something, oehe was there. i will tell you a quick story. i do not like soccer and i was very curmudgeonly about that at sports illustrated to the point where they put me in a mini van and sent me up and down the coast to watch soccer matches to try to turn me into a soccer fan. grant would spend hours at a time in the office, sometimes out at bars near the office educating me on the game and showing me why this was the beautiful game and this deserved more attention from grumpy american fans like me. i don t think either one of us ever turned the other towards their opinion, but i ll always remember those conversations with grant for the rest of my life. i ve known some hard headed sports journalists over the years. what an effort on grant s part to try to convert you. he was also a prominent voice for women s soccer. beyond his work as a journalist, what kind of impact do you think
team is under tremendous pressure and in an awkward and unique position. talk to us about that. we heard we saw what happened during the anthem playing in game one. no one sang. and then by your own reporting, which is remarkable, the threats that were levied on the players from the revolutionary. if you go back on your dvr and watch the playing of the anthem during before game two for the iranians, this is a horrible use of the word, but it is almost applicable, they look like hostages. some of them are barely moving their lips, and mouthing it. they are bearing so much pressure here. on top of the spectators as well. reporting from the athletic, saying there are iranian spotters, tracking the iranian women who are in doha because women cannot legally attend soccer matches in iran. i don t know that any group of players in recent memory have carried more pressure on their shoulders for off field than the iranian and to me, the question is if iran do today eliminate the united
they had to go to school when it was time to go to school. we never let them take time off to go to a special event or to travel. we geared that stuff around their school schedules, making sure they could drive a car and knew how to make their beds and, you know, were on teams and participated in soccer matches. and that meant that we had to normalise ourselves as parents in the community, so that us showing up for parent teacher night or a soccer game or potluck wasn t a big to do. so it was a mighty bit of work keeping our kids on a normal track. but i can say what helped a lot was having marian robinson, grandmother in chief, on our side through the process. how did the security services react when one of the children backchatted the president of the united states? well, fortunately, the secret service was not allowed
that meant that, you know, they had to go to school when it was time to go to school. we never let them take time off to go to a special event or to travel. we geared that stuff around their school schedules, making sure they could drive a car and knew how to make their beds and, you know, were on teams and participated in soccer matches. and that meant that we had to normalise ourselves as parents in the community, so that us showing up for parent teacher night or a soccer game or potluck wasn t a big to do. so it was a mighty bit of work keeping our kids on a normal track. but i can say what helped a lot was having marian robinson, grandmother in chief, on our side through the process. how did the security services react when one of the children backchatted
more than ever before, and help them live with a small level of normality. did you succeed, do you think? you know, i d like to say that now that they are young women in the world, still becoming who they re going to be, i am so proud of the individuals that they ve become. and, yes, we fought to make their lives normal in a very abnormal situation. and we did that byjust pushing them towards normalcy, really just systematically making sure that they didn t connect their lives to what we were doing. that meant that, you know, they had to go to school when it was time to go to school. we never let them take time off to go to a special event or to travel. we geared that stuff around their school schedules, making sure they could drive a car and knew how to make their beds and, you know, were on teams and participated in soccer matches.