NWSL at the break: What we're buying, selling & debating
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Trinity Rodman is thriving, Sam Kerr is leaving Chelsea and possibly heading back to the NWSL — and Meg Linehan is back with a lot of questions. A third of the way through the 2026 season, Jillian and Tamerra are in the hot seat as Meg puts the league's biggest narratives to the buy or sell test. Are the Utah Royals for real? Will the Washington Spirit finally break their runners-up curse with the championship coming to DC? And can the salary cap keep up with a league growing faster than anyone expected? Buckle up.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUESTS: Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan
This podcast was produced by The Athletic.
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Referenced on the show:
NWSL championship returning to Washington, D.C., in 2026: Sources
NWSL predictions, trends and where things stands at the midseason break
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| 0:00.0 | I think what has become clear to me over the last few years of covering this league, |
| 0:04.6 | and especially in the last two years, I would say, is if you're not constantly thinking about ways to evolve your club, |
| 0:11.6 | to improve your roster, to add more tools to your toolkit, and I think especially in racing's case, |
| 0:18.2 | if you're not being given the resources to evolve, you're going to get left behind. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:33.2 | Welcome to full time. |
| 0:35.4 | We have a triple something episode for you today. |
| 0:37.6 | Julian Sackavits alongside Tamara Griffin and Meg Linnehan. And we're smiling because it is June. |
| 0:44.2 | The 26th NWSL season is officially a third of the way through. So now that we see this league taking a month-long pause during the group stage of the Men's World Cup, which |
| 0:54.5 | kicks off on June 11th. |
| 0:56.2 | We've got a lot to talk about, mainly an unbeatable Utah Royals, a San Diego Waveside |
| 1:01.7 | that is sitting at the top of the NWSL table, and the Washington spirit coming into form |
| 1:08.2 | and also finding some luck in the man or the wolf, shall I say, or sorry, |
| 1:12.0 | the coyote, Jose the coyote. Meanwhile, those teams that are sitting in the middle of the pack |
| 1:17.8 | that have found their footing, the Kansas City Current, benefiting from their offseason edition |
| 1:22.7 | of Corey Bethune, the return of Tamachoinga finally healthy with seven goals in eight games, not so bad, |
| 1:29.3 | while other teams continue to be stuck in the basement. |
| 1:32.6 | So we're going to discuss that and so much more as teams wave goodbye to their international |
| 1:36.7 | players for this crucial June window. |
| 1:39.4 | We are waving officially hello to Meg Linahan. |
| 1:47.3 | Hello again. It's, you know, it's been so long since I've seen both of you. We just did this, but we're going to do it again. We're going to do it. There are so many |
| 1:51.9 | different ways to welcome you back. I was saying it reminds me a little bit. Like first weekly meeting, |
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