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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're still

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Speaker 1: reeling over meeting two fifths of Girls five EVA at

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Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. Shout out Paula Pell and

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Speaker 1: Renee Eleise Goldsberry. Speaking of shouting, that's how my voice

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Speaker 1: ended up like this birthday Shenanigans. On today's show, producer

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Speaker 1: Mische will react to the start of the second half

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Speaker 1: of the WNBA season, plus a notable first that we

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my little orange slices. Here's what you need

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Speaker 1: to know today. In the WNBA, the New York Liberty

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Speaker 1: clinched a playoff spot with a month left in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. In a rematch of last year's WNBA finals,

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Speaker 1: the Liberty beat the Aces seventy nine sixty seven on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: less than one week after winning Olympic gold. Sabrina and

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Speaker 1: Escu led New York with a team high twenty three points,

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Speaker 1: while Brianna Stewart added eighteen. We'll have more on that

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Speaker 1: game and the other WNBA weekend matchup later in today's show,

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Speaker 1: but while we're talking WNBA. Over the weekend, the Connecticut

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Speaker 1: Sun announced that its game against the Los Angeles Sparks

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Speaker 1: tomorrow night officially sold out. Why is that such a

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Speaker 1: big deal, Well, the game is making history as the

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Speaker 1: first WNBA game to be held at the storied TD Garden,

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Speaker 1: home of the Celtics and the Bruins. The Sun's nineteen

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Speaker 1: one and fifty six tickets sold will make for the

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Speaker 1: third highest attendance to a WNBA game this season to date,

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Speaker 1: and the largest amount of tickets ever sold to a

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Speaker 1: Connecticut Sun game in franchise history. In the NWSL, the

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Speaker 1: San Diego Wave has appointed former men's national team standout

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Speaker 1: this season. Given that all of our brains are a

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Speaker 1: little bit fried post Olympics and it's been a while

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Speaker 1: since we had a regular season NWSL game. Here's a

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Speaker 1: quick refresher on San Diego search for a new coach,

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Speaker 1: which began two full months ago. Okay, so Donovan's taking

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Speaker 1: over for Paul Buckle. Buckle was serving as interim head

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Speaker 1: coach ever since the Wave fired Casey Stony in June.

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Speaker 1: If you remember that was a move that shocked fans

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Speaker 1: a seven week winless street, but her record with the

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Speaker 1: team was otherwise strong.

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Speaker 2: Just a three year old team, she had been there

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Speaker 1: Last year, the Wave won the NWSL Shield, awarded to

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Speaker 1: the club with the best regular season record, and Stony

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Speaker 1: to prove, given that he doesn't have very much coaching

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Speaker 2: Coaching the women's game.

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Speaker 1: From twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, he was the

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Speaker 1: San Diego Loyal There was a men's team that played

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Speaker 1: in the Division two USL Championship League, and the lack

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Speaker 1: Scott has work cut out for him to cycling. Poland's

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Speaker 1: Cassia New Viadoma won the Tour de France FEM on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: In an epic finish, New Viadoma took the win over

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Speaker 1: defending champ Demivolloring by just four seconds, the closest margin

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Speaker 1: in the history of the tour. And to be clear,

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Speaker 1: we're not just talking about women's tour history. That record

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Speaker 1: includes the men's event too. You remember Kristin Falkner, the

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Speaker 1: two time Olympic gold medal ast we've mentioned in previous shows.

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Speaker 1: She ended up finishing thirty eighth in the final standings,

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Speaker 1: the best American rider in the race. This year, in golf,

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Speaker 1: American Lauren Coughlin won the Scottish Open on Sunday. That's

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Speaker 1: her second LPGA title of this summer and with the win,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Solheim Cup coming up in September. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you don't follow golf super closely, the Solheim Cup

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Speaker 1: Europe enters this year's tournament, which will be in Gainesville,

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Speaker 1: Virginia as the three time defending champion.

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Speaker 2: Finally, in Sportsmanship News.

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Speaker 1: Soccer legend Marta Fresh off and Olympic silver medal just

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Speaker 1: Congrats to the happy couple. Okay, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: WNBA hoops in a minute, but first a few numbers

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Speaker 1: from Olympic basketball that had us saying WTF, which means

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Speaker 1: it's time for another what the fact?

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Speaker 2: So check this out.

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Speaker 1: Per Australian basketball coach Liz Mills at coach Underscore Liz

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Speaker 1: the twenty four teams at the Paris Olympics, only twenty

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Speaker 1: two point two percent were women. There were six female

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Speaker 2: And this isn't just a basketball or Olympic thing.

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Speaker 1: We took a look at college sports numbers and in

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Speaker 1: when gender intersects with race. For example, black women coaches

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Speaker 1: and most of those women are in sports like swimming

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Speaker 1: work with both the men's and women's programs. You can

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Speaker 1: read about all the gender coaching statistics in Division I

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Speaker 1: the latest college Coaching report Card from the Tucker Center

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Speaker 1: at the Tucker Center. We're going to take a quick

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Speaker 1: return of the WNBA.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, my little Orange slices.

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Speaker 1: It's time for a segment I just made up right

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Speaker 1: now called Meshe's Minute.

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Speaker 2: Although it might be more like ten minutes or so.

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Speaker 1: It's been a loaded few days of WNBA action, and

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Speaker 2: So we're coming off that.

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Speaker 1: Olympic break, and the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics featured

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Speaker 1: thirty one current WNBA players. That obviously includes the twelve

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Speaker 1: off the WNBA's second half, And in a few games

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Speaker 1: since the restart, we've already seen a couple records broken

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Speaker 1: by our favorite rookie duo, Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese.

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Speaker 2: In a loss.

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Speaker 1: On Thursday, Reese officially broke the Sky franchise record for

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Speaker 1: offensive rebounds in a single season, previously held by the

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Speaker 1: Great Sylvia Fowls. And the Sky still have fourteen more

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Speaker 1: adding to it. And on Sunday, Kitlyn Clark broke t

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Speaker 1: Cha Pennicero's record and is now first in all time

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Speaker 1: add to that number because the Fever have twelve regular

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Speaker 1: season games remaining. Okay, so I need your expertise, Niche.

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Speaker 1: I know you were glued to these games. It was

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Speaker 1: a super quick turnaround from the Olympic break back to

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Speaker 2: Has it always been like that? Has it always been

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Speaker 4: It's a team sport, right, You got five players out there,

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Speaker 4: the Olympic break as the number one seed, and I

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Speaker 4: Erica Laala and they got to get up a podcast

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Speaker 4: from New York Liberty Fans this past weekend, and a

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Speaker 4: lot of what we talked about was Brianna Stewart, who

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Speaker 4: because New York also played a lot of their bench

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Speaker 3: A lot freer.

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Speaker 4: We heard Sue Bird talk about Team USA basketball being

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Speaker 4: uncomfortable if you're not a star.

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Speaker 3: That was kind of the position Sab was in.

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Speaker 4: But New York feels like she came back home and

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Speaker 4: she's ready to settle back in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there's also, you know, whatever closeness they

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Speaker 1: already had. Those players that go back to their teams

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Speaker 1: and super annoying part of aging, just remember what a

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Speaker 1: gift it is to get older. There is only one

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Speaker 1: alternative to a birthday, and it's not good. Not everyone

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Speaker 1: every birthday. Be a little extra, do too much, make

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Speaker 2: I know I always do. See how easy that is.

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Speaker 1: Reviewer Jema Sue did it too, they said legacy building.

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Speaker 1: As an elder millennial with Jen Alpha Kids, I grew

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Speaker 1: up begging for coverage of women's sports. The ninety nine

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Speaker 1: Now my daughter doesn't even understand the time when women's

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Speaker 1: sports weren't part of the zeitgeist. Do in part to

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Speaker 1: pods like this one. Love starting every morning with this pod.

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Speaker 1: Although orange slices were my least favorite part of every

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Speaker 1: soccer game I played in as a kid, Okay, Jemasue,

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Speaker 1: we don't love the slice slander, but.

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Speaker 2: We do love the kind words. So thank you all

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Speaker 2: Right now it's your turn slices. Maybe we'll read your

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Speaker 2: review next.

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Speaker 1: Thanks as always for listening, See you tomorrow. Good game, Marta,

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Speaker 1: good game, Carrie. Few vocal cords that react poorly to

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Speaker 1: drinking too much and yelling loudly all weekend. Good game

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Speaker 1: with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 1: partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.

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Speaker 2: You can find us on.

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Speaker 1: The iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Production by Wonder Median at Work, our producers are Alex

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Speaker 1: Azzi and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan.

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Speaker 2: And Emily Rudder.

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Speaker 1: Our editors are Jenny Kaplan, Emily Rutterer, Britney Martinez and

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Speaker 1: Grace Lynch. Production assistants from Lucy Jones and I'm Your

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Speaker 1: Host Sarah Spain