History says the U.S. women’s soccer team tends to perform best with its back against the wall. Each of the four times they failed to win a World Cup, the Americans followed by winning the Olympic gold medal the following year. And after their worst finish in a major tournament — a loss to Sweden […]
After the U.S. women’s national team defeated the Netherlands 2-0 on Nov. 27, midfielder Kristie Mewis had one important thing to do before she talked to the media. “I just had to rewatch it, actually, because I think I blacked out on what actually happened,” she admitted. “It” was Mewis’s goal in the 70th minute, […]
This week, we have the pleasure to be joined once again by The Athletic’s Meg Linehan, who walks us through the latest ruling in the U.S. women’s national team lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. The judge threw out a large portion of the USWNT’s case, citing differences in the men’s and women’s collective bargaining […]
On Saturday night, Alex Ovechkin scored his 700th goal and is well on his way to Wayne Gretzky’s 894-goal record. Gretzky himself admits that the game is tougher now that it was in the 1980s, so if Ovechkin were playing when Gretzky did, would he have already topped his record? The team breaks down the […]
A ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan is pretty much the quintessential homecoming for American heroes. So it’s fitting that the conquering U.S. women’s soccer team — which won the World Cup on Sunday — will get its second parade in four years down New York City’s “Canyon of Heroes” on Wednesday morning. That’s an appropriate […]