1. USA Curling CEO Jeff Plush resigns amid criticism he mishandled abuse complaints while with NWSL By Nancy Armour (USA Today)2. World Cup dreams, gone in an instant By Rory Smith (New York Times)3. Brad Feldman lived his dream By Sam Minton (The Bent Musket)
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NWSL: Players with most championships (all with 3)
• Christine Sinclair (Portland 2013, 2017, 2022) • Becky Sauerbrunn (FC Kansas City 2014-15, Portland 2022) • Heather O’Reilly (FC Kansas City 2015, NC Courage 2018-19) • Abby Dahlkemper (WNY Flash 2016, NC Courage 2018-19) • Jaelene Hinkle (WNY Flash 2016, NC Courage 2018-19) • Samantha Mewis (WNY Flash 2016, NC Courage 2018-19) • Abby […]
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Results: USL League One (Semifinals)
Saturday, October 29 Richmond 0 Chattanooga 1. (Goal: Mentzingen 86. Att.: 5,526.) Greenville 0 South Georgia 1. (Goal: Sterling 42. Att.: 2,070.)
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USL Championship: Louisville City rallies to advance to its eighth consecutive Eastern Conference final
Louisville City came back from two goals down with seven minutes left in regulation to beat the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in a shootout and advance to its eighth consecutive Eastern Conference Final. LouCity was in danger of exiting to the visiting Riverhounds, who got two goals from Russell Cicerone, when it rallied on goals from Manny […]
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Jesse Marsch's Leeds United stuns Liverpool at Anfield: 'We've stuck together'
Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool are putting Champions League soccer next season at risk with a disastrous start to the season after Leeds United stunned Anfield with a 2-1 on Saturday. Crysencio Summerville‘s 89th-minute goal inflicted the Reds their first home league defeat in front of a crowd since April 2017. Liverpool has now lost twice […]
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NWSL takes cue from its players
Women’s pro soccer has been around for more than two decades and the NWSL is about to finish its 10th season of operation, but it feels like women’s pro soccer is just now turning the corner. Saturday’s NWSL championship game take place at Washington’s 20,000-seat Audi Field, where, as of Friday morning, only 1,000 tickets […]
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What They're Saying: Osvaldo Chiara
“The surgery was a relatively simple one. Luckily, there were only two damaged muscles. His muscular mass is such that the length of the knife that was used couldn’t pass through the rib cage and hit his lung.” — Osvaldo Chiara, the director of the general surgery and trauma team at the Niguarda hospital in […]
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Road to Qatar: Luca de la Torre injured
Celta midfielder Luca de la Torre suffered a leg injury (grade 1 fibrillar tear in the biceps femoris) that will sideline him for around three weeks. The injury came less than two weeks before the U.S. World Cup team will be revealed. Celta coach Eduardo Coudet said “there won’t be any problem” with de la […]
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Results: USL Championship (Conference Semifinals)
Friday, October 28 San Antonio FC 3 Oakland 0. (Goals: Adeniran 2, Patino 75, 90. Att.: 8,208.)
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Saturday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Daniel Gazdag signing goes “above and beyond” Philadelphia Union’s dreams By Tom Bogerts (MLSSoccer,com)2. The instant legend of Kvaradona By Ivan Nechepurenko and Rory Smith (New York Times)3. Ronaldo: ‘The pressure pushed me ever further down. It has a cost’ By Sid Lowe (The Guardian)