Alex Morgan’s final game, plus a look into Angel Reese's injury, the U.S. Open, and the Paralympics

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, Claire takes a moment to talk about the final few days of Alex Morgan’s professional career, how the soccer world has changed since Morgan’s debut and how the star herself spoke about what’s next. Then, she discusses what Angel Reese’s season ending injury means for the WNBA playoff race, salutes the U.S. Open and the Paralympics and more.

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0:00.0	The story of Alex Morgan in the final year of her career,
0:02.9	which is not an encapsulation of the career as a whole,
0:04.8	but this final year is trying big things,
0:08.1	making big plans.
0:09.2	And even if you don't achieve all of those goals,
0:11.5	I think she has felt like she was walking away
0:13.2	staying very very true to herself as a player.
0:18.6	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub it is Monday
0:24.8	September 9th I am your host Claire Watkins and this is going to be a little bit of a
0:29.5	reflective episode maybe we had some really big women's sports news touch points this week
0:36.7	with some big stars making some big announcements and maybe sort of the theme of
0:41.6	today as we've seen maybe some chapters ending and some chapters beginning as we move into this transitional time for both the NWSL and the WMBA.
0:51.0	Summer is coming to a close. Fall is upon us and we had some kind of really big moments this week or this even this weekend that that changed the landscape not only of this year in women's sports in the US, but also there's some ramifications for many years to come.
1:07.3	So I'm going to dig into some of those big stories today, again a little bit more reflective, nonetheless action-packed let's jump in.
1:14.7	Okay so we're gonna start with the world of soccer and maybe you know maybe it's the
1:21.1	the fall air it's kind of the turning of the seasons.
1:24.3	We're into this second week of September.
1:26.8	But yeah, I'm feeling a little nostalgic.
1:28.6	I'm feeling a little wistful, maybe a little somber going into this week's talk about the end of
1:34.1	you a cell because there was a big send-off this weekend somewhat unexpected of
1:39.3	US was national team in NWSL legend Alex Morgan.
1:43.0	This is probably not new news for anybody who has been keeping up with the sport.
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