Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where all eyes
Speaker 1: are down under for the Happy Slam.
Speaker 2: Get your minds out of the gutter, folks, we're talking tennis.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, January thirteenth, and on today's show will reveal
Speaker 1: the winners of the twenty twenty four Slicy Awards and
Speaker 1: share some of your wise, wild and very wacky write
Speaker 1: in votes. Plus satu is taking flight, a missed opportunity
Speaker 1: for a sponsor, and why all the small things just
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to PWHL crowds. It's all coming up right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome Back Slices, Happy Monday. Here's what you
Speaker 1: need to know today.
Speaker 2: To soccer.
Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, Jaden Shaw is headed to the
Speaker 1: North Carolina Courage from the San Diego Wave. The NWSL's
Speaker 1: new collective bargaining agreement, which takes full effect on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: requires player consent for all trades and per the equalizers.
Speaker 1: Jeff cassoof Shaw requested out in twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 1: the Wave work to find a willing trade partner. Shaw
Speaker 1: turned pro at age seventeen, joining the Wave in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. She had a strong twenty twenty three season
Speaker 1: recording six goals and three assists, helping the Wave win
Speaker 1: the NWSL Shield. The team had a much rockier twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, though, including the mid season firing of coach
Speaker 1: Casey Stoney, two interim coaches, and a lawsuit filed against
Speaker 1: the club by former employees. More NWSL goalkeeper Carly Nelson
Speaker 1: posted on social media that during her time with the
Speaker 1: Utah Royals in twenty twenty four, she endured both emotional
Speaker 1: and psychological abuse. She wrote, quote, taking mental health leave
Speaker 1: back in May wasn't optional for me. It was the
Speaker 1: only way to survive the relentless toxicity I was subjected to.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Nelson, who joined the Royals via a trade in late
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, went on to say that she dealt
Speaker 1: with quote public retaliation from the coaches responsible end quote.
Speaker 1: While she didn't name any specific coaches, she noted that
Speaker 1: quote some responsible were eventually.
Speaker 2: Removed end quote.
Speaker 1: Utah, which made its official return to NWSL last season
Speaker 1: following a three year hiatus, did undergo multiple coaching.
Speaker 2: And front office changes midseason.
Speaker 1: In June, with Utah ranked last in the standings, the
Speaker 1: club fired head coach Amy Rodriguez and goalkeeping coach Maurice
Speaker 1: bard Martel, while team president Michelle Hinsik was reassigned to
Speaker 1: a new role. Utah issued a statement in response to
Speaker 1: Nelson's allegations, saying, quote, Utah Royals FC prides itself in
Speaker 1: creating a positive and supportive experience for our players and staff.
Speaker 1: We take any allegations counter to this with the utmost
Speaker 1: seriousness and urgency. We were saddened to learn of a
Speaker 1: former player's experience. Everyone deserves safe and supportive environments on
Speaker 1: and off the field of play. Our goal is to
Speaker 1: enable our athletes, our staff, and employees to enjoy a nurturing,
Speaker 1: healthy and respectful workplace for all. End.
Speaker 2: Quote to Pro Hoops, Satu Sabili is moving on from
Speaker 2: the Dallas Wings.
Speaker 1: Speaking to reporters ahead of Unrivaled tip off, the six
Speaker 1: four forward says she's quote already played my last game
Speaker 1: in Dallas. End quote still sably hasn't quite been cleared
Speaker 1: for takeoff. She says she's working with the team to
Speaker 1: find a new home, which hints at the idea that
Speaker 1: Dallas will probably core Sobbily and then trader to a
Speaker 1: new team in return for another top player. To college hoops,
Speaker 1: we've got an upset alert. Unranked Louisville knocked off thirteenth
Speaker 1: ranked Georgia Tech sixty nine to sixty at home on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, securing the cardinals first top twenty five wins
Speaker 1: since February of twenty twenty three. Everyone who suited up scored,
Speaker 1: and freshman guard Taj Roberts posted a team high sixteen points.
Speaker 2: More college Hoops.
Speaker 1: The number two ranks South Carolina game Cocks put the
Speaker 1: smack down on number five Texas on Sunday, cruising to
Speaker 1: a sixty seven to fifty win in front of a
Speaker 1: sold out home crowd eighteen thousand strong at Colonial Life Arena.
Speaker 2: Senior Tahina Pawpow and junior Chloe.
Speaker 1: Kits led the way for Don Staley's bunch, both posting
Speaker 1: eleven points. Junior Kayla Oldacre anchored the Longhorns with eleven
Speaker 1: points and sixteen rebounds off the bench. Sc is still
Speaker 1: undefeated in SEC conference play, with a Thursday matchup coming
Speaker 1: up against number eighteen Alabama that they'll prepare for this week.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere in college, we got to shout out the pit
Speaker 1: women's basketball team for completing the largest regulation comeback so
Speaker 1: not overtime in NCAA women's basketball history against SMU on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Panthers were down thirty two points in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: then used a twenty eight to nothing third quarter to
Speaker 1: take control of the contest. Sophomore guard Mikayla Johnson paced
Speaker 1: pit with twenty two points and six boards off the bench,
Speaker 1: and her squad ended up winning it seventy two to
Speaker 1: fifty nine. Hey, SMU, quick question a zero point third
Speaker 1: quarter to tennis. It feels like just yesterday we were
Speaker 1: in Spain for the Billy Jean Kingcup, the annual conclusion
Speaker 1: of the tennis season. But the players don't break for
Speaker 1: long because the first grand Slam of the season, the
Speaker 1: Australian Open, got underway this weekend. Arena Sabelenka is aiming
Speaker 1: to become the first woman to win three straight Australian
Speaker 1: Open titles since nineteen ninety nine. Sablenka opened the so
Speaker 1: called Happy Slam by sweeping American Sloan Stevens on Sunday. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Coco Goff enters the tourney with momentum on her side
Speaker 1: one the WTA finals in November. She's undefeated to start
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and earned the number three seed to
Speaker 1: Alpine skiing, where Lindsay Vaughn's comeback continues. She finished fourth
Speaker 1: in a World Cup Super G in Saint Anton, Austria
Speaker 1: on Sunday, her best result yet since ending her five
Speaker 1: year retirement. With the result, the forty year old don
Speaker 1: becomes the oldest woman to finish in the top thirty
Speaker 1: of a World Cup race. Heading into Sunday's race, Vaughn
Speaker 1: held the record for the youngest American to win a
Speaker 1: World Cup speed race that includes the Super G and
Speaker 1: the downhill disciplines. She set that record back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, but on Sunday it was broken by
Speaker 1: a teammate who wasn't alive when Vaughn made her Olympic
Speaker 1: debut back in the day at age twenty two. Lauren
Speaker 1: Masuga recorded the first World Cup victory of her career
Speaker 1: in Saint Anton, finishing one point twenty four seconds ahead
Speaker 1: of Vaughn. Masuga also made a little bit of a
Speaker 1: statement with her attire. She raced wearing a question mark
Speaker 1: on the front of her helmet, the spot where a
Speaker 1: sponsor's dame usually goes. So let's help that spot doesn't
Speaker 1: stay empty long, though, I think the price to replace
Speaker 1: that question mark just went up. Finally, our thoughts are
Speaker 1: with everyone impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles, including
Speaker 1: the many athletes affected. That includes Angel City FC defender
Speaker 1: and friend of the show Ali Riley, who lost her
Speaker 1: childhood home in the Palisades fire. She wrote on Instagram, quote,
Speaker 1: our entire neighborhood is gone. We are all safe, holding
Speaker 1: onto that with my whole heart while we figure out
Speaker 1: what to do next.
Speaker 2: End quote. What to do next for Ali included getting married.
Speaker 1: Riley officially tied the knot on Saturday, marrying former Swedish
Speaker 1: footballer Lucas war Or Nilsen, a moment of joy for
Speaker 1: them in a very tough time. We'll link to a
Speaker 1: few organizations in the show notes where you can donate
Speaker 1: to help those impacted by the fires.
Speaker 2: We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we finally reveal the winners of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Slicy Awards. Come on back, Welcome back, Slices.
Speaker 1: It's the moment you've been waiting for. With bated breath,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is finally time to reveal the winners
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four Slicy Awards.
Speaker 2: Did you vote? Did you vote? Because if you didn't,
Speaker 2: it's too late.
Speaker 1: The results are in and we got some good write
Speaker 1: in votes too, which we're gonna chat about.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go through them.
Speaker 1: Get in here, big Citrus, let's talk about this, okay.
Speaker 1: So the first award to give out the Brandy Chastains
Speaker 1: Sports Bras Scene around the World sports Moment of the Year,
Speaker 1: taking forty eight point seven percent, the winner of the
Speaker 1: US women's national team winning gold in soccer at the
Speaker 1: Paris Olympics. In second, the New York Liberty winning the
Speaker 1: first ever franchise WNBA title, and in third the pwtl's
Speaker 1: launch an inaugural season. We got some fun right ends too,
Speaker 1: a bunch of them for the US women's rugby team
Speaker 1: winning bronze at the Olympics, Spiffs Cedric's incredible match tying
Speaker 1: run and her kick to win the game. And we
Speaker 1: got one write in for a US women's rugby gold
Speaker 1: medal win, which, uh is a wonderful way to remember that,
Speaker 1: though not accurate.
Speaker 2: I love the revisionist history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, when you're not expecting anything, sometimes the
Speaker 1: bronze does feel as good as gold.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Sifon Hassan tripling at the Paras Olympics and getting three
Speaker 1: medals with the last one gold after that sprint finish
Speaker 1: victory in the marathon got a write in and her,
Speaker 1: of course, Brandy Chastain moment, specifically wearing her hit job
Speaker 1: on the podium during the closing ceremony in France, where
Speaker 1: there had been a lot of conversation about hit jobs.
Speaker 1: US women's basketball winning gold again, LSU Gymnastics winning the
Speaker 1: program's first NCAA title.
Speaker 2: Nelly Corda got a great.
Speaker 1: Chat out for winning five tournaments in a row in
Speaker 1: the LPGA, and I actually had forgotten Camilla Cardoso's buzzer
Speaker 1: beater to keep South Carolina's undefeated season intact.
Speaker 2: Like that was wild. How could you forget?
Speaker 1: There's just so much stuff, and it feels like, especially
Speaker 1: when like the WNBA season starts and you start to
Speaker 1: think of them as professionals, you kind of forget that
Speaker 1: that college season was in the same year.
Speaker 3: It's like, the reason why OSCAR nominated movies come out
Speaker 3: in November in December is because people have short term memories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, immediacly biased.
Speaker 3: If you want women's college basketball moments. Gotta change the
Speaker 3: season to end in November December.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but shout out to the people who remembered some
Speaker 1: of the earlier ones, like Arique's All Star performance.
Speaker 2: There were some good write ins in that one.
Speaker 4: I would also like to say, because I was the
Speaker 4: person who nominated the New York Liberty.
Speaker 5: When you do it the first time, it should win
Speaker 5: the award.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're not gonna make cranky pants every time our
Speaker 1: thing doesn't win me.
Speaker 4: But I'm just saying the US women's national team has
Speaker 4: given us gold before.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, that's your vote. Other people made their votes.
Speaker 3: You know, Niche, if you wanted to win, you should
Speaker 3: have stuff the ballot box.
Speaker 1: Coome on Chicago style all right. The Billy Goat Athlete
Speaker 1: of the Year. Love this name invented by Alex for Billy,
Speaker 1: Jean King and other goats. The winner with forty seven
Speaker 1: point one percent of the votes. Simone Biles coming in second,
Speaker 1: closely behind Asia Wilson after the incredible w NBA season
Speaker 1: and Sydney McLaughlin Lavroni in third. Also a lot of
Speaker 1: writings for Kaitlin Clark totally makes sense. She got four
Speaker 1: write ends five if you count the person who spelled
Speaker 1: her name c Ai t l y n, which we don't.
Speaker 1: But since Alex works here a good game with Sarah Spain,
Speaker 1: we would never just toss aside a vote, we would
Speaker 1: start researching it. So Alex tell us about Caitlin with
Speaker 1: the y Clark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that no voter
Speaker 3: who has a valid vote is disenfranchised, and so I
Speaker 3: looked up Caitlin Clark. Caitlin with the y Clark. Thank
Speaker 3: you her hoops stats for making this so much easier
Speaker 3: than it should be. And she played four seasons at
Speaker 3: Washington College and was twice named tam MVP. But unfortunately
Speaker 3: she last played for them in twenty twenty. I don't
Speaker 3: think she suited up since, and so as a result,
Speaker 3: she was not eligible this year.
Speaker 1: No not eligible name me Germa got two votes, Christine
Speaker 1: Saint Clair, Katie Ldeci and it's not even close.
Speaker 2: Was someone's editorial write in.
Speaker 1: Lots of very deserving folks for that one, the very
Speaker 1: unserious Sidney Coulson Award for Excellence in Social Media trolling
Speaker 1: running away with that unsurprisingly, Sidney Coulson for posting a
Speaker 1: photo wearing the Kathy Engelbert New York City Skyline dress unbelievable,
Speaker 1: coming in second, the Parisians that were behind the ice
Speaker 1: shit in the send viral campaign, and in third Djona
Speaker 1: and Melissa in their little Are They or Aren't They?
Speaker 2: Social media back and forth.
Speaker 1: Of course, by the end of the season they very
Speaker 1: much were, and they very much made it clear that
Speaker 1: they were, but still a fun thing to watch all
Speaker 1: season long. Somebody wrote in Marie Philip Pulan, she's gay Marcus.
Speaker 1: Now we're not certain that she ever actually said that,
Speaker 1: but we are certain that the Twitter commenter who definitely
Speaker 1: did say that would be willing to let Marie take
Speaker 1: the credit for it, so we're okay with that.
Speaker 3: I was thinking back on this. I don't think she
Speaker 3: ever said it, but I believe she did wear it
Speaker 3: on a sweat Sure, so she has endorsed.
Speaker 1: The She has endorsed she's gay Marcus, And if you
Speaker 1: still don't know what that is, please google it. Very fun,
Speaker 1: Sid LaRue at everyone, very true, like Sid Laru and
Speaker 1: Sid Colson together would be a dynamic duo.
Speaker 2: That would be censored in almost every country.
Speaker 5: I need, I need the podcast, I need the episode.
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, we need the I would do it.
Speaker 5: Let's pitch it. Let's pitch it immediately.
Speaker 3: We need and then we could have Sidney McLaughlin LAVRONI
Speaker 3: be like the voice of reason.
Speaker 1: Alex Way to bring the fun down. We don't want
Speaker 1: a voice of reason. That's literally the point of having
Speaker 1: those too long. Somebody said, Alonamar and her winning against
Speaker 1: trolls who don't understand what athletes are.
Speaker 2: Love that.
Speaker 1: Somebody wrote every mina times clapback. Yes, yes, that is
Speaker 1: one of our clapback queens, So love those. The next
Speaker 1: award the Justine Brown Everybody Watches Women's Sports Marketing Moment
Speaker 1: of the Year. Big winner at over fifty five percent,
Speaker 1: was the emergence of Ellie the Elephant, Yes, ma'am coming.
Speaker 2: In second the WNBA's Welcome to the W.
Speaker 1: Commercials, and in third Flaje Johnson's twenty twenty four music
Speaker 1: promo slash performance run.
Speaker 2: She was everywhere.
Speaker 1: Somebody wrote in that they did vote for the Welcome
Speaker 1: to the W commercial, but specifically when they say basketball's
Speaker 1: fun at the end, people said. Ratings for women's college volleyball,
Speaker 1: the Caitlin Clark State Farm commercials PWHL breaking records a
Speaker 1: lot of good.
Speaker 2: Writings for that one, all right.
Speaker 1: The next award the Caitlin Clark Award for Kaitlin clarking
Speaker 1: aka the Breakout Star of the Year.
Speaker 2: Now, we'll let you know that we did not put Kitlin.
Speaker 1: Clark in the running for this because we considered her
Speaker 1: big breakout the year before, but not everyone agreed, so
Speaker 1: she got a couple of writings, but our winners and
Speaker 1: y'all agreed with over seventy percent of the vote alone,
Speaker 1: Omar the winner for the Breakout Star of the Year,
Speaker 1: coming in second Barbara Banda and WSL Superstar, and in
Speaker 1: third Kristin Faulkner, the Breakout Olympic Cycling Star, Kate Martin
Speaker 1: got a and Kate Martin with Hearts for Eyes, gotta
Speaker 1: write in Kendall Quin Scofield, which like, sure, but she's
Speaker 1: been at it.
Speaker 2: Kene Quin Scofield has been like a superstar a while.
Speaker 2: But I get it if you're just.
Speaker 1: Getting into hockey because of the PVHL and that's cool, Welcome,
Speaker 1: Kendall is a superstar. Temuchewinga also getting a vote, which
Speaker 1: is totally deserved.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The next award, the Sam Kerr tackling the pitch Invader
Speaker 1: video we can't stop watching. Award the winner with forty
Speaker 1: narrowly getting the win. Was Angel Reese and Melissa Smith's
Speaker 1: free throw chatter telling the ref to get out of
Speaker 1: their business.
Speaker 2: They're fine.
Speaker 1: Right behind them, John Quell Jones and Sandy Brundello colliding
Speaker 1: during a playoff game, taking each other out.
Speaker 2: And then in.
Speaker 1: Third place the cat offering support on the balance beam
Speaker 1: during the Olympics. All very good videos, lots of wright
Speaker 1: Ends of course, for the video we can't stop watching Ygun,
Speaker 1: of course, lots of the lots of ray Gun, Alona
Speaker 1: mar winning TikTok Kamila Cardoso's three point shot makes another appearance.
Speaker 2: So I don't actually remember this, but now I want
Speaker 2: to look it up.
Speaker 1: So I guess Emma Navarro and jen Kin Weng had
Speaker 1: a beef at the Olympics, and Navarro said, I just
Speaker 1: told her I didn't respect her as a competitor, and
Speaker 1: then Jang responded, I will not consider it an attack
Speaker 1: because she lost the match.
Speaker 2: Yes, is that?
Speaker 5: Is that also a bulletin board material?
Speaker 2: That's right there, just eating good good.
Speaker 5: I don't consider it an attack. Is like the most.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, she's firing blanks because she lost.
Speaker 3: Is so trash talk after an L does not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, your respect means nothing, you lost, is what she's saying.
Speaker 2: This is a great one that we forgot.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Aces bus leaving Kate Martin and then doming
Speaker 1: from on the bus while she's jogging trying to catch
Speaker 1: up the Aces players in game cock fits at the
Speaker 1: exhibition game at the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Alex Morgan taken on Columbia.
Speaker 1: In the she believes game was a great one, and
Speaker 1: someone wrote full contact in the PWHL. I assume is
Speaker 1: that every time someone got more aggressive than is legally
Speaker 1: allowed or is there a specific moment, Alex?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: I imagine that they're probably just rewatching really hard checks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the boards, There we go, there we go, All good,
Speaker 2: All good.
Speaker 1: The next award the Serena Williams Catsuit Fit of the
Speaker 1: Year Award, running away with it at fifty five plus percent.
Speaker 1: Kelsey Plum's leather Assassin fit that if you recall she
Speaker 1: wore on Ring Night right after we found out that
Speaker 1: her ex husband fumbled the bag on that one, so
Speaker 1: it was perfect in all ways coming up behind that
Speaker 1: Asia Wilson's white teeth fit. There was less about fashion
Speaker 1: and more about function. She was needed to get some
Speaker 1: w's and she was not concerned with the fit at
Speaker 1: that point.
Speaker 2: She was concerned with her game.
Speaker 1: And then finally Courtney Williams black leather shaft fit. I
Speaker 1: don't know who Ali Battenhorst is.
Speaker 2: Can you remind me? Someone remind me who that is?
Speaker 3: Oh? I was hoping you knew.
Speaker 2: I was hoping y'all knew.
Speaker 1: Oh, she looks like she's a Oh she's a usc
Speaker 1: outside hitter slash internet personality. So apparently she has good fits.
Speaker 1: We need to check it out. So all right, follow obtained.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go follow her and see what those outfits are.
Speaker 1: Angel Reese at the draft, Dina Tarassi and all black
Speaker 1: Kelsey Mitchell Pang homage to her late dad on nine
Speaker 1: point fifteen, Raki at Jackson's draft outfit, Naomi Osaka's bow
Speaker 1: kit at the US Open. I remember that one, and
Speaker 1: then Sid Colson in the open jacket fits. She wore
Speaker 1: a lot of those, and yeah, that is like also
Speaker 1: an architectural feat with this double sided tape.
Speaker 2: I couldn't do that.
Speaker 4: I have to give a shout out to Sid's girlfriend
Speaker 4: Amatei Brooks Amadi. I got to meet the two of
Speaker 4: them at All Star this past summer, and Amadi is
Speaker 4: her stylist. She puts everything together, heads to toe. She
Speaker 4: styles a bunch of other w players. If you love
Speaker 4: what's it Closen wears, it's because of Amatei Brooks, So
Speaker 4: get love too. We'll put that in the notes.
Speaker 1: Do they wear the same size too, because that's what
Speaker 1: I'm always jealous about in the lesbian if they both
Speaker 1: have the same style and basically the same size, because
Speaker 1: then you have like double the closet.
Speaker 4: I don't know, they're not exactly the same size, but
Speaker 4: I imagine there's.
Speaker 2: Definitely still a lot of crossover.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some crossover.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Links Black T Shirt Award for Social Justice
Speaker 1: forty four percent going to breakdancer Manisha Talash, member of
Speaker 1: the refuge Olympic team who was disqualified for wearing the
Speaker 1: Free Afghan Women cape right before her performance. Coming in
Speaker 1: right after that, WNBA player Natasha Cloud advocating for a
Speaker 1: ceasefire in the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and in
Speaker 1: third place, runner Niki Hilts using their platform and success
Speaker 1: to advocate for LGBTQ plus causes.
Speaker 2: And doing it with trans joy.
Speaker 1: No right ins for that one, so y'all agreed with
Speaker 1: our suggestions. The Megan Rapino I fucking needed my achilles
Speaker 1: in my final game award for the most unbelievable injury.
Speaker 1: I thankfully we did not get a lot of right
Speaker 1: ins because I was happy not to remember, although people
Speaker 1: did remind us of a lot of ACL tears in
Speaker 1: women's football that happened, all of which we're upsetting an
Speaker 1: untimely The winner for this one fifty seven percent Aubrey
Speaker 1: Plasa tearing or ACL during the WNBA All Star weekend,
Speaker 1: And of course we have been thinking about Aubrey Plaza
Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks and just sending all
Speaker 1: of our love and energy her way. We do not
Speaker 1: know her, but I think you can still send your
Speaker 1: love and energy to someone when they're going through a
Speaker 1: hard time, so we're thinking of her. Coming In second
Speaker 1: was Cory Bethune's maniscus tear throwing out the first pitch
Speaker 1: at the Washington Nationals game, and then in third, Anna
Speaker 1: de Beer's ankle injury during Louisville's College Vib's semi final win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one, thankfully we can move on from because remembering
Speaker 1: injuries is.
Speaker 2: Like I already hated it enough the first time.
Speaker 1: Finally, the Bobby Riggs Biggest Jackass of the Year Award.
Speaker 1: This was a hotly contested one for a bunch of bassholes,
Speaker 1: coming in in first forty one percent transphobes, ruining boxer
Speaker 1: Aman Khalif's moment in the Olympics, followed closely by the
Speaker 1: shitty discourse about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA in general
Speaker 1: that occurred this year, and then in third place, Riley Gaines,
Speaker 1: also a transphobe. The best write in, and there were many,
Speaker 1: was all of the above, which.
Speaker 2: We very much more needed through that should have been
Speaker 2: an option.
Speaker 1: A couple rite ins for Christine Brennan, the Mountain West volleyball, transphobia,
Speaker 1: everything steven A, the refusal of ESPN to allocate more
Speaker 1: time and narrative during all of their broadcasts, especially Sports Center,
Speaker 1: to the women's leagues that are deserving of the same
Speaker 1: treatment and discussion and attention. Yeah, there were a couple
Speaker 1: other rite ins, but I think we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 1: We don't need to belabor the jackasses an asshole. So
Speaker 1: though there are plenty. Someone also tried to sneak in
Speaker 1: a men's sports reference to dog My Bears. And you
Speaker 1: know what, we won our final game of the season. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're undefeated in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Suck on that.
Speaker 3: And to the slice that wrote that, And please know,
Speaker 3: the only thing you accomplished was confusing me, because I
Speaker 3: was like, is this men's sports? I don't know what
Speaker 3: this is referring to right now?
Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone except for that person for voting.
Speaker 1: We got to take another break when we come back.
Speaker 1: A record crowd for the PWHL Takeover Tour inspires a
Speaker 1: good game, good game fact you.
Speaker 2: It's coming up next.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Slices. It's time for a little good game,
Speaker 1: good game fact you. Did you know that the PWHL
Speaker 1: has broken the record for all time attendance at women's
Speaker 1: hockey games multiple times already in its short history, including
Speaker 1: a game in the top three all time last week
Speaker 1: and a new American record yesterday.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Last Wednesday, nineteen thousand and thirty eight, fans packed Rogers Arena,
Speaker 1: home of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, for the second stop
Speaker 1: of the PWHL's Takeover tour of neutral site games that
Speaker 1: was good for the third largest crowd.
Speaker 2: In women's hockey history.
Speaker 1: By now, you've no doubt seen the highlight of Canadian
Speaker 1: legend Marie Philip Pulen's superwoman's style goal, one of two
Speaker 1: that she scored for the Montreal Victoire and a four
Speaker 1: to victory of the Toronto Scepters in that game. If
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it yet, google it please.
Speaker 2: The takeover tour.
Speaker 1: Continued yesterday in Denver. It was a battle of the
Speaker 1: league's best at Ball Arena, which is home of the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche. The Victoire entered the
Speaker 1: game and first, hoping to stay ahead of second place
Speaker 1: Minnesota Frost, but it was ultimately the Frost who emerged
Speaker 1: victorious best in Montreal for to two behind goals from
Speaker 1: Britta Curl, Sophie Jacques, Maggie Flaherty and MICHAELA.
Speaker 2: Cova.
Speaker 1: Now the fourteeny eighteen in attendance for that one broke
Speaker 1: the all time record for a women's hockey game in
Speaker 1: the United States, and one user on the PWHL Reddit
Speaker 1: page saw it coming.
Speaker 2: Before the game.
Speaker 1: They posted a shot of the crowds entering the ball
Speaker 1: arena with the headline Denver crowd bigger than concerts, and
Speaker 1: then Rode I've been to Blink one eighty two here
Speaker 1: and this line is longer. I very much love the
Speaker 1: random Blink one eighty two measuring scale of crowd sizes.
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Speaker 1: After Sunday's games, Minnesota is now back on top of
Speaker 1: the league standings with nineteen points to second place Montreal
Speaker 1: seventeen points. Autowa charge In New York Sirens are in
Speaker 1: third and fourth with fourteen points apiece, and the Boston
Speaker 1: Fleet are in fifth with twelve points, while the Toronto
Speaker 1: Scepters are sitting in last with eight points on the year.
Speaker 1: So interestingly, New York Sirens may be middle of the
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Speaker 1: So Sirens forward Alex Carpenter ended Sunday tied for the
Speaker 1: league lead in both points with ten and goals with five,
Speaker 1: and the Sirens goalie Korean Schroeder leads or is tied
Speaker 1: for the lead in wins with five. Save percentage at
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Speaker 1: eight six.
Speaker 2: Couple PWHL games this week, so check their website for
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