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

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Speaker 1: two times through Ariana's Santa Tell Me, three spins in

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Speaker 1: Mariah's All I Want for Christmas, and we already lost

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Speaker 1: count of our listens to Darlene.

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Speaker 2: Love's Baby Please Come Home the Best.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, December second, and on Today Show, we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking to NWSL Rookie of the Year finalist and breakout

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Speaker 2: We sat down with her during.

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Speaker 1: NWSL Championship weekend to talk about going from non roster

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Speaker 1: invitee to starting every match, the mentors who helped her

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Speaker 1: best friend, and her love for MTV's Jersey Shore, plus

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Speaker 1: extending an extension, put your Viv's picks in black and white,

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Speaker 1: and the handshake that wasn't or was it. It's all

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Speaker 1: coming out right after this welcome back slices, here's what

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Speaker 1: you need to know today. Let's start with the WNBA

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Speaker 1: and the late night extension agreed upon by the league

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Speaker 1: and the Players Association on Sunday night with their first

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Speaker 1: extension about to expire, the two sides agreed to another

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Speaker 1: extension of the current CBA, this one set to run

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Speaker 1: out on January ninth. This agreement once again includes the

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Speaker 1: option for either party to terminate the extension with forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours notice, said the WNBPA in a statement, quote,

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Speaker 1: end quote. Per reports, the primary sticking point remains the

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Speaker 1: revenue sharing portion of the CBA. The WNBA proposal reportedly

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Speaker 1: offers revenue sharing after certain minimums are hit, while the

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Speaker 1: Players Association continues to fight for revenue sharing without stipulation,

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Speaker 1: while we continue to wait for the two sides to

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Speaker 1: find common ground. You could kill some time watching four

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Speaker 1: time WNBA MVP Asia Wilson on Hot Ones. She tries

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Speaker 1: to Jedi mind trick her way through some truly spicy wings, talking, I.

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Speaker 2: Know this job, yeah yeah, yeah, but I.

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Speaker 1: Understand it as kind of a full court press of

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot coming at.

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Speaker 3: You over here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're good, We're good. Yeah, exactly, we are good. Right,

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Speaker 2: it's a mindset thing, it's a mental thing.

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Speaker 3: You're exactly right.

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Speaker 2: We're so good. We're so good right this next we'll

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Speaker 2: link to that episode in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: And while we're on the topic of the WNBA and

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Speaker 1: revenue sharing, turns out w fans are sharing more of

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Speaker 1: their revenue than anyone. A recent report from New Genius Sports,

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Speaker 1: looking at twenty eight million sports fans across ninety four

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Speaker 1: top retailers, shows that WNBA fans spend more than any

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Speaker 1: other fan base on average during the peak holiday shopping

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Speaker 1: window from Black Friday through early December, an average of

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty eight dollars per person, compared to

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Speaker 1: five hundred and sixteen for the second biggest spenders NFL fans,

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Speaker 1: all the way down to NBA fans, who average four

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine dollars during the window. Takeaways, Well,

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Speaker 1: w fans are wealthy, generous, unless they're buying all that

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Speaker 1: retailers should be targeting ads to them, spending to reach them,

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Speaker 1: and treating them like the valuable, motivated shoppers they are.

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Speaker 1: We'll link to the study in the show notes if

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Speaker 1: big week for Texas sends them up the latest AP

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Speaker 1: rankings all the way to number two behind number one Yukon.

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Speaker 1: The Longhorns defeat of then number three UCLA seventy six

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Speaker 1: three after beating West Virginia last week. More college hoops

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Speaker 1: A potentially growing but hopefully dwindling story coming out of

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Speaker 1: former UCLA star Jeniah Barker, who transferred to Tennessee in

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Speaker 1: beef continues. Some more hoops news. Tmusa took gold in

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Speaker 1: the US squad, who last won in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: to College Vibs. The NCAA Tournament selection show aired on

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Speaker 1: ESPN Sunday night with the full sixty four team bracket revealed.

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Speaker 1: Thirty one conference champions earned automatic bids to the tourney,

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Speaker 1: and the D one Women's Volleyball Committee chose thirty three

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Speaker 1: other teams as at large selections. Nebraska, Kentucky, Texas, and

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Speaker 1: will make their first ever tournament appearances. First and second

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Speaker 2: Regionals will be on.

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Speaker 1: ABC, ESPN and ESPN two December eleventh through fourteenth, SEMIS

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Speaker 1: on ESPN December eighteenth, and the national Championship will be Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Again include the fifth set Volleyball Whip Around show during

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Speaker 1: We'll link to the full bracket and to the Good

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Speaker 1: fellow slices and yours truly. Finally, some NWSL news friend

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Speaker 1: at the show, Brionna Pinto has signed a two year

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Speaker 1: To me, meant to me oof already speaking in the

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Speaker 2: It's a cold, cold world, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Especially if you're a fan of the Chicago neutral colored Stars.

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Speaker 1: While you're filling out your volleyball bracket trying to best

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Speaker 1: fun espnW story about how Texas volleyball head coach Jarrett

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Speaker 1: Angel City standout Riley Tiernan joining us now live from

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Speaker 1: NWSL Radio Row. She's the superstar rookie from Angel CITYFC.

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Speaker 1: You've been hearing so much about nominee for NWSL Rookie

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Speaker 2: It's Riley Tiernan. Hi, Riley, I are you old enough

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Speaker 2: You have a really incredible story.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks before the NWSL season started, you were still

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Speaker 1: What were your expectations when you got to Angel City camp.

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Speaker 2: Like myself at times. It's just, uh, it was a

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm Jen Gardner is the one I keep

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Speaker 3: Well, I think I've always known that I'm like a

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Speaker 1: One thing that's great about being a young player is

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Speaker 1: Of course the team goals are your goals, but also

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Speaker 2: I have so many friends at that org.

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Speaker 3: So I think now that we have a new coach,

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Speaker 1: Who do you think the team is going to look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a lot of leaders on our team,

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Speaker 2: Including you. Yeah. Tell me about your friendship with Macy Hodge.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Macy's like I was just talking to my agent

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Speaker 1: Wait, You're gonna make a lot of great friends later

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Speaker 3: Just an amazing person and we have so many things

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Speaker 3: of reason to just be like it's fine, Riley, like

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Speaker 2: I can tell.

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Speaker 1: I really hope that if any of my friends get

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Speaker 2: When I just asked you about her. You're just like glowed.

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Speaker 2: She's my favorite.

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Speaker 1: So you after this busy weekend, by the way, you

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Speaker 2: But congrats to all involved.

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Speaker 1: You actually had a documentary following you with the League,

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Speaker 2: How is that for you? Being miked up?

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Speaker 3: I feel like in those environments I'm pretty good at

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Speaker 3: Like it was a cool experience. And yeah, I mean

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Speaker 2: So yeah, definitely like different, but it was cool and

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what it like comes out as.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So after this weekend though, you are right

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Speaker 2: What are you expecting there? Yeah, I'm super excited.

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Speaker 3: I think that's such a cool opportunity to play two

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Speaker 1: Any players on that roster that you either haven't met

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of them are a lot of

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Speaker 3: with Maddie Dellen, who she was the other nominee. I

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Speaker 3: be pretty cool to meet her. I played with her

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Speaker 3: getting that wrong, I don't know, but yeah, no, definitely

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Speaker 1: All right, last question for you when you're done with

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Speaker 2: How are you gonna spend your free time?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna spend time with my family. I

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Speaker 3: as much as I can. But yeah, no, just spend

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Speaker 3: time with my family. That's what I prioritize. So in Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Back in Jersey. Not on the shore though, no, not

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Speaker 2: on the shore. It'll be cold there. So well, was

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Speaker 2: so great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Congrats on an incredible season and good luck in Vienna.

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