How much scrutiny is NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman under?
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Tamerra Griffin to talk about a memorable evening at PayPal Park. Under the backdrop of Bay FC facing off against Angel City, in San Jose, California, Tamerra spoke to NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman for the first time since Angel City defender Savy King had a medical emergency during a match last week. What were the layers of emotions that surrounded this weekend's match? What questions remain unanswered after the commissioner's first media appearance? How much scrutiny is Berman under at this moment in time?
PLUS: The Athletic's Megan Feringa joins from Wembley Stadium to give her view on the women's FA Cup final. Jillian also goes over the top stories Matchweek 9 of the NWSL season, including her moment of the weekend.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
NWSL commissioner on decision to play after Savy King’s collapse: ‘All we could do is learn’
NWSL must learn from its decision to continue play after Angel City’s Savy King collapsed
Chelsea’s domestic dominance still won’t be considered enough until Europe is conquered, too
London City Lionesses head to WSL with ambition to compete among the elite
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin, Megan Feringa
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
Additional NWSL press conference audio captured by Taylor Vincent
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, happy Monday, and welcome to full-time review. |
| 0:16.8 | It is presented by Amazon Business. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm your host, Jillian Sackavits, and coming up on today's show, I'll be running through some of the NWSL highlights |
| 0:24.6 | before turning it over to Tamara Griffin to talk about Commissioner Jess Berman speaking to the media for the first time about how the NWSL handled its response to Savvy King's collapse during the match last week. I'll admit in listening to it, |
| 0:40.3 | it left some things to be desired from the Commissioner Book Credit to Tamar, who really pushed there |
| 0:46.1 | over the weekend. Then Megan Ferringo will join us from Wembley Stadium where she's been watching |
| 0:51.3 | Chelsea win the women's F.A. Cup and also in Europe, Lyon, |
| 0:54.9 | are champions of France yet again. Finally, I will close out with my moment of the week. There's a lot |
| 1:00.2 | to get into in this one, so let's get into it. |
| 1:09.9 | Let's get you all caught up on everything that happened in the NWSL over the weekend. |
| 1:14.4 | The Kansas City Current with a statement victory remaining top at the table after a 1-0 victory over the Orlando Pride on Friday night. |
| 1:22.2 | Who else? |
| 1:23.0 | Other than Temwa Shawanga, who scored the winning goal early on in the second half. Orlando, after |
| 1:28.3 | nine games this season, have already had three losses. That is one more than the two that they |
| 1:33.8 | suffered all of last season. Here's Kansas City current defender, Kayla Sharples. People have asked |
| 1:39.6 | Blackos specifically, like, is this important and an important game and we were he his response was I mean yes |
| 1:45.5 | but like everything's important and that's kind of what our mentality has been this year we want to be |
| 1:49.9 | the best team we want to be peeking at the right moments we want to win a final and that's the most |
| 1:55.5 | important game so we just have to get the job done in these games in order to get there um so I mean mean, yeah, of course, like, yeah, we're thinking about in the back of my mind, sure, like the result of last season, but it's a new season. We just continue to grind and continue to work at what we need to do to succeed. And I think that's what's the most important focusing on ourselves. Rowdy-outy continues to bring the entertainment as the Washington spirit tied 3-3 with the Utah Royals on Saturday night. |
| 2:20.4 | The Royals twice had the lead, but the spirit kept on fighting back even after an Ashley Hatch missed penalty kick in the 90th minute. |
| 2:29.4 | Casey Kruger, she popped up to score a bullet of a header in the 100 second minute for the dramatic late equalizer. |
| 2:40.9 | Here's her reflecting on that last minute goal. |
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