An Investigation Update and What Comes Next in Portland
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Clarke of the Oregonian joins Full Time to discuss his recent investigation reports concerning the Portland Thorns and Timbers organization, from last month’s story on former employees describing a toxic work environment for women and working mothers, to this week’s story in which he reported extensive details around Portland’s investigation into their actions in 2015 concerning former head coach Paul Riley.
Follow Ryan Clarke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanTClarke
Read ‘Former employees of Portland Timbers, Thorns allege ‘toxic’ work environment for women, working mothers’ by Ryan Clarke: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/08/former-employees-of-portland-timbers-thorns-allege-toxic-work-environment-for-women-working-mothers.html
Read ‘Details emerge from law firm’s investigation into Portland Thorns’ handling of former coach Paul Riley’ by Ryan Clarke: https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/2022/08/details-emerge-from-law-firms-investigation-into-portland-thorns-handling-of-former-coach-paul-riley.html
Read Meg and Steph’s NWSL free agency explainer: https://theathletic.com/3539143/2022/08/25/nwsl-free-agency-dispute/
And read Meg & Steph’s weekly NWSL column: https://theathletic.com/3546876/2022/08/29/nwsl-rapinoe-san-diego-wave/
The Athletic is hiring a staff writer to cover women’s basketball: https://jobs.lever.co/theathletic/fa35f1dc-b17c-4d9d-8123-8693f0db1a08
Hockey! Takeaways on Team USA at Women’s Worlds from Hailey Salvian and Shayna Goldman: https://theathletic.com/3551625/2022/08/30/team-usa-womens-worlds-five-takeaways/
And Hailey’s got thoughts on Canada at Worlds too: https://theathletic.com/3553749/2022/08/31/womens-worlds-canada-what-did-we-learn/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
| 0:07.8 | workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension, |
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| 0:17.4 | £100 million back to our members instead. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, you've broken the cat flap again. |
| 0:26.0 | People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit peoplespension.com.han. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:55.4 | Today we are turning our focus to Portland. I am joined by Ryan Clark of the Oregonian. |
| 1:01.6 | He's here to discuss all of his recent reporting around the Portland Thorns and Timbers Front |
| 1:06.3 | Office plus new story about an investigation into how Portland handled a 2015 investigation of their own |
| 1:15.5 | following Monashem's complaint about former head coach Paul Riley. |
| 1:19.5 | There's a lot to discuss there that we are also, fortunately, going to talk a little bit about soccer as well, |
| 1:26.2 | but we've got a lot to dig into. |
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| 1:55.4 | now that means a dollar a month. Let's get to the news. Now, we are fully in the international break, so things have |
| 2:03.4 | slowed down slightly, and I realize, as I say that, that I have just doomed us all, but there |
| 2:09.2 | is still a lot to cover from last week. This is not a comprehensive collection of the news by any |
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