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The World Cup pay gap
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Women got ticker!
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To Europe, game, set and match!
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US women’s soccer players sue over pay gap
NEW YORK — In what could be a turning point for gender pay in women’s sports, five members of the World Cup winning U.S. women’s soccer team announced Thursday that they had filed an official wage...
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Iceland is not Greece
REYKJAVIK — The home of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Iceland’s president since 1996, sits on a surreal, dreamlike peninsula about a 20-minute drive from outside central Reyjkavik. As far as head-of-state...
View ArticleWhat did the big banks know about FIFA?
BROOKLYN — In its 164-page indictment, the Department of Justice paints a picture of FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, as an organization with questionable bank statements, a maze of wire...
View ArticleThe World Cup pay gap
CHICAGO — This is a Great American Sports Town and here it was that I watched the Women’s World Cup, taking place 3,500 kilometers away in Vancouver, Canada. By kickoff Sunday night, hundreds of soccer...
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Women got ticker!
NEW YORK — An hour before the members of the U.S. Women’s World Cup team made their way down Broadway here Friday morning, Shakir Alexander, a nine-year-old fan of the team from Brooklyn, was already...
View ArticleUS lawmakers want equal pay for women from FIFA
NEW YORK — Weeks after the U.S. won the Women’s World Cup, the disparity in pay, publicity and investment between men’s and women’s soccer has prompted action from at least 13 members of Congress. In a...
View Article‘Grexit’ at the U.S. Open
NEW YORK — Under oppressive heat and before a thick crowd, Maria Sakkari picked up her racquet here and said she tried not to pay attention to the throngs of fans back home in Greece rooting for her....
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View ArticleTo Europe, game, set and match!
NEW YORK — Those who took the 7 train to the U.S. Open men’s singles final Sunday were treated to the usual chorus of languages spoken by passengers on the line through the borough of Queens: Chinese,...
View ArticleUS women’s soccer players sue over pay gap
NEW YORK — In what could be a turning point for gender pay in women’s sports, five members of the World Cup winning U.S. women’s soccer team announced Thursday that they had filed an official wage...
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