex Morgan says she doesn’t think coaching is in her future, “I think I’ve found my calling in investing in women’s sports”.
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Obsessed with Lynn Williams knitting Sam Mewis an entire sweater vest
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Was genuinely curious how Kate Martin was both surprised and yet prepared for her draft moment and it turns out she got a slight heads up because production abruptly moved her to an aisle seat 💀
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Jaedyn Shaw plays soccer like “why does everyone not just kick it into the goal”.
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Women’s soccer players are so tough lol
Looks like a head laceration for Sarah Gorden, hard to get under control but appears to not be serious, she’s wrapped and may continue.
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I'm not a lip reader but I'm seeing "this is over, we gotta move on, this is done", which vibes with the postgame mixed zone message.
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Alyssa Naeher says she and Kailen Sheridan took a second before the penalty shootout to laugh about how they just did this a few weeks ago.
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I’m sure there are more annoying ways to wedge our way into the World Cup final as Americans but overemphasizing that England has four North Carolina Tar Heels is the one currently making me laugh.
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Okay this collab I did not see coming but it is nonetheless an intersection of my interests.
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Child on shoulders after a two-game week is the true sign of a great athlete.
Alex Morgan has a special guest with her for postgame interviews
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Crystal Dunn confirms her son Marcel is coming with her to the World Cup, which is lovely and also I assume a demand from at least half the rest of the team.
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Megan Rapinoe coaching on the sidelines while being held piggyback style by Laurel Ivory.
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Angel Reese announces in Vogue that she is declaring for the WNBA, which is truly some queen shit.
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Living rooms across America: “That’s Simone Biles’s husband”.
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USA gymnastics isn’t letting this slide and I say good.
USA Gymnastics has submitted additional evidence to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe hitting the Gotham x Liberty double feature today.
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Mildly obsessed with Aubrey Plaza walking the carpet for the Agatha show with her new “hag cane” because she tore her ACL at WNBA All-Star weekend
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Finding out on the last ep of the 91st that Midge Purce’s dad is now using this meme as a reaction pic when texting his own daughter is a true delight
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Just thinking about the 2019 Chicago Red Stars who had Sam Kerr, Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher, Morgan Gautrat, Tierna Davidson, Maria Sanchez, Mackenzie Arnold, and Yuki Nagasato on one roster for no particular reason today
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The U.S. women’s gymnastics team was devastated by injury at qualifiers this year. And then they got to Paris and it isn’t even close.
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What was it Sam Kerr said to Kristie Mewis about set pieces.
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Emma Hayes says that no USWNT/NWSL player who has a league game scheduled on Friday will play tomorrow, except for Rose Lavelle who will start (and not play more than a half) as part of her 100 cap celebration.
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On the new episode of the 91st Brandi Chastain says that she knows she’s not there yet but would genuinely like to coach the USWNT one day. Says she’s been trying to get involved at the US youth levels without getting much traction.
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There is some irony to this whole thing as Angel Reese was telling media before the game how she grew up admiring Alyssa Thomas as a Maryland legend
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Like ten minutes into the new ep of the 91st and Midge Purce has already related the USWNT performance against Portugal to the myth of American individualism under capitalism.
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And now Sophia Smith has scored less than a minute into her NWSL return.
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If you generally like both mens and womens sports in the fall you could really just spend a whole weekend day doing absolutely nothing.
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Asked Caitlin Clark about the final ball throw with three seconds and she jokes “it’s a genius basketball play”, makes a compelling point
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The Trinity Rodman episode of Call Her Daddy is really good. First time she’s gone in depth about her relationship with her father in a way that feels both like a truly empowered step forward while also being open about how it’s all a work in progress.
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The USWNT 2024 Olympic Roster is out, and it is the first major tournament for the team since 2008 that Alex Morgan is not on.
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The loss of Catarina Macario’s prime footballing years to one ACL injury is gonna haunt me for a long time.
During today’s pre-match press conference, Emma Hayes announced that Catarina Macario is unable to prepare physically for the Olympic tournament due to consistent irritation in her right knee » Pending official confirmation from the USOPC, IOC and FIFA,
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And ppl say this country has no footballing traditions.
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At this juncture I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Caitlin Clark is way more famous than Michael Che.
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Clearly empty but what a strange gift this game has been
Did the broadcast just show a baby holding a can of Truly hard seltzer.
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