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"Crazy," "dangerous" or inevitable? The NWSL's commissioner vows to follow the NFL's path to 32 teams. But questions linger, ...
Jessica Berman looked around her suite with delight. The setting—the NWSL championship in November—was one that would have been difficult to imagine when she became commissioner of the league ...
National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman said the league’s new collective bargaining agreement is a major step in becoming “the best league in the world.” Berman ...
Early in her career, Jessica Berman often found herself as the only woman in the room, first at the NHL and later as the deputy commissioner of the National Lacrosse League (NLL). But everything ...
NWSL's Jessica Berman says the league is adopting a tool to monitor and protect players from online abuse. The NWSL was scrutinized for not doing more to protect player Barbra Banda from harassment.
In an interview NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman talks about the league's growth in media rights and ratings, franchise valuation and more.
Berman has worked to transform the culture of the NWSL and to supersize its business at a time when women’s sports are seeing unprecedented growth.
When news broke of the NWSL's application to form a Division II league, the one question that did not need to be answered was why. Commissioner Jessica Berman made it public knowledge over the ...
NWSL's Jessica Berman says the league is adopting a tool to monitor and protect players from online abuse. The NWSL was scrutinized for not doing more to protect player Barbra Banda from harassment.
National Women's Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman said Friday that she thinks the league could grow to be the size of the NFL, which has 32 teams.
NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman envisions having as many franchises as the NFL someday. Here's why she's bullish on growth.
Who is Jessica Berman? Berman, 47, is the current commissioner of the NWSL. She is the third woman to hold the position since the inception of the league in 2012.