FC KC

Schedules were messy this week, so we couldn’t get an episode recorded. We’ll be back next week! Saturday night, the new-look Portland Thorns drew 1-1 against reigning NWSL champions FC Kansas City at the Swope Park complex in Kansas City. FCKC’s Shea Groom (the dirtiest player in NWSL) had her penalty saved by Portland goal […]

New Season, New Episode

The season is finally upon us, and so we gather to talk about game one, with a few diversions into Tinder, which donut shop is the best in town and ethical decisions on kit sponsors. Some of the articles mentioned in this episode: Thorns’ Tobin Heath here, there, everywhere Thorns FC: Good […]

Podcast Music

I’ve gotten a couple of requests for the songs used during our podcast. From here on out I’ll include them in the episode post, but until the next one, here’s what I’ve used so far. Episode One: “Better Change Your Mind” by William Onyeabor Episode Two: “Boyz” by M.I.A. “Can’t Be Funky” by Bush […]

On To The Next Episode!

And we’re back, with Richard Hamje standing in for Patrick for the newest episode of Riveting! Click here to listen. And now you can find us on iTunes here! This week, we talked about the wage discrimination case filed by five members of the U.S. Women’s National Team, the NWSL salary cap increase, and the […]

Thorns Announce 2016 Roster

Amadine Henry is listed on the roster, which oddly has only 18 of the maximum of 20 players. Weird. ROSTERED PLAYERS (18 of 20 spots filled): GOALKEEPERS (2): Michelle Betos, Adrianna Franch DEFENDERS (7): McKenzie Berryhill, Kendall Johnson, Meghan Klingenberg (FP-USA), Emily Menges, Katherine Reynolds, Emily Sonnett (FP-USA), Kat Williamson MIDFIELDERS (5): Dagny Brynjarsdottir (INT’L-ISL), […]

Great Story On Allie Long’s Offseason

Friday, Allie Long‘s hometown newspaper, Newsday, wrote about Allie’s offseason work to get herself onto the U.S. National Team for the Olympics: After last season ended, “instead of taking a vacation, the 28-year-old midfielder and her fiancé, former U.S. youth international midfielder and Molloy College standout Jose Batista, embarked on an ambitious five-month training program.” […]

Soccer Wars

Elizabeth Mitchell of the New York Daily News has written a comprehensive and damning indictment of FIFA and US Soccer’s treatment of the US Women’s National Team. It’s such a good read I thought I should post it here. Do yourself a favor and spend some time on this, but be prepared to get angry […]

We’re on iTunes! (almost)

We just received word that Riveting! has been approved for the iTunes store! That means all of you kids with your fancy iPhones will now be able to easily subscribe and download to your favorite Thorns podcast. It should show up in the podcast store by Wednesday or so, just in time to download our […]

It’s About That Time

Have any questions for us? What did we mess up in the first podcast? (Be gentle). What would you like to hear us discuss? What are your Q’s? We’ll have some A’s. We’ll be recording on Tuesday, so we will have watched the Thorns pummel the Reign already, and you’ll have until then to get […]

Our First Episode is Up!

First, a note from the management. We’re still working out a few kinks here at Riveting! HQ, so bear with us while we get things working properly. This is our first time posting an episode, so there will inevitably be some things that don’t work right. Great, now that we’ve taken care of that, welcome […]