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We made it to Thursday. Tonight starts a pretty busy international window for players from the Spirit and D.C. Power. Between the two, they have 14 players out on international duty. Tara McKeown an Rebecca Bernal get things started tonight. The US will take on Portugal in Chester an Mexico face New Zealand in Mexico. Yesterday was a pretty busy news day so let's get to it.

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Heya, welcome to hump day! A lot of links today, enjoy most of them! On to the news: It's playoff time for the Washington Spirit — and tickets go fast- Axios Axios ain't wrong, time to pounce on playoff tickets while the pouncing is good. My dad is coming down from PA for the quarterfinal, so I'll be in attendance with him for that match.

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