Washington Spirit Signs Defender Lucia Di Guglielmo The Washington Spirit has signed Italian defender Lucia Di Guglielmo to a three-year contract with a 2029 team option, the club announced today. As part of the move, the Spirit will pay a transfer fee...

As rumored, Lucia Di Guglielmo will be joining the Washington Spirit! She's signed a 3-year contract with an option for 2029.

washingtonspirit.com/blog/2025/12...

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Washington Spirit brick figure

Washington Spirit brick figure

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#NWSL #WoSo #RiseUpDC

the 1994 World Cup draw in Las Vegas had a little bit of everything — glitz, feuds, mishaps, jokes and more

a behind-the-scenes look with stories from ex-U.S. Soccer president Alan Rothenberg, model Carol Alt, racer Mario Andretti & ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter

www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...

Lesley is seated before Jaelin Howell and khyah Harper. Lesley’s wearing an orange flannel shirt, and Jaelin and Khyah are wearing cream colored sweatsuits

Happy international day of disabled persons!

The last few years have been a journey with plenty of lessons learned the hard way, but I’m glad to be finding my way through.

Before anything bad happens tomorrow (and it likely will if someone is going on THAT network),

Protect Black Women. Protect Black Girls. Support Black Women. Support Black Girls. Donate to the BWPC. Support Black media. Protect OUR sport against abusers, predators, bad actors and opportunists.

Alyssa Naeher’s legacy of hard work and consistency Leslie Osborne, Casey Krueger and Sam Staab share what makes Naeher so special

Last weekend in Hartford, Alyssa Naeher faced her toughest task yet: accepting praise.

As former teammate Casey Krueger said, “She deserves the world. She’s the best, whether she likes it or not, she’s gonna take all those compliments.”

equalizersoccer.com/2025/11/03/a...

from sarah gorden:

20 Films to Watch During Mes de la Patria 🇲🇽

View the list and follow Magnolia Magazine on Letterboxd: boxd.it/OBn0o

NWSL Weekend Take-Off: Spirit put it all together while Stars, Dash stun in wins The NWSL stretch run is here, and the Washington Spirit seem ready. Thoughts on their win, plus analysis of victories for Chicago and Houston.

The international window did not deter yours truly from the latest #NWSL Take-Off.

💛 The Spirit finally had a "normal" win
⭐ Chicago got their breakthrough
😱 It's officially time to worry about Orlando
🟠 The Dash are unbeaten in 6. Is that real, or just luck?

Great start to the week! Good to renovate ideas, energy, and dreams 💛

The Balanced Engineer • Issue #34 Diving into Big O Notation, exploring AI content norms, and understanding the management skill that nobody talks about with content from Sam Rose, Sean Goedecke, and Matheus Lima!

ICYMI: this week's Balanced Engineer Newsletter has three articles to be a more balanced software engineer:

✨ An interactive overview of Big O Notation from @samwho.dev
✨ What shouldn't be written by AI from Sean Goedecke
✨ The management skill no one talks about from @terriblesoftware.org

Have a nice day, happy Sunday! 😎😎

Let's go Spirits!! 🏆💛🖤⚽

Nooo... Rodman 🥲

I have a lot of energy to do many things but I also have a lot of other things that I need to solve or finish before.

Thanks for sharing this great tip! ⭐

A few weeks back, I shared one of my favourite macOS hidden features: the ability to zoom *way in* on the cursor.

I’m curious, are there similar features on Windows or Linux? Or software that can accomplish the same goal?

It’s such a boon for front-end work.

There is no better feeling than dreaming again 😀.

I use this dataset throughout my classes. Will be great no longer having to load a package.
bsky.app/profile/zeil...

Make decisions before they are too late ⌛🥲

Never use a dual Y axis line chart!

I made a little playground:
You can tweak the axis limits and see how different the graph looks like:

www.react-graph-gallery.com/example/dual...

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆

Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...

Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

A chart of kicks inside 50 in AFL games with kicks that are similar enough in origin and destination being grouped by a larger summary arrow, where the width of the arrow indicates the size of the cluster it represents, and the colour of the arrow coded to the colour of the individual kicks

A chart of kicks inside 50 in AFL games with kicks that are similar enough in origin and destination being grouped by a larger summary arrow, where the width of the arrow indicates the size of the cluster it represents, and the colour of the arrow coded to the colour of the individual kicks

Playing around with generating clusters of in-game events to power more meaningful analysis, in this case kicks inside 50 grouped by two different distance thresholds for comparison

Thanks @profredowl.bsky.social and @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social for pointing me to solutions

Putting a dollar figure on player impact - The Rugby League Eye Test For the third season in a row, I’m kicking off the 2025 NRL season by trying to put a dollar value on player impact. The last two instances have yielded some good results but like anything there’s alw...

My third annual attempt at projecting NRL player value for the upcoming season using on field production. You may not agree with all of it but there's some interesting names and numbers here.

www.rugbyleagueeyetest.com/2025/02/24/p...

Whimsical Animations Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

🎉 Introducing my upcoming third course, Whimsical Animations!

This course will teach you how to build top-tier animations and interactions using a variety of techniques. ✨

You can join the waitlist on the course’s brand-new site, which is the most ridiculous thing I’ve built in quite some time:

Congrats Pariss!! ⭐🚀🥳

Rowdy at Audi! 💛🖤

Announcing Interop 2025 Exciting news for web developers, designers, and browser enthusiasts alike — Interop 2025 is here, continuing the mission of improving cross-browser interoperability.

Interop 2025 is launched! This is the culmination of months of work to find focus areas that really matter to developers. I’m gonna plan a vacation now 😅 webkit.org/blog/16458/a...