Charges of Abuse and Toxic Workplaces Shake Women’s Soccer

By BY KEVIN DRAPER from NYT Sports The players’ union for the National Women’s Soccer League demanded immediate action amid accusations that multiple coaches had abused or preyed on athletes.https://nyti.ms/3zWRSFm

U.S. Soccer Proposes Collective Talks on Equal Pay

By BY ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports Seeking a new way out of a costly legal battle, U.S. Soccer’s president asks the men’s and women’s teams to negotiate together on the biggest obstacle: World Cup bonuses.https://nyti.ms/3E6h4N7

A Gay N.F.L. Player Broke a Barrier. Will Others Follow?

By BY EMMANUEL MORGAN from NYT Sports The number of publicly out L.G.B.T.Q. athletes in men’s biggest pro leagues lags far behind that in women’s sports. Will Carl Nassib’s announcement change that?https://nyti.ms/3gSZZeU

A Rising Women’s Team Looks Past the Pandemic

By BY GENEVA ABDUL from NYT Sports In three seasons, Bordeaux rose from obscurity to a top-three place in France. The coronavirus affected its momentum, but not its plans.https://nyti.ms/2QqsEeq

Australia and New Zealand Will Host 2023 Women’s World Cup

By BY TARIQ PANJA AND ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports The joint hosting arrangement would be the first for women’s soccer’s biggest championship, which will expand to 32 teams for the event.https://nyti.ms/2NtAUZx

Megan Rapinoe’s Coach Says Star Will Skip N.W.S.L. Event

By BY ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports The N.W.S.L.’s nine teams will gather for a new championship tournament later this month, but women’s soccer’s biggest star appears set to sit it out.https://nyti.ms/2Xw6s6R

‘Blatant Misogyny’: U.S. Women Protest, and U.S. Soccer Apologizes

By BY KEVIN DRAPER AND ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports Legal filings in a gender discrimination lawsuit argued women’s soccer players were inferior to men, poisoning an already testy relationship.https://nyti.ms/2W5jWGi

Vivianne Miedema Lets Her Goals Do the Talking

By BY GENEVA ABDUL from NYT Sports The record-setting Arsenal and Netherlands striker is only 23. Next on her to-do list? Another English title, a second European title and maybe a rematch with the United States at this summer’s Olympics.https://nyti.ms/2I2427p

Australian Women and Men’s Soccer Teams Reach Deal for Equal Pay

By BY KAREN ZRAICK from NYT Sports The Westfield Matildas and the Caltex Socceroos will receive equal shares of team revenue as part of the four-year deal.https://nyti.ms/2WOCvwS

Vlatko Andonovski, the New U.S.W.N.T. Coach: ‘I Can’t Wait to Start’

By BY ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports Replacing Jill Ellis, who led the team to two World Cup titles, might seem daunting, but Andonovski knows what is expected of him.https://nyti.ms/2qNQPK1

Point. Smile. Click. Repeat.

By ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports Selfies are supplanting the signature as a sports collectible, and players on the U.S. women’s soccer team, who interact with their fans as much as any team in the world, are getting very, very good at taking them.https://nyti.ms/30LHm36

Bottles Down, Cleats On: U.S. Soccer Team Takes Its Joy on the Road

By SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports The champions reconvened in California to open their five-game World Cup victory tour on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Everyone was invited to the party.https://nyti.ms/31dBjUO

World Cup Stars and Cheap Tickets. Will Fans Now Care About Women’s Pro Soccer?

By KEVIN DRAPER from NYT Sports Fourteen million Americans watched the World Cup final, yet some National Women’s Soccer League teams average only a few thousand fans at their games.https://nyti.ms/2YAvzql

Jill Ellis Will Step Down as U.S. Women’s Coach

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports Ellis’s decision to leave her post comes less than a month after she led the United States to its second straight Women’s World Cup title.https://nyti.ms/315oNqg

U.S. Soccer Says It Pays Women’s Team More Than Men’s Team

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports An open letter from the federation president was challenged by the women’s team’s players association, which called its calculations “utterly false.”https://nyti.ms/2GCkMSB

Megan Rapinoe, Conquering Hero, Returns to Cheers but Not to Action

By KURT STREETER from NYT Sports Citing injury and fatigue, Rapinoe sat out her homecoming to the N.W.S.L. Her absence from the lineup didn’t dampen the mood.https://nyti.ms/2K9wBR3

U.S. Soccer Sponsor Enters Equal Pay Fight on Women’s Side

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports Procter & Gamble urged the federation ‘to be on the right side of history,’ and donated more than $500,000 to the team’s players association.https://nyti.ms/2jMZDwS

What’s a World Cup Title Worth? For U.S. Women, Six Figures and Counting

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports United States players can lock in $170,000 in bonuses by beating the Netherlands on Sunday, but additional paydays are growing in real time.https://nyti.ms/2JGHeuD

No Rapinoe? No Problem, for One Day at Least

By ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports The U.S. star Megan Rapinoe missed her team’s World Cup semifinal against England with a minor muscle strain, but she vowed to be ready for Sunday’s final.https://nyti.ms/2J9DpPz

For U.S., One Big Job Is Done. Two Bigger Ones Remain.

By ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports The Americans’ World Cup quarterfinal against France had been everyone’s focus for months. But now that the U.S. is into the semifinals, it has to beat England to get where it really wants to be.https://nyti.ms/2XgFnRC