The Reign - Thorns Cascadia rivalry match on Friday. I love watching my favorite women’s soccer team beat our little siblings to the south.

We do love to see it:

And then, when the Torrent were just a few minutes away from losing their first game on home ice, Carter and Curl-Salemme started shoving one another. I didn’t see who started it. But I saw Carter finish it when she wrapped her arms around Curl-Salemme’s head and dragged her down to the ice. The refs broke it up before things got any uglier, but in that move, Carter made it clear that she would not be taking any more shit from Curl-Salemme.

Climate Pledge Arena erupted into cheers as thousands of hockey fans—new and old—rose to their feet, appreciating the undeniable evidence that women’s hockey can be just as physical and fun to watch as men’s. Seattle loved to see it. (That Curl-Salemme had a history of liking transphobic social media posts may have had something to do with that.)

They have the Reign at number 2:

Not to be outdone by any of NWSL’s teenage goal scorers, 39-year-old Wales veteran Jess Fishlock scored the first goal for Seattle in a 2-1 victory in Orlando. After a lengthy weather delay, the Reign conceded a goal from former league MVP Barbra Banda, but Brittany Ratcliffe collected a debut marker off the bench to secure the win. Goal scorers tend to get the credit, but U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Claudia Dickey made seven key saves in her 41st consecutive start for Seattle on Sunday.

Yazmeen is a huge part of Houston’s attack:

At Houston, Ryan contributed four goals and three assists last season over 25 appearances. Internationally, she has made 16 appearances for the US Women’s National Team and scored 2 goals.

The World Cup hosting duties are being shared by three countries. You could remove the World Cup from the United States without canceling the tournament; FIFA would move the matches to Bmo field, BC Place, Estadio Akron, Estadio Monterrey and the Azteca — the Canadian and Mexican stadia already hosting matches.

In case you’re wondering what to do with your pink scrunchie club signs (it’s away though):

The Fleet ultimately lost 2-0 to the Toronto Sceptres. Eldridge and the rest of the team will now have four days until their next contest against the Seattle Torrent on Saturday.

Semis too 🤞

The Finals will be played as a best-of-five series in May, featuring the two winning teams from the best-of-five semifinals.

National Women’s Soccer League. It’s the league Gotham and the Spirit play in, the top flight women’s soccer league in the United States.

You could tell how important Claire Hutton is gonna be to Bay this year right out of the gate.

Cincy doesn’t have an NWSL team 🤷‍♂️

Third match in a row:

Seattle got their payback

The Reign opened up their season by playing the Orlando Pride — the very team that knocked them out of the playoffs last season. Though both squads were forced to contend with a significant weather delay, the Reign managed to take home the 2-1 win.

“Total credit to the whole group,” Seattle’s coach Laura Harvey said after the game. “The girls started warming up and then thunder and lightning happened again. We all had to come in and we were drenched and cold and wet … credit to the players, they’ve shown some grit and some personality.”

You love to see it:

Aside from a handful of resale tickets, Winnipeg’s upcoming stop on the PWHL Takeover Tour at the 15,225 seat Canada Life Centre is sold out.

Get out and support local soccer:

All eight games combined for crowds of 129,202 total fans. With an average of 16,150 fans per match, last weekend clocked in as the best-attended opening campaign in NWSL history.

Seem like a good weekend to be in SoCal:

San Diego and LA will the split the women’s semifinals on Tuesday, July 25th, with San Diego hosting the bronze medal match on Friday, July 28th, before the gold medal final takes over the Rose Bowl on Saturday, July 29th — the 2028 Summer Games’ penultimate day of competition.

She did her left acl:

Sugita was acquired via trade from Portland Thorns in September of 2025 for M.A. Vignola and $600,000 in intra-league funds.

Gotham should be hosting Denver or Seattle, which are both Queen cities, rather than DC.

Jess Fishlock is inevitable:

Jess Fishlock inches closer to Seattle Reign career all-time goal record

Seattle Reign club legend Jess Fishlock got a little bit closer to breaking Megan Rapinoe’s career all-time goal lead (51) with her 49th career goal in the NWSL in the Reign’s 2-1 victory against the Orlando Pride. Seattle’s captain got past the Orlando center back easily and shot the ball at the Pride goalkeeper, Anna Moorhouse who tried to bat the shot away, but it still found the back of the net.

The first match in the States is the next day, the USMNT vs Paraguay at SoFi in Los Angeles.

The World Cup is scheduled to begin this June 11th with Mexico vs South Africa in the Azteca.

I don’t much follow the WSL, but iirc she scored a bunch during the USWNT friendlies in December. I think she’s back and fully healthy.