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Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s episode three of Full Time with Meg Linehan, and Meg is joined by noted NWSL Expert Sandra Herrera who’s been locking down CBS’ editorial coverage of the NWSL Challenge Cup, as well as their pregame and postgame analysis shows (2:21). Sandra’s here to talk about her new gig, the Challenge Cup, and help me finally decide if Julie Ertz is properly appreciated.
Find all of our NWSL coverage here: https://theathletic.com/nwsl/
Read Sandra’s work on CBS Sports: https://www.cbssports.com/writers/sandra-herrera/
Follow Sandra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SandHerrera_
Andrew Keh and Andrew Das on the NWSL’s PPP loan: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/sports/soccer/nwsl-ppp-loan.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to full-time with Meg Linnehan, which is a podcast about women's soccer, of which we |
| 0:21.5 | certainly have plenty to discuss this week. Welcome to episode three. I am joined today by Sandra Herrera, |
| 0:27.6 | and if you're watching these games on CBS All Access and you're tuning in a little early or sticking |
| 0:32.1 | around after the final whistle, then you've definitely seen her leading their analysis of the Challenge |
| 0:37.1 | Cup. |
| 0:41.4 | So we're recording this episode on Tuesday, July 7th. So there's still one more day of games between me recording this and then the episode dropping on Thursday. |
| 0:47.4 | So no spoilers from me on the games. |
| 0:50.7 | But a couple of NWSL news items before we get to the main interview for today's |
| 0:55.6 | episode. Andrew Kay and Andrew Doss have reported the NWSL is on the giant list of businesses |
| 1:01.6 | that received a paycheck protection program loan during the pandemic. NWSL Commissioner Lisa |
| 1:06.7 | Baird spoke to them for the story at the New York Times, saying the money went directly |
| 1:10.2 | to player salaries. The loan was between $1 and $2 million, and according to public information, |
| 1:15.8 | helped retain 213 jobs. As Baird told the Andrews, as I like to call them, since I sat next to both |
| 1:22.8 | of them for most of the World Cup last summer, while there were internal discussions between |
| 1:26.9 | the league and the owners and other stakeholders about the potential optics of actually asking for this money and this loan, the player compensation dominates the league's monthly expenses and it was imperative for them to continue paying their salaries. So Barrett said in the article, that benefit outweighed anything that we could think of |
| 1:44.8 | in terms of optics. So basically, this loan really kept the league alive until they could actually |
| 1:49.9 | get the Challenge Cup planned and then underway. Also in the NWSL, Sky Blitsey announced that they |
| 1:56.7 | sold over $30,000 in merchandise thanks to the release of their new 2020 primary kit and additional merchandise. |
| 2:03.2 | That number is an all-time high for the club, and they wrote in their release, it nearly doubled the club's previous single-day record. |
| 2:09.7 | The primary kit represented more than half of the sales and then sold out on the day of the release because, as per usual, demand always exceeds the actual supply. |
| 2:21.0 | All right. |
| 2:21.8 | So our guest today is Sandra Herrera when my favorite new fact about Sandra is that |
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