Steve Voght
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Soccer, science, Seattle. I do stuff in the background to improve immunology research and for Sounder at Heart.
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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An expert panel without a single Black voice on it? I knew y'all thought we weren't smart. I didn't think you'd be so blatant. I didn't even see CAF representation despite having CAF players listed. Before you get mad at me for pointing it out, look within.
The ESPN FC top 50 is here and we need to talk about the sudden conflict of interest the league has created with the high-impact player rule.
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
An expert panel without a single Black voice on it? I knew y'all thought we weren't smart. I didn't think you'd be so blatant. I didn't even see CAF representation despite having CAF players listed. Before you get mad at me for pointing it out, look within.
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The NWSL announced a new “High Impact Player” roster mechanism yesterday which was immediately met with a lot of criticism and questions about its legality. We break down what the rule is intended to accomplish and some of the issues surrounding it. www.sounderatheart.com/2025/12/nwsl...
NWSL creates new "High Impact Player" rule
The new rule allows clubs to exceed the league’s established salary cap by up to $1 million for eligible players.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The NWSL announced a new “High Impact Player” roster mechanism yesterday which was immediately met with a lot of criticism and questions about its legality. We break down what the rule is intended to accomplish and some of the issues surrounding it. www.sounderatheart.com/2025/12/nwsl...
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The ESPN FC top 50 is here and we need to talk about the sudden conflict of interest the league has created with the high-impact player rule.
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The ESPN FC top 50 is here and we need to talk about the sudden conflict of interest the league has created with the high-impact player rule.
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Now that this is clarified it turns out Claudia Dickey does qualify as a High Impact Player, pretty much singlehandedly due to PTJ suffering an orbital fracture and missing the final international window this year
OK, so the league clarified that it's the Top 11 in *either* 2024 or 2025. Here's the list. Players highlighted in yellow qualify for HIP.
Even with this clarification, you've created a situation where Michelle Cooper was just 21 minutes from being eligible for a massive contract.
Even with this clarification, you've created a situation where Michelle Cooper was just 21 minutes from being eligible for a massive contract.
December 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Now that this is clarified it turns out Claudia Dickey does qualify as a High Impact Player, pretty much singlehandedly due to PTJ suffering an orbital fracture and missing the final international window this year
Was Landon Donovan not interested?
BREAKING: The Kansas City Current are finalizing a deal to hire Chris Armas as head coach, sources tell ESPN. Armas most recently coached MLS' Colorado Rapids. KC Current won the #NWSL Shield in 2025.
Story with @jeffreycarlisle.bsky.social:
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Story with @jeffreycarlisle.bsky.social:
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Sources: Current to hire Armas as new head coach
The Kansas City Current have agreed to terms to hire Chris Armas as the team's new head coach, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.
www.espn.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Was Landon Donovan not interested?
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...
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This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.
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Comparing #NWSL points between 2024 and 2025. Seattle Reign and San Diego Wave saw the biggest improvements while Orlando and Gotham fell the furthest
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Comparing #NWSL points between 2024 and 2025. Seattle Reign and San Diego Wave saw the biggest improvements while Orlando and Gotham fell the furthest
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a year after the #NWSL ditched the college draft, it officially unveiled the replacement — the combine
I spent a few days in Florida getting a behind-the-scenes look at the league’s new incubator for playing (and coaching) talent
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
I spent a few days in Florida getting a behind-the-scenes look at the league’s new incubator for playing (and coaching) talent
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
Inside the NWSL's first combine: Can the league create a more robust pathway for American talent development?
The NWSL hosted its first-ever combine in Bradenton, Fla. in December, which acted as a showcase for college players that hope to turn professional and serves as a solution after the league eliminated...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
a year after the #NWSL ditched the college draft, it officially unveiled the replacement — the combine
I spent a few days in Florida getting a behind-the-scenes look at the league’s new incubator for playing (and coaching) talent
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
I spent a few days in Florida getting a behind-the-scenes look at the league’s new incubator for playing (and coaching) talent
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
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"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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#OTD 2012 – Seattle's charter NWSL team will be named Reign FC, paying homage to city's first professional women's team, Seattle Reign of the American Basketball League, which folded in 1998.
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#OTD 2012 – Seattle's charter NWSL team will be named Reign FC, paying homage to city's first professional women's team, Seattle Reign of the American Basketball League, which folded in 1998.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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YUP. If there's any one thing that's true across sports -- all of them! -- is that there is a major officiating shortage, and a complete lack of accountability from coaches, players and fans on how their treatment of officials has helped create this shortage.
every fan in every sport seems to believe the league they watch most closely has uniquely bad referees who are worse than they were at some unspecified point in the past
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
YUP. If there's any one thing that's true across sports -- all of them! -- is that there is a major officiating shortage, and a complete lack of accountability from coaches, players and fans on how their treatment of officials has helped create this shortage.
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Raising the cap has always been the simplest solution. The owners will absolutely fight it because if you do it once, you'll be asked to keep doing it, but it's absolutely the right call.
BREAKING: The NWSLPA opposes the #NWSL's proposed "High Impact Player" rule. PA exec. dir. Meghann Burke tells @espn.com that the NWSL is controlling and interfering with which players can access a certain pot of funds. The PA's proposal is to raise the cap by $1M, the proposed "HIP" amount. MORE:
NWSLPA opposes cap plan for stars like Rodman
The NWSLPA has expressed opposition to an NWSL proposal to create a new rule to pay star players outside of the cap, further clouding the league's next steps in competing with top European clubs for e...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Raising the cap has always been the simplest solution. The owners will absolutely fight it because if you do it once, you'll be asked to keep doing it, but it's absolutely the right call.
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I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
"Without checks and balances, [social media companies] have become a little bit tyrannical, very arrogant, and completely dismissive of their impact on our society."
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December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
Did I miss the return of the Western Interior Seaway?
From coast to coast 🛫
University of Washington defender Kolo Suliafu signs a one-year contract with the KC Current.
University of Washington defender Kolo Suliafu signs a one-year contract with the KC Current.
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Did I miss the return of the Western Interior Seaway?
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
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Imagine confessing you let a car’s OS turn you into a toddler.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Imagine confessing you let a car’s OS turn you into a toddler.
Send it back for rewrites, we just did this story line
Hydrologic Outlook issued December 12 at 5:27PM PST by NWS Seattle WA
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
December 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Send it back for rewrites, we just did this story line
Hey Reign and Sounders fans, its time to vote on the annual @sounderatheart.com end-of-year awards for both teams. If you only follow one club or the other you don’t need to vote in all categories. Who were your top performers and moments from 2025? forms.gle/Fgt4RbwMWLev...
2025 Sounder at Heart annual awards
Who were your best from Sounders, Reign and Defiance in the last calendar year?
forms.gle
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hey Reign and Sounders fans, its time to vote on the annual @sounderatheart.com end-of-year awards for both teams. If you only follow one club or the other you don’t need to vote in all categories. Who were your top performers and moments from 2025? forms.gle/Fgt4RbwMWLev...
We've brought Targeted Allocation Money to the NWSL
SOURCES: The #NWSL board has voted to approve a new star player fund—internally called "High Impact Player"—to allow teams to spend up to $1M over the cap with a much smaller cap hit for players who meet criteria.
Crucially: A change affecting the cap requires NWSLPA consultation. On @espn.com:
Crucially: A change affecting the cap requires NWSLPA consultation. On @espn.com:
Sources: NWSL 'star' salaries tied to player profile
The NWSL's Board of Governors has approved a new roster mechanism to pay select star players above and beyond the current salary cap, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN.
www.espn.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
We've brought Targeted Allocation Money to the NWSL