Best Of: Soccer Star Briana Scurry / How The Opioid Industry Operated Like A Cartel

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🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The first time women's soccer was included in the Olympics, in 1996, the U.S. team won the gold, and Briana Scurry was the team's goalie. She went on to win a second gold medal and a World Cup. Her soccer career was ended by a severe concussion, in a collision on the field. Unable to work, broke and in despair, she pawned her gold medals. She got them back–and got the surgery she needed– with the help of the woman who became her wife.

Also, we'll talk with Washington Post reporter Scott Higham about how America's opioid industry resembled a drug cartel. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead will review a new album by the Tyshawn Sorey Trio.

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0:00.0	From W-H-Y-Y in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:07.3	The first time women's soccer was included in the Olympics in 1996, the U.S. team won
0:12.8	the gold, and today's guest, Brianna Scurry, was the team's goalkeeper.
0:17.6	She went on to win a second gold medal and a World Cup.
0:20.8	Her soccer career was ended by a severe concussion in a collision on the field.
0:25.5	Unable to work, broke and in despair, she pawned her gold medals.
0:30.2	She got them back and got the surgery she needed, with the help of the woman who became Scurry's
0:35.4	wife.
0:36.4	Also we'll talk with Washington Post reporter Scott Hyam about how America's opioid
0:41.2	industry resembled a drug cartel.
0:43.8	It's the subject of his new book.
0:46.0	And Jasper to Kevin Whitehead will review a new album by the Taishan Surrey Trio.
0:52.5	My first guest, Brianna Scurry, is one of the most celebrated players and one of the
0:56.8	top goalkeepers in the history of women's soccer in the U.S.
1:01.2	She won a World Cup in 1999 and two Olympic gold medals.
1:05.4	She's the only African American woman in the U.S. soccer hall of fame, a photo of her
1:10.0	hangs in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and
1:15.2	she's pretty sure she's the only black lesbian goalkeeper who has been on the cover of a
1:19.4	Weedy's Box.
1:21.2	Her soccer career ended abruptly and painfully in 2010 when she was playing in the new women's
1:26.7	professional soccer league and a player from the opposing team collided with her with
1:31.3	her knee crashing into Scurry's right temple.
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