NWSL leadership failed the women they were supposed to protect; Embiid sounds off on Simmons (10/1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘courage’ as in the North Carolina Courage as in having the courage as in two women (Mana Shim, Sinead Farrelly) came forward and had to go scorched earth on the leadership of the league. History of abuse, coercion, cover ups — all by manager Paul Riley. He was fired by Portland for allegations then hired by North Carolina, now fired again. All while NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird knew about these allegations. Wow. (17:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me if the Sixers organization told Joel Embiid what to say about Ben Simmons. Hmmm. Simmons wants out of Philadelphia, Embiid said the team has done enough for Simmons. (26:50) Review: The Card Counter. (29:59) The president of the University of Miami, Julio Frenk, sent a letter because of the negative attention the Hurricanes have gotten. The football team hasn’t been good for years. The fans aren’t happy. Let’s discuss what Frenk said. (37:45) NPPOD. (42:30) Wait to see: Get ready for a Game 163. (43:59) Sandy Alderson had some comment about the Mets future. He talked about the team, the manager, the president, the GM — comments Cohen must not like to hear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Courage is the nothing personal word of the day for this first day of October 2021. Courage
0:27.8	representing the North Carolina Courage, a team in the National Woman Soccer League. Courage
0:35.2	representing what it takes to come forward when you've been subject to workplace harassment,
0:42.3	sexual harassment. I want to give you the backstory and then tell you what's happening right now
0:48.0	because there's a CYA going on. I'm tired of it. I, Koken, I are preparing for the show and I'm getting
0:54.4	worked up both last night and this morning. After yesterday's show, Koken said, by the way,
1:00.8	this NWSL story is going to lead tomorrow's show. He correctly predicted that Paul Riley,
1:08.2	the coach of the North Carolina Courage, was going to get canned and he was absolutely right.
1:15.4	The National Woman Soccer League is a professional soccer league. It's the women's major league
1:20.2	soccer league. If you're not familiar with the league, many of the women from the World Cup,
1:26.0	US Olympic team like Alex Morgan, etc. are playing this league. This is a league that has had
1:32.3	it share of issues. I'm trying to figure out as I'm thinking about the story overnight and putting
1:37.9	the show together and then talking with Koken this morning, when is it going to stop? When is it
1:44.0	that we can talk about women's sports and talk about it in terms of their athletic ability?
1:49.2	Talk about it in terms of their accomplishments, their failures. Talk about PR blunders. Talk about
1:56.8	the problem in building teams and how bad executives can be. All the things that we get to do when
2:02.6	we talk about men's sports. Now, of course, men's sports have it's share of controversy,
2:08.8	but it relates to behavior off the field. That behavior, unfortunately, in men's sports and in the
2:18.7	world is sometimes manifested in how men treat women. For the life of me, I can't understand
2:27.2	how this is still an issue in 2021. I can't understand how men believe that it's okay to treat
2:35.8	women in the way that used to be in theory, okay, because you didn't get in trouble, but it always
2:41.2	felt sort of weird. All of the joking around that you do in front of women reporters, in front of
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