The Good Sport Guide to Women's Sports in NYC: May 25th - 31st
Here's your weekly digest of all things women's sports in NYC.
I woke up on this cloudy Memorial Day here in Brooklyn and smiled at the thought of writing this week’s newsletter <3 This sacred act will heal me after watching a tough to see Liberty loss to the Dallas Wings at Barclays Center last night. It’s possible I am partly to blame for the game going off the rails, because I asked for a Diet Coke at the concession stand, and they only had Pepsi Zero…My bad y’all.
On the latest episode of the Good Sport NYC podcast, I solo-hosted (please clap) a conversation (with myself) about Gotham’s potential move from Jersey to Queens, Mayor Mamdani’s fight to keep soccer accessible for New Yorkers with $5 Gotham tickets + a big FIFA World Cup lottery win, and more.
Give it a listen if you haven’t yet, wherever you get your podcasts.
3 things to know from last week
Liberty’s stars returned to the court after injuries. Satou Sabally and Sabrina Ionescu both got on the court last week after missing the season’s first games due to injury. On Sunday’s game against the Wings, we finally saw an ideal starting line-up: Sabrina Ionescu (Guard), Marine Johannes (Guard), Satou Sabally (Forward), Breanna Stewart (Forward) and Jonquel Jones (Center).
PC to the NY Liberty Sadly the game results dimmed the energy. The Wings outscored and outdefended us in the second half. It seemed like we just couldn’t finish in the paint. As sports fans are want to do, the comment sections are in dire straights, but I personally am not going to panic. Satou just got here and she’ll need time to build chemistry and get in game mode. Many of our players are coming off of injury and need time. I hope our new Coach can show us something going into these next few games and pick better defensive matchups….Onward.
The Liberty signed hot and gay Aussie Anneli Maley to a developmental player contract. Let’s go lesbians! The saga with Maley went like this: She joined us for training camp and popped off in pre-season and got a lot of love from the fanbase…from some LGBTs in particular. Then we waived her on May 6th, she went to the Mercury for a bit and then they waived her, and THEN we signed her to a dev contract last week. Here is her tunnel fit for her first game. Abs.
Maley with teammate Pauline Astier. PC to the NY Liberty. Star Gotham FC Goalie Anne-Katrin Berger went down with an ab injury. Wow a lot of ab stuff this week huh? If you didn’t know, our soccer team has an amazing goal keeper, like one of the best in the world. AKB got injured during the semi-finals of the Concacaf W Cup this past week. I’m hopinh she’s back on the pitch soon and has a speedy recovery. She’s only allowed 5 goals in regular season play so far - lowest of any team, thanks to her and our awesome defense. We have a podcast episode coming out this week all about Gotham FC and we dig into AKB’s skills more there. Here’s one of her many highlights as a teaser…
What to watch this week
Monday 5/25
🏀 The Liberty play the Portland Fire at home at 8:00 pm ET. Watch it on Prime Video.semifinal at 7:30 pm ET. Watch it on Peacock or Fox 5 NY.
Wednesday 5/27
🏀 The Liberty play the Phoenix Mercury at home at 7:00 pm ET. Watch it the USA Network or local My9.
Friday 5/29
🏀 The Liberty play the Phoenix Mercury at home at 7:30 pm ET. Watch it on Ion.
Sunday 5/31
🏉 NY Exiles play the Denver Onyx at home 2:00 pm ET. Watch it on the Women’s Sports Network.
⚽ Gotham FC plays the Houston Dash at home at 3:00 pm ET. Watch it on ESPN or Fubo.
The Scene Report
Here’s some fun stuff going on in the NYC W sports scene.
Wilka’s — NYC’s women’s sports bar in the LES — shared it’s next quarterly rager, happening on June 5th. I’m famously 27 so I legally cannot go but I hope all the millennials have fun.
Athena Keke’s — our women’s sports bar in Clinton Hill — is linking up with The Gist to host a pride pop-up on June 7th.
And that’s a wrap.
Thanks as always for reading. Pod episode coming Thursday on Gotham FC :) Love you bye.