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EPISODE #02: Sports Executive Andy Crossley & the WPS Boston Breakers

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Fellow defunct pro sports enthusiast (Fun While It Lasted, Minor League Paper) and former Boston Breakers General Manager Andy Crossley joins Tim Hanlon to discuss his rollicking ride on the Women’s Professional Soccer league roller coaster in the late 2000s, and why the second major attempt at professionalizing the womens game in the US fell apart after just three seasons.  Crossley recounts why Harvards archaic on-campus football stadium became the oddly natural choice for Breakers home games, the moment when he first recognized the WPS business model was doomed, how an Internet telephone entrepreneur’s obsession with the US Women’s National team hastened the league’s demise, and why he doesnt expect any Christmas cards from Hope Solo anytime soon.

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