• “Relentless from Day One:” A Boston Legacy Begins Again with 0-1 loss to NWSL Champion Gotham FC

    Sunday March 15, 2026 By Laura Everett The stories of professional women’s soccer in Boston are stories of starts and restarts, building and rebuilding.  Which is reasonable and consistent, as the inaugural home opener ended with an encouragingly strong Boston team losing to the reigning NWSL Champions Gotham FC 0-1, given that the Legacy has…


  • “And Other Thoughts:” How Local Sports Media Covers a New Pro Women’s Team in Boston

    Media Opinion  “And Other Thoughts:” How Local Sports Media Covers a New Pro Women’s Team in Boston Saturday March 14, 2026 By Laura Everett Before this week, the last time The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy wrote about pro women’s soccer in Boston was July 2022. It was just one sentence, in his regular “and other…


  • One “BOS Nation” Under Scrutiny: Why NWSL Boston Needs to Change Their Name Now

    Thursday November 21, 2024 Op-ed by Laura Everett “BOS Nation” has got to go.  The NWSL Boston team name needed to go before the presidential election, and it definitely needs to go after.  The longer the ownership group waits, the worse the situation gets, squandering any goodwill from its expectant local fan base.  For thoroughly…


  • Olympic Watch Party 7/25

    Boston, we had so much fun throwing a watch party for the USWNT at a Dorchester Vietnamese restaurant for the World Cup, and a Roxbury Dominican spot for the NWSL championship , that we decided to throw an Olympic Watch party this coming Thursday July 25, 2024 starting at 1pm. Plan to join us at…


  • From Escape to Empowerment: Afghan Women Soccer Players Find Refuge in Boston.  

    By Parastou Ashori; Edited by Abbi Holt Photo: Laura Everett; Refugee soccer tournament Foladi and Zafari attended hosted by Soccer Without Borders a charity they have been involved with since arriving whose mission it is to help refugees settle and build community through soccer.   In the midst of turmoil, two young Afghan women, Fatima Foladi…


  • The Case for White Stadium

    By Abbi Holt Edited by Margaret Dalton In all the discourse around the renovation of White Stadium and the pro soccer team that would share the field with the Boston public schools, the perspective I have yet to see is my own, one of a neighbor who is excited about the project. When I first…