My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Happy Slow Horses Season 5 day to all who celebrate

Trinity Rodman’s Q&A with Interview Magazine is full of gems.

A LeCroix goal happened and it was excellent and we talked about it on Hey Spirits! (To whom it may concern: There is still time to get The LeCroix added to the beverage selection at Audi Field for the rest of this season.)

🌸NEW POD🌸 Annie, Ella & André review the 2-2 draw with Angel City. We chat speed, an interesting XI, the LeCroix goal, the pen we shan’t talk about, Deb Abiodun & the Blood Kit, and lots more! 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/1qHj... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #nwsl #woso

I believe Tree Paine took over play-calling in the second half because she was not going to let the Chiefs even have the possibility of going into Showgirl release week at 0-4

Patrick Mahones needs to go to the woods and enlist Aaron Dessner to help him get out of whatever is happening here

One day you are 12 and start following a British boyband on YouTube because you like its music The next you are 26 and trying to figure out why Harry Styles ran a (sub-three!) marathon using a pseudonym (Sted Sarandos) weirdly close to the name of the CEO of Netflix

You just knew the first (!) LeCroix (!) goal (!) was going be a beauty.

OUR FIRST LACROIX GOOOOOOOAL

I can't wait to see the xG on that Trinity Rodman goal, lol.

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

🌸NEW POD🌸 Annie & André chatted with Spirit goalkeeper Sandy MacIver! We get into her journey from striker to goalkeeper, the culture shock of going to Clemson, TikTok, getting trapped in a hotel bathroom, & more! 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/4BDc... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #nwsl #woso

D.C. United fired Ally Mackay, its general manager and chief soccer officer, in a move that came a little over two months after the July dismissal of coach Troy Lesesne

The NWSL announced an expanded media rights deal for 2026/2027, adding a Sunday night slate on a free streaming service called Victory+. (Looks like that has mostly been a home for in-market NHL games until now.) How the breakdown of games will shake out:

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

I'm on vacation this week and am bummed to miss the convo about the Seattle game / the Kansas City game on Saturday, but Annie and André have you covered! 👋

Perhaps the Chicago Bears should also move to Northwestern’s lakefront stadium. Just worth a try

“That’s Trin. Old Trin, new Trin — she’s back.” Reporting from Audi Field as Trinity Rodman scores twice in the Spirit’s 2-0 win over Seattle, logs her first 90 minutes in months and introduces the new version of her game-breaking self.

I talked to Croix Bethune's college coach last year and one of the fun things he told me was that when you watch her play soccer, you can also kind of tell she used to be a basketball point guard. This is a great example of that. That ability to create space, vision, passing precision is so good.

LOOK AT HOW PRETTY

"Free DC" chant at Audi Field went for the full minute at Audi Field today, and was nearly punctuated with a Rodman goal

“What the USTA and its sponsors have achieved is a transformation of a two-week tournament into an endlessly scrollable feed.” Really good read on corporatization, competition, content and how they all come together at the modern U.S. Open.

Monmouth County, New Jersey's own Amanda Anisimova is doing a bit of a madness in the U.S. Open final at the moment

This is a deeply reported, heart-pounding read Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Letterboxd did a fun feature asking a bunch of WTA and ATP players their favorite movies and Coco Gauff had an elite top four that must be shared

Kind of an amazing career immolation by this guy. He twisted himself into a pretzel on two fronts: 1) Trying to appease Congressional Republicans who could not possibly be appeased bc the point was to embarrass him and 2) Blowing the Pat Fitzgerald thing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

I had to read "will pay just under £1 million" approximately 1 million times to make sure I was not misunderstanding it and apparently it's real. Yeesh.

Vancouver Rise FC Academy’s youngsters gave a good test with a disciplined low block, but the Spirit played with patience and broke the game in its favor after Tara McKeown’s opener. A full Concacaf W Champions Cup story here for @postsports.bsky.social:

Turns out, she kind of did. Her quote: “I was like, ‘No one’s stepping in. Let’s see where are you this goes.’ And it went in.”

Tara McKeown said, "Fine, I will score it myself."

Tara McKeown won't get Iron Woman honors this season (obviously this game doesn't count toward that + she sat out a half in June). But she at least spiritually is an Iron Woman

Been a while since I audibly gasped at an unexpected needle drop in a movie trailer the way I did for this one

I'm getting close to going all in on Team Halt Work on the "New Ryan Field" While We Still Kind of Can and Just Keep This Cool Lakefront Stadium for Life. I think this helps my cause. (Also: The Bookends and Beginnings shoutout in this video made me smile!)

A new era begins 🌟 In a historic day for our club, we’re thrilled to announce that Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium will be our home next season, making our matches more accessible than ever. See y’all on the lakefront! 🌊 StarsNextChapter.com

Of interest: Michele Kang’s London City Lionesses has a new partnership with sports media outlet Togethxr. “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” will be on the front of their home and away shirts this season.

Why was Belichick's postgame presser at the senior prom

🌸NEW POD🌸 Annie, Ella & André review Washington Spirit's 1-1 draw with Chicago Stars. We discuss the starting XI, width, finishing, adjustments, Deborah Abiodun’s debut, short corners, and more! 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/3HqX... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... #nwsl #woso #washingtonspirit

The Spirit settled for a 1-1 draw with stubborn Chicago. Asked how he handled Hal Hershfelt’s key miscue, Adrián González responded: “I just gave her a hug and said, ‘We haven’t tied because of that.’ … I said that I love her and it’s going to be fine.”

ICYMI: The Spirit warmed up in "I 💛 DC" shirts for today's game. "Different roots. Same home. Same Spirit." is a line from the letter the club posted a few weeks ago during the first wave of federal intervention in the city. #NWSL 📸 via club, third via Patrick Smith

May we all find something we like in life as much as the 2025 Chicago Stars like drawing games (They now have eight draws this year) (No team last year had more than 7 for the whole season!

Believe that was the Spirit's ninth corner this afternoon. (Most in one game this season is 10.) At some point, you'd like to see something come of those!

Whether this goal should have counted will probably remains up for debate (it looks close!) but the shift to a three-back has opened up the Spirit for more opportunities such as this in this half. More width, way less stiffness than the first 45.

"LOL how did they not score on that" might end up being the story of the Spirit's first half here.

A few years back when Villa was on a U.S. preseason tour I went to a Premier League event at the British Embassy that was derailed by the worst rainstorm I've ever seen in D.C. and huddled under a tent with Emi Martínez for 25 minutes. That is my Emi Martínez story

Sometimes you watch a team get utterly out-played, out-smarted, out-hustled, out-coached, out-etc.ed, and you think, well, at least it can't get worse. And then it still does!

I’ve seen enough: Northwestern University is a Basketball School

First play of the 2025 Northwestern Wildcats football season: Strip sack Second play of the 2025 Northwestern Wildcats football season: Interception Surely the rest of this will go well

Another delightful, stress-free morning spent watching Manchester United Football Club