Alex Morgan becomes a minority stakeholder in her former NWSL club, the San Diego Wave
Alex Morgan has joined the investor group for the San Diego Wave, the National Women's Soccer League team she played for before retiring from professional soccer.
The Wave announced Tuesday that the two-time Women's World Cup winner has rejoined the club as a minority stakeholder.
'San Diego is where I've built my home, where I am raising my children, and found a purpose beyond my playing career,' Morgan said in a statement. 'I believed in Wave FC before a single match was played, and I still believe this Club has the power to change the future of women's sports.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
17 minutes ago
- Yahoo
NFL Fans React to Breaking Nick Chubb News
NFL Fans React to Breaking Nick Chubb News originally appeared on Athlon Sports. In the early part of his career, Nick Chubb established himself as one of the most powerful, consistent running backs in the NFL. After rushing for 6,341 yards while scoring 48 rushing touchdowns through his first five seasons of his career, injuries proceeded to take over. Advertisement Chubb, now 29 years old, has missed 24 total games in his past two seasons due to multiple injuries. Since 2023, Chubb has missed time due to a torn ACL, MCL, and a broken foot. The once dominant Cleveland Browns RB, has reportedly found a new home for the impending NFL season. According to multiple sources, Chubb, pending a physical, will sign with the Houston Texans ahead of the 2025-26 NFL season. Chubb will join Joe Mixon in the backfield, adding to an already talented roster that consists of Nico Collins, Christian Kirk, and Dalton Schultz. The instant the news broke of Chubb's potential new deal, NFL fans rushed to social media to post their reactions. Advertisement "Bro is still dangerous," @SleeperHQ posted on X. Another user on X, is more concerned on the impact this has on Chubb's former team, "Browns are fully cooked." @BetMGM posted a throwback to a dominant touchdown run by Chubb back in 2019. Another user on X appears to think this is a major upgrade to the Texans backfield, giving them a strong one-two punch, "Chubb and Mixon is a nasty duo. Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb© Jeff Lange / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The deal is pending a physical that will reportedly take place on Monday. Chubb's 2024-25 NFL season ended after just eight games due to a broken left foot. If all goes well with Chubb's physical and rehabilitation, Chubb could make his Texans debut early on in the 2025-26 NFL season. Advertisement Related: Cleveland Browns Make Official Decision on Star Running Back Nick Chubb This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
New York Times
23 minutes ago
- New York Times
Braves takeaways: After 14th loss in 17 games, manager and players still searching for answers
SAN FRANCISCO — If anyone was surprised to see the Atlanta Braves lose 4-3 Sunday to the San Francisco Giants, apparently they haven't been watching the Braves play. Because lately, that's what the Braves do: They lose, usually by one run. They have lost 14 of 17 games, their worst stretch since a 3-14 skid April 21-May 10, 2016. That was the week before Fredi González was fired and replaced by current manager Brian Snitker, who has helped develop a winning culture in Atlanta over the past seven years but is struggling mightily with this underperforming team and its flawed roster. Advertisement The Braves have a seven-game losing streak, matching the 0-7 skid they had to begin the season, the first time they've had multiple skids that long in a season since 2016. They are 10 games under .500 (27-37) for the first time since finishing 72-90 in 2017, the year before their current streak of seven postseason appearances began. Oh, it's bad. 'I'm a little lost for words, explanations on what it is to get us going right now,' said third baseman Austin Riley, who then described the mood of the team. 'It's a lot of disappointment and some self-reflection. You know, just trying to evaluate ourselves and what we can do to be better. A lot of guys that are in here have been a part of that (postseason streak) and know how to win. And it's just not happening right now.' They've been swept in consecutive series by Arizona at home and San Francisco on the road, and the Braves already have been swept as many times (five) as all of 2024. Their postseason streak is in peril, to say the least. The fourth-place Braves are 14 games behind the East-leading New York Mets and have the NL's fourth-worst record. The proud Braves, a gold-standard franchise, are 2 1/2 games ahead of the last-place and perpetually rebuilding Florida Marlins. 'I've always (believed) that tomorrow could be the start of something big,' Snitker said. 'I know it's sappy or whatever sometimes maybe, but there is still time. But we've got to start playing better. We haven't played our best baseball, we haven't put a total game together. 'We need to start doing that. Because some of these other teams are not gonna wait around for us, that's for sure. We gotta start making our own luck, and we gotta start making things happen and forcing the issue during the games. Everything, all that.' The Braves have been outscored by just eight runs during the 3-14 skid, which includes eight one-run losses. They have lost each of their past five by one run, and for the season they are 9-19 in one-run games and 13-26 in games decided by one or two runs. Advertisement 'We're right there in all these games against everybody we play,' Snitker said. 'I mean, we're right there. We're a hit away, a pitch away. Just the little things in baseball that produces winning baseball, we're not doing. But we're right there. Again, that doesn't get it, being right there. It gets it when you're there and make it happen. I still think we're better than what we're playing. But until we are, we aren't, I guess.' Riley said: 'I think when it continues and the same thing happens over and over and again, every day with the one-run games, you start trying to look for answers. And it's just not happening. Like I said, kind of lost for words on what we need to do.' Spencer Strider had his best start Sunday since returning from a year-long rehab for elbow surgery but got another loss after giving up three hits, four runs (three earned) and three walks with five strikeouts in six innings. He's 0-5 in five starts, the first Braves pitcher to lose five consecutive appearances since Mike Foltynewicz lost seven straight in 2017. 'I don't think that the outcome really changes the fact that we need to get better, whether we're losing by a hundred or one,' Strider said. 'And that's me more so than anybody. There's two types of games, wins and losses. Doesn't matter how they look.' Does Strider think the Braves can get rolling soon and take some momentum into July? 'I guess we're going to have to answer that,' he said. 'I think at this point everybody, and myself more so than anyone, just needs to be brutally honest and try to find as many ways as we can to get better, focus on the little things and just give ourselves a chance. I think it's unrealistic to expect to show up one day or have an inning or have an at-bat or whatever that you feel or see some enormous change. That's not how it works, good or bad. Advertisement 'That process takes time. You hope that if you put in the work, and like I said, you're honest and deliberate, purposeful consistently, that one day you'll look up and realize, oh, we've made an improvement. So, I think we've got to commit to doing that, and it's tough.' A potent offense could go a long way in covering up the Braves' lack of bullpen depth. This is not a potent offense. The Braves were trying to snap a losing streak and avoid getting swept again Sunday, and they ran out a lineup that included four hitters batting below .240, each with an OPS of .650 or lower: Ozzie Albies, Michael Harris II, Nick Allen and Eli White, who is half of a left-field platoon with an underwhelming other half, Alex Verdugo. Yes, poor situational hitting is a big reason the Braves are not a good offensive team, but so is poor overall hitting. When nearly half of the lineup is producing stats that awful more than two months into the season, that's hard to overcome. As Snitker said, the Braves have no margin for error with the way they're hitting. The thing is, two of those hitters, Harris (.237 average, .608 OPS) and Albies (.232, .650), are among the core players the Braves signed to long-term extensions with the anticipation they would be All-Star-caliber players annually through their peak years. They are far from All-Stars right now. Harris and Albies are among just 27 major-league qualifiers with .650 or lower OPS, with Harris having the 13th lowest. If Allen, who shared time at the beginning of the season with Orlando Arcia, had 14 more plate appearances to qualify, Allen's .575 OPS would be seventh lowest in the majors. That'd make it one-third of the lineup ranking in the bottom 30 of baseball in OPS, and the combined stats of the left-field tandem are right there with them. Advertisement The Harris and Albies situations are especially problematic because both are in what should be the prime of their careers; in Harris' case, barely entering the prime. He's a fourth-year major leaguer, only 24. And while the center fielder's defense remains elite, Harris has regressed annually at the plate. Meanwhile, Albies is 28 and should be squarely in his prime but instead plays like he's on the downside. Regardless of the on-base streak he extended to 23 games with a bloop single in the ninth inning Sunday, Albies has been a major disappointment and doesn't provide the serious switch-hitting power threat he did in the past. Perhaps multiple injuries for Albies over the years have taken a toll, but for whatever reason he's regressed to a below-average defender — his two-out error let in the go-ahead run in the fourth inning Sunday — with a poor throwing arm, and he's a mediocre base runner. This in addition to being a shadow of the hitter he was as recently as 2023, when he got MVP votes, made his third All-Star team and hit .280 with career highs of 33 homers, 109 RBIs and 126 OPS+. White and Allen were supposed to be bench players but have regular roles because Jurickson Profar, the Braves' only significant offseason addition, was slapped with an 80-game PED suspension after the first series of the season and because Arcia continued his anemic hitting this spring and early season, as he has since the 2023 All-Star break. The Braves should have addressed shortstop in the offseason — they also should've added a setup reliever — but continued to act as if they expected Arcia to be the hitter he was for a couple of months early in 2023 instead of the bad hitter he's been for most of his career. And they shouldn't have made their only offseason hitter acquisition a player who raised eyebrows — and perhaps should've raised red flags — by having far and away his best offensive season at age 31, when Profar hit a career-high 24 homers and posted a 134 OPS+ after never having one higher than 115 previously. The Braves were 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position Sunday and 3-for-22 in the series, and for the season they rank 16th in the majors with a .247 average in RISP situations and 22nd with a .696 OPS in those spots. Advertisement In the late innings of close games, the Braves' .199 average ranks 25th in the majors and their .606 OPS is 24th. They now rank in the bottom half of baseball in most offensive categories regardless of situations, including tied for 18th in average (.242), tied for 14th in home runs (68), tied for 21st in runs (259), 20th in slugging percentage (.383) and 18th in OPS (.694). This is just two seasons after the Braves tied an MLB single-season record with 307 homers and became the first team in history to slug .500 or better (.501). 'Guys (on the team) believe that it's going to happen,' Riley said. 'And I do, I really do. You know, guys prepare, guys come in every day. We're doing our homework on pitchers. It's just those key hits. Typically, you get a couple key hits in a game that can change it, and we're just not doing that right now.' (Top photo of Ozzie Albies out on a throw from Landen Roupp to Dominic Smith: D. Ross Cameron / Imagn Images)
CNN
30 minutes ago
- CNN
Tanks arrive in DC ahead of US Army parade
Tanks arrive in DC ahead of US Army parade As the 250th anniversary celebration for the US Army approaches, a freight train of tanks was seen making its way into the nation's capital. The long-planned celebration in Washington will coincide with Trump's 79th birthday and include thousands of troops. The Army had said it has no plans to recognize the president's birthday. 00:40 - Source: CNN Why China doesn't need the US auto market If there is one thing to be learned from Auto Shanghai - China's largest automobile show - it's that China has dozens of car brands that can rival Western ones. BYD surpassed Tesla's profits, but other EVs like those made by Zeekr, Xiaomi and Chery are quickly joining the race. CNN's Marc Stewart took a rare test drive of Zeekr's new 7GT. 00:44 - Source: CNN Analysis: Trump is in a crisis of his own making Trump tells President Vladimir Putin to stop after Russia launched its deadliest wave of attacks on Kyiv in nine months. This comes days after Trump said the US would walk out on efforts to make a peace deal in Ukraine if it didn't see progress. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh breaks down the latest. 01:03 - Source: CNN Russia launches strikes across Ukraine Russia launched waves of drones and ballistic missiles at multiple targets across a broad swath of Ukraine overnight killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv and wounding around 40 across the country. 00:32 - Source: CNN German leader on 'terrible' impact of Trump's tariffs In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talks about the impact President Trump's tariffs are having on the auto industry. 01:13 - Source: CNN Greta Thunberg sails to Gaza Greta Thunberg has set sail with eleven other activists to Gaza. The activist group they're part of, The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, is attempting to bring aid and raise international awareness over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the territory. 00:59 - Source: CNN Record rain floods Mexico City, traps people Mexico City was hit with record rainfall that didn't relent for more than five hours Monday night, marking the heaviest rain since 2017, according to water management officials. CNN's Valeria León walks a flooded avenue of the nation's capital after emergency crews worked through the night to rescue several trapped drivers. 00:43 - Source: CNN Gaza aid distribution turns deadly for third consecutive day For a third consecutive day, Palestinians came under fire while trying to receive aid from a distribution site in Gaza. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Nasser hospital, at least 27 people were killed and dozens injured on June 3. 00:56 - Source: CNN Analysis: Why Ukraine's drone attack on Russia just changed the world CNN's Jim Sciutto explains why Ukraine's large-scale drone attack on Russian air bases thousands of miles behind the front lines struck fear into the heart of every global superpower 01:05 - Source: CNN Tomatoes fly at Colombia's largest food fight Around 20,000 revellers gathered in Sutamarchán, Colombia, to throw over 45 tonnes of tomatoes at each other. The Gran Tomatina festival, now in its 15th year, is hosted to celebrate the economy of Sutamarchán, which is centred around tomato production. Mayor Miguel Andrés Rodríguez said "between 70 and 80 percent of families [in Sutamarchán] live off tomatoes. This is a tribute to them." The festival uses tomatoes which are overripe, or otherwise not suitable for consumption. 00:30 - Source: CNN Palestinians shot dead near Gaza aid hub The Palestinian health ministry, hospital officials and multiple eyewitnesses say deadly gunfire killed dozens of Palestinians near an aid distribution site in Gaza on Sunday, with Israel's military denying that its troops fired 'within or near' the aid site. CNN Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond brings you up to speed on what we know about the weekend chaos. 02:31 - Source: CNN Palestinians describe deadly shooting near aid center in Gaza CNN spoke to multiple witnesses who recounted the deadly chaos that unfolded near a US-backed aid center in southern Gaza after more than 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured on Sunday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The health ministry blamed the Israeli military for the deaths while other witnesses claimed that local security personnel had also opened fire. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the aid center, said there had been no gunfire at the site and Israel Defense Forces denied firing on civilians at or close to the site, calling such accusations 'false reports.' 00:55 - Source: CNN Palestinian UN envoy breaks down talking about Gaza's children The Palestinian ambassador to the UN made an emotional address, saying more than 1,300 children have been killed in Gaza since Israel ended the ceasefire in March. 01:19 - Source: CNN Political candidate wears body armor daily CNN's David Culver met César Gutiérrez Priego as he was readying to campaign for office in Mexico City. Gutiérrez Priego, who is running for a seat on the Supreme Court in Mexico, shows Culver the safety precautions he takes with political violence in Mexico at an all-time high. See Culver's full reporting on CNN. 00:53 - Source: CNN Harvard students and faculty speak out against Trump Harvard students and faculty spoke to CNN ahead of commencement as Donald Trump said the university should cap foreign enrollment. The Trump administration has recently sought to cancel $100 million in contracts with the school. 02:03 - Source: CNN Palestinians desperate for food rush US-backed aid site Scores of people rushed over fencing and through barricades in southern Gaza on the first day a US-Israeli-backed aid site was opened. CNN's Jeremy Diamond explains the desperate humanitarian situation that remains in the region. 01:22 - Source: CNN Journalists spit on at Jerusalem Day flag march Ultra-nationalist Israeli Jews chanted anti-Arab slogans as they marched through Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day. CNN's Oren Liebermann describes heavy police presence on the ground. Members of the crowd were seen spitting on journalists, including a CNN producer. 01:50 - Source: CNN Finland's president responds to Russian military activity along border CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Finland's President Alexander Stubb about his country ramping up its military to deter potential Russian aggression. 02:16 - Source: CNN King Charles stresses Canada's 'self determination' amid pressure from US King Charles III delivered the ceremonial Speech from the Throne in the Canadian Senate. The address marks only the second time in Canadian history that the reigning sovereign has opened parliament, and the third time that the British monarch has delivered the address. 00:42 - Source: CNN Huge ship refloated after nearly crashing into house A larger container ship has been refloated after nearly crashing into a house in Norway. According to local police, the navigator had fallen asleep at the helm. 00:42 - Source: CNN Vehicle plows into crowd in Liverpool Police in the United Kingdom say a man has been arrested after a car plowed into Liverpool fans celebrating during the soccer club's Premier League trophy parade. 01:14 - Source: CNN
