evidence: Was Megan Rapinoe, a renowned U.S. women's soccer player, fired from the Seattle "OL Reign" team and the U.S. Olympic team, and did she also lose a multi-million TV deal as a result of missing a penalty kick during the Women's World Cup series? No, that's not true: Rapinoe only announced finishing her professional career after the U.S. was eliminated from World Cup competition in Australia. The claims about the player being fired either for the performance or for off-field activism and losing a broadcasting "deal" came from a satirical website that describes the entirety of its content as "fiction." [...] Megan Rapinoe Released From Pro Soccer Team OL Reign: 'It's Time She Moves On.' [...] The Dunning-Kruger Times published two more stories (archived here and here) that cited the same source, allegedly saying that Rapinoe was released from "US Olympic Team After World Cup Blunder" and lost a "$25M broadcasting deal":