Attacking Third: A CBS Sports Women's Soccer Podcast

Attacking Third is CBS Sports' women's soccer conversation hub, built around the rhythm of matches, previews, recaps, and player stories. It keeps close to the games. Recent excerpts move through USWNT meetings with Japan, NWSL Week 1, playoff-positioning previews, WSL weekends, UWCL predictions, and interviews tied to the women's game. The show is comfortable talking tactics without sounding sealed off from the rest of the soccer day. Lineups matter. So do individual performances, coaching choices, schedule demands, expansion-team excitement, and the mood around a result that still feels unsettled even after a win. The studio style is animated and familiar, with people checking in, joking, reacting to live comments, and slipping from match stakes into locker-room memories or pop-culture references. That looseness is part of the texture. It gives the analysis a social feel, but the conversation keeps returning to what happened on the pitch and what comes next. USWNT coverage in the excerpts centers on Japan, Emma Hayes-era evaluation, Crystal Dunn, and the tension between a result and the performance behind it. NWSL coverage stretches from opening weekend energy to Denver and Boston previews, San Diego Wave versus Orlando playoff stakes, NC Courage and Racing Louisville, Portland Thorns, Spirit, Gotham, Boston Legacy, Angel City, and Chicago. The show also makes room for interviews, including Ali Riley and Brianna Pinto in the recent episode set. It is not austere. There are jokes about sweaters, halftime performances, travel, weddings, nerves, and the sheer difficulty of keeping up with a full slate. Still, the soccer remains the spine. Attacking Third suits a listener who wants women's soccer treated as an everyday beat: results, context, personalities, and arguments all at once. Its edge is the mix of broadcast polish and group-chat immediacy, where match reaction can share space with player knowledge and on-air chemistry.