The Athletic doubling women’s sports coverage through partnership with Google
Google is helping to fund a major expansion of women's sports coverage at The Athletic, an interesting bet.
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Gotham FC fined over portrayal of Kelley O’Hara announcing signing at Men In Blazers event
"What drew the fine was the club's portrayal of the deal as fully done, when it was not fully done."
Just Women’s Sports announces media partnership with NWSL, including highlights and championship activations
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.
NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird and general counsel Lisa Levine both removed from roles after player protests
Following player protests over the Paul Riley story and the decision to not play NWSL matches this weekend, Baird and Levine are both out.
NWSL matches won’t be played this weekend following player protests on league inaction on Paul Riley
"Our entire league has a great deal of healing to do, and our players deserve so much better."
“Get it the fuck together, NWSL”: fervent player comments and muted league/team responses to Athletic article show reporting’s importance
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.
NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird apologizes for league-produced broadcast identifying a fan as Jessica McDonald’s son
This was quite the mistake.
Sarah Spain reveals she is part of ownership group of the Chicago Red Stars NWSL team
Spain is among many with Chicago roots who are new owners of the Red Stars.
NWSL sees post-World Cup ratings bump but long-term effect remains unclear
The league is going to have to keep these new viewers going forward. The question is: how?
ESPN to show 14 NWSL games, including playoffs, for the rest of 2019 season
NWSL games will be shown on ESPNEWS and ESPN2.
A+E and NWSL end partnership a year early, including removal of equity stake and TV deal, NWSL pres calls it “a win-win”
A+E Networks has exited its NWSL deal early, and it's unclear what's next for the league in terms of TV.
NWSL Lifetime pre-game show outdraws actual game…thanks to Sandra Bullock?
A Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant lead-in may have helped.
NWSL will stream non-Lifetime matches on go90 in the U.S., on website/app elsewhere
The NWSL's long-rumored streaming deal with Verizon's go90 is official.
