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What an exciting year ahead. The new National Women\u2019s Soccer League<\/a><\/strong> season is upon us. The 2023 World Cup starts in four months.<\/p>\n The Equalizer<\/em> is the best place to keep up with all the daily news around the NWSL and the United States women\u2019s national team. Our coverage is increasingly global and we will have loads of content around the World Cup, the fourth one that we\u2019ll cover as a collective media outlet. We regularly produce exclusive content, from breaking news via our deep network of sources, to analysis you can\u2019t get anywhere else. Storytelling is at our core, and I feel strongly that we do that as well as anyone in the space.<\/p>\n That might mean bringing you inside the mind of a player, like Bekki Morgan did recently in her interview with Racing Louisville defender Carson Pickett<\/a><\/strong>. Or, it could mean we dive deeper into the player-safety reforms taking place league-wide<\/a><\/strong> and what it means for players, as Jenna Tonelli did earlier this month. It could play out as a blend of exclusive reporting and deeper context you won\u2019t get anywhere else, like my recent stories on the NWSL\u2019s internal dialogue around its calendar problems. You\u2019ll get the long version of how the Utah Royals saved the NWSL, abruptly folded, then were reborn<\/a><\/strong>, plus first access to insight from NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman<\/a><\/strong>. Blair Newman will keep providing exquisite tactical analysis on topics like OL Reign\u2019s defensive shape<\/a><\/strong>, or why Naomi Girma might be the most important player for the United States at the World Cup<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you subscribe to The Equalizer Extra<\/em>, you already know this and hopefully you\u2019ve read those stories among the many we produce regularly and exclusively for subscribers. If you don\u2019t subscribe, we\u2019re currently offering a first year of annual subscription at $23 \u2014 over 60% off our base price \u2014 to invite you to join<\/a><\/strong>. Sign up and you will get our entire season of NWSL coverage, with experts scattered throughout the U.S., plus our best-in-class U.S. women\u2019s national team coverage. We\u2019ll have boots on the ground at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer.<\/p>\n Regardless of which category you fall into, I think it\u2019s important to be transparent about who we are and what we will do, and to get feedback from you all.<\/p>\n We began this journey in 2009 as a small website dedicated to women\u2019s soccer news. For a long time, we aggregated and chased all news because literally nobody else did. The landscape has changed for the better, and basic information is easier to find. Now, we leverage our experience of cumulative decades covering the game at various outlets to bring you context and insight you can\u2019t get elsewhere. That shift began in earnest in 2018, when we moved to a freemium subscription model.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you can afford to subscribe, you help us keep so much of our content free for everyone, including new fans discovering the sport (and yes, you still get the best content exclusively as a subscriber). Plenty of our base-level reporting is free. Subscriptions are the reason we exist as a site of a dozen-plus regular, paid contributors, and they allow us to go out and do the work to bring you these stories. So much of that you never see: phone calls to chase sources and get interviews, research, travel. Sometimes you will see it, like this weekend, when I\u2019ll be in San Diego and Los Angeles on back-to-back nights for NWSL opening weekend, bringing you content from on the ground (with bigger stories to come from the trip in the coming months).<\/p>\n With all that said, and to be explicit, we are not strictly a \u201cnews site.\u201d We cover news and we break a whole lot of it still, but we also aim to bring you the why and how, <\/em>to answer the question: What does this mean?<\/em><\/p>\n So, some housekeeping notes as you follow along with us this season. We will adapt and improve as we always do, so things can certainly change, but here\u2019s the brief version of what you can expect from us.<\/p>\n In short, plenty. NWSL coverage that dives into pressing topics at a league level, teams that are struggling, players that are thriving. Real, independent coverage. Our goal is to vary that in form and make sure we have a national footprint in that coverage. Inherently, some teams will demand more of the conversation than others, but you can expect regular coverage of every team. Again, that isn\u2019t a team \u2018beat\u2019 that updates every piece of news, but it means keeping you informed on the big picture and trends for each team, and providing you with reading material you didn\u2019t know you needed. These will consist of multiple items daily in addition to the regular rotation below. We\u2019re quality over quantity, but we deliver plenty of both.<\/p>\n \u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ll be writing a weekly column that thinks critically about a pressing topic in the women\u2019s game. I\u2019ve covered this league since inception, founded this site 14 years ago, and have covered the past two World Cups on the ground from start to finish. I\u2019ve written for ESPN, SI, NBC, Fox, and managed a newsroom at FourFourTwo (in addition to building this site). I\u2019ll bring you real-time analysis with that experience as my foundation.<\/p>\n
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What that looks like on a guaranteed basis:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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