Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're still
Speaker 1: reeling over meeting two fifths of Girls five EVA at
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. Shout out Paula Pell and
Speaker 1: Renee Eleise Goldsberry. Speaking of shouting, that's how my voice
Speaker 1: ended up like this birthday Shenanigans. On today's show, producer
Speaker 1: Mische will react to the start of the second half
Speaker 1: of the WNBA season, plus a notable first that we
Speaker 1: should all remember and an NWSL coaching announcement that has
Speaker 1: us asking questions. It's all coming up right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my little orange slices. Here's what you need
Speaker 1: to know today. In the WNBA, the New York Liberty
Speaker 1: clinched a playoff spot with a month left in the
Speaker 1: regular season. In a rematch of last year's WNBA finals,
Speaker 1: the Liberty beat the Aces seventy nine sixty seven on Saturday,
Speaker 1: less than one week after winning Olympic gold. Sabrina and
Speaker 1: Escu led New York with a team high twenty three points,
Speaker 1: while Brianna Stewart added eighteen. We'll have more on that
Speaker 1: game and the other WNBA weekend matchup later in today's show,
Speaker 1: but while we're talking WNBA. Over the weekend, the Connecticut
Speaker 1: Sun announced that its game against the Los Angeles Sparks
Speaker 1: tomorrow night officially sold out. Why is that such a
Speaker 1: big deal, Well, the game is making history as the
Speaker 1: first WNBA game to be held at the storied TD Garden,
Speaker 1: home of the Celtics and the Bruins. The Sun's nineteen
Speaker 1: one and fifty six tickets sold will make for the
Speaker 1: third highest attendance to a WNBA game this season to date,
Speaker 1: and the largest amount of tickets ever sold to a
Speaker 1: Connecticut Sun game in franchise history. In the NWSL, the
Speaker 1: San Diego Wave has appointed former men's national team standout
Speaker 1: Landon Donovan as interim head coach for the remainder of
Speaker 1: this season. Given that all of our brains are a
Speaker 1: little bit fried post Olympics and it's been a while
Speaker 1: since we had a regular season NWSL game. Here's a
Speaker 1: quick refresher on San Diego search for a new coach,
Speaker 1: which began two full months ago. Okay, so Donovan's taking
Speaker 1: over for Paul Buckle. Buckle was serving as interim head
Speaker 1: coach ever since the Wave fired Casey Stony in June.
Speaker 1: If you remember that was a move that shocked fans
Speaker 1: and media because Stoney's firing was at the end of
Speaker 1: a seven week winless street, but her record with the
Speaker 1: team was otherwise strong.
Speaker 2: Just a three year old team, she had been there
Speaker 2: since the start.
Speaker 1: Last year, the Wave won the NWSL Shield, awarded to
Speaker 1: the club with the best regular season record, and Stony
Speaker 1: began this season by leading her side to a Challenge
Speaker 1: Cup win. So looking ahead, Landon Donovan has a lot
Speaker 1: to prove, given that he doesn't have very much coaching
Speaker 1: experience in general, and he has no experience.
Speaker 2: Coaching the women's game.
Speaker 1: From twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, he was the
Speaker 1: head coach and executive vice president of the now defunct
Speaker 1: San Diego Loyal There was a men's team that played
Speaker 1: in the Division two USL Championship League, and the lack
Speaker 1: of experience is probably why his head coach title was
Speaker 1: given an interim label. With a three win seven loss
Speaker 1: six straw record, San Diego's currently sitting tenth out of
Speaker 1: fourteen teams with ten regular season games remaining, land In
Speaker 1: Scott has work cut out for him to cycling. Poland's
Speaker 1: Cassia New Viadoma won the Tour de France FEM on Sunday.
Speaker 1: In an epic finish, New Viadoma took the win over
Speaker 1: defending champ Demivolloring by just four seconds, the closest margin
Speaker 1: in the history of the tour. And to be clear,
Speaker 1: we're not just talking about women's tour history. That record
Speaker 1: includes the men's event too. You remember Kristin Falkner, the
Speaker 1: two time Olympic gold medal ast we've mentioned in previous shows.
Speaker 1: She ended up finishing thirty eighth in the final standings,
Speaker 1: the best American rider in the race. This year, in golf,
Speaker 1: American Lauren Coughlin won the Scottish Open on Sunday. That's
Speaker 1: her second LPGA title of this summer and with the win,
Speaker 1: she secured herself a spot on the US team for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Solheim Cup coming up in September. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't follow golf super closely, the Solheim Cup
Speaker 1: is a biennial women's golf tournament between the US and Europe.
Speaker 1: Europe enters this year's tournament, which will be in Gainesville,
Speaker 1: Virginia as the three time defending champion.
Speaker 2: Finally, in Sportsmanship News.
Speaker 1: Soccer legend Marta Fresh off and Olympic silver medal just
Speaker 1: got engaged to Orlando Pride teammate Kerrie Lawrence. No word
Speaker 1: yet on whether the engagement ring is silver or gold.
Speaker 1: Congrats to the happy couple. Okay, we're going to talk
Speaker 1: WNBA hoops in a minute, but first a few numbers
Speaker 1: from Olympic basketball that had us saying WTF, which means
Speaker 1: it's time for another what the fact?
Speaker 2: So check this out.
Speaker 1: Per Australian basketball coach Liz Mills at coach Underscore Liz
Speaker 1: Mills on Twitter, of the eighty one basketball coaches across
Speaker 1: the twenty four teams at the Paris Olympics, only twenty
Speaker 1: two point two percent were women. There were six female
Speaker 1: head coaches and twelve female assistant coaches in the women's competition.
Speaker 1: There were no female coaches as part of the staff
Speaker 1: for any of the men's teams.
Speaker 2: And this isn't just a basketball or Olympic thing.
Speaker 1: We took a look at college sports numbers and in
Speaker 1: the US, the percentage of women coaches is lower in
Speaker 1: college sports today than it was when Title nine was
Speaker 1: enacted in nineteen seventy two. So prior to Title nine's passing,
Speaker 1: more than ninety percent of women's collegiate sports teams were
Speaker 1: coached by women, but post nineteen seventy two and Title nine,
Speaker 1: as prestige, revenue and coaching salaries went up, men started
Speaker 1: to apply for and.
Speaker 2: Get the jobs.
Speaker 1: Over fifty years later, for all three nc DOUBLEA divisions,
Speaker 1: the number of women head coaches of women's teams has
Speaker 1: decreased to forty one percent, and the percentages decreased drastically
Speaker 1: when gender intersects with race. For example, black women coaches
Speaker 1: account for just four percent of all women's team coaches
Speaker 1: across all three divisions, so while men are coaching a
Speaker 1: majority of women's teams, women make up just six percent
Speaker 1: of head coaches across all divisions leading NCABA men's teams,
Speaker 1: and most of those women are in sports like swimming
Speaker 1: and track and field, where it's common for coaches to
Speaker 1: work with both the men's and women's programs. You can
Speaker 1: read about all the gender coaching statistics in Division I
Speaker 1: and the grades given to various schools and conferences in
Speaker 1: the latest college Coaching report Card from the Tucker Center
Speaker 1: for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and We Coach.
Speaker 1: We'll link to it in our notes shout out my
Speaker 1: girl and Nicoleavoy. She does a great job over there
Speaker 1: at the Tucker Center. We're going to take a quick
Speaker 1: break when we come back. Producer mich dishes on the
Speaker 1: return of the WNBA.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, my little Orange slices.
Speaker 1: It's time for a segment I just made up right
Speaker 1: now called Meshe's Minute.
Speaker 2: Although it might be more like ten minutes or so.
Speaker 1: It's been a loaded few days of WNBA action, and
Speaker 1: while I was participating in those aforementioned birthday shan hannigans,
Speaker 1: I know Mesh was glued to the TV for the
Speaker 1: return of the WNBA.
Speaker 2: So we're coming off that.
Speaker 1: Olympic break, and the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics featured
Speaker 1: thirty one current WNBA players. That obviously includes the twelve
Speaker 1: members of Team USA's five on five roster, plus the
Speaker 1: players that suited up for other national teams. They all
Speaker 1: returned stateside to join their well rested teammates and tip
Speaker 1: off the WNBA's second half, And in a few games
Speaker 1: since the restart, we've already seen a couple records broken
Speaker 1: by our favorite rookie duo, Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese.
Speaker 2: In a loss.
Speaker 1: On Thursday, Reese officially broke the Sky franchise record for
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds in a single season, previously held by the
Speaker 1: Great Sylvia Fowls. And the Sky still have fourteen more
Speaker 1: games to play this regular season, so Reese will be
Speaker 1: adding to it. And on Sunday, Kitlyn Clark broke t
Speaker 1: Cha Pennicero's record and is now first in all time
Speaker 1: rookie assists. And we know she's going to continue to
Speaker 1: add to that number because the Fever have twelve regular
Speaker 1: season games remaining. Okay, so I need your expertise, Niche.
Speaker 1: I know you were glued to these games. It was
Speaker 1: a super quick turnaround from the Olympic break back to
Speaker 1: the W season.
Speaker 2: Has it always been like that? Has it always been
Speaker 2: so quick?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Actually yeah since oh for every Olympic year, the W
Speaker 4: makes space for the Olympic break and the players have
Speaker 4: to jump right back into competition. So for example, Real
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen gold medal match versus Spain August twentieth, the
Speaker 4: first WNBA game back August Si Tokyo twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: gold medal match VERSU Japan August eighth, first w game
Speaker 4: back August twelfth, So you get what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 4: this isn't new, But you also have to take into
Speaker 4: account this season specifically, this is only the second year
Speaker 4: the w has had a forty game season, so there's
Speaker 4: also that extra wear and tear from even shorter turnarounds
Speaker 4: from the thirty four game season, the twenty eight game season,
Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. So those folks who were in Paris,
Speaker 4: they're going through it as opposed to those folks who
Speaker 4: were at home and joining the comforts of home, resting
Speaker 4: and recuperating all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or tanskin partying on stage with their favorite artists,
Speaker 1: because we saw a couple of those videos during the
Speaker 1: Olympics break too. Let's talk about those Team USA players.
Speaker 1: How are the teams that had a bunch of those
Speaker 1: players faring in their first game back. Does it feel
Speaker 1: like the Olympic workload slowed down some of those stars?
Speaker 4: Short answer, yes, And what I think is coming down
Speaker 4: to is what teams also have.
Speaker 3: Some depth that they can fall back on.
Speaker 4: It's a team sport, right, You got five players out there,
Speaker 4: and some teams had a lot of those those starters
Speaker 4: in the lineup for Team USA.
Speaker 3: But Yeah.
Speaker 4: For me, New York seems to be faring the best,
Speaker 4: which is not necessarily surprising considering they came in to
Speaker 4: the Olympic break as the number one seed, and I
Speaker 4: had a chance to hop on with our good friend
Speaker 4: Erica Laala and they got to get up a podcast
Speaker 4: from New York Liberty Fans this past weekend, and a
Speaker 4: lot of what we talked about was Brianna Stewart, who
Speaker 4: was obviously on Team USA, and Sabrini and Escu just
Speaker 4: looking seamless in terms of their transition back to the
Speaker 4: W And I think that's where we talk about the depth,
Speaker 4: because New York also played a lot of their bench
Speaker 4: players in these last couple of games since the break
Speaker 4: has ended, and for me, Sab looks like she's playing.
Speaker 3: A lot freer.
Speaker 4: We heard Sue Bird talk about Team USA basketball being
Speaker 4: uncomfortable if you're not a star.
Speaker 3: That was kind of the position Sab was in.
Speaker 4: But New York feels like she came back home and
Speaker 4: she's ready to settle back in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there's also, you know, whatever closeness they
Speaker 1: already had. Those players that go back to their teams
Speaker 1: were playing together in Paris and continuing to grow as
Speaker 1: sort of teammates even in a different situation, so they
Speaker 1: might actually benefit in some ways from a slightly different
Speaker 1: look at how they play with other players on the court,
Speaker 1: and then returning back to their w teams being able
Speaker 1: to use some of that information just to inform them.
Speaker 1: It felt like I watched the Fever Phoenix game and
Speaker 1: Phoenix was another team that had a couple Olympic players
Speaker 1: on it, and Brittany grinder In particularly looked a little
Speaker 1: bit slower to me. Diana Tarassi was a little off
Speaker 1: and on, although that's kind of been this season, like
Speaker 1: we've seen her get super hot and then other times
Speaker 1: fall back.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: But what was most notable to me about that was
Speaker 1: a player who wasn't at the Olympics that looked like
Speaker 1: she was shot out of the cannon in Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 1: I think this is the first like two days in
Speaker 1: a row off she's.
Speaker 2: Had in like a year. Yeah, and girl was on fire.
Speaker 1: The court looked wide open, especially in the first half,
Speaker 1: and she was finding all of her teammates. She was
Speaker 1: hitting deep threes, Like I really am looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing the second half of the season with Caitlyn based
Speaker 1: on what we saw off that first game back, which
Speaker 1: she was like, Okay, I'm rested, y'all better look out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's it's it's the whole team looks that
Speaker 4: way too, right, because they were all in that gym,
Speaker 4: jumped together and kicking their feet up, probably pool side
Speaker 4: at somebody's apartment, and you know that team likes to
Speaker 4: play with pace. They were all looking shot out of
Speaker 4: a cannon. And the way she's distributing and helping throw
Speaker 4: the needle there, I mean, they're gonna ruin somebody's day
Speaker 4: there's gonna they're gonna ruin somebody's day time.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's a great point you made, because it
Speaker 1: obviously wasn't just Caitlin.
Speaker 2: What we saw early in the season.
Speaker 1: This occasionally turnovers, either because she was kind of a
Speaker 1: step ahead and her teammates weren't on the same page,
Speaker 1: or just that they couldn't finish on a pass or
Speaker 1: something that she made. But what I saw was these
Speaker 1: like football passes down the court, you know, sliding it
Speaker 1: between defenders, players being ready in those moments every single time.
Speaker 2: That she fed them.
Speaker 1: And if that team could take advantage of the way
Speaker 1: she sees the floor and Aliah Boston could be eaten
Speaker 1: like she was underneath. They're going to, like you said,
Speaker 1: be ruining some days and be a team to watch
Speaker 1: for the postseason, which I don't think at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, when they still looked pretty rough a
Speaker 1: on the edges, we thought they would be making this
Speaker 1: kind of jump.
Speaker 3: Not at all, not at all.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's also worth noting Melissa Smith, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean. She's another one of those unsung
Speaker 4: heroes who I think pops in to the scoreboard and
Speaker 4: stat leaders at the end of certain weekends, but can't
Speaker 4: forget about her, can't forget about Kelsey Mitch. Kelsey Mitchell
Speaker 4: twenty eight points next to Kaitlin Clark's twenty nine points.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that team's got a lot of weapons.
Speaker 4: It's just whether or not they can connect all the
Speaker 4: pieces to the puzzle before playoff time hits.
Speaker 1: Any other stars from the Olympics that you saw shining.
Speaker 1: I know we talked earlier in the show about how
Speaker 1: the Liberty were able to beat up on the Aces
Speaker 1: because I mean not only players but their coach, you know,
Speaker 1: dealing with everything going on with Dereka Hamby. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on for the Aces right now. Did it
Speaker 1: feel like that was noticeable in the games?
Speaker 3: It did.
Speaker 4: It felt like a lot of the same of what
Speaker 4: we saw in the first half of the season, Asia
Speaker 4: Wilson carrying a lot of that load, and frankly everybody
Speaker 4: else you know, still contributing but not being stars in
Speaker 4: the same way. And because that team, as opposed to
Speaker 4: the New York Liberty, don't have as much depth, you
Speaker 4: got to rely on those four. You got Jackie Young,
Speaker 4: you got Chelsea Gray, you got Asia Wilson, you got
Speaker 4: Kelsey Plump.
Speaker 3: They carry a lot of the load.
Speaker 4: Four starters who also played significant minutes, like not just
Speaker 4: sitting on the bench. And I want to talk about
Speaker 4: call because I know Co's been going off as well,
Speaker 4: hitting almost thirty points in her last two games back.
Speaker 4: But when you've got four players who all carried a
Speaker 4: lot of load internationally on that stage, you know you
Speaker 4: gotta expect this is gonna take a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: But back to Kaw, Yeah, Khalia copper Man, she does
Speaker 1: not look tired at all. Maybe that one game she said, yep, she's.
Speaker 4: Really reaping the benefits of not playing as many minutes
Speaker 4: and she's one of those microwave scorers. Any situation you
Speaker 4: put her in, if you need her to go get
Speaker 4: a bucket, She's gonna go get a bucket. So yeah,
Speaker 4: she's a big, a big piece for the Mercury.
Speaker 1: What about those I mean, the Sky is the team
Speaker 1: that didn't send anybody. It's interesting with the team like that,
Speaker 1: especially that's young, and also that had a big trade
Speaker 1: happen right before the break, Yes to have time together
Speaker 1: and obviously we talked about Angel Reese going off. But
Speaker 1: that's an interesting team too that you know right now
Speaker 1: is sitting in a position to try to push for
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. What do you expect from them with
Speaker 1: the new look post Marina Maybray trade.
Speaker 4: I mean, so, first of all, I don't know if
Speaker 4: we even really dove into that trade. I was shocked
Speaker 4: to hear about that, But they gained from that as well.
Speaker 4: I think Marina Maybury was ready to go and be
Speaker 4: on a ready contender kind of team. As far as
Speaker 4: Chicago goes, I think they're making space for Kennedy Carter
Speaker 4: to keep doing Kennedy Carter things and keep being a
Speaker 4: star and see what she can really do. When you
Speaker 4: give her the reins on a team, I think Angel
Speaker 4: and Camilla are still very much figuring out how they
Speaker 4: can dominate in different ways.
Speaker 3: In the post.
Speaker 4: Camilla had a great game this past weekend, so I
Speaker 4: think she's starting to really get her feet under She
Speaker 4: was in and out of the lineup in the first
Speaker 4: half of the season. But another young team, like you said,
Speaker 4: who just has pieces that they're trying to fit together,
Speaker 4: They're gonna have some more trying times, I anticipate. I
Speaker 4: think Teresa Weatherspoon is the per perfect person to continue.
Speaker 3: To lead that charge. But yeah, they're a wildcard to me.
Speaker 4: They're a team that could either fall off the face
Speaker 4: of the earth in the second half of the season,
Speaker 4: or like Indiana, get back in the swing of things
Speaker 4: and ruin somebody's day.
Speaker 1: As a sky fan, I was grateful for that game
Speaker 1: against the Sparks in the middle of the Mercury sandwich
Speaker 1: because you know, no, no offense to the Sparks, but
Speaker 1: you know, without cam Brink and you know, rebuilding year.
Speaker 1: Let's just say kindly about their six wins so far,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody wants to see that Mercury
Speaker 1: team twice in the first three games back from the break,
Speaker 1: so I was grateful for a.
Speaker 2: Little bit of eating on the on the sparks. Anything
Speaker 2: else about.
Speaker 1: The WNBA from Misha's lengthy minute, Well, I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: now that we're at the second half, the playoffs rider
Speaker 1: around the corner.
Speaker 4: So something to look out for the first round is
Speaker 4: best of three in the top four teams in the
Speaker 4: league get to host that first game in the best
Speaker 4: of three. So you got Connecticut right now, Minnesota, Vegas,
Speaker 4: and Seattle all jockeying for those spots two through four because,
Speaker 4: as we know and talked about earlier in the show,
Speaker 4: the New York Liberty have secured their spot in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So keep an eye on those four teams.
Speaker 4: And again, Indiana, are they gonna have something to say
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 1: We'll see awesome stuff. Mesh, thanks for doing the work while.
Speaker 2: I was doing other things. We got to take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to welcome another member
Speaker 1: into the hallowed halls of the Good Game Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: You're back.
Speaker 1: We're back to and it's time for the latest entry
Speaker 1: into our Good Game Hall of Fame. It's a place
Speaker 1: to remember and honor women's sports lore and history, and
Speaker 1: we're all quite familiar with the recent history and the
Speaker 1: success of our US women's national soccer team. This is
Speaker 1: a squad that has won nine World Championships, five Olympics,
Speaker 1: four Women's World Cups. Meanwhile, the rest of the world
Speaker 1: combined has won just eight major championships. So yeah, US
Speaker 1: women's national team is a truly epic team. But you
Speaker 1: might be surprised to learn that the very first US
Speaker 1: women's national soccer.
Speaker 2: Team game wasn't all that long ago.
Speaker 1: Exactly thirty nine years ago yesterday, that's right, over the weekend,
Speaker 1: on the same day yours truly was celebrating her birthday,
Speaker 1: the US women's national.
Speaker 2: Soccer team celebrated its birthday too.
Speaker 1: On August eighteen, nineteen to eighty five, the US women's
Speaker 1: national team played its first ever match, competing against Italy
Speaker 1: in Yesselo, Italy.
Speaker 2: They lost one nothing.
Speaker 1: Here are a few details from that game via Kaitlin
Speaker 1: Murray's book The National Team. Okay, so back in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five, the first Women's World Cup was still six
Speaker 1: years away and the first women's Olympic tournament was still
Speaker 1: over a decade away. That first US team, coached by
Speaker 1: Mike Ryan, included seventeen players who were selected from a
Speaker 1: national festival held just one week prior. The night before
Speaker 1: flying to Italy, the American players and their athletic trainer
Speaker 1: had to tailor their two large uniforms to fit the players.
Speaker 1: Everything was super big, like probably US Soccer found men's
Speaker 1: uniforms and ironed USA on the front. There weren't even
Speaker 1: any numbers on the back. During their time in Italy,
Speaker 1: that first US women's national team roster went winless, drawing
Speaker 1: one game and losing three others, and the players recalled
Speaker 1: being super surprised by just how good the other nations
Speaker 1: there were, like Italy, England, and Denmark. One of the
Speaker 1: players on that roster, Tucka Heely, recalled to Murray that
Speaker 1: the players were so excited to be there that they
Speaker 1: even cheered on their competition. Here's what Healy said, quote
Speaker 1: while watching the Denmark Italy game, we grabbed an Italian
Speaker 1: flag and rushed to the sidelines, where we let a cheer.
Speaker 1: They were totally shocked that we'd cheer on another team.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: So only two members from that original US women's national
Speaker 1: team roster, Michelle Akers and Lori Henry Ever played for
Speaker 1: the US again. Acres, of course, went on to have
Speaker 1: a legendary national team career, winning two World Cup titles
Speaker 1: and Olympic gold in nineteen ninety six and scoring one
Speaker 1: hundred and seven goals along the way. So Happy team
Speaker 1: birthday to Michelle Acres and the rest of that original squad.
Speaker 1: When we look at the powerhouse team of today, let's
Speaker 1: try to remember that first group that started everything. Happy
Speaker 1: thirty ninth the US women's National Team. My how far
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Speaker 1: Azzi and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett,
Speaker 1: Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan.
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Speaker 1: Our editors are Jenny Kaplan, Emily Rutterer, Britney Martinez and
Speaker 1: Grace Lynch. Production assistants from Lucy Jones and I'm Your
Speaker 1: Host Sarah Spain