Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're wondering
Speaker 1: if the greatest love story Never told should have actually
Speaker 1: been you know, never told, Rip benefit Jafleck see you for.
Speaker 2: Around three in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: On today's show, we'll take you behind the scenes of
Speaker 1: the upcoming E sixty volleyball doc No Place Like Nebraska,
Speaker 1: with director and producer Jen Carson Strauss, plus a slew
Speaker 1: of NWSL and WNBA games to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: this weekend, a super weird flex from producer Alex and
Speaker 1: we answer a great question from one of you little slices.
Speaker 2: It's all coming up right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my little Laune slices.
Speaker 2: Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 1: The NWSL made a big announcement on Thursday, a historic
Speaker 1: new CBA extending the current deal through twenty thirty with
Speaker 1: some major new benefits for the players.
Speaker 2: Here's a couple of the highlights.
Speaker 1: One, the college Draft and much despised Expansion Draft both
Speaker 1: are gone. Instead, players will now have autonomy to decide
Speaker 1: which team is the best fit and negotiate with teams individually.
Speaker 1: Two free agency for all players used to have to
Speaker 1: play multiple seasons before earning the right to become free agents.
Speaker 1: Now all players will be free agents as soon as
Speaker 1: their current contract expires.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 1: No more trades without player consent beginning next year. Just
Speaker 1: earlier this week, we told you about that Seattle Louisville
Speaker 1: trade that resulted in Bethany Balser and Jalen Howell needing
Speaker 1: to uproot their lives, both players expressing surprise over the news.
Speaker 1: Will starting with next season, teams will no longer be
Speaker 1: able to make trades unless a player approves it. There's
Speaker 1: way more to it than that, from increases in minimum
Speaker 1: salaries to revenue sharing, So stay tuned for a deep
Speaker 1: dive next week with the folks who made the deal happen.
Speaker 1: That's going to be great meantime on the pitch. After
Speaker 1: a lengthy Olympic break, NWSL regular season games resume this weekend.
Speaker 1: Here are a couple to watch for tonight at seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern on Prime Video Houston Dash versus Orlando Pride
Speaker 1: The Pride or A eleven five and Oh can they
Speaker 1: keep that success alive post Olympic break. Then Saturday, two
Speaker 1: thirty pm Eastern on CBS New York, New Jersey, Gotham
Speaker 1: FC versus Portland Thorns. Eight gold medal winning players from
Speaker 1: the Paris Olympics are expected to take the field in
Speaker 1: this matchup between two top five teams in the NWSL.
Speaker 2: This is a must watch.
Speaker 1: San Diego Wave versus Angel CITYFC also Saturday, that at
Speaker 1: four thirty pm Eastern on CBS our first look at
Speaker 1: Landon Donovan as head coach of the Wave in a
Speaker 1: regular season game, and two teams tied with fifteen points
Speaker 1: battling for the final playoff spot. Finally, Washington Spirit versus
Speaker 1: KC Current Sunday at twelve eastern on CBS sports Net,
Speaker 1: number three and number two in the standings facing off
Speaker 1: in a blockbuster in DC on the Links. The LPGA
Speaker 1: AIG Women's Open began yesterday in Airshire, Scotland, with a
Speaker 1: massive amount of money on the line for the winner
Speaker 1: one point.
Speaker 2: Four to two five million dollars.
Speaker 1: You heard that right, That's the highest amount in the
Speaker 1: AIG Women's Open's forty eight year Historying Coughlin, the American
Speaker 1: who won the Scottish Open last week and has won
Speaker 1: two of her last three starts. She's in the field
Speaker 1: of players looking to keep up her momentum, so as
Speaker 1: Paris twenty twenty four gold medalist Lydia Coe to hoops.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday night, Tina Charles became the second all time
Speaker 1: leading scorer in WNBA history. She's now at seven four
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one points. Charles had twelve points, seventeen rebounds,
Speaker 1: and the Dreams win over the Mercury to pass Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Tina Thompson on the list. On the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the court that night, the woman who still
Speaker 1: leads the league, Diana Tarassi, by quite a margin too.
Speaker 1: Dt sits at ten five hundred points and she's adding
Speaker 1: to her total every game. Charles spoke of her admiration
Speaker 1: for fellow Yukon Husky Tarassi quote, just to hear my
Speaker 1: name in the same sentence as Diana is just unimaginable.
Speaker 1: What she has meant to me personally and this league.
Speaker 2: Her impact.
Speaker 1: She's definitely the goat, and I'm just thankful. It was
Speaker 1: very cool to watch the two embrace and then compete
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. There's plenty of WNBA action on tap this weekend.
Speaker 1: We got some more matchups you should look for. First up,
Speaker 1: got the Las Vegas Aces at the Minnesota Lynks tonight
Speaker 1: at nine thirty Eastern. That's on Ion and League Pass.
Speaker 1: These teams squared off on Wednesday and Vegas Minnesota pulled
Speaker 1: away with a ninety eight eighty seven road win. Courtney
Speaker 1: Williams was given the Aces nightmares with her mid range
Speaker 1: jumper and her near triple double, and Ace's head coach
Speaker 1: Becky Hammond was not pleased with her team defense in
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: Can they adjust tonight?
Speaker 1: Moving on, we got the New York Liberty hosting the
Speaker 1: Connecticut Suns Saturday, seven pm Eastern on League Pass. Their
Speaker 1: number one and number two respectively in the league standings,
Speaker 1: and New York has a three and a half game cushion.
Speaker 1: Both teams are playing well, but Connecticut has struggled on
Speaker 1: the road a bit this season. Will their road woes
Speaker 1: continue in that one? Saturday at eight pm Eastern onn
Speaker 1: League Pass, we got Indiana Fever at the Minnesota Lynks,
Speaker 1: and one of the greatest players in WNBA history will
Speaker 1: be honored during the game. The Links are going to
Speaker 1: retire Maya Moore's number twenty three jersey at Target Center.
Speaker 1: She'll be the fifth player in Link's history to have
Speaker 1: her number retired, joining Lindsay Waylan, Rebecca Brunson, Simone Augustus,
Speaker 1: and Sylvia Fowls. It's super poetic that Caitlin Clark and
Speaker 1: the Fever are going to be in the arena for
Speaker 1: this one because Clark grew up idolizing Maya Moore. This
Speaker 1: is a perfect time for a little mini yes and moment.
Speaker 1: Yes and Yes, Caitlin Clark is incredible and helps draw
Speaker 1: enormous crowds and attention to the WNBA. Yes, she is
Speaker 1: one of the best rookies this league has ever seen,
Speaker 1: and Maya Moore is simply her the blueprint. She helped
Speaker 1: lead Minnesota to a championship her very first year in
Speaker 1: the league and one Rookie of the Year, and then
Speaker 1: proceeded to win three more rings League MVP Finals MVP.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, she helped exonerate her now husband,
Speaker 1: who is incarcerated for more than two decades on a
Speaker 1: wrongful conviction.
Speaker 2: I mean, what can't she do? I could list stuff
Speaker 2: all day.
Speaker 1: So Yes, let's keep celebrating the amazing performance Kitlyn is
Speaker 1: putting together. And let's remember she's not the first rookie
Speaker 1: phenom this league has ever seen. Yes, and while we're talking,
Speaker 1: WNBA pretty cool. The Sky sent few players to the
Speaker 1: DNC in Chicago this week. Team owner Michael Alter coordinated
Speaker 1: passes for Elizabeth Williams, Brianna Turner, and MICHAELA.
Speaker 2: Oyanwere to attend.
Speaker 1: They saw speeches from Barack and Michelle Obama, they saw
Speaker 1: the official confirmation of a black woman as the Democratic
Speaker 1: presidential nominee, and they were moved by the experience. Oyanwere
Speaker 1: told the Chicago Tribunes Julia Poe quote, it meant everything.
Speaker 1: I'm not an emotional person like at all, but just
Speaker 1: to see the emotions from different people, from people who
Speaker 1: look like me, it's just so important seeing somebody who
Speaker 1: is in that light do what you can do as well.
Speaker 1: I can't even put it into words. It's so powerful,
Speaker 1: so inspiring. It's just everything for young black girls and boys.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: All right, sliceas mark your calendars because this Sunday at
Speaker 1: five pm Eastern, ESPN is airing a new E sixty
Speaker 1: that goes behind the scenes of Nebraska Volleyball. It's titled
Speaker 1: No Place Like Nebraska, and it covers the team over
Speaker 1: the last year, beginning with a historic volleyball Day in
Speaker 1: Nebraska in August of last year when record breaking ninety
Speaker 1: two thousand and three fans crammed into Huscar Stadium to
Speaker 1: watch Nebraska defeat Omaha three sets to none. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you didn't see it, it was ninety two thousand people
Speaker 1: in a football stadium to watch a volleyball game. But
Speaker 1: the doc isn't just about that game or just about
Speaker 1: volleyball in particular. It shines a light on outside hitter
Speaker 1: Harper Murray, the heartbreaking death of her father when she
Speaker 1: was just a child, and her desire to find her
Speaker 1: own success wearing his number.
Speaker 2: While Murray had.
Speaker 1: One of the best ever freshman seasons in Nebraska volleyball history,
Speaker 1: last year, she had a turbulent spring, including being charged
Speaker 1: with driving under the influence following an April traffic stop.
Speaker 2: She was sentenced to nine months of probation in July,
Speaker 2: but she will be allowed to play this fall.
Speaker 1: We caught up with one of the co directors and
Speaker 1: producers of the film, Jen Carson Strauss, to learn more
Speaker 1: about how the film came to be, why she decided
Speaker 1: to cover Nebraska, and why she decided to focus a
Speaker 1: bit on Murray's story. It's all coming up right after
Speaker 1: this break, joining us now former Pepperdine soccer player turned
Speaker 1: documentary director and producer for E sixty on ESPN. She's
Speaker 1: a diehard football fan, but she missed the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Super Bowl, and Baby Number two decided to arrive
Speaker 1: just in time to keep her from watching the epic
Speaker 1: Chiefs Eagles battle. And that's why I stick with dogs.
Speaker 1: It's Jen Carson strauss ten. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3: What an amazing intro. Sara Spain, Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for having me on. So good to see you.
Speaker 1: Always something to remember Baby number two by the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: Your new doc No Place Like Nebraska, which documents the
Speaker 1: journey of the twenty twenty three Nebraska women's volleyball team,
Speaker 1: premieres August twenty fifth, five pm on ESPN and ESPN Plus.
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to get a screener, so I'll
Speaker 1: try not to give anything away while also enticing people
Speaker 1: to watch it because it's really good, and I have
Speaker 1: to admit as much of a women's sports fan as
Speaker 1: I am, I don't know that I would see it
Speaker 1: and just be like, oh, sure, I'm into this, and
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that I watch it, and I want
Speaker 1: everybody else to give it a shot. And I'm curious
Speaker 1: why Nebraska volleyball, what made you decide to follow them
Speaker 1: for that season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, sorry.
Speaker 4: Co directed this with Mattie run at ESPN, and I
Speaker 4: was looking into some other women's sports stories and at
Speaker 4: the time volleyball Day was had come on to her radar,
Speaker 4: and so I give her credit. She was the one
Speaker 4: that was like, Hey, this massive event is going to
Speaker 4: be happening. And I think for everybody else in America,
Speaker 4: our stay in you know where we're at in Connecticut.
Speaker 4: This was a shock that, you know, ninety plus thousand
Speaker 4: fans were going to be at a volleyball game in
Speaker 4: the middle of the country. And so I think that's
Speaker 4: kind of where the jumping off point was.
Speaker 3: Was, Hey, this is this is insane.
Speaker 4: How can we peel back how this came to be
Speaker 4: and why is it that way?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've been hearing about Nebraska volleyball from AFAR
Speaker 1: for years, and that ninety thousand plus person game really
Speaker 1: put it all on our radar. And seeing people in
Speaker 1: the farthest reaches of a football stadium where they couldn't
Speaker 1: even barely see that there was a volleyball not to
Speaker 1: mention a game going on really opened my eyes. And
Speaker 1: then this story he told me, the legacy that footage
Speaker 1: from the nineteen seventies, a coach that's twenty plus years
Speaker 1: at the helm handing on to another coach that's twenty
Speaker 1: plus years at the helm. There is so much history
Speaker 1: there of how you build something like this, and it's
Speaker 1: particularly interesting in women's sports, how it seems to often
Speaker 1: happen in places that aren't dominated by a ton of
Speaker 1: pro men's teams that pull all the focus. This feels
Speaker 1: like the whole state of Nebraska gets behind this team, right.
Speaker 3: I mean that's one of the things.
Speaker 4: I mean, up until this last year in Nebraska has
Speaker 4: no professional sports teams, no professional football, no professional basketball,
Speaker 4: and that's in men and women's and so.
Speaker 3: The Cornhuskers are their professional team.
Speaker 4: I mean when I have been there to film and
Speaker 4: I'm in the ubers like they're listening to the radio
Speaker 4: to you know, hear what's happening with their sports teams.
Speaker 4: I mean people that went to the university, but people
Speaker 4: that didn't go to the university, farmers, girls, men, women,
Speaker 4: people of all ages and types, and so we really
Speaker 4: got an authentic taste of like this touches the entire
Speaker 4: state and everybody is so invested in the coren Oskers.
Speaker 1: It's a cool story too, of a team that's very young,
Speaker 1: that's had a ton of success, but maybe had some
Speaker 1: doubts coming into the twenty twenty three season because there
Speaker 1: were no seniors, a couple freshmen and a transfer that
Speaker 1: we're going to play big roles. How did you gain
Speaker 1: the trust of young players with tough stories. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: particularly of Harper Murray, whose father passed away when she
Speaker 1: was very young, who carries his legacy, wears his number
Speaker 1: from when he was in the NFL, and it's a
Speaker 1: very hard story for anyone to talk about a tragedy
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: But you got her and.
Speaker 1: Her mom, and she's so young and so new, she
Speaker 1: was just getting into the college game. How did you
Speaker 1: convince her to go public and to talk about something
Speaker 1: so difficult?
Speaker 4: I mean, as you know, Sarah, trust is so important,
Speaker 4: especially when you know we don't give editorial control to
Speaker 4: our subjects. We don't let them see it beforehand, we
Speaker 4: don't pay them to be involved in these documentaries, So
Speaker 4: you really do have to establish that trust. And so
Speaker 4: one thing that we did was we had you know,
Speaker 4: zoom meetings with Harper early before we even met her,
Speaker 4: to really get to know her as a person. Not hey,
Speaker 4: this is what we need out of you, but just
Speaker 4: get to know her and meet her where she was
Speaker 4: and introduce ourselves and tell her, you know, what we
Speaker 4: were looking to do with the story, but just taking
Speaker 4: a really.
Speaker 3: Natural interest in her.
Speaker 4: We were honest about the fact that we wanted to
Speaker 4: know about her family and about her backstory and why
Speaker 4: she wears number twenty seven. I mean, that was something
Speaker 4: that people knew, but she hadn't really ever talked about
Speaker 4: it before.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 4: When we sat down, though, was when really the layers
Speaker 4: like started to come and she was really open and
Speaker 4: raw and honestly Sarah like is one of the interviews
Speaker 4: I think that I've like, it felt.
Speaker 3: Like there were no cameras there.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Pember would say that too, but
Speaker 4: it got to that point where it was just the
Speaker 4: two of us talking. She tested me afterwards, and like
Speaker 4: a therapy session, just because it got to that point
Speaker 4: of things that you know, even her mom and her
Speaker 4: teammates and her coach haven't seen that side of Harper,
Speaker 4: and so I think it was a really therapeutic experience
Speaker 4: for her, and that first one allowed her to really
Speaker 4: have that trust with us that carried on even to
Speaker 4: you know, post filming.
Speaker 1: She's one of those women's athletes that you picture if
Speaker 1: they're in a big market or on a men's team,
Speaker 1: with all the same factors, they would be a massive star.
Speaker 1: I mean, she just feels like a natural star, not
Speaker 1: just for her explosive play, her dynamic. You know how
Speaker 1: fun she is to watch. She's gorgeous, she's got an
Speaker 1: interesting story, but she's also flawed and complicated and has
Speaker 1: so much simmering under the surface that you can see
Speaker 1: in her that makes her all the more interesting to
Speaker 1: want to follow and watch. And then, of course, so
Speaker 1: twist happens when that season that you covered is over.
Speaker 1: You told me that you intended to keep covering the
Speaker 1: team through a spring game. They always pick a small
Speaker 1: town in Nebraska to play a game in, which is
Speaker 1: so cool and so smart. Like when I heard the
Speaker 1: coach saying that they've been doing it for years and years,
Speaker 1: it felt like such a no brainer to drop into
Speaker 1: somewhere and create a whole new fan base of young
Speaker 1: people and families that are excited to.
Speaker 2: Watch Nebraska volleyball.
Speaker 1: But how different was the story you came in hoping
Speaker 1: to tell from the story that you ended up telling,
Speaker 1: not just because of the twist involving Harper Murray, which
Speaker 1: everyone will see or maybe have already heard about in
Speaker 1: the news, but just overall. Was it what you thought
Speaker 1: you were going to find when you got there?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I think what this started as for
Speaker 4: me was like, Okay, this is a new type of
Speaker 4: storytelling for me, I hadn't done really a follow type
Speaker 4: of documentary before where we were going to get as
Speaker 4: much access as we were going to get, and with
Speaker 4: players that most America doesn't really know. And so I
Speaker 4: started off with maybe some low expectations. And I think
Speaker 4: it was after we did those interviews that I remember
Speaker 4: walking away being like, holy crap, and I'm not going
Speaker 4: to tell anybody about this because I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to just press play.
Speaker 4: Internally when we screen it front everybody, because I felt
Speaker 4: like and Maddie and the co director, we felt like,
Speaker 4: you know, we had something really special with people who,
Speaker 4: as you know, like this this wasn't just about volleyball,
Speaker 4: and this isn't just about a record breaking game.
Speaker 3: It's about the pressure and expectations that.
Speaker 4: Come with one plane for the University of Nebraska and
Speaker 4: that fan base. But also I mean, these you have
Speaker 4: to remind yourself, these are nineteen twenty year old kids,
Speaker 4: and social media is insane now in NIL and all
Speaker 4: the things that go into the things that affect their
Speaker 4: mindntal health that wasn't even a thing five years ago.
Speaker 3: And so that part was really interesting.
Speaker 4: For us and we wanted to really dive deeper into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it becomes a big part of the story.
Speaker 1: I really encourage everyone to watch at premieres August twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: five pm on ESPN and ESPN Plus. No place like Nebraska,
Speaker 1: even if you're not into volleyball or Nebraska, which I
Speaker 1: loved seeing the shots of and the storytelling around even
Speaker 1: the place in which it all happens. I really recommend
Speaker 1: watching it. I wanted to ask, as you were researching
Speaker 1: and doing the background for this, we have a segment
Speaker 1: on our show called Yes And where we say, yes,
Speaker 1: this is awesome and did you know that twenty years
Speaker 1: ago this happened or this athlete did this? Helping to
Speaker 1: kind of create mythology and history around women's sports. In
Speaker 1: ways we haven't before. There was a game in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy one. Did you read about this in Mexico? One
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve five hundred spectators for a women's soccer tournament.
Speaker 1: The attendance figure isn't exactly official. It was not tracked
Speaker 1: as Did.
Speaker 2: You see that at all?
Speaker 1: Did anyone think about that in dealing with the ambiguity
Speaker 1: around this sort of Nebraska record of the most to
Speaker 1: attend to women's sports event.
Speaker 4: We did see it, and I think, you know, I
Speaker 4: think because it was unofficial, we felt confident enough and
Speaker 4: everybody else SA said it too, so we're like, okay,
Speaker 4: we're not you know, we felt like we were in
Speaker 4: an okay place. I think the other thing that was
Speaker 4: just interesting, Sarah, is that like this was the only
Speaker 4: this is the only game within the things that we're
Speaker 4: talking about that is not soccer. I mean, the was
Speaker 4: a soccer game, Barcelona was. It's a soccer game, and
Speaker 4: so I think that was.
Speaker 3: One of the interesting parts. I mean, you talked about it.
Speaker 3: You can't even see the volleyball court on this field.
Speaker 4: You're not supposed to play volleyball outside, you know, unless
Speaker 4: it's beach volleyball, So there were all these other interesting
Speaker 4: layers to it that made it interesting from our perspective
Speaker 4: beyond just the crowd.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean both incredible numbers, and that's why we
Speaker 1: love a little yes, and because it's worthy of talking
Speaker 1: about both of them. This is such a great documentary.
Speaker 1: Congrats on the excellent work. I look forward to everyone
Speaker 1: seeing it and getting to talk about it, and particularly
Speaker 1: being able to reflect on all the great storytelling you
Speaker 1: did before everything went down with Harper Murray. That will
Speaker 1: really help people put into perspective some of the stuff
Speaker 1: she's going through.
Speaker 2: So thanks for giving us some time.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We got to take another break when we come back.
Speaker 1: Producer Alex has been keeping something from us.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Slices.
Speaker 1: It's time for the debut of a news segment we
Speaker 1: like to call weird flex. But okay, in this inaugural edition,
Speaker 1: we got to put producer Alex on the hot seat
Speaker 1: weird flex al, But why didn't you.
Speaker 2: Tell us you're pro hockey player? Wait what?
Speaker 1: There's a story about the women's pro hockey leagues that
Speaker 1: existed before the current PWHL was formed. On a blog
Speaker 1: that shall remain nameless, but would probably be well served
Speaker 1: by checking their names before they hit published, because when
Speaker 1: discussing the PHF, it reads, in part quote, while it
Speaker 1: seemed as though everything was growing and chugging along smoothly,
Speaker 1: there were things attempting to derail it. Some professional players
Speaker 1: opposed the idea and voice their displeasure. Among those players
Speaker 1: was alex Asie or Hillary Knight, who won the inaugural
Speaker 1: league championship with the Boston Pride but never returned Alex.
Speaker 1: It even links to one of your tweets, so it's
Speaker 1: the alex Azzi they're thinking of.
Speaker 5: You got some splaining to do, Honestly, of that excerpt
Speaker 5: that you just read, the most egregious thing in that
Speaker 5: is that the PHF was chugging along smoothly because it
Speaker 5: was not yit. There were some major salary cuts. Players
Speaker 5: were not getting any health insurance. So you know, honestly,
Speaker 5: maybe I was a former player and I just never
Speaker 5: got paid.
Speaker 1: Adds up, maybe you got paid as much as the
Speaker 1: actual players did. My favorite part is, just like the
Speaker 1: top two pl worthy of mention are you and Hillary Knight.
Speaker 2: The legendary Hillary.
Speaker 1: Knight based on Zoom and my impressions of you also
Speaker 1: no offense, but I feel like your ass would get
Speaker 1: tossed in the PWHL or the PHF. You do not
Speaker 1: seem like you could take a.
Speaker 2: Hit, Sarah.
Speaker 5: Maybe you don't know this about me, but I played
Speaker 5: ice hockey growing up.
Speaker 1: I should have guessed that on your field hockey background.
Speaker 1: You just look slim. You look like a lean, mean
Speaker 1: fighting machine who Hillary Knight would check it to next
Speaker 1: week one hundred.
Speaker 5: That is accurate. There is a difference between playing hockey
Speaker 5: and being good at it, and I am definitely in
Speaker 5: the former category.
Speaker 2: Honestly, weird flex But okayl.
Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too.
Speaker 2: So here's our good game play of the day.
Speaker 1: Watch Jen's awesome documentary No Place Like Nebraska. It premieres
Speaker 1: on Sunday five pm Eastern e sixty on ESPN, and
Speaker 1: we'll be streaming afterward on ESPN Plus. It's the end
Speaker 1: of the week, y'all, which means it's time for around
Speaker 1: and find Out Friday. Today, we've got a WNBA player
Speaker 1: perilously on the edge of finding out. Anne, self proclaimed
Speaker 1: slice Alyssa Obradovitch set us up perfectly to tell the
Speaker 1: tale because Alyssa asked me on social do technical fouls
Speaker 1: in the w carry into the postseason? First, thanks for
Speaker 1: the question, Slice, I'm guessing you're asking because rookie phenom
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark is this close to having to sit out
Speaker 1: a game due to technical fouls.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: She picked up her fifth of the season, and the
Speaker 1: fevers went over the storm on Sunday when she punched
Speaker 1: the padding of the stanchion behind the bucket.
Speaker 2: She was frustrated. After the game, she told.
Speaker 1: Reporters that the referee at her outburst was quote disrespectful
Speaker 1: to the game of basketball, and that she'd also gotten
Speaker 1: a similar call in college when she was frustrated with
Speaker 1: herself and her play. Whether or not you quibble with
Speaker 1: the call. With twelve games to go, she's got five technicals.
Speaker 1: That's two away from the all important number seven, which
Speaker 1: results in an automatic one game penalty. Another suspension is
Speaker 1: issued for every two technicals beyond number seven. Well, so
Speaker 1: number nine, eleven, thirteen, you get it. So she gotta
Speaker 1: be careful because if she keeps picking around, she's going
Speaker 1: to find out The good news for Clark and for
Speaker 1: the fever. Technical fouls do reset after the regular season,
Speaker 1: so Clark and the rest of the players in the
Speaker 1: w get a clean slate when the postseason starts. Thanks
Speaker 1: for asking that question, Alyssa. I actually wasn't one hundred
Speaker 1: percent sure on that one, so I asked friend of
Speaker 1: the show, Annie Costable, who covers the WNBA for the
Speaker 1: Chicago Sun Times, and she hit me back, So give
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Speaker 1: Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart women's sports
Speaker 1: production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You
Speaker 1: can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network,
Speaker 1: our producers are Alex Azzi and Misha Jones. Our executive
Speaker 1: producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan.
Speaker 2: And Emily Rudder.
Speaker 1: Our editors are Jenny Kaplan, Emily Rudder, Brittany Martinez, and
Speaker 1: Grace Lynch. Production assistants from Lucy Jones and I'm Your
Speaker 1: Host Sarah Spain