Scratching The Surface
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Molly Hensley-Clancy of the Washington Post, who discusses her investigative reporting on former Chicago Red Stars head coach Rory Dames at the NWSL and youth levels and the 2018 investigation done by U.S. Soccer, as well as the news of Michele Kang becoming majority owner of the Washington Spirit.
Follow Molly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollyhc
Read her latest story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/02/08/rory-dames-eclipse-select-misconduct-allegations/
And on the players’ letter to Carlos Cordeiro and Cindy Parlow Cone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/02/09/uswnt-letter-us-soccer-rory-dames/
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| 0:54.6 | Athletic Podcast Network. This week, Molly Hensley-Clancy of the Washington Post joins me to discuss |
| 1:00.4 | her latest investigative report on women's soccer. This time, it's a new story with multiple |
| 1:06.0 | allegations from former youth players coached by former Chicago Red Stars head coach Rory Dames, |
| 1:11.5 | with one former player stating that he groomed her and had sex with her once she turned 18. |
| 1:16.3 | Now, this follows her reporting in November, which resulted in Dames's resignation from the |
| 1:21.4 | Red Stars. More on that in our conversation. And that also included that Dames was reported |
| 1:26.9 | by NWSL players, including Kristen Press, |
| 1:29.7 | directly to U.S. soccer, but he was cleared during an investigation and allowed to continue |
| 1:34.7 | coaching. We have a lot to talk about. Before we get to the rest of today's episode, as always, |
| 1:40.9 | to show your support of full-time plus get all of our women's soccer coverage |
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| 1:49.0 | at theathletic.com slash full-time. Let's start with the news. Obviously we will hold off on |
| 1:56.6 | Molly's story since we will be talking about that at length. But also on Tuesday, the Washington |
| 2:02.5 | Spirit announced the news plenty have been waiting to hear owner Michelle Kong will acquire |
| 2:07.8 | the interests of both Steve Baldwin and Bill Lynch in the Washington Spirit and assume majority |
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