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Newsletter lead writer and host of The Late Sub for Just Women’s Sports

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LSU is doing that thing where they look deeply unserious for like 3/4ths of the season and then suddenly put the fear in you in March

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Got reasonable goals for OSU this year. Two conference tournament wins ✅, would love two in the NCAA tourney as well.

06.03.2026 20:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is such a casual basketball take but Jaloni Cambridge plays basketball like she likes playing basketball so much

06.03.2026 20:35 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

The hot take I will stand behind forever is that Gianna Kneepkens is a no brainer WNBA lottery pick

06.03.2026 18:24 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Roster update out of Portland: Sophia Wilson has officially completed return to play protocol, and will be active for the team’s season opener next weekend

05.03.2026 20:03 👍 101 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
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Ready for some postseason buckeye basketball

05.03.2026 19:20 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Recording Late Sub tomorrow morning but, absolutely massive camp from Gisele Thompson, and I think Claire Hutton today did so much by just not getting in the way

05.03.2026 01:44 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was a good win against a very organized Canada defense. US didn’t handle it well early, then grew into the game, and got the goal off a corner with Canada not offering a ton the other way. Sturdy.

05.03.2026 01:39 👍 58 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Last time Sears and I chatted we talked high schools Columbus ain’t that big a town

05.03.2026 01:27 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s hard to overstate how neat it is to have a kid from Dublin getting regular appearances for the USWNT

05.03.2026 01:25 👍 42 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

The USWNT’s set pieces have gotten so much better

05.03.2026 01:00 👍 45 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

What’s interesting about this too is the US flirts all the time with playing without one. Might have to be the answer if they can’t get consistent availability from their preferred starters.

05.03.2026 00:56 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Minutes 30-45 much better, good movement, left a few opportunities on the table but the U.S. successfully tilted the field

05.03.2026 00:36 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not exactly scintillating connective work from the U.S. in possession thus far

05.03.2026 00:12 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Feels like a small but very significant change that Hayes has declined to play Coffey/Lavelle/Heaps in this one after that trio was last seen in the Portugal loss. Hutton the rightful nod beside the former two.

04.03.2026 22:47 👍 33 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As expected, verrrrrryyyyy different starting XI for the US against Canada

04.03.2026 22:46 👍 38 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 4

lol kentucky is not a team you wanna play on the first day of conference tournaments

04.03.2026 19:17 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Knockout basketball season bb

04.03.2026 16:18 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A week from the final term sheet deadline, I am beginning to not think the union is going to strike, but rather that they are going to get locked out

04.03.2026 02:40 👍 32 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Emma Hayes has objectively done a great job with the player pool but it still just feels like the team is floating around their actual strongest XI mostly because of availability. But ain't that just sports I guess.

03.03.2026 20:19 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Obviously mostly bummed because you just want players to be healthy, but losing the opportunity to get some significant time with Reale and Bugg (and Wiesner) specifically for the US defense this week now Girma is back and healthy is also too bad for ongoing roster analysis

03.03.2026 20:14 👍 37 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I've noticed that as well

03.03.2026 06:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Part of this is just the general search engine having increasing problems but it would be so nice if there was Google integration for both unrivaled and PWHL games

03.03.2026 04:46 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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NWSL’s Dash Relaunch Sale Process After Last Year’s Talks Fell Apart The Houston Dash owners tried to sell the NWSL team to RHC Group. Now, after pushback from the league, they're putting the team back on the market.

Houston Dash sale to the son of a disappeared Chinese billionaire not going forward after league review, per Sportico. Looks like they’re still looking for a more amenable buyer www.sportico.com/business/tea...

02.03.2026 22:18 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Looks like just a flare up, fortunately

02.03.2026 00:06 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rodman down holding her back

02.03.2026 00:01 👍 34 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Beauty of a long strike from heaps there why doesn’t she do that all the time

01.03.2026 22:29 👍 45 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Hayes has obviously been experimenting with the teams shape a bit recently but I also wonder if this lineup isn’t more a group stage simulation based on opposition

01.03.2026 21:48 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Got ourselves a lineup here

01.03.2026 21:02 👍 40 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2

I am refusing to let everything else hockey wise going on take anything away from Hilary knights well earned legacy finalizing victory lap

01.03.2026 05:24 👍 87 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0