Here Comes Houston
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We’re shifting our focus to another NWSL team this week, with Houston Dash president Jessica O’Neill joining the show to discuss the growing ambitions in Houston. After winning the first Challenge Cup, and under (relatively) new ownership in Ted Segal, the team’s made a bunch of big moves on the roster and in the front office this week. From pushing for the 2022 playoffs to planning ahead to the 2026 World Cup, Jessica is here to talk about it all.
The NWSL Championship moves to primetime: https://theathletic.com/3531241/2022/08/23/nwsl-championship-time-channel-cbs/
This week’s NWSL column from Meg & Steph: https://theathletic.com/3528601/2022/08/22/labonta-ward-nwsl-coaches/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Lennahan. I am Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the |
| 0:21.4 | Athletic Podcast Network. This week, we are shifting our focus to Houston team president of the |
| 0:27.1 | dash. Jessica O'Neill is here to walk me through the team's evolution for 2022 and what comes |
| 0:32.2 | next, including a run at this year's playoffs. Ebony Salmon has outscored entire teams since July. They've made |
| 0:39.1 | some break trade news. They just hired a new GM. Under owner Ted Siegel, there is clear new |
| 0:45.1 | ambition and Jessica is here to tell us all about it. It's super interesting. All right, full time |
| 0:50.5 | with Meg Lynnahan is presented by Klarna, the new smart way to pay when you shop online |
| 0:54.9 | for tickets, team merch, and more. Before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, |
| 1:00.1 | to show your support of full-time. Let's get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything |
| 1:03.9 | else the athletic has to offer on our site and our app. You can subscribe right now at |
| 1:08.7 | theathletic.com slash full time. It is always our very |
| 1:13.0 | best deal. All right. There was so much news this week. It just kept happening and |
| 1:17.4 | happening some more. So these are going to be a little bit brief just so we're not here an |
| 1:21.3 | extra 20 minutes and we can get right to what Jessica and I want to talk about. Of course, |
| 1:26.6 | the NWSL championship has been announced. |
| 1:28.9 | We are heading to the district and Audi Field on October 29th, |
| 1:32.2 | but the big news here is at the game will be in primetime on Big CBS at 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 1:38.6 | Now I've got the story on how that happened with an assist from ally |
| 1:41.4 | and previous guests of full-time Andrea Bimmer. |
| 1:45.2 | That's over at The Athletic and the link, of course, will be in the show notes if you missed it. |
| 1:49.8 | Okay, weird one here. Chris Ward was abruptly relieved of his duties this week by the Washington |
| 1:54.0 | Spirit with the news delivered via tweet. And that was it. The Spirit have been winless since the |
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