NWSL record crowd gets what it came for in Thorns' win

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It wasn't the largest crowd ever to watch a professional women's soccer game in this country, but it was the largest crowd that knew what it signed up for. The 25,218 people who filled Providence Park on Sunday afternoon to watch the Portland Thorns play the North Carolina Courage, the largest crowd in NWSL history and second-largest in any of three attempts at a domestic league, weren't there for what women's soccer could be. They weren't there for the potential. They came...

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