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Chicago Red Stars v Washington Spirit

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I don’t have a full recap for the Red Star v Spirit game. I watched! But I was v distracted and tbh Chicago and Washington are not usually games I watch so I dont know as many players.

But I will say this.

I love and support Casey Short and that was a very heavy and personal moment. I want all the best things for her.

Game-wise. I don’t think anyone should be surprised that Rose Lavelle did Rose Lavelle things.

Kealia Watt was a needed offensive threat for Chicago, but after spending so much time relying on one person to score goals (Sam Kerr,) they need to figure out a game plan to score TEAM goals.

Hoping Tegan McGrady is okay. Whenever players go down now, I am a wreck.

Also. The amount of players visibly cramping up is concerning. FUCK THAT TURF.

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Rose knocks down JJ - Chicago Red Stars v. Washington Spirit

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hey y’all! if anyone’s interested, the 2019 nwsl season starts today. it’s a world cup year, so now’s a great time to get to know some of the players who will be in france this summer and to support some incredible ladies. 

games are being streamed on yahoo! sports in the us, and on the nwsl website for those in other countries. (replays of games will be available to everyone on the nwsl website shortly after the match ends.)

games this weekend:

4/13 - washington spirit v. sky blue @ 4 pt/7 et

4/13 - north carolina courage v. chicago red stars @ 4 pt/7 et

4/14 - orlando pride v. portland thorns @ 2 pt/5 et

4/14 - houston dash v. reign fc @ 3 pt/6 et

played in last year’s final

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A list of all films featured in 2019′s 31 Days of Oscar

This is the exhaustive list of all 388 short- and feature-length films featured during this year’s 31 Days of Oscar marathon (up from 296 last year). Best Picture winners and the one (and only) winner for Unique and Artistic Production are in bold. Asterisked (*) films are films I haven’t seen in their entirety as of the publishing of this post.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Two Arabian Knights (1927)*

The Crowd (1928)

Sadie Thompson (1928)*

Speedy (1928)

Street Angel (1928)

A Woman of Affairs (1928)

White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)*

The Broadway Melody (1929)

The Divine Lady (1929)*

Weary River (1929)*

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The Big House (1930)

The Doorway to Hell (1930)*

Flight Commander (1930)*

The Criminal Code (1931)*

Little Caesar (1931)

The Public Enemy (1931)

Flowers and Trees (1932 short)

Grand Hotel (1932)

What Price Hollywood? (1932)*

42nd Street (1933)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Morning Glory (1933)*

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)*

Cleopatra (1934)*

Imitation of Life (1934)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)*

The Thin Man (1934)

Alice Adams (1935)*

Captain Blood (1935)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)*

Top Hat (1935)

Dodsworth (1936)

Fury (1936)*

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Libeled Lady (1936)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Captains Courageous (1937)

Night Must Fall (1937)*

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

A Star Is Born (1937)

Way Out West (1937)*

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

Merrily We Live (1938)*

Pygmalion (1938)

You Can’t Take It with You (1938)

Beau Geste (1939)

Dark Victory (1939)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Gulliver’s Travels (1939)

Lady of the Tropics (1939)*

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)*

Stagecoach (1939)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Wuthering Heights (1939)*

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

The Great McGinty (1940)

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)*

Our Town (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Rebecca (1940)

Strike Up the Band (1940)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Dumbo (1941)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

Bambi (1942)

Casablanca (1942)

Johnny Eager (1942)*

Kings Row (1942)*

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Mrs. Miniver (1942)

Now, Voyager (1942)

Random Harvest (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

The Desert Song (1943)*

The Human Comedy (1943)*

Lassie Come Home (1943)

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Henry V (1944)*

Lifeboat (1944)

National Velvet (1944)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Blithe Spirit (1945)*

Brief Encounter (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

They Were Expendable (1945)*

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

The Stranger (1946)*

First Steps (1947)*

Forever Amber (1947)*

Life with Father (1947)*

The Perils of Pauline (1947)*

Bicycle Thieves (1948, Italy)

Hamlet (1948)

The Naked City (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

I Remember Mama (1948)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)*

Adam’s Rib (1949)*

Battleground (1949)

The Heiress (1949)

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)*

Mighty Joe Young (1949)*

On the Town (1949)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

The Stratton Story (1949)*

The Third Man (1949)

White Heat (1949)

All About Eve (1950)

Broken Arrow (1950)*

Destination Moon (1950)*

Mystery Street (1950)*

Rashômon (1950, Japan)

An American in Paris (1951)

Royal Wedding (1951)

Show Boat (1951)*

Strangers on a Train (1951)

High Noon (1952)

The Quiet Man (1952)

Umberto D. (1952, Italy)

The Band Wagon (1953)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)*

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Julius Caesar (1953)*

Lili (1953)

Little Fugitive (1953)*

Little Johnny Jet (1953 short)*

Titanic (1953)*

Brigadoon (1954)

La Strada (1954, Italy)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954, Japan)

A Star Is Born (1954)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)

Marty (1955)

Speedy Gonzales (1955 short)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

The Bespoke Overcoat (1956 short)*

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Lust for Life (1956)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)*

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Funny Face (1957)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

12 Angry Men (1957)

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Gigi (1958)

Mon Oncle (1958, France)

The Young Lions (1958)*

Ben-Hur (1959)

South Pacific (1958)

The 400 Blows (1959, France)

North by Northwest (1959)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Macario (1960, Mexico)*

The Time Machine (1960)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

The Children’s Hour (1961)*

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Sweden)*

West Side Story (1961)

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)

How the West Was Won (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Longest Day (1962)

The Miracle Worker (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

Charade (1963)

Cleopatra (1963)

The Leopard (1963, Italy)

Tom Jones (1963)*

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963, Italy)*

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Mary Poppins (1964)

My Fair Lady (1964)

The Pink Phink (1964 short)*

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, France)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

A Patch of Blue (1965)*

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Battle of Algiers (1966, Algeria)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Grand Prix (1966)*

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

The Professionals (1966)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)*

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Two for the Road (1967)*

Bullitt (1968)*

Funny Girl (1968)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)*

The Lion in Winter (1968)*

Oliver! (1968)

It’s Tough to Be a Bird (1969 short)*

The Magic Machines (1969 short)*

Marooned (1969)*

Midnight Cowboy (1969)*

The Great White Hope (1970)*

I Girasoli (1970, Italy)*

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Italy)*

Patton (1970)

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

The French Connection (1971)

The Last Picture Show (1971)*

The Godfather (1972)

Sounder (1972)

Travels with My Aunt (1972)*

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)*

The Way We Were (1973)*

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Nashville (1975)

Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

Network (1976)

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

California Suite (1978)*

Superman (1978)

The Black Hole (1979)

The Black Stallion (1979)

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

A Little Romance (1979)

Every Child (1979 short)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Atlantic City (1980)*

Kagemusha (1980, Japan)

Das Boot (1981, Germany)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Annie (1982)

Tron (1982)

Victor/Victoria (1982)*

Blue Thunder (1983)*

Amadeus (1984)

Dune (1984)*

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Agnes of God (1985)*

Back to the Future (1985)

Legend (1985)*

My Life as a Dog (1985, Sweden)

Silverado (1985)*

Hoosiers (1986)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Au revoir les enfants (1987, France)

The Last Emperor (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)

The Untouchables (1987)*

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Willow (1988)*

Do the Right Thing (1989)

For All Mankind (1989)

Glory (1989)

Henry V (1989)

When Harry Met Sally… (1989)*

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Misery (1990)*

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

The Prince of Tides (1991)*

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Toys (1992)*

Unforgiven (1992)

The Age of Innocence (1993)*

Philadelphia (1993)*

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Three Colors: Red (1994, France/Poland)

Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)

Hamlet (1996)

Sleepers (1996)*

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Children of Heaven (1997, Iran)

Four Days in September (1997, Brazil)*

Titanic (1997)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

The Sixth Sense (1999)*

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Erin Brokovich (2000)*

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)*

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Monsters Inc. (2001)

Y Tu Mamá También (2001, Mexico)*

Chicago (2002)

Big Fish (2003)*

I, Robot (2004)*

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Walk the Line (2005)*

The Danish Poet (2006)*

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Mexico)

Persepolis (2007, France/Iran)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)*

The Dark Knight (2008)

Frost/Nixon (2008)*

Man on Wire (2008)*

Milk (2008)*

The Reader (2008)*

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

The Wrestler (2008)*

The Secret in Their Eyes (2009, Argentina)*

Biutiful (2010, Mexico)*

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

The Artist (2011, France)

Hugo (2011)

A Separation (2011, Iran)

The Act of Killing (2012, Indonesia/Norway/Denmark)*

Frankenweenie (2012)*

Life of Pi (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

Skyfall (2012)

Ida (2013, Poland)

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

American Sniper (2014)

Interstellar (2014)

Song of the Sea (2014)

Creed (2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

The Revenant (2015)

Spotlight (2015)

We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (2015 short, Russia)

World of Tomorrow (2015 short)

Ennemis intérieurs (2016 short, France)

Fences (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

My Life as a Zucchini (2016, Switzerland)

Pearl (2016 short)

Baby Driver (2017)*

Dunkirk (2017)

Loving Vincent (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

At Eternity’s Gate (2018)*

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Cold War (2018, Poland)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)*

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Shoplifters (2018, Japan)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

The eight nominees for Best Picture, including the winner, Green Book (2018)

The fifteen nominees for the short film categories (2018)

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Julie Ertz pregame - Washington Spirit v Chicago Red Stars - April 28, 2018

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Pregame: Chicago Red Stars vs. KC (August 28)

I don't know what I'm doing or what I really want this blog to be so....I'm just gonna put some thoughts about what I expect and what I think will be interesting about this game here.

Full disclosure: I don't follow either of these teams particularly closely, but since they're the only game on tomorrow, I thought it would be a good experiment for whatever this format might be. Since I don't follow them particularly closely, a lot of this might be completely off-base!

Background:

Chicago was expected to be a pretty solid team this year, with several USWNT players and a few league stars, but have had more downs than ups this season. Some of that may be attributable to Julie Ertz's first-game-of-the-season injury (although they didn't have a particularly strong Challenge Cup showing, and the defensive midfield hasn't been their weakest area), and some due to the unusually high number of players that they had out for the Olympics (but here, they did have an unusually good streak right after most players left), but most of it seems to be that they just haven't been able to hit the back of the net as often as they should - with sixteen goals in sixteen games, their goals-per-game ratio is the third-lowest in the league, despite having both Kealia Watt and Mal Pugh (as well as national team replacement player Own Goal) in their attack.

They are currently sitting at seventh in the league, just outside of playoff position based on tiebreaks, although definitely within a six- or seven-team group vying for the final four playoff spots. All but one of the other teams in that pack has at least one game in hand on them, however, and as we get closer to the end of the season, that is beginning to matter more than it did even a month ago.

Kansas City, technically an expansion team, pretty much adopted the Utah Royals' roster - or what was left of it. Once Dell Loy Hansen stepped back from (and stopped putting money into) the Royals, they had to enter into a few transactions that netted them cash, essentially to keep them afloat. Coming into the 2021 season, KC had no USWNT players (Becky Sauerbrunn having gone to Portland before the 2020 season, Christen Press having been taken in the Racing Louisville expansion draft, which did entitle the Royals to a good chunk of allocation money, and Kelley O'Hara having been traded to the Washington Spirit for allocation money shortly thereafter). The season did not get off to a great start for them - it took until their fourteenth game of the season to get a win, with even their draws fairly few and far between before then.

However, the team has made a few trades in recent weeks, getting Kristen Hamilton, Hailie Mace, and Kaitlyn Rowland from North Carolina in exchange for Amy Rodriguez and some cash, and AD Franch from the Thorns in exchange for Abby Smith (and some cash), and have now won two of their last three games. For anybody keeping track, that's six points in their last three games, and four points in the thirteen before that. They still probably won't make the playoffs (the cutoff for making the playoffs isn't going to be lower than 26, so they would need to take at least 16 of the remaining 24 points available to them - which would require something between winning two-thirds of their remaining games, and winning half of them and tying the other half - and likely will be higher).

Momentum:

Chicago and KC have played against each other once this year in the regular season (a 2-0 win for Chicago), as well as once in the Challenge Cup (a 1-1 draw).

My favorite fun fact is that the last NWSL match for each of these teams was against 9th-place Louisville - KC won their match 2-1 on Wednesday, and Chicago drew 1-1 the Wednesday before (ultimately losing on penalty kicks for the purposes of the Women's Cup).

KC played Louisville on Wednesday, after playing the North Carolina Courage the Saturday before, so they may be trying to get some rotation here. I would expect it's more likely that they use their regular starters here, but sub them off earlier, unless it's a particularly tight game. Chicago played twice the week before (including a Sunday game against PSG), so they have at least had slightly more time to recover.

Chicago will have some players back from the Olympics that it had been missing for a while, but they won't have Alyssa Naeher or Julie Ertz, who are both dealing with injuries picked up in Japan. They will also be missing Danielle Colaprico and Vanessa DiBernardo with injury.

KC didn't lose as many key players to the Olympics, but it looks like Desiree Scott should be back available for selection, and AD Franch (traded to KC post-Olympics) will likely start again. Rachel Corsie is listed as questionable, and Jordyn Listro and Taylor Leach are still out.

Predictions:

Scoreline: Chicago 0-1 KC

Chicago XI (4-2-3-1):

GK: Miller

4: Wright; Davidson; Gorden; Krueger

2: Gautrat; Woldmoe

3: Watt; Johnson*; Pugh

1: Hill

KC XI** (4-4-2/4-3-3):

GK: Franch

4: Weber; Edmonds; Ball; K. Pickett

3: V. Pickett; Bowen, Labonta

3: Hamilton; McCain; Mace

Hot Takes and Full Disclosure:

*Seeing some rumors online regarding Katie Johnson to a LigaMX team - I'm not sure how reliable those are or if they are speculation, so since no announcement has been made, I'm leaving her in the lineup for now.

I would love to see Tierna Davidson get some minutes at left back, both at the club and the national team level. I've got the XI that I think the Red Stars will go with above, but honestly I would love for that back line to shift to Davidson - Sharples - Gorden - Krueger.

** This is the lineup that they've gone with the last three games running, except for in goal, which I think is a no-brainer right now. However, it seems like the team is now developing a lot of attacking talent, with Hamilton and Mace seeming to be the designated experienced forwards. I'd love to see Silva and/or Larroquette getting more minutes than they are currently - maybe without McCain in the XI, Hamilton moving to a more central position, and Silva coming in on the left wing with Mace on the right?

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What on earth is U.S. Soccer doing with Jaelene Hinkle?

The USWNT’s best left back is also a vocal homophobe, and the team’s handling of the situation has been bizarre.

Jaelene Hinkle is probably the best left back available to the United States women’s national team. The USWNT currently has an injury crisis at fullback. Hinkle is also vocally homophobic and trying to make a team that has a gay coach, several queer players, and a lot of LGBT fans.

Last weekend, for the first time in over a year, Hinkle was called into the USWNT camp. She was only a part of the team for three days before U.S. Soccer announced that she would not be a part of the final roster for the Tournament of Nations. These two decisions — to call up a homophobic player who previously refused a call-up, then cut her just three days into camp — were strange. The former angered LGBT fans of the team, while the latter was just downright confusing.

When reached by phone on Monday, a U.S. Soccer spokesperson said that the decision to cut Hinkle was purely a soccer decision, adding that all roster decisions are entirely about performance and that there had been no personal issues between anyone during training sessions.

But it’s hard to make a true soccer case for Hinkle’s exclusion. And it’s even harder to justify the betrayal of LGBT fans over a three-day tryout for a player that USWNT manager Jill Ellis apparently doesn’t rate very highly.

How we got here

In June of 2017, Jaelene Hinkle withdrew from a United States women’s national team camp for “personal reasons.” That happened during LGBT Pride month, and the USWNT was set to wear jerseys with rainbow numbers to show support for the LGBT community.

This year, in an interview with The 700 Club, Hinkle confirmed that she withdrew from the squad because she felt that wearing the pride jersey would have conflicted with her religious beliefs. “I felt so convicted in my spirit that it wasn’t my job to wear this jersey,” Hinkle told the show. In her first game after the interview, Hinkle was booed by Portland Thorns fans every time she touched the ball.

Fans suspected Hinkle’s reasons for withdrawing from the squad even before her The 700 Club comments. Mere minutes after the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which required all states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Hinkle sent the following tweet:

This world is falling farther and farther away from God... All that can be done by believers is to continue to pray.

— Jaelene Hinkle (@JaeHinkle_15) June 26, 2015

Following her voluntary withdrawal from the USWNT squad, Hinkle was not called up again for over a year, despite performing well for the Courage. But after 2018’s pride month promotion, Hinkle was given another three-day shot to make the team, and was apparently unable to impress Ellis.

Is there a pure soccer case for Hinkle’s exclusion?

Fullback is a problem position for the USWNT at the moment. First choice starter Kelley O’Hara is out injured, Taylor Smith has been in shaky form for the Washington Spirit, and Sofia Huerta’s inability to get regular time at fullback for the Chicago Red Stars or Houston Dash appears to have jeopardized her chances of sticking with the national team. Veterans Meghan Klingenberg and Ali Krieger appear to have been frozen out permanently. Jill Ellis’ options aren’t great.

At least, the options aren’t great as long as Hinkle is unavailable due to her personal beliefs. But Hinkle’s beliefs didn’t prevent Ellis from bringing her into camp. And based on Ellis’ professed desire for attacking fullbacks who cover a ton of ground, there isn’t a better pure tactical fit available than Hinkle.

Over the past four years, Hinkle has been the starting left back for the Western New York Flash and North Carolina Courage. Her current club manager, Courage head coach Paul Riley, can’t understand why Ellis wouldn’t include Hinkle in her squad if she was willing to call up Hinkle in the first place. “She’s been the best left back in the league this year, of that there’s absolutely no question,” Riley tells SB Nation.

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“She hasn’t had a bad game to be honest with you, I can’t recall a bad game all season,” Riley continues. “At this level, that’s unbelievable. The consistency is something she never really had, but this year she’s had it.”

Riley is obviously biased — he wants his players to find success at international level — but he’s got one hell of a track record when it comes to figuring out how to utilize players in the USWNT pool. The core of the team that is now the Courage won the National Women’s Soccer League title as the Flash in 2016, then finished runners-up with the league’s best record in their first year as the Courage in 2017. This season, the Courage have a 14-1-3 record and lead NWSL by 16 points. Seven current Courage players and two others who were traded from the club this offseason have been called up by the USWNT in the past year.

A lot of stats also suggest that Riley is right. Hinkle is the only fullback in the NWSL with four assists this season. The only other one with three — Seattle’s Steph Catley — plays her international soccer for Australia. Hinkle is beating out her club teammate, right back Merritt Mathias, as well as Chicago Red Stars left back Casey Short — the two players who play fullback for their clubs that made this USWNT squad — in interceptions per 90 minutes, successful tackle percentage, crossing accuracy, successful dribbles per 90 minutes, and final third passes per 90 minutes.

“She’s been the best left back in the league this year, of that there’s absolutely no question.” -Paul Riley

Distance covered stats aren’t available, but Hinkle has more touches in the box than Short or Matthias, so she’s doing well in that area, too. Riley believes the same: “She quite often runs the whole distance down the field and delivers the final ball to the forwards.”

Riley also doesn’t believe that Ellis was able to make a fair evaluation of Hinkle during the time she was in camp.

“You can’t look at a player over three days and make a decision on the player, not for me,” Riley says. “I think they need to be in camp for a couple of weeks to get a good feel for a player and whether they fit in or not, what their strengths and weaknesses are compared to the group’s strengths and weaknesses. I don’t think that can happen in three days.”

Hinkle’s call-up alienated many of the USWNT’s biggest fans

U.S. Soccer, between its history of fielding gay players and its desire to make money, would really like to sell some pride merch and appear supportive of the LGBT community.

But the USWNT either didn’t anticipate how much Hinkle’s call-up would hurt their LGBT fans, or they didn’t care. I reached out on Twitter to gay USWNT fans who purchased the team’s pride gear, and spoke to three of them about how Hinkle’s return to the USWNT made them feel.

“Betrayed, lied to, used. Like the USWNT was using pride only as something to make money and not that they actually cared about the community,” is how Zoe Auxier says she felt when she learned about Hinkle’s call-up. “I feel cheated out of accurate and positive representation, especially with how big of a platform the team has to make a positive impact for the LGBT community.”

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“I would have been mad regardless of when it was, but the fact that the roster dropped 18 days after the end of Pride month was an added bit of hypocrisy,” says Kelly Trione. “It just shows that they��re full of crap, they may legally be a non-profit, but it’s all about money and they didn’t even try and pretend it wasn’t.”

That Hinkle expressed her beliefs on The 700 Club was a point of contention as well.

“She has never once acknowledged the humanity and struggle of LGBT people, and instead used a platform which actively demonizes the LGBT community,” Becca Homa says. “I’m most concerned with the message it sends to young queer fans and players within the U.S. youth system. They shouldn’t for one second feel any discomfort about who they are or question if they deserve the same respect.”

So what could U.S. Soccer have possibly been thinking?

U.S. Soccer would like us to believe that Hinkle was called up, played in camp for three days, and then sent home entirely for soccer reasons. If we take its statements at face value, we’re forced to conclude that Jill Ellis has a nonsensical method for evaluating fullbacks. Hinkle is the best American left back in NWSL by most empirical measures, and by the eyes of the club coach who has developed the most USWNT players during this World Cup cycle.

If Ellis simply doesn’t rate Hinkle highly enough to give her a legitimate shot in camp to beat out Short and some players who don’t usually play left back, then why was she called up in the first place? Why spit on your queer fans, who may now feel like you stole their money as part of a dirty trick, if Hinkle wasn’t really in the plans?

People at U.S. Soccer should have been well aware of the backlash they’d receive if Hinkle returned to the team. The way she makes queer fans feel has been clear for a while now. U.S. Soccer was seemingly willing to hurt their fans in that way, then not even follow through with putting Hinkle on the field. They couldn’t have handled this situation much worse.

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Chicago Red Stars v Washington Spirit

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Two Teams In Which I Like The Players v Two Teams In Which I Dislike The Coaches & Administrations

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So CP left CRS but not for Portland?

Sounds fake but ok

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Sam Kerr sequence from the Chicago Red Stars v Washington Spirit game on April 28, 2018. Check out the gallery here!

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