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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

How Billie Jean King hopes to unlock the next generation

Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

News, Soccer, Sports News, Sports

4.8756 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Women's sports may be booming, but establishing a bright future might rely on understanding the past. On this week's Full Time Focus, host Jilian Sakovits is joined by Meg Linehan, who last week sat down for a one-on-one interview with sports icon Billie Jean King in Los Angeles to talk all things women's sports. With clips from that conversation interspersed, Meg talks about how BJK emphasized the importance of knowing your history, investment, and the need for women's sports to progress even faster. PLUS: Jilian and Producer Theo give their women's FA Cup semifinal predictions and look ahead to Week 4 of the NWSL. _______________ Mentioned on the show: Emma Hayes is putting her USWNT players in the frying pan. Who can handle the heat? Michele Kang on $25 million U.S. Soccer investment: ‘It’s a very critical moment for all of us’ Who is Emma Hayes building the USWNT around? _______________ HOST: Jillian Sakovits GUESTS: Meg Linehan PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen _______________ Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on Instagram and TikTok: @tafulltime Subscribe to the Full Time newsletter here Visit the Yahoo Women's Sports hub here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Dane Bruegler. I cover the NFL draft for the Athletic.

0:04.0

Our draft guide picked up the name The Beast because of the crazy amount of information that's included.

0:10.0

I'm looking at thousands of players, putting together hundreds of scouting reports.

0:14.0

I've been covering this year's draft since last year's draft.

0:17.0

There is a lot in The Beast that you simply can't find anywhere else.

0:25.6

You can get the beast and all the great coverage my colleagues do by subscribing to The of you, listening to full-time focus. It is presented by Amazon Business. On today's show, Meglinahan will join me to talk about her sit down with the women who coined the term pressure is a privilege.

0:59.3

That's right, the legendary Billie Jean King in Los Angeles last week.

1:03.3

And then producer Theo and I will get you all ready for NWSL week for the English women's FAC Cup semifinals and any other news from the week that caught

1:12.4

our eye.

1:13.0

Let's get into it.

1:22.0

Time now to bring in the great Meg Linahan, who not only was covering the U.S.

1:26.4

Women's National team out in Los Angeles, but was talking to a legend in herself, Billy Jean King,

1:33.5

one of the greatest professional soccer, I'm so used to saying soccer, tennis, tennis players

1:38.8

of all time, 39 grand slam titles. But beyond that, Meg, long time and powerful advocate for gender

1:45.2

quality, social justice, and also an entrepreneur and businesswoman in her own right. I have to

1:52.1

hear all about this one-on-one. And you have a fascinating article that'll be dropping on the

1:58.1

athletic on Friday when you're all listening to this podcast.

2:01.9

So, Meg, please take us inside what it was like meeting Billy Jean King, but also having

2:09.4

this sit down with her.

2:11.2

Yeah.

2:11.5

I mean, it is such a fascinating thing because I, so I've gone back as part of the prep for

2:16.7

this interview.

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