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Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer

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4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Lori Lindsey (4:28) takes some time out of her busy schedule of working both NWSL and MLS games to discuss her own broadcast career, work through some potential ideas for improvement for the league with Meg, and shine some light on her role with the Athlete’s Council after last week’s U.S. Soccer board meeting. Follow Lori on Twitter https://twitter.com/LoriLindsey6 Support Thorns FC’s fundraising efforts to help in the wake of the wildfires: https://twitter.com/ThornsFC/status/1304940356551798784 ‘I was sure she was going to be dead at 25’: A figure skater’s redemptive journey by Katie Strang theathletic.com/2050283/ ‘God was in town’: The night Diego Maradona played in Canada by Pablo Maurer theathletic.com/2062114/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to full-time with Megal Inahan. Today I am joined by Lori Lindsay,
0:22.3	and we hit all sorts of topics from NWSL to U.S. Women's National Team to also just how much
0:28.0	we love Jen Hildreth, so there's a little bit of something in there for everyone. So, you know,
0:34.0	just a small news item between last week's show and this week's to start us out with our
0:39.4	news recap, but Alex Morgan is heading to Tottenham for the rest of the year. Paul's
0:44.7	Norio and I broke this story at The Athletic on Friday, and Spurs announced the deal on Saturday.
0:50.6	The plan is for Morgan to be back ahead of the endWSL season, but Spurs can give her a
0:55.0	training environment through the end of the year and meaningful game minutes as she looks to return
0:59.1	to play ahead of the 2021 Olympic roster. More on that story on the athletic. Two big games this
1:06.6	past weekend in the NWSL as well. The Spirit defeated the Chicago Red Stars 2 to 1 in the early game on Saturday, and then
1:13.1	the dash and the courage put on a terrific show for television, even though they weren't
1:18.0	even originally the game scheduled for the big CBS time slot.
1:21.7	It was a 4-3 thriller, and DeBinia scored a brace, including what I would argue is one of
1:26.8	the finest goals of 2020 across the Challenge Cup and fall series so far, though Shea Groom is in that mix for me as well.
1:34.4	Portland Thorns FC were supposed to host O.L. Rain for that big CBS game, and while it was originally postponed to Tuesday due to air quality concerns due to the massive wildfires out west.
1:45.7	The teams in the league ultimately made the call to push it back to later this month.
1:49.2	That game is now scheduled for September 30th at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific, and it will be
1:55.6	streamed on Twitch. The TV ratings are also in for Houston versus North Carolina and another solid week
2:01.9	with an average of 370,000 viewers for the game, only just behind the main Premier League
2:07.3	match on NBC Sports on Saturday in terms of soccer ratings.
2:11.8	Now, before we get to Lori, I know I did my big pitch last week at the top of the show,
2:16.2	along with some personal news about my future with the athletic,
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