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sports @us.theguardian.com • soccer talk @heyspirits.bsky.social • past things @washingtonpost.com @medillschool.bsky.social • #SeasIt

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You can’t tell the story of American soccer without Steve Goff’s stories. Very lucky to count him as a former colleague, mentor and friend. So richly deserved!

13.03.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Can’t stop thinking about the man who was captured on camera making a whole row of bocadillos in the middle of Atlético Madrid’s Champions League game yesterday

12.03.2026 14:02 👍 31 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 4

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09.03.2026 15:28 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters Former Washington Post reporters Kent Babb, Kareem Copeland, Chuck Culpepper, Robert Klemko, Tom Schad and Ben Strauss will all join ESPN in the coming weeks.

ESPN bringing on six former Washington Post reporters www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

09.03.2026 14:30 👍 43 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 7

This is such a win for the Banner, DMV sports fans, lovers of good stories, et al. Can’t wait to watch Andrew shine.

(This will be the first year in which we are not sharing a newsroom since we were 18 and I’m emo about it!)

09.03.2026 14:37 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey everyone! I'm joining the @thebaltimorebanner.com as a sports enterprise & features reporter. I’ll also help out w/the Banner's Nats/O's coverage.

Growing up in Baltimore County, it's a privilege to write about the intersection of Baltimore community, culture and sports.

27.02.2026 18:07 👍 183 🔁 16 💬 16 📌 9
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Happy three-year anniversary of Erling Haaland’s International Women’s Day Crossword Puzzle That Was Actually a Word Search to all who celebrate

08.03.2026 16:02 👍 57 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0
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A potential strike and a season at risk: why the WNBA’s labor battle is nearing its 11th hour The league and its players, locked in a contentious 17-month standoff, must agree to new CBA terms by 10 March or threaten not starting the season on time

Very excited to have @heyjordanr.bsky.social in @us.theguardian.com today (!!) for a State of the Union on the WNBA’s ongoing labor battle.

How we got here, what’s the latest and more ahead of a March 10 deadline that has given a high-stakes situation even higher stakes:

03.03.2026 16:38 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
episode graphic with promo photo of Eli Tsé in the Spirit’s new banger cherry blossom shirt

episode graphic with promo photo of Eli Tsé in the Spirit’s new banger cherry blossom shirt

🌸NEW POD🌸

We got to chat with new Washington Spirit defender, Elisabeth 'Eli' Tsé! We discussed her journey into soccer, choosing soccer over figure skating, path to the Spirit, and more!

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02.03.2026 15:21 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2

Lost in the outrage over "giants was floundering" is "third on the table"

02.03.2026 16:03 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Returned to my lacrosse roots (!) and took in the WLL/PLL doubleheader in DC this weekend. First time watching sixes live! It is capital-F Fast.

Going to be a lot of fun to watch this format at LA 2028.

01.03.2026 18:38 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

great minds!

26.02.2026 23:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I often joke that the lines at the Anthem for the pop/indie girl concerts are DC’s hottest club but the line for the Lorde concert hours after Rose Kouassi’s 90+8’ winner against San Diego on 10/5 might actually have been DC’s hottest club

26.02.2026 23:45 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Adrian Gonzalez, Hal Hershfelt and Kaylie Collins speak at a Spirit kit reveal event

Adrian Gonzalez, Hal Hershfelt and Kaylie Collins speak at a Spirit kit reveal event

At the Spirit’s kit reveal event, Hal Hershfelt and Kaylie Collins were asked for the best places they’ve seen people wearing Spirit jerseys in DC.

Collins: a yoga class recently

Hershfelt: the Lorde concert at the Anthem

26.02.2026 23:43 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

An afternoon NWSL kit take: All of these designs could also plausibly work in a collection of stretchable fabric covers for middle school textbooks [complimentary] [mostly]

26.02.2026 21:33 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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NWSL kits are out! Some good! Some meh. Some questionable.

But some swings were taken! Which is more than can be said about some previous seasons. Better than red, white and blue t-shirts.

26.02.2026 16:05 👍 46 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 5

Norway setting a record for golds at the Olympics ... Bodø/Glimt beating Inter Milan in the Champions League ... the stage is being set for SENTIMENTAL VALUE to pull a Best Picture upset at the Oscars

24.02.2026 21:48 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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I am giving my annual post-Olympics MVP award to the Wikipedia nerds who manage the updates to each event/country-specific page. Thank you for your service!

However many Olympics-related pages you think there are on Wikipedia, the answer [at least 337,684] is probably higher

24.02.2026 16:41 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Extremely predictable (in fact, predicted by basically everyone) but still a little shocking that Team USA had its best Winter Olympics ever and the Trump administration didn’t celebrate any of the winners until the men’s hockey team, which they are celebrating A LOT

23.02.2026 13:20 👍 1990 🔁 276 💬 28 📌 11
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Welcome to Green Line Soccer Introducing my new outlet covering the Washington Spirit and D.C. United.

Do you want my thoughts on the Washington Spirit and D.C. United?

This is where they're going to be. Introducing Green Line Soccer:

20.02.2026 01:03 👍 367 🔁 74 💬 22 📌 26

I just got off a flight and the first notifications I saw upon my phone clicking back into service were four Alysa Liu Gold Medal push alerts. The world is still a beautiful place

19.02.2026 22:11 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wellness check on Noted Arsenal Fan Anne Hathaway, please

18.02.2026 22:08 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Politico Playbook excerpt: Naturally, the White House greeted the news of Springsteen's tour in equally robust fashion. "When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain," White House comms director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Playbook. Roll on May 27.

Politico Playbook excerpt: Naturally, the White House greeted the news of Springsteen's tour in equally robust fashion. "When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he'll realize his Glory Days are behind him and his fans have left him Out in the Street, putting him in a Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out because he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his brain," White House comms director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Playbook. Roll on May 27.

Thinking deeply about the White House giving an Anti-Springsteen quote that cites four separate Springsteen songs from different parts of his catalogue to prove just how much they're Anti-Springsteen

18.02.2026 19:10 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
episode graphic with items from the Washington Spirit x Rose Room Collective collaboration

episode graphic with items from the Washington Spirit x Rose Room Collective collaboration

🌸NEW POD🌸

The Spirit recently dropped a first-of-its-kind collab with a supporters’ group, so we had to talk with Aaron Bland, @roseroomco.bsky.social co-founder and artist, about how it all came to be.

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18.02.2026 16:15 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 3

Tara's "No" after the missed double loop will haunt me for the rest of my days

17.02.2026 21:51 👍 55 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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Turning on the Olympic women’s figure skating short program final group

17.02.2026 21:19 👍 59 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
FIFA store teal shirt that says We Are New York New Jersey

FIFA store teal shirt that says We Are New York New Jersey

Finally: The perfect shirt to wear to World Cup matches at New York New Jersey Stadium this summer

17.02.2026 14:34 👍 238 🔁 42 💬 13 📌 21
Elana Meyers Taylor holding up the American flag after winning her first gold medal. she's overcome with joy

Elana Meyers Taylor holding up the American flag after winning her first gold medal. she's overcome with joy

Meyers Taylor said her children's disabilities — both of her sons are deaf and Nico has Down syndrome — have created some "unique challenges" on the road. Nico experiences sensory overload at times and becomes overwhelmed, she said. The boys don't particularly sleep well on planes and then there's keeping up with their specialized treatments and medical equipment while on tour."

Meyers Taylor said her children's disabilities — both of her sons are deaf and Nico has Down syndrome — have created some "unique challenges" on the road. Nico experiences sensory overload at times and becomes overwhelmed, she said. The boys don't particularly sleep well on planes and then there's keeping up with their specialized treatments and medical equipment while on tour."

"I thought it would get much easier as they got older and it has not," Meyers Taylor, 41, said at the USOPC media summit in October. "Bigger children, bigger problems. Now that they're both walking, they're both up. They don't want to sit on planes, they don't want to stay still. They don't want to sit for meals or anything like that. So it is absolute chaos."

"I thought it would get much easier as they got older and it has not," Meyers Taylor, 41, said at the USOPC media summit in October. "Bigger children, bigger problems. Now that they're both walking, they're both up. They don't want to sit on planes, they don't want to stay still. They don't want to sit for meals or anything like that. So it is absolute chaos."

Meyers Taylor hugging her two sons after winning the gold medal

Meyers Taylor hugging her two sons after winning the gold medal

Elana Meyers Taylor.
Wins medals in 4 Olympics (bronze in 2010, silver in 2014/18/22)
In 2020 & 2022, she has kids. Both have special needs. She lives on the road with them, flying around the world for months at a time to compete in bobsled.
And THEN! At 41! She wins her first gold.
American hero.

16.02.2026 21:31 👍 936 🔁 179 💬 8 📌 13
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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

And another bites the dust?

The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

15.02.2026 15:41 👍 425 🔁 293 💬 39 📌 154
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Why James Rodríguez signed in Minnesota amid a federal occupation The Colombian icon joined the MLS side in a short-term deal with an eye toward fitness for the 2026 World Cup

NEW: Minnesota United CSO Khaled El-Ahmad on adding James Rodriguez to “evolve the culture,” a late-winter surprise in a “mentally tough” moment amidst Metro Surge.

“This is the right place for him because of the community, how we stand up for each other.”

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

13.02.2026 15:01 👍 97 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 7