Inside the Kansas City weather delay and the NWSL's threats over extreme heat procedure
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It's a packed edition of Full Time Focus this week. Host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Tamerra Griffin to talk about The Athletic's reporting on the news that NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman threatened to find the Kansas City Current for the way the team handled last week's nationally broadcast match against the Orlando Pride that was delayed over three hours due to extreme heat.
Then, Jillian and Tamerra unpack the women's world-record $1.5 million transfer for Mexican international Jacquie Ovalle, who moved from Tigres UANL to the Orlando Pride on Thursday, and what it means for the NWSL and the global women's transfer market.
PLUS: Bay FC defender Joelle Anderson joins the show for an interview all about growing up in the Bay Area and the team's upcoming match at Oracle Park, the home of Major League Baseball team the San Francisco Giants. From local pride, to the quirks of playing soccer on a diamond, to Oracle Park's best eats, and, of course, what it means to break the all-time single-game attendance record for a women's professional sports league in the United States.
Finally, Producer Theo and Tamerra close out the show analyzing Angel City's 1-0 win over a Barbra Banda-less Orlando Pride on Thursday night, the first win for the team under new head coach Alex Straus.
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Referenced on the show:
NWSL commissioner threatened to fine KC Current over weather delay: Sources
Orlando Pride sign Mexico’s Lizbeth Ovalle in world-record transfer
NWSL match finishes scoreless after 3.5-hour heat delay: ‘It was too hot to play’
Getting to know Alex Straus and his evolution of Angel City FC
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUESTS: Tamerra Griffin, Joelle Anderson
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 1:02.4 | The game started to move outside of that broadcast window. |
| 1:10.3 | And at that point, our sources told us Jessica |
| 1:12.9 | Berman informed Kansas City ownership that by basically not being able to air this game on CBS due to the delay, |
| 1:20.3 | they'd be costing the league millions of dollars and threatened to find them accordingly. It's yet another |
| 1:25.7 | example of the tension, I would say, that exists between |
| 1:29.1 | the need, of course, to protect players and ensure their safety and to comply with broadcast |
| 1:35.5 | rules, especially given the broadcast deal that the league signed back in 2023. |
| 1:51.1 | Hello, everybody. It's Jillian Sackavits, and a very warm welcome to Friday's full-time focus. |
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