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It was a glorious National Women’s Soccer League weekend. Until it wasn’t. With six of the seven matches scheduled for national television, it was an exciting three days for the league that is clearly riding a crest of popularity. But on Sunday, when folks tuned in to watch the Seattle Reign host the Portland Thorns on CBS they were greeted by Lilia Vu sticking her tee in the ground to begin a playoff in the LPGA event. And that’s where the trouble began.
As the three players in the playoff hit their tee shots and CBS went to commercial there was no acknowledgment from the booth or via graphic about the impending NWSL match. After the break, a crawl popped up indicating that the soccer match was coming up next and that kickoff would be at 4:11 p.m. ET (the broadcast began at 4:00). It quickly disappeared meaning that you had to stick it out through the commercial and had to have been paying attention at the right moment to have seen it. And anyone who has ever watched golf…
