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ofc i’m team no cap but the thing that infuriates me is that even a bump to $5m, 7 or 10 would be enough. like ok if you’re worried about parity because you know you still have broke bois, they can handle $10m. keeping it below $4m, in this era, is telling many of your best players to leave.

alyssa thompson should’ve been the wake up call, but since it wasn’t, if trin leaves then berman and the board of governors will have successfully transitioned the nwsl into a feeder league. congrats on those expansion fees tho.

19,365 is the attendance for Spirit-Thorns, that's the building max with the team's new set-up on standing-room only tickets.

Hiatt... I remember when she did that as a reign player...

this ref is terrible

Wow that's a pretty goal

Seattle Torrent Captain Hilary Knight

O captain, OUR captain 🫡

📰 bit.ly/47FwDw6

Not sure if Jess Fishlock being the Reign's golden boot winner this year should be interpreted nevatively as a sign of the lackluster attack, or a sign of just what a beast Jess really is 🤔

Pretty cool that 12.99 will now get you access to a mind bending drama based on highly structured and inscrutable rules with themes of identity and free will set to a backdrop of corporate desperation and overreach and also severance is on there I guess

I’m still so fucking angry.

Breaking a 64 year old record set by a switch hitting outfielder (and one of the most famous and celebrated) doesn't matter? And a positional HR record? All while Playing the hardest position in baseball?

Judge was great, Raleigh was literally legendary.

A couple hall of fame careers 👑

Congratulations Tobin and Heather on being elected in to the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2026 ❤️

Ovalle definitely wins this, but Bugg with the nom!

Ok Washington Spirit friends, what do you think has made the Spirit so successful in getting people to go to games? Obviously the team playing well helps, but we've seen other teams win on the field and not have this level of attendance success. Are tickets affordable? What types of marketing?

The northern lights are the new baseball.

The award is coach of the year, not best team results of the year. They won the shield for their troubles, but I’m not entirely convinced that KC’s dominance was due to coaching rather than roster.

Ultimately, Bev and Vlatko ended their championship run the same way - a quarterfinal exit.

lol this is great content, Marta forever

Fresh off the bus, UW women’s soccer gets a heroes welcome outside of Husky Stadium.

Husky band is here while Football, Softball, women’s tennis, women’s basketball and others are here to show their support. Awesome stuff.

#GoHuskies #SeattleSports

Washington women’s soccer goalkeeper Mia Hamant dies at 21 after kidney cancer battle Mia Hamant, a goalkeeper for Washington’s women’s soccer team who helped the Huskies reach the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament as a junior, has died. She was 21.

UW Women's Soccer just won the BIG 10 championship in a penalty shootout, and they did it for their teammate Mia Hamant, who just passed away from a rare kidney cancer.

I'm so emotional right now.

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i wanted a golden goal walk-off banger AND I GOT ONE

American Soccer culture is a no. 8 team taking down a league winner, IMO

EXTRA TIME EQUALIZER

Hilary Knight, @pwhltorrent.bsky.social forward, records a hat trick in Team USA's thumping win over Canada in game two of this years #RivalrySeries.

Seattle Torrent players to record stats in this game⬇️
Hilary Knight: 3 goals
Hannah Bilka: 1 assist

#SeattleTorrent #SeattleSports

Both Seattle soccer teams eliminated from playoffs in back to back days 😔

Reign had a good season. Lots of joyful moments. Tremendous improvement from last year. A bunch of young players who I feel still have much higher ceilings, and grew a lot this year. Good momentum. They will be back next year, better and stronger.

How it feels when the ref cam comes on

Still really proud of the #ReignFC to go from 13 to 5th. So much talent on this team now too! And if they were gonna lose, might as well be after Marta magic and Luana scoring

Two of the best in the world 🌎

Congratulations on your The Best FIFA nominations, Lindsey and Phallon

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The Black Women’s Player Collective is aware of the hateful and discriminatory comments abuse and harassment directed towards black women with our soccer community. This is unacceptable. We have listened. We are exhausted and once again, we are deeply disappointed. Nonetheless, we continue on to be clear the players at the center of these comments are sis women. However, the BWPC stands firmly in support of the trans community. The BWPC was founded to protect and uplift, black female athletes in and out of soccer, we denounce any ideology that seeks to detract from that purpose, and are exhausted by efforts to derail our access and to impact the beautiful game. As NWSL playoffs begin, our focus remains on increasing access to soccer and celebrating our community. We choose to focus on the incredible black women paving the way in our sport and our inaugural BWPPC combine for the next generation of Black soccer talent at the Allstate next wave national showcase. Sports are strongest when they every athlete is free to compete express themselves and exist authentically.

The Black Women’s Player Collective has dropped a statement as well this morning on their Instagram in light of the recent comments made this week.

NWSL audience grew 61 percent year over year this season on ABC/ESPN platforms, averaging 228,000 for 17 matches, network says.

Top 5:
KC v POR 610,000
CHI v WAS 561k
WAS v POR 555k
ORL v SD 448k
NJ/NY v WAS 325k

ABC/ESPN+ will carry 2 quarterfinals Sunday.

Carving our own path.