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Bloomberg Radio New York
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"City by 2! Just some great goals scored by the NWSL's Angel City FC this year. The star -studded backers of the LA -based professional women's soccer team, Angel City Football Club. They're to looking raise more capital for what they call growth opportunities and this is a club we are quite familiar with here at Bloomberg. Recently on the circuit with Emily Chang, Emily sat down with three co -founders of Angel City. Natalie Portman, Cara Nordman and Julie Ehrman. Cara has a lot of experience as a venture capitalist in the tech world. In their conversation, Coward talked about how she's using her experience in tech to create success for Angel City. The interesting thing about sports relative to tech, we talk about product market fit a lot in tech, which means you're actually trying to build to a new consumer and user behavior that may not exist. In sports, we're trying literally to put butts in seats. And so once you put the butts in the seats, every other revenue stream flows from that, and there's incredibly valuable rights, media rights, merchandising rights, deeming rights, all of these different rights that flow from putting the butts in the seats and people being able to follow it. So I think the really interesting thing about women's sports, and Angel City specifically, is that you can get into the tens of of millions dollars of revenue even before media revenue. And so we have a plan to be the first $100 million revenue business in women's sports. And we're constantly sort of trying to figure out how to do the core things, butts put in seats, really bring in mission -aligned sponsors while building to new revenue streams that may even more innovative than the men's side. That's Angel City FC co -founder, Cara Nortman, alongside speaking a partner's Julie Ehrman and film star Natalie Portman. You can check out that full conversation on the circuit with Emily Chang. The podcast is available on demand at Bloomberg slash podcast and on your favorite podcast platform. Now, how much money is Angel City looking to raise? Bloomberg's Cameron Leach is here to help us answer that question. Cameron, thank you so much for joining us on the Bloomberg Business of Sports. It's always a good time to be with you here. First of all, let's talk about this. They're raising capital. Why? Honestly, from my understanding and my reporting, they want to take on ambitious plan to, you know, further elevate club operations. Listen, just the world of emerging sports, especially women's sports in the U .S. has just really become a coveted asset now. And if we just look at all the investments in sports over the past year or two, so much private capital has just been pouring and pouring and pouring into that division. And, you know, it's so many people who want their hand in the pot, the honey pot, I would say. And I think there's a lot of opportunity here. I thought Well, my stepson was the only one that said that. That's very good. So Cameron, let me ask yes, you, this is Angel City responding to lots of offers from investors based off of my information and my intel. This only came up after inbound interest from private equity, family offices, and also institutional investors as well, too. Honestly, just, you know, if you think about a lot of the sports industries out there, think about the NBA, they just started allowing institutional into capital their league as well, too. NFL, not yet, but they're also considering it. And so for them to be able to take this on, it's only 12 teams in the US right now, there's a lot more growth areas to happen within the National Women's Sports Soccer League, for sure. They're doing it because they can, Damian. Well, I mean, exactly. I mean, Cameron, so in 2021, and you know, we had Karen Nortman, co -founder of Angel City and managing partner of Monarch Active on Bloomberg Business Sports not long ago, I believe they had raised money previously in 2021 at $100 million valuation. Any indication as to what the club is now valued at? It is still not yet known. They're keeping that very close to wraps. And trust me, I'm trying my hardest to cover it for sure. Even with some my of conversations with people that are, you know, very closely connected to the to that club there. They are definitely keeping that very tight knit, but it's definitely on the rise. Even if we think about just valuations, though, sports within in itself, the ROI is definitely there for sure. I mean, any idea. So use of proceeds like, are they looking to, you know, build a stadium, you know, hire the Leo Messi of women's soccer? You know, what are they using the funds for? No, honestly, I think right now was probably the best use case for capital right now would be trying to, you know, get the best meteorites. want They to want get to out there to get the most money for wherever they can get the best platform, whether that be Apple, who's doing that with MLS. And obviously, you know, with the rise of Messi in Miami, they're definitely trying to take on, you know, new opportunities there. And honestly, we're trying, they're trying from my understanding is to get the most eyeballs and you know, that's where they hope to use some of that capital as well, too. I know Angel City has been playing that role. We don't discuss business at the dinner table, but it seems to me that it's going to be easier for them to raise this capital because Finally, people are starting to realize there's a lot of money out there in women's sports. Yes, indeed. indeed. Yes, And honestly, too, I think just the appetite for just not only women's sports, but just sports in general. But this is why women's sports is so incremental right now is because it's early. It's still emerging. in Like if you're the NBA, you still have to pay a high price tag to even and you have to hold it for at least 10 to 15 years to get the right ROI there. But for the National Women's Soccer League is so early. You can even they might even expand. Who knows? We'll see. We're still trying to poke around and see what will happen. So there's this perception that it could be undervalued or get you want to in early before it really takes off. You mentioned that Angel City is one of the flagship clubs for the 2012 team NWSL. Do you have a sense of whether the other clubs in the league are getting this kind of interest? From my understanding, that's a yes. I know San Francisco recently did some capital raising, I want to say at least a year ago or so. I'm blanking on the numbers right now, but I think that's a testament to the appetite. And we've got to think about the markets as well too. LA is Los Angeles. Obviously, it's Hollywood. Just think about some of the names attached to Angel City. Think about Serena Williams, Alex Manion, Natalie Portman. The appetite is definitely there, for sure. Well, I just have one question. We always focus on the business side of sports here on the show, but we can't ignore the fact that Becky Tweed took over as interim coach when LA to begin the season. I think they're undefeated ever since, if I'm not mistaken. Talk to us about what's going on there. What is she doing right? How is she changing the I don't know her story too well, but I will say just being the spotlight LA that is, I think they have to continue to make great hires, continue bringing some of the biggest names and talent when it comes to women's sports and women's soccer as well. And I think they're going to be a catalyst to further
WTOP
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"Francis Tiafoe. He's back to the quarterfinals for the second straight year. Beats Ricky Hijakata in straight sets so for Tiafoe he's on to the quarterfinals. a It means lot. I mean he's been quietly going through the draw and I've never played him before so I was definitely feeling him out in the beginning. I think when I broke down the first I really took off there for a while. Got lucky there at the end. Got a little there sloppy but he's happy to get through and happy to be in a quarterfinal here at the open. Tiafoe will face another American Ben Shelton on Tuesday. Novak Djokovic cruises in his round of 16 matchups so he too will face an American in Taylor Fritz all on Tuesday. Coco Gauff beats Caroline Wozniacki in three sets. Gauff is back to the quarterfinals second for the straight year. Nationals just can't figure out Miami. Marlin sweep out the Nats four game series six four to in the finale. Lane Thomas did hit his team leading 23rd homer in the loss. That's finished the year 2 and 11 versus Miami 0 and 7 at home against the fish. Nats host the Mets on Tuesday. Baltimore winners 85 at Arizona. NWSL Washington Spirit lose to the Chicago Red Stars at home. WNBA Mystics fall West to the LA Sparks. Frank Hanrahan, WTOP Sports. Coming up former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan says he may be interested in running for president as a third -party candidate. 426. Diamonds At Direct. Nobody tells our story better than our own associates. I hear from customers that come in how shocked they are able to only with Diamonds Direct afford a diamond that they never in their wildest dreams thought they'd be able to get. People are just just thrilled with what
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"Motorcyclist dead after is a collision with a car in district heights late last night. Prince Georges County police say the crash happened around 11 on Forestville Road between Pennsylvania Avenue and Marlboro Pike. First responders took the cyclist to a hospital with life threatening injuries and he was pronounced dead a short time later. His identity isn't yet known. Investigators are still working to determine what led to the crash. Four Colombian children have been found alive in the Amazon jungle 40 days after their plane crashed. Helicopters rescued the siblings from the rainforest. Medics said they were a bit dehydrated and had mosquito bites but were okay surviving on fruit and in improvised shelters that they made with jungle amputation. Their grandfather said when we found the children we felt joy and we are grateful to God. At CBS News, Amera Rubin with that report three adults were killed in the crash including the kids mother. Spongebob fans there's a change underway. Just in time for summer the Spongebob popsicle is changing and a lot of people aren't happy about it. The popsicle is getting an eye makeover and instead of gumballs it will now have chocolate eyes. Root punch cotton candy with chocolatey Guys there's no way. It's hit social media hard. I cannot believe after 21 years they will replace the iconic Gumball eyes popsicle you gotta fix this popsicle isn't saying the exact reason for the change but there are tons of past complaints on their product page from people who got the popsicles that either were missing one Gumball eye or came without out any Gumball eyes at all. Stacey Lynn CBS News. Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Maximus moving people and innovation forward. At 255 here's Frank Hanrahan. DC United goes on the road and falls Atlanta United 3 -1 Jackson Funtas only goal for DC. Meantime at outer field NWSL play it was a win for the Washington Spirit 2 -1 over Angel
ESPN FC
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"Just trying not to think about it that much. My dad took me here and I slept in the car. It was just thinking about the game and then when I got here, I was just like trying to focus and just trying to feel comfortable because I was really nervous. And then once I stepped on the field, I felt better and I just was like, I felt comfortable with the teammates and I feel prepared for what the game was like what was gonna happen? A lot of expectation for ELISA Thompson. First high schooler selected in the NWSL draft. Youngest U.S. women's national team call up in 5 years. She's gonna be a star hurt. She's definitely gonna be a star. She sure look like it. I sat next to her dad at that game and as a father myself very proud look and everybody around just knew that there was a star in the making. Shout outs to the city. Still Riley. And in this rain storm, a rainbow from Riley. Riley comes in. Angel city on the floor. And you can see how much it means to ally Riley. And we now welcome on the
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"Sports at 25 and 55 powered by Red River, technology decisions aren't black and white. Think red we're going to go to Frank hanrahan. Maryland women getting set to take on Illinois in the quarterfinals, Big Ten Conference basketball tournament, terfs the three seed in conference number 5 overall in the country. And whoever wins this game will face off against Iowa in the semifinals tomorrow. We're inching closer to regular baseball this season just around the corner later this month for the nationals as they continue to tune up, spring training baseball is a beat the mets 11 to 6 as a story is the pitch clock as games are going a lot faster now and we'll see if that carries over. A lot of times they do these experiments and spring training, but with the pitch clock, it's pretty much in cement. The games will be a little bit faster, come the regular season. NWSL news, the Washington spirit sign of the youngest player ever to a soccer contract Chloe ricketts is just 15 years of age, high school sophomore and is now a professional, gets a three year deal with the Washington spirit. Capitals do not make any moves on Friday's trade deadline as it has passed, but they did, of course, trade away 5 veterans over the last 6 days. Tiger Woods is planning to skip the players championship as the 15 time major winner is opting for more rest ahead of the masters, which is of course taking place next month. Frank Anne Rohan WTO sports. All right, Frank, still ahead. What doctors found when they removed a skin lesion from President Biden last month during his physical exam, a 26 year old. This can be the year
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"P news. Sports hit 25 and 55 powered by maximus, moving people and innovation forward. We're going back to Frank hanrahan. Conference tournament time on the women's side of things and coming up in about an hour or so. Maryland is the number three seed in the Big Ten tournament facing off against Illinois. This is in the quarterfinals. Maryland is number 5 in the country trying to capture the Big Ten crown, which it certainly helped their seating come the big dance later on this month. And the big east earlier Georgetown women knocking off butler, hoyas will face always very solid and talented Yukon tomorrow 8 ten GW loses to Rhode Island 68 56. Down in spring training baseball nationals beat the mets 11 to 6 as the story continues to be, everybody getting used to the pitch clock, no shifts as well. As we shall see a different sort of baseball come later on this spring when they get it going for real. The spirit it is for real sign of the youngest player ever to an NWSL contract she's just 15 years old so you just a high school sophomore, Chloe ricketts, newest member of the spirit you will continue to get her education virtually throughout the season. After trading away 5 veterans over the last 6 days, capitals did not make any moves today as the NHL's trade deadline has passed. All right, Frank here we go on WTO P a number of developing stories to start our weekend here and with CBS News at 8 o'clock at least 7 people are dead as severe weather hits the south. Stay close to WTO for the latest. The father, a black man in a blue uniform. The mother full of hope when they welcome their newborn son, can they protect him in a world filled with danger? Washington national opera presents the D.C. premiere of blue, a profound story of grief and resilience after a death at the hands of police. See why the music critics association named blue the best new opera of 2020. March 11th 25th, take a Kennedy dash center dot org
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"The women's side Dimitri Maryland is number 5 in the country, but the third seed in the Big Ten Conference, so yeah, there's a top heavy conference with the talent that is facing Maryland if they want to win the tournament they face Illinois in the quarterfinals tonight at 9 o'clock. Biggie's earlier, Georgetown knocking off butler to advance the face Yukon tomorrow, a ten GW though falls to Rhode Island 68 56. Nationals beat the mets 11 6 down at spring training baseball as everybody continues to get used to pitching clock. They got 30 seconds in between pitches, Max Scherzer was really working the timer today actually got cold for a buck, of course yours are now, is with the New York mets. NWSL, Washington spirit signing the youngest player ever to a contract, Chloe ricketts is just 15 years of age, just a high school sophomore now professional soccer player. She will continue her education virtually throughout the season. After trading away 5 veterans over 6 days of capitals did not make any moves today as the NHL's trade deadline passed. And Tiger Woods is going to skip the player's championship. Shows the 15 time age winners opting for more rest ahead of the masters in April. Frank Andrew had WTO V sports. All right, Frank, coming up after traffic and whether you may remember a lesion was recently removed from President Biden's chest during his physical exam. We've got a significant update on that in just minutes. Stay with us at 7 26. We're dealing with stats all the time. This is Dave Joseph, but forget
ESPN FC
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"For going on really two seasons in the NWSL and really carrying into the U.S. picture here. So, you know, I think undeniably, especially with how important wingers are in this system, she's the most important player for them right now. Jeff, what's the biggest change you've seen in Mallory from that Olympic era, the Olympic moment of not getting called in until now? Yeah, you know, I think she's been really introspective. I mean, look, this is a player who was a teenager when she started. She came in with a lot of pressure. I mean, it was four years ago or so now that I think every media outlet that we could imagine had sort of the think piece on this being Mallory pew's time to break out and shine and it came with a lot of pressure and she still relatively very young player and she's matured quite a bit. I would say since that Olympics, even in those that year or so before that, she's talked about it. I've talked about it with her about she had a couple of trades within the NWSL that sort of opened her eyes and I think she's sort of processed all of these things that you could look at and say maybe that was a negative or you could let fester and become a negative if you're a player and she kind of looked within herself and said, you know what? I need to look forward. And I think as simple as that might sound and you know her, I mean sometimes the mental aspect of that, you just got to get that right and get out of your own way sometimes and I think she's talked about quite a bit that she's been able to do that, not let herself get dragged down by perhaps some negative news in the moment and look forward and really the past two years she's been on a tear. Absolute task she's absolutely figured it out. The question now I have for you let's shift into the midfield is has lacto figured out the midfield. So, I mean, I think he's had it figured out in his mind, right? I mean, Andy Sullivan, Lindsey Iran, rose lavelle. That's been the trio for most of the past year, even in this transition. It's been clear that that's what we're looking at, especially with the unfortunate injury to Katarina macario, who should be back soon and trying to figure her out in the ten and last year in spring. So I mean, I think the starting midfield core, he has known what I think we learned in the she believes cup, at least a little bit more, is about his depth. I think Ashley Sanchez in particular Roosevelt missed the first two games with a slight injury and we saw, you know, Ashley Sanchez, I think did pretty well in that number ten role. We saw her in New Zealand as well when Roosevelt dropped deeper. You know, I think we saw there a player who certainly lavelle is the starter there, right? But you're going to need some rotation, you're going to need to rest some players at times when you can or hopefully you can at a World Cup. And I think we saw from Sanchez in particular that she is up for the moment, whatever that moment might be when that time comes. I think we saw a little bit more of Christie mues first time starting in about a year over a year now. And a player who, you know, you look at the she believes cup and if you're a player who's not getting minutes now with only one international window to come before the World Cup roster is named, you're probably worried about where you stand. And we hadn't seen a lot of Christian U.S. and then we saw her in multiple rules at this tournament. So I think perhaps an indication too of how black going to seize her as a depth player in the midfield. So I think we learn more from this tournament, maybe about the reserves and the depth and certainly we'll see roster rotation at the World Cup than we did about the starting trio because I think we knew who that was. Absolutely. Let's talk about a little bit more of a change. A proposed change in calendar for the NWSL from fall to spring. What can you tell us about this? Yeah, so I've been reporting on this for a few weeks. I mean, look, it's early stages. It is an idea that's on the table. And I think the key, the key thing to figure out here, the key thing to say is in the past, I think people would dismiss this. And I know we've got some MLS news already about some weather problems at the start of the season here, right? So people are rightfully pointing out that there are plenty of markets where the weather is bad. But what I know from reporting right now is that this is an idea that is being taken seriously in a way that it was not previously. And the NWSL, which we've talked about on this show a few weeks ago, needs to find solutions to a serious calendar problem that isn't going away. And they finally sort of started to realize that in a way that they've got to look at a fall to spring idea at the very minimum. What could this look like? What could it be as a proposal? And they have to take that seriously because one FIFA's calendar is based on Europe. That's not going away. FIFA's calendar is getting more crowded. And we're about to have a second division women's league in the U.S. that runs on a fall to spring calendar so there might be a bit of a template there. Look, I don't know if this gets across the line if it gets anywhere close to that, but it's something that is in the conversation which right now is heating up and by summer or so there's going to need to be some kind of a solution for the long term of what this NWSL calendar is going to look like. Hey, Jeff, before I let you go, I have to ask, you going back to the she believes cup. Has blocko under ansky has blocked on danowski under delivered with this U.S. women's national team heading into this World Cup. So I'm probably going to be in the minority here, I think from a lot of folks that I've seen talking about this. Look, my answer to that is no, because if you look at what he was tasked with, and of course, the World Cup is going to tell us everything, right? I mean, at the end of the day, you have to get results there and the task there is significant a third straight World Cup title for the U.S., but we've got to, when the value in this, like you've got to rewind this three and a half years and look at why was he brought in and what was he brought in for, right?
ESPN FC
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"Tonight early on. You know, those chances weren't good enough for you. I mean, did you feel the chances? Did they create and build up or they provoked the opponent? A lot of it was pressed, but you get credit for the chances you create from press. Yes, I'm not saying you don't get credit for that, but you're telling me, I assume that what vlatko said the message was going to be with this women's national team, he's delivered. That's what you're saying. No, you got to deliver titles and trophies. Well, and you also just in comparison to the rest of the world, England, Germany. Comfortable. Two nothing defeat of the reigning Olympic champions is a significant result hurt. It also, nobody says it's not. It also, by the way, gets me my parlay that I told you about on Monday night. What did I tell you? I said, take Brazil against Japan. Take the U.S. against Canada. Plus 360 was the payout on that, so. Hope you'll listen to your boy sad. Here's a look at the she believes cup standings, as I mentioned, Brazil, beat Japan in their game before the U.S. and Canada. So right now it's U.S. and Brazil with three points up next on Sunday. U.S. against Japan and Brazil against Canada. Big news out of the NWSL league that he's feminine world. Angel city her has announced a friendly against Google America for March 8th at BMO stadium there. The home of LAFC and angel city pretty cool. Yeah. Glutamic is a very good team. Angel city can't be a very good team. So it's going to be a good game. That's not the only one. North Carolina courage Andreas have also announced a home and home, so the NWSL ligament family rivalry continues to grow. Wu Tang versus the world. The final season of the Hulu original series Wu Tang and American saga is here. You know what it's like in hip hop and creators the RZA and Alex see you on top of the game right now. In executive producers Brian grazer and method man. It is way more fun when it's out of control, son. Into the final chapter of the Wu Tang saga. Gotta win. Don't miss the final season of the Hulu original series. Wu Tang an American saga, now streaming only on Hulu. Brady's crosshairs and what a finish that is Baku to round off a super team move. The radius here fans the space and how's this for across and back you there to seize on it. A parade is with a shot. Hopes for vos veg. A moment to save it for Kevin parades. His first ever goal in the Buddhist league. Our next guest here on football America's Kevin farres
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"The big money issues and the world of sports, unlike lebar, along with Scarlett foo, and Damian sass sauer. We're talking with the cofounder and CEO of athletes unlimited, John Patrick off. Let's dive back into our conversation. The structure of your league is so unique, you know, how, I mean, it's obviously a venture investment, but let's talk about blitzer. Let's talk about 35 V in Durant. How do they view this investment? Is it a trophy investment? Are they expecting to make a return on this investment? Talk to us about your partners about your other anchor investors and how they're viewing athletes unlimited. I mean, I think that the days of seeing women's sports as a charity are really a really well behind us, not that long ago, but honestly, it's been such a dramatic shift since we started in 2019. And I will tell you when I first went out and started to have conversations about what I saw as this opportunity. It was a lot of skepticism, a lot of challenges. It is dramatically shifted, like so many things do in the sports ecosystem. I mean, you mentioned pickleball, it's everybody's favorite topic. But just think about two years ago, no one was talking about pickle. There was no investment. So that's the world we live in, and women's sports has seen exactly that same type of shift. But was there a specific catalyst for that? So it's a great question. I think that the way my experience has been, whether it's been in the athletes unlimited or broadly, is that it's a series of things that take place over a long period of time, and then all of a sudden you see the dramatic shift. So I think women's soccer has certainly been a major piece of that, seeing the World Cup ratings. I think people started to take notice over the last couple of cycles. Obviously the strength of women's women's soccer was a big deal. And then I think honestly, athletes unlimited and further investment in the W I mean, I think the way that the NBA has continued to invest in the W and you see people like Kathy engelbert come into roles like that. I think it all adds up. So it's really not one catalyst. It's really a series of a whole host of things. I mean, look at the NWSL right now, the women's soccer league. They're about to sell two new franchises. Three years ago, teams were going for under $2 million, in some cases, even less than that. I think the numbers now will be around 40 to 50 million that you'll see in the franchise sales. It's just dramatic. And I think it's still got tremendous upside way beyond that. So we're just at the beginning here. And it's a lot of serious investors, and you mentioned some of the partners that we've been excited to attract into athletes unlimited. I'll note that you mentioned you mentioned David blitzer. You mentioned 35 E with rich climate and Kevin Durant, but we've also brought some people who've never invested into sports even into athletes unlimited like the schusterman family and Jane goddess and a host of others. And I think that's an exciting piece of this puzzle as well that I think there are a number of investors who are seeing an opportunity here who are new to sports. And that just expands the pool of capital available and that's incredibly important. So before the interview, I said, come on, don't ask John about betting 'cause you always ask about gambling and betting in everything with sports. So I want to bet on this. And I'm just wondering, is there something down the road where maybe some of the games can go to the online betting sites? So Michael, one of the things we set out to do. The answer is yes. Let me just start there. So we have betting lines up in all of our sports, we have great partnership with sport radar. And now with Caesar. So Caesar has been a terrific partner and betting lines are available for every game in athletes unlimited, which is a big accomplishment. It took a lot of work. It's been a two year project to get to that place. But it goes to something much larger, which is when we started athletes unlimited. One of the theories that we had and a big foundational principle because I've been involved in a number of entrepreneurial adventures is startup leaks have trouble because if you start out and you try to do one thing well, you try to produce a game. But you have a hard time putting in place all the other pieces that the NBA offers. The NFL offers sports betting is the perfect example. Fantasy sports is another example. NFTs are another example. Merchandise. So many things. And so from the start, what we did is as opposed to focusing on launching in multiple markets, focusing on the selling tickets and places was to really get those elements of the fan experience and fan engagement up. I always say, if you're a fan of women's volleyball or women's basketball or the NFL, you want to consume and be engaged 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. And sports betting is a great way for many people to do it, not for everybody. And we felt like that was table stakes in this day and age. So we have sports betting lines. We just got approved in Puerto Rico. And that's the process we're going through. Every state going through their own process where we have to. And I think it's incredibly exciting. So Michael, I think you're able to and unrestricted from going on, but go on to Caesar's and take a look at our lines for basketball. He's already in the Caesars account. Last question I have is, you know, you've got four sports. You've got volleyball across the basketball and softball. You've got 204 players. How do players get paid? What could they expect? You know, I mean, it's not like they have a team and an owner that they can yell at when things don't go their way. I mean, how do they get paid? How do you compensate? Appeal to sorry, sorry. Yes, so there are a few elements of the compensation. So every player receives base compensation for participating in the league. And then their bonuses based on performance. So every time you win a game or a quarter, there's actually bonuses. And then where you end up on that leaderboard that I mentioned determines the biggest component of your bonus. We also cover housing costs, travel costs, importantly, we cover child care costs for the players that are moms so that they're able to bring their kids into market and we help them coordinate child care and cover costs around that. And then the players share in long-term profits as well. It's a 20 year profit sharing plan. So if you're a player that plays in 2022, you'll share in any profits for now in 20 years into the future. So players are really aligned and incented and average comp is now starting to look like on average $20,000 over the course of 5 weeks. Some players can make up to 50. And honestly, we're a young organization. That's where WNBA or NWSL compensation was just a few years ago. We're feeling like we're on the right trajectory. And like I said, with expansion into softball, we have the 5 week season, adding the two week season, increased comp on average around 30%. So we're still so early in this, but that's our model. Base comp, bonuses, profit sharing. And then really helping helping the athletes outside of that. Got an old friend of the show, ice cube. And an idea popped in my head again before the show, what if you had a women's three on three big league? That would get over big time. I'd see, I can't open this like old man bars. Like, you know, he's got his big ice on the phone. Yeah, I'm ready, man. What do you think? Well, I don't know. You have to tell me bowling or three on three baskets. I have to make. And I need to know. Okay, start with bowling, and then we can do three on three women's basketball. Well, listen, it goes to the fact that there's a lot of opportunity out there. But our threshold is pretty high because you go into a lot of different sports. We were very thoughtful. We started with softball because the numbers
Bloomberg Radio New York
"nwsl" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Sports, unlike lemar, along with scarlet fu, and Damien sass sour, we're talking with the cofounder and CEO of athletes unlimited, John Patrick off. Let's dive back into our conversation. The structure of your league is so unique, you know, how? I mean, it's obviously a venture investment, but let's talk about blitzer. Let's talk about 35 V and Durant. How do they view this investment? Is it a trophy investment? Are they expecting to make a return on this investment? Talk to us about your partners about your other anchor investors and how they're viewing athletes unlimited. I mean, I think that the days of seeing women's sports as a charity are really a really well behind us, not that long ago, but honestly, it's been such a dramatic shift since we started in 2019. And I will tell you when I first went out and started to have conversations about what I saw as this opportunity. It was a lot of skepticism, a lot of challenges. It is dramatically shifted, like so many things do in the sports ecosystem. I mean, you mentioned pickleball, it's everybody's favorite topic. But just think about two years ago, no one was talking about pickle. There was no investment. So that's the world we live in, and women's sports has seen exactly that same type of shift. But was there a specific catalyst for that? So it's a great question. I think that the way my experience has been, whether it's been athletes unlimited on broad broadly, is that it's a series of things that take place over a long period of time and then all of a sudden you see the dramatic shift. So I think women's soccer has certainly been a major piece of that, seeing the World Cup ratings. I think people started to take notice over the last couple of cycles. Obviously the strength of women's women's soccer was a big deal. And then I think honestly, athletes unlimited and further investment in the W I think the way that MBAs continue to invest in the W and you see people like Kathy engelbert come into roles like that. I think it all adds up. So it's really not one catalyst. It's really a series of a whole host of things. I mean, look at the NWSL right now, the women's soccer league. They're about to sell two new franchises. Three years ago, teams were going for under $2 million, in some cases, even less than that. I think the numbers now will be around 40 to 50 million that you'll see in the franchise sales. It's just dramatic. I think it's still got tremendous upside way beyond that. So we're just at the beginning here. It's a lot of serious investors and you mentioned some of the partners that we've been excited to attract into athletes unlimited. I'll note that you mentioned you mentioned David blitzer. You mentioned 35 E with rich climate and Kevin Durant. But we've also brought some people who've never invested into sports even into athletes unlimited like the schusterman family and Jane goddess and a host of others. And I think that's an exciting piece of this puzzle as well that I think there are a number of investors who are seeing an opportunity here who are new to sports. And that just expands the pool of capital available and that's incredibly important. Before the interview, I said, come on, don't ask John about betting because you always ask about gambling and betting in everything with sports. So I want to bet on this. And I'm just wondering, is there something down the road where maybe some of the games can go to the online betting sites? So Michael, one of the things we set out to do. The answer is yes. Let me just start there. So we have betting lines up in all of our sports, we have great partnership with sport radar. And now with Caesar. So Caesar has been a terrific partner in bedding lines are available for every game in athletes unlimited, which is a big accomplishment. It took a lot of work. It's been a two year project to get to that place. But it goes to something much larger, which is when we started athletes unlimited. One of the theories that we had and a big foundational principle because I've been involved in a number of entrepreneurial adventures is startup leaks have trouble because if you start out and you try to do one thing well, you try to produce a game. But you have a hard time putting in place all the other pieces that the NBA offers, the NFL offers, sports betting is a perfect example. Fantasy sports is another example. NFTs are another example. Merchandise. So many things. From the start, what we did is as opposed to focusing on launching in multiple markets, focusing on the selling tickets and places was to really get those elements of the fan experience and fan engagement up. I always say, if you're a fan of women's volleyball or women's basketball or the NFL, you want to consume and be engaged 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. And sports betting is a great way for many people to do it, not for everybody. And we felt like that was table stakes in this day and age. So we have sports betting lines. We just got approved in Puerto Rico. And that's the process we're going through. Every state going through their own process where we have to. And I think it's incredibly exciting. Michael, I think you're able to and unrestricted from going on, but go on to Caesars and take a look at our lines for basketball. It's grinning ear to ear. He's already in the Caesars account. Last question I have is, you know, you've got four sports, you know, you've got volleyball across the basketball and softball. You've got 204 players. How do players get paid? What could they expect? I mean, it's not like they have a team and an owner that they can yell at when things don't go their way. I mean, how do they get paid? How do you compensate? Feel to appeal. The PLT sorry, sorry. Yeah, so there are a few elements of the compensation. So every player receives base compensation for participating in the league. And then their bonuses based on performance. So every time you win a game or a quarter, there's actually bonuses. And then where you end up on that leaderboard that I mentioned, determines the biggest component of your bonus. We also cover housing costs, travel costs, importantly, we cover child care costs for the players that are moms so they're able to bring their kids into market and we help them coordinate child care and cover costs around that. And then the players share in long-term profits as well. It's a 20 year profit sharing plan. So if you're a player that plays in 2022, you'll share in any profits for now in 20 years into the future. Players are really aligned and incented and average comp is now starting to look like on average $20,000 over the course of 5 weeks. Some players can make up to 50. Honestly, we're a young organization. That's where WNBA or NWSL compensation was just a few years ago. We're feeling like we're on the right trajectory. And like I said, with expansion into softball, we have the 5 week season, adding the two week season, increased comp on average around 30%. We're still so early in this, but that's our model. Base comp bonuses, profit sharing. And then really helping
Bloomberg Radio New York
"nwsl" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Like Lamar, along with scarlet fu, and Damian sass sour. We're talking with the cofounder and CEO of athletes unlimited, John Patrick off. Let's dive back into our conversation. The structure of your league is so unique, you know, how, I mean, it's obviously a venture investment, but let's talk about blitzer. Let's talk about 35 V in Duran. How do they view this investment is it a trophy investment? Are they expecting to make a return on this investment? Talk to us about your partners about your other anchor investors and how they're viewing athletes unlimited. I mean, I think that the days of seeing women's sports as a charity are really a really well behind us, not that long ago, but honestly, it's been such a dramatic shift since we started in 2019. And I will tell you when I first went out and started to have conversations about what I saw as this opportunity. It was a lot of skepticism, a lot of challenges. It is dramatically shifted, like so many things do in the sports ecosystem. I mean, you mentioned pickleball, it's everybody's favorite topic. But just think about two years ago, no one was talking about pickle. There was no investment. So that's the world we live in, and women's sports have seen exactly that same type of shift. But was there a specific catalyst for that? So it's a great question. I think that the way my experience has been, whether it's been in athletes unlimited on broad broadly, is that it's a series of things that take place over a long period of time, and then all of a sudden you see the dramatic shift. So I think women's soccer has certainly been a major piece of that, seeing the World Cup ratings. I think people started to take notice over the last couple of cycles. Obviously the strength of women's women's soccer was a big deal. And then I think honestly, athletes unlimited and further investment in the W I mean, I think the way that the NBA has continued to invest in the W and you see people like Kathy engelbert come into roles like that. I think it all adds up. So it's really not one catalyst. It's really a series of a whole host of things. I mean, look at the NWSL right now, the women's soccer league. They're about to sell two new franchises. Three years ago, teams were going for under $2 million, in some cases, even less than that. I think the numbers now will be around 40 to 50 million that you'll see in the franchise sales. It's just dramatic. I think it's still got tremendous upside way beyond that. We're just at the beginning here. And it's a lot of serious investors and you mentioned some of the partners that we've been excited to attract into athletes unlimited. I'll note that you mentioned you mentioned David blitzer. You mentioned 35 E with rich climate and Kevin Durant. But we've also brought some people who've never invested into sports even into athletes unlimited like the schusterman family and Jane goddess and a host of others. And I think that's an exciting piece of this puzzle as well that I think there are a number of investors who are seeing an opportunity here who are new to sports. And that just expands the pool of capital available and that's incredibly important. Before the interview, I said, come on, don't ask John about betting 'cause you always ask about gambling and betting in everything with sports. So I want to bet on this. And I'm just wondering, is there something down the road where maybe some of the games can go to the online betting sites? So Michael, one of the things we set out to do. The answer is yes. Let me just start there. So we have betting lines up in all of our sports, we have great partnership with sport radar. And now with Caesar. So Caesar has been a terrific partner and betting lines are available for every game and athletes unlimited, which is a big accomplishment. It took a lot of work. It's been a two year project to get to that place. But it goes to something much larger, which is when we started athletes unlimited. One of the theories that we had and a big foundational principle because I've been involved in a number of entrepreneurial adventures is startup leaks have trouble because if you start out and you try to do one thing well, you try to produce a game. But you have a hard time putting in place all the other pieces that the NBA offers. The NFL offers sports betting is a perfect example. Fantasy sports is another example. NFTs are another example. Merchandise. So many things. And so from the start, what we did is as opposed to focusing on launching in multiple markets, focusing on the selling tickets and places was to really get those elements of the fan experience and fan engagement up. I always say, if you're a fan of women's volleyball or women's basketball or the NFL, you want to consume and be engaged 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. And sports betting is a great way for many people to do it, not for everybody. And we felt like that was table stakes in this day and age. So we have sports betting lines. We just got approved in Puerto Rico. And that's the process we're going through. Every state going through their own process where we have to. And I think it's incredibly exciting. So Michael, I think you're able to and unrestricted from going on, but go on to Caesar's and take a look at our lines for basketball. He's already in the Caesars camp. Last question I have is, you know, you've got four sports. You've got volleyball across the basketball and softball. You've got 204 players. How do players get paid? What can they expect? You know, I mean, it's not like they have a team and an owner that they can yell at when things don't go their way. I mean, how do they get paid? How do you compensate? Appeal to a PLT sorry, sorry. Yeah, so there are a few elements of the compensation. So every player receives base compensation for participating in the league. And then their bonuses based on performance. So every time you win a game or a quarter, there's actually bonuses. And then where you end up on that leaderboard that I mentioned determines the biggest component of your bonus. We also cover housing costs, travel costs, importantly, we cover child care costs for the players that are moms so that they're able to bring their kids into market and we help them coordinate child care and cover costs around that. And then the players share in long-term profits as well. It's a 20 year profit sharing plan. So if you're a player that plays in 2022, you'll share in any profits for now in 20 years into the future. So players are really aligned and incented and average comp is now starting to look like on average $20,000 over the course of 5 weeks. Some players can make up to 50. And honestly, we're a young organization. That's where WNBA or NWSL compensation was just a few years ago. We're feeling like we're on the right trajectory. And like I said, with expansion into softball, we have the 5 week season, adding the two week season, increased comp on average around 30%. We're still so early in this, but that's our model. Base comp, bonuses, profit sharing. And then really helping helping the athletes outside of that. Got an old friend of the show, ice cube. And an idea popped in my head again before the show, what if you had a women's three on three big league? That would get over big time. I'd see I can't open this like old man bars like, you know, he's got his ice on the phone. Yeah, I'm ready, man. What do you think? Well, I don't know. You have to tell me bowling or three on three baskets. I have to make
TuneInPOC
"nwsl" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Gosh. Okay, before we get into it, I just need to level set the listener of what is happening today. Welcome back to we can do hard things, first of all. And second of all, I'm going to take the intro and the bios here because these friends are what I brought into my marriage. You did. You did bring them to me. I did. That was good. I just need to introduce you both because you two are just outrageous. I'll begin with ashlyn Harris. She is a two time World Cup champion, two time Concacaf champion, and a three time she believes cup champion. She believes. She currently plays for Gotham FC of the national women's soccer league, the NWSL, and leads the NWSL with the most saves of any goalkeeper of Eddie goalkeeper folks. Wow. She's a champion of self expression and self love. Ashland is also known for her style and her extensive tattoo artwork. Ali Krieger is an Olympian two time World Cup champion and a two time she believes cup champion, she's a key part of the defense that held opponents scoreless for 539 consecutive minutes during the 2015. That is how long every game feels. Recently, ally was burned too. Yes, exactly. Recently ally was named number 7 most marketable athletes in the world and currently plays for the NWA cells. There's Gotham FC. No way that there's 6 more marketable athletes in the world than Ali. Ash is one of them. She's three. Are you serious? I got the boot. Oh my God. Well, in 2019, Ashland and ally married. And in February of 2021, they welcomed their new baby. Slow. There are also parents to two puppies Logan and storm, my goodness. I love you both so much. Thank you for joining us today on we can do hard things double date. And we got to kind of just dive in because we're ready. I'm so happy to be here. Honey, take the first question..
TuneInPOC
"nwsl" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Gosh. Okay, before we get into it, I just need to level set the listener of what is happening today. Welcome back to we can do hard things, first of all. And second of all, I'm going to take the intro and the bios here because these friends are what I brought into my marriage. You did. You did bring them to me. I did. That was good. I just need to introduce you both because you two are just outrageous. I'll begin with ashlyn Harris. She is a two time World Cup champion, two time Concacaf champion, and a three time she believes cup champion. She believes. She currently plays for Gotham FC of the national women's soccer league, the NWSL, and leads the NWSL with the most saves of any goalkeeper of Eddie goalkeeper folks. Wow. She's a champion of self expression and self love. Ashland is also known for her style and her extensive tattoo artwork. Ali Krieger is an Olympian two time World Cup champion and a two time she believes cup champion, she's a key part of the defense that held opponents scoreless for 539 consecutive minutes during the 2015. That is how long every game feels. Recently, ally was burned too. Yes, exactly. Recently ally was named number 7 most marketable athletes in the world and currently plays for the NWA cells. There's Gotham FC. No way that there's 6 more marketable athletes in the world than Ali. Ash is one of them. She's three. Are you serious? I got the boot. Oh my God. Well, in 2019, Ashland and ally married. And in February of 2021, they welcomed their new baby. Slow. There are also parents to two puppies Logan and storm, my goodness. I love you both so much. Thank you for joining us today on we can do hard things double date. And we got to kind of just dive in because we're ready. I'm so happy to be here. Honey, take the first question..
Game Theory Podcast
"nwsl" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"See what happens when LeBron gets back and gets healthy and totally. You know, if he can make Anthony Davis show up, obviously the bucks are starting to get healthy. I think brook Lopez today, he said he's going to be back in a few weeks, which you know, of course, I've figured he'd be back in a few weeks. We didn't hear that it was too serious. And this is the team playing for the title anyway. Right. So I think that they're part of a handful of teams that have a realistic title aspiration. But yeah, I mean, they're my favorite right now. They're the best team in the league right now. I mean, they're winning the race. And in that capacity, question number two. Factor fiction. From the midpoint of last season onward. Stephen Curry has been the best player in the NBA. Yeah, a 100%. I think he never left to be honest with you. I think he's just been the best player in the league. If you want to pick one guy, he's gonna rotate constantly, night to night. I think on any given night, the last few years, it's been LeBron. It's been staff. It's been Kevin Durant. It's been Yanis or has been jokic. And yeah, he's just been ahead above even jokic, even Giannis, even Kevin Durant as great as Kevin Durant's been. Yeah. For about a year now. I thought that it was going to be Kevin Durant this year. I thought he was going to be fully back from the Achilles injury. And look, Kevin Durant, I think would be great. I think he'd be my pick for number two and I think Giannis would be my pick for number three right now. Like I strongly believe in all three of these dudes. But hurry, the terror that Stephen Curry has been on, since the midpoint of last year's unbelievable..
KFI AM 640
"nwsl" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Dot com. To schedule your telehealth appointment today. Clear skies out there through the night. Uh, some clouds by early morning, But those cars are going to clear right up by midday. Hot again tomorrow, maybe a degree or two cooler, but you ain't feeling that then about five degrees cooler Sunday. More cool. Incoming. Tuesday we lead local live from the 24 hour news room. I'm Michael Frazier Calling all sports fans I heart radio is exclusive audio streaming partner of the National Women's Soccer League For the first time ever. You can listen live to the biggest league games on Nwsl radio on the I Heart radio app. The action kicks off Saturday, September 11th at seven. P.m. Eastern When Orlando Pride takes on racing, Louisville and then on Sunday, September 12th at five. P.m. Eastern When Washington Spirit takes on ol rain to purchase tickets, visit nwsl soccer dot com slash tickets three these games and get up to date highlights exclusively on Nwsl radio. Only on I Heart radio. Let's face it crushing candy gets old really fast. So play the game that really gets your brain working. Play best feeds the five star rated Game with over 100 million downloads with tons of cute characters to collect and over 5000 challenging levels. Best fiends is for those who love puzzles. Download best friends free from the APP store or Google play That's friends without the our best beings. Fasting download free. Hey, if you're one of the many parents thinking about home schooling your students this year, you need to take a long look at Acela's power home school. Now they are the homeschool learning accelerator. It keeps parents and control.
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"nwsl" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"And lifts a high drive out in the right center found its way out of here. That is a grand Slam right there by Jared Walsh to tie the ball game up in the ninth inning Now 88 or Wow, Terry Smith on Angels radio. Jared Walsh clubbing the granny offer all this Chapman, who had not started a home run to a lefty in four seasons. Wow, I'm scoring three more for an 11 8 win seven total runs Top nine all after Shohei Otani allowed seven runs on to its and four walks. Way back in the first inning. The EOS got a three game sweep in Houston 52 and the Tigers won twice in Cleveland, 94 than 71. Miguel Cabrera hit home run number 4 94 the nightcap. Breaking his tie for 28th all time with Lou Gehrig and Fred McGriff. Mississippi State When its first college World Series last night, nine Nothing over Vandy in their third and final game. The Bulldogs won the night before 13 to women's top seed Dash party leading off on center court on Day four. Wimbledon that match just about to begin Cocoa Golf and Roger Federer follow. And 15 year old Olivia Moultrie, officially a member now of the Portland Thorns. Military recently won an injunction against the Nwsl and its 18 year old age limit. The overall lawsuit continues with a couple of fancy contractual agreement. She has a three year deal now with the thorn that 15 is a professional soccer player. And now Let's get stunned. Yeah, it doesn't take much to surprise this bouncing baby boy. This is honestly the most stunned. I have ever been on the show to a news for the show is stunned to a new Today's stunned courtesy of our most prolific tweeter and DM or the one and only Robin, the 3 to 1. It is about 33 year old Luis Antonio Victoria Dominguez, who allegedly jumped out of United Airlines flight number 5365 as he was strapping for takeoff at L. A x last week. Victoria Dominguez apparently told his seat mate what he was about to do. She.
Mark Mason
Judge Allows Olivia Moultrie, 15, to Sign With NWSL Team
"Judges judges imposing imposing a temporary a temporary restraining restraining order that will order give that a will give soccer a soccer prodigy prodigy from Wilsonville from Wilsonville the chance the to chance play to for play for a professional a professional team. team. The National The Women's National Soccer Women's Soccer League had League a rule had that a rule players that players had to be at had least to be 18 at least years 18 old years to enter old to the enter league. the league. However, the However, judge the found judge the found age the restriction age restriction violates violates federal federal antitrust antitrust law and law would and cause would irreparable cause irreparable harm. harm. The order The will order allow will 15 allow 15 year old year Olivia old Olivia Moultrie Moultrie to be offered to be offered a contract a contract Moultrie Moultrie practices practices for the Portland for the Portland thorns. thorns. The order The is order good is for good for only only 14 14 days. days.
Mark Mason
Judge Allows Olivia Moultrie, 15, to Sign With NWSL Team
"Judges judges imposing imposing a temporary a temporary restraining restraining order that will order give that a will give soccer a soccer prodigy prodigy from Wilsonville from Wilsonville the chance the to chance play to for play for a professional a professional team. team. The National The Women's National Soccer Women's Soccer League had League a rule had that a rule players that players had to be at had least to be 18 at least years 18 old years to enter old to the enter league. the league. However, the However, judge the found judge the found age the restriction age restriction violates violates federal federal antitrust antitrust law and law would and cause would irreparable cause irreparable harm. harm. The order The will order allow will 15 allow 15 year old year Olivia old Olivia Moultrie Moultrie to be offered to be offered a contract a contract Moultrie Moultrie practices practices for the Portland for the Portland thorns. thorns. The order The is order good is for good for only only 14 14 days. days.
WNBA Nation
OL Reign Land Bouhaddi and Marozsan on Loan From Sister Club Lyon
"The day we record this oil grain decided. They wanted to kick off the week with a bit of of a blast. Bit some fireworks to pretty awesome acquisitions or at least on loan acquisitions for the club which may not affect the challenge cup but will definitely affect the incoming year for oil rain I'll get over to you to give us some of the download on that okay. So this was big news. When leon got the ownership of of the rain we wondered what the implications of this would be is assistant vestments are. They're going to be recruiting opportunities. More money into the club. What is really look like right. As as of the day were recording. We saw some big news. That two of leone's players sarah body and a jennifer marijan are going to be playing for oil rain over the summer as soon as the season wraps up. This doesn't necessarily impact the challenge cup. But these are two of the best players in the world. Budi especially. I mean i would argue the best goalkeeper in the world This is huge for the rain. In the off season we saw some rain. Players go over to france and train with with leones team which was a huge benefit to them. But now we're seeing this as as this mutual partnership is talent sharing situation so not only. Are we seeing financial investment. Were seeing now. Some of the best players in the world coming to the nwa sell like we talked about this before. Steve about A lot of the american players. Like sam you is abigail. Kemper rose lavelle going overseas and leaving the nwf. But now we're seeing kind of the inverse happening. Yeah i think this is huge news. I mean the rainer ascendant as is but to get. This news is
WNBA Nation
NWSL Nation - Challenge Cup Week 1 Review
"Soccer's back soccer's back like we've watched it. We've seen it's. Forty minutes worth of it. Those the they fly by five hundred minutes fly by really yeah, especially when they're broken down in segments good. I'm glad they took my advice on that because I know the original plan was every match one after the continuously? Yeah, the the ninety ninety minute was was controversial, but I'm glad they went with it. You know it's every now and again I have good ideas. Any any who Mike. We have lots to talk about as we record. This are six matches into the Challenge Cup tournament. Every team is have Janssen play. What's four teams have played twice us, or we're going to dig into. These gives quick reactions and have look forward to to the next up around imagine by kicking off the. Match on CBS. Half a million people tuned in to watch North Carolina Courage Portland Mozart. Most watched. Time incredible and it'd be so much of all time. It was a higher view than a few EPL matches. That happened that day. It was a all cases a pretty strong success of course Mike I know. If you had your druthers, things, soccer wise would have done. A little courage defeated Portland thorns two to one. This thing was scoreless. Seventy five minutes in for Denia scored off of Haley Mace Cross Italy trying to watch so much soccer in the last couple of days, trying to like the July's all the goals correctly of course, Charlotte equalizing in the eightieth minute Lynn Will Williams putting North Carolina ahead in. In stoppage, time I'm just going to cut right over to you. First Match Back Challenge Cup immediate reactions. This was incredible and I say this is the thorns fan heard about the loss, but this was a fantastic match. You know you've got a big rivalry between the courage and the thorns lot of history there, we didn't know what it would look like with. You know such a long hiatus structure to the preseason, but it didn't disappoint new look lot of new faces for the thorns, but I think they exceeded a lot of expectations, goalkeeper bill, bixby and her and wwl debut had some phenomenal saves against you know. Courage onslaught, tons set pieces good work in the midfield by Lindsay Horon Rocky Rodriguez. The courage didn't quite look like the courage that we're used to. It wasn't quite the smooth billed from the back fast pace attack that we've come to know one love that being said they found a way to to make it happen, and their crosses into the box were lethal, and that's got the job done for them. Yeah I think a theme because we're obviously talking about the courage again toward the end of this I, think team on sing with North Carolina. They're known for their depth. They're known for their cardio. They're known for their technical skill level. And obviously just having a deep deep deep roster, topics, players, and it just always seems to come down to the same two or three people. With things close out I mean you're talking about a phenomenal group of talented players. The end the day comes down to Denia and. Then Williams. It's interesting. It really isn't ensemble and I. I think I think they did great work, but but you're right. It came down to that, and you know Lynn Williams's well on her way to. Showing up SAM curve the for the Golden Boot of the tournament at least. Yeah I at this point I'm. Talking about we're talking three goals at two games, it's you know it's obviously phenomenal performance on her independence looking well. Haley Haley Mason Samuel Ev looks really strong on the distribution end I think that they look pretty locked in there I think I'm Portland's, and it's hard to say there weren't too many heavy. This isn't necessarily the case where I think you're looking t better, dead or a lot of ways i. feel like Portland made a handful of mistakes that led them to give up two late goals True and one thing you have to say for Portland to not only are they coming in with a largely new team They've gotten hit. Pretty hard by the injury bug. You know we had eighty franch this out of the tournament. number one draft Sophea Smith didn't play. We don't know when we're going to see her. So we saw a lot of new faces, and they still put up a good fight. No, absolutely I actually one thing. I really came to Portland After this match, they were one of the most. It was one of the most sound defensive performances we'd seen across all the matches. We watch so far like I said I just think this. This was a case where the courage were able to take their strengths finder blemish where they could fit something in They're just phenomenally talented. When it comes to responding to cross well laser accuracy with that, you know finding people and bill each something that the bread butter, too, and they were able to connect it right the right time toward the end of the match I. They knew that they're conditioning. Just with depth of their roster helped them a lot which makes their most recent match all the more interesting overall i. Definitely felt like a good showing on both ends in, and really was a tough break. This is definitely it really would have benefited Portland to get points here and yeah. Yeah stoppage it was e can't get more dramatic, so it was. It lived up. Tech speculations
America First with Sebastian Gorka
NWSL players kneel during the national anthem
"But women soccer players kneel for the national anthem players for the Portland thorns and the North Carolina courage to cony Saturday as the national women's soccer league open to challenge Cup tournament in Utah the players wore black lives matter T. shirts in warmups before the game which was nationally televised in addition to the anthem the players knelt for moment of silence before kickoff the teams issued a joint statement saying they wanted to protest racial injustice police brutality and systematic
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
NWSL moves to allow training in small groups
"The national women's soccer league says players may start training in small groups provided it is done under league protocols and meets the requirements of local authorities teams will be able to progress to full team training on may thirtieth once the complete five days of small
The Lead
NWSL: Everything you need to know
"So you don't backing up just a second meg just tell us a little bit about the. NWF Sell League. That's been around a lot longer than many people even realize yes definitely This is the first time we've actually had a women's professional soccer league that has lasted longer than three years. There were two that existed previously but and the cell was formed in twenty thirteen back then had eight teams. Now we're up to nine so it's every single player from the US national team in it. Plus plus international players. Like Sam Kerr who plays for the Chicago Red Stars. Marta of Orlando Pride Christine Sinclair in Portland with the thorns So it's really just kind of still as of right now in theory the best women's Professional League in the world