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In episode #62 of 🎙️The Business Case For Women’s Sports, presented by Ally, hear the founding story of the NWSL’s newest expansion team, Bay FC, as told by Leslie Osborne - a former USWNT team player that is now one of the Founding Four members of Bay FC. 

Coming to the NWSL in 2024, Bay FC is the first NWSL team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The team is co-founded by four U.S. Women’s National Team legends—Brandi Chastain, Aly Wagner, Danielle Slaton, and Leslie Osborne—in partnership with global investment firm Sixth Street.

This year, Bay FC won one of three coveted bids for NWSL expansion, paying a record $53 million fee to the NWSL which was the most ever paid for a team in the league.

In this episode, hear Leslie and Caroline discuss the journey to get Bay FC started, and Bay FC’s vision to change the face of women’s soccer as we know it.

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Subirse la camiseta para celebrar un gol parece de lo más habitual. Pero en el fútbol femenino se produjo un choque cuando la estadounidense Brandi Chastain eligió expresar así la euforia de ganar la final del Mundial de 1999. En la final de la Eurocopa de 2022, la inglesa Chloe Kelly hizo el mismo gesto y cerró un círculo, el de convertirse en un símbolo icónico e inolvidable.

John Moffet is joined by Brandi Chastain, an American soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster.

In today’s episode of SPORTS + LIFE + BALANCE, Brandi shares the pivotal moment when she discovered that her immense talent could only take her so far. You'll hear how throughout her career, through all the setbacks and injuries, she was always guided by a single powerful force: love.

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Kettman retraces the emotional whirlwind that began in February, when he learned of his close friend’s sudden passing, and continued as he spearheaded and edited the book that would hit the shelves in July. We hear about Pedro’s cynical conscription of the “Berkeley Guy” into the baseball beat writers’ fraternity, their perspective-altering trip to Cuba that compelled Gomez to pen an open letter to President Clinton and the bold story he wrote about Curt Schilling that rocked the baseball world on the morning of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. We also hear hilarious and touching stories about Gomez as a sports dad and an infamous college tale involving Steve and fellow Daily Cal alum Mike Fleiss.

Mike and Natalie talk about why they chose the fantastic guests they did and highlight some of their favorite moments of the past seven months’ worth of episodes. We revisit Steve Kerr’s savage sigh at his daughter’s college volleyball game and the absurd chant Mike led at Dodger Stadium during the 1982 L.A. City baseball championship. We hear New Orleans Saints star Cam Jordan talk about why raising a black child is America carries daunting overtones and get some insight from rap legend Luther Campbell (aka Uncle Luke) into his late friend Tupac Shakur’s psyche as it pertained to social activism. Two doctors at the forefront of the COVID-19 fight, Greg Huhn and Ajay Nirula, tell us why Dr. Fauci is a legend, and Brandi Chastain takes some current women’s soccer stars to task. Former NFL receiver turned political commentator Donté Stallworth tells a Bill Belichick story with an unexpected twist. Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur gets grilled by an unlikely interviewer, former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer looks back on a drunken argument with Jerry Jones, and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tells Mike why he shouldn’t worry that rock icon Stephen Stills hates him.

 Three decades ago, Mike and Ann were young beat writers covering the star-studded San Francisco 49ers--and Natalie wants to know where all the bodies (and bottles) are buried. Now an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, Ann spills a lot of intel, relating the challenges of working in a male-dominated industry--including one especially daunting incident in the 49ers’ locker room--and looking back at some of the luminaries (Al Davis, Amy Trask, Eddie DeBartolo) whose feathers she ruffled along the way. We also explore the impact of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cups, hear about some awkward conversations that Mike and Ann had with Steve Young back in the day and rail against the loose ends remaining after the finale of The Undoing.

Brandi describes VAR (Video Assistant Referee) as the “bane of my existence,” while Chad sticks up for soccer’s version of replay. This leads to a discussion of the 2000 Olympic final, when the USA scored a miraculous, last-second goal to force overtime against Norway, only to give up a disputed game-winner. Brandi and Chad have some fun discussing the hideous bust that accompanied her 2018 induction into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. She talks about her successful stint on “Chopped,” as well as Chad’s skills in the kitchen--with quick guest appearances from Chad’s daughters Harper and Brooklyn, and Brandi’s son Jaden. Finally, we discuss the struggle for women to establish a professional soccer foothold in the US, and how the recent recklessness of some NWSL players rubbed Brandi the wrong way.

After a protracted discussion of California-grown produce, including young Mike’s avocado-stealing delinquency, Brandi talks about falling in love with soccer during an era when girls rarely played--and chasing Chad around Spartan Stadium during San Jose Earthquakes games, even as he made his way to the opposing team’s bench. Brandi addresses the importance of being driven by passion, rather than specific goals, in her athletic upbringing, and Mike segues from a discussion about juggling to a story about Natalie’s early driving atrocities. There are tales of Chad’s epic behavior during Big Game weekends past, including his taunting of Stanford-graduate Julie Foudy (while impersonating a Scottish football announcer) after a Cal victory, and of an infamous celebrity photo swap at Gibson’s steakhouse in Chicago. Oh, and Mike shares his Super Bowl XLV concussion story, ending with a classic line from Hall of Famer Michael Strahan.