It's that time of the year for the time-honored tradition of college soccer players starting fights when they try to grab the ball out of the net to save time... but *the clock is stopped* anyway. 🙃

At her presser today, I asked Laura Harvey for her thoughts on the discourse about trans athletes and the #NWSL, and the divisive rhetoric targeting some players for their appearance. Here is her answer (with transcript of her remarks in alt text):

Only a rookie on paper 😤 Taylor Huff started every game this season, dropped 4 goals, and led all rookies in corners taken (48). A full-season statement capped off with Rookie of the Month, presented by Ally. 💫

Sadly, it won’t be bigotry that bounces you from the league.

Sounds like "A lot of you have been asking about my skincare routine" on a post with 4 likes and no interaction.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

A statement from the National Women's Soccer League.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

RUN THE PLAY FROM MAJOR LEAGUE! JAKE TAYLOR CALLS HIS SHOT! #WorldSeries

Thanks y’all! A quick look into analysis here at Bay FC. Here’s an updated link youtu.be/NCDXKcuqjfE?...

The real MVP is the person picking the songs going to commercial. #WorldSeries

Our game doesn’t need gatekeepers. It needs champions and advocates and that means standing for every player who makes it what it is.

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

They say we have no “footballing culture” but right now in America, there’s a team named “Sharktopus FC” that just earned a replay of a loss because the ref for their last match turned out to have once been a player for their opponent’s second team. 🇺🇸

Post the quote @lesleyryder.bsky.social

We played a whole game of soccer across the street and the Mariners are STILL playing

“Would you like to try a vitamin supplement?” says the Costco lady as I am mid-bite into a $1.50 hot dog and soda.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Freddy Church strikes again! #LFC

Happy for Charlottesville tonight! Be safe y’all.

Please stop searching for sweet tea, you’re killing yourselves.

Does anyone have any good home remedies for treating the aching void inside the dark hearts of men

Major risk factors for autism - visualized. Acetaminophen (paracetamol) use doesn’t even make the chart. Viral & bacterial infection & fever during pregnancy ARE significant risk-factors + also why someone would take pain killers. all data & sources bit.ly/AutismRisks

We're delighted to announce that Arielle Dror will be speaking at #HudlPerformanceInsights 2025 @arielledror.bsky.social is Director of Data & Analytics at Bay FC, where she leads data integration into processes across the sporting department Tickets & more info here: www.hudl.com/en_gb/hudlpr...

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It’s the guns.

Expansion year playoffs in the Bay 🙌🏻

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

Bay FC vs. Washington Spirit at Oracle Park made history with over 40k fans attending, making it the most-attended women's professional league match in the United States.

History Made. A sellout crowd at Oracle Park just set the record for the highest attended event in U.S. Women's professional league sports history!

Built for the Moment. Built for the Bay. Today, the Bay Area showed up and showed out!

Will have some decent #analystviews for this one!

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

As a DC resident whose city is now being invaded by FBI and military forces in an attack on freedom & massive waste of the proverbial TAX DOLLAR$... I assure you Donald Trump & Co. are lying right to your face about our city, as usual. Violent crime is at record lows. This is a great place to live.

This is no small thing from an athlete as big as Salah.

Marta stop it. #copaamerica

Blame the analysts for making GKs too good at pens #euro2025

We play such a silly sport.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Happy 4-star day to all those who celebrate

That’s Bay FC legend Jen Beattie participating positively in analytics discourse

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

🧵 - YNWA Diogo 💔

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda