Awful Announcing
Just Women's Sports already had a significant women's soccer presence on both the content and ownership sides, and this deal with the NWSL should boost their content side further.
Following player protests over the Paul Riley story and the decision to not play NWSL matches this weekend, Baird and Levine are both out.
"Our entire league has a great deal of healing to do, and our players deserve so much better."
A Meg Linehan article in The Athletic outlined a horrifying pattern of behavior from long-time NWSL coach Paul Riley, which led to his firing from the North Carolina Courage. But, as the article and many players noted, these reports were previously brought to NWSL teams and the league office, with little to no effect.
This was quite the mistake.
Spain is among many with Chicago roots who are new owners of the Red Stars.
The league is going to have to keep these new viewers going forward. The question is: how?
NWSL games will be shown on ESPNEWS and ESPN2.
A+E Networks has exited its NWSL deal early, and it's unclear what's next for the league in terms of TV.
A Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant lead-in may have helped.
The NWSL's long-rumored streaming deal with Verizon's go90 is official.
Some news has leaked about the NWSL's broadcast plans, but much still remains unknown.
Hope Solo has signed a TV production and development deal. Her first project under the deal will be hosting a second season of sports medical show The Cutting Edge.
