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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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Chicago Red Stars v Washington Spirit

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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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