The world is rightly focused on the coronavirus right now. I’m on Day 7 of my home lockdown here in New York, and I hope all of you are O.K. and doing what you can to hunker down if at all possible, which is what helps your community most.
But I’m also a soccer guy, and I want to talk about the U.S. Soccer Federation, which has been in meltdown. U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro resigned last week after widespread revulsion among fans and sponsors to the federation’s legal strategy in the U.S. women’s national team’s gender-discrimination lawsuit—a strategy that boiled down to arguing women’s players deserve to be paid less than men’s players because women inherently have less skill, ability and responsibility than men.