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It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Hey there, boys and girls.

Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

This edition will delve deeper as we have before into the U.S. women's national

soccer team, the darlings of America right now, in terms of equal pay, and we'll get into it

with an expert on the academic side that I know so well. First of all, we're presented as always by

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one. Get that 50% sign of bonus today. Betonline.a.g. Let's get right to it. The talk of the nation

are these women that have won the World Cup against Netherlands

last weekend. What a flow of emotion that has gone towards these women and the aftermath

with their outspokenness, with their appeal in so many ways, and maybe some disappeal to some in their outspokenness.

And we'll talk about specifics with Megan and others as we get into this.

I thought, you know, after having Jeffrey Kessler talking about the lawsuit, I thought I

talked to someone that sort of sees the big picture.

And there was no better person than I could think of as I'll get into a minute.

The head of the Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women's Leadership at the school where I work, a colleague of mine at Villanova University.

Terry Boyer is going to be my guest.

And we'll dive into all things

women's soccer and equal pay and gender equity from a 30,000 foot point of view. So without

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