Women Soccer Players Fight Against Abuse

What A Day

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Players across the National Women’s Soccer League have recently gone public with stories of verbal, emotional, and sexual abuse and harassment. Following these reports of abuse, the league cancelled all five games scheduled for last weekend. And when games resumed on Wednesday, the saga culminated with dramatic moments of silent protests at all league matches. Meg Linehan, who covers the world of women’s soccer for The Athletic, joins us to discuss the developing story. And in headlines: the Senate voted to raise the country’s debt ceiling for now, Pfizer-BioNTech asked the FDA to authorize its vaccine for emergency use in kids 5-11, and Biden signs an executive order today to protect national monuments shrunk in size by Trump. Show Notes: The Athletic: “‘This guy has a pattern’: Amid institutional failure, former NWSL players accuse prominent coach of sexual coercion” – https://bit.ly/3oJ5TVs The Athletic’s Meg Linehan – https://twitter.com/itsmeglinehan For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Friday, October 8th. I'm Trevell Anderson.
0:09.0	And I am Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we're volunteering to respond
0:13.4	to Senate subpoena related to the January 6th attack. If Trump and his friends won't
0:18.0	do it.
0:19.0	Listen, I mean, I saw it, you saw it. We all saw it.
0:23.0	We all saw it. Right. So like, let's just start.
0:25.0	Let me tell you what happened if you need some clarification.
0:32.0	On today's show, Congress has reached a deal to temporarily lift the debt ceiling, but
0:39.2	it's not completely over yet. Plus, Biden will sign an executive order today to protect
0:43.7	national monuments shrunken size by Trump.
0:46.6	But first, we want to catch you up on an important story that's developed in the sports world.
0:51.4	It's been an incredibly emotional week for players in the National Women's Soccer League
0:55.2	or NWSL. Players across the league went public with stories of verbal, emotional and sexual
1:00.6	abuse and harassment. Many of the accused, coaches and high ranking officials were either
1:05.9	placed on leave, fired or resigned, including League Commissioner Lisa Baird who resigned
1:10.9	last Friday.
1:12.9	Following these reports of abuse, the league canceled all five games scheduled for last weekend.
1:18.0	And when games resume, the saga culminated with this dramatic moment on Wednesday.
1:26.9	At the six minute mark during all three of the gangs being played, teens took to the field
1:31.6	and linked arms in a circle for a minute of silent protests.
1:45.3	What's the moment when it happened between Gotham FC and the Washington Spirit?
1:49.8	The controversies that have been bubbling up in the past week are just the latest problem
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