September 20, 2018
The semifinals are over. The championship is nigh. There's one last game, for
all the marbles. Let's get into it:
Portland Thorns vs Seattle Reign (2-1 Portland)
A rematch of the final regular-season game in Portland a week and a half ago,
this game was
September 10, 2018
Here we are. The regular season is over, and although it took an almost absurdly
long time for it to happen, the four teams we're left with—North Carolina,
Portland, Seattle, and Chicago—have emerged as the clear best teams in the
league.
With the
August 28, 2018
A lot has been made about how absurdly tight the playoff race has been this
season, with North Carolina spending most of the year as the only team that
looked really, definitively Good, and second through seventh places looking more
or less like a crapshoot.
August 21, 2018
If you're a fan of one of the third- through seventh-place teams, and you aren't
extremely tense at all times these days, please let me know your secret? With
just three weeks to go in the regular season, the playoff picture is really no
clearer
August 13, 2018
The playoff picture is starting, maybe, to get a little clearer after this
weekend, with Seattle and Portland shutting out Utah and Orlando on the road and
Chicago doing well to get a draw against North Carolina. Numerically, the race
for the bottom three playoff
August 07, 2018
It was yet another wet and wild week in the NWSL, featuring all the usual hits
-- a Lindsey Horan goal, a Megan Rapinoe throw-in assist -- as well as some new
ones, including Christen Press getting booed in Houston and an intentional
handball by