Hey, it's Pablo here. Continuing our week of on-core presentations and new years preparations

with an episode that we gave you in October about the thing that completely rocked the

National Women's Soccer League last year. And since this show aired, the investigation

conducted by the NWSL and the players union, included just last week. And the report found

that misconduct continues to be reported in more than half of the teams in the National

Women's Soccer League. A year on from reports of sexual coercion and harassment by coaches

going public, the self-licronical in this episode. And the investigators also wrote that in

attentiveness neglect and concealment allow misconduct to fester, outlining further recommendations

to prevent further misconduct. Echoing, incidentally, the findings of the Sally Yates investigation

that was released back when this episode first aired. So give this a listen, I think you'll

find it illuminating. It is Wednesday, December 28th, and this is ESPN Daily.

A highly anticipated report finally dropped yesterday from no less than the former acting

attorney general of the United States. Sally Yates detailed the failures and the toxicity

of the National Women's Soccer League after a year-long investigation.

A culture of abuse, silence, and fear of retaliation perpetuated the misconduct. In this

environment, many players and team staff members have believed that reporting misconduct

would be fuel and it would actually be detrimental to their careers. Normalization of this conduct

allowed teams, the League and the Federation to ignore their respective responsibilities

of addressing abusive conduct.

That conduct and the NWSL's refusal to address it happened to be the focus of both the

episode you are about to hear and a new E60 film, Truth Be Told, the Fight for Women's

Professional Soccer that's been in the works for months now. And so we should note that

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