Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're going
Speaker 1: to need a full documentary about life in the Unrival
Speaker 1: facility during this four day one on one Attorney, the
Speaker 1: trash talking, the intimidation tactics, and the training room.
Speaker 2: Sideie has got to be so good.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, February eleventh, and on today's show, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman about what the league makes
Speaker 1: of the recent migration of top stars to Europe, whether
Speaker 1: the new CBA was a tough sell to owners, and
Speaker 1: whether we can expect the league to hold on to
Speaker 1: its values under the new presidential administration. Plus a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl celebration we can get behind. Pro women's lacrosse is
Speaker 1: finally here, and your favorite players odds of winning on
Speaker 1: Rivals one B one Attorney just got slightly better. It's
Speaker 1: all coming up right after this welcome back slices. Here's
Speaker 1: what you need to know today. Un Rivals one on
Speaker 1: one Attorney got under way last night, and ahead of
Speaker 1: tip off, the league announced that just twenty three players
Speaker 1: of the original thirty would be taking part. This is
Speaker 1: a decision that the league said was made quote due
Speaker 1: to lingering injuries and to prioritize player well being for
Speaker 1: regular season games end quote. As a result, seven players
Speaker 1: will now receive buys for the first round, causing the
Speaker 1: league to change up Monday's tourney schedule and hold just
Speaker 1: one evening session of games instead of both afternoon and evening.
Speaker 2: Now we're recording this before.
Speaker 1: The one v one action tipped off, so in our reality,
Speaker 1: our brackets are still perfect.
Speaker 2: Let's go team.
Speaker 1: The second round and the quarterfinals continued tonight at seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern on True TV to the WNBA, where the
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever announced on Monday that the team has mutually
Speaker 1: parted ways with forward Katie Luce Samuelson, who was with
Speaker 1: the franchise for one year, playing in thirty seven games
Speaker 1: and averaging four point three points, just a year after
Speaker 1: giving birth to her daughter. Because Samuelson was signed to
Speaker 1: a protected veteran contract for twenty twenty five, she would
Speaker 1: have been entitled to receive her full salary in this situation,
Speaker 1: but typically a team and a player will instead agree
Speaker 1: to a lower buyout number so the player takes a
Speaker 1: little less but can find a deal elsewhere as opposed
Speaker 1: to being stuck where they're not one or having to
Speaker 1: wait to be waived.
Speaker 2: Now, we'll be real with y'all. We were a little confused.
Speaker 1: About how exactly this quote unquote divorce deal kind of
Speaker 1: thing works in the WNBA and why a player might
Speaker 1: agree to one and take less. So we'll link to
Speaker 1: a story from Richard Cone at her Hoopstats that does
Speaker 1: a good job spelling out why players often sign deals
Speaker 1: like these, even if it means they aren't pocketing guaranteed money. Samuelson,
Speaker 1: who's played with five different teams during her five seasons
Speaker 1: in the league, is currently in Miami for Unrivaled, where
Speaker 1: she's a member of the Phantom Basketball Club, and per
Speaker 1: ESPN's Alexa Philippo, the six y three Forard has been
Speaker 1: in conversation with four WNBA teams. She'll be on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire for five days, during which time any team
Speaker 1: could agree to pick up the contract and salary she
Speaker 1: signed with Indiana four and twenty twenty five about one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty K per her Hoopstats, But after five days,
Speaker 1: if she hasn't claimed off waivers, she'll become an unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agent. To hockey, the PWHL is back in action tonight,
Speaker 1: following a week and a half long pause for international competition.
Speaker 1: The regular season resumes with the second place Minnesota Frost
Speaker 1: traveling to fourth place Toronto.
Speaker 2: We actually caught up.
Speaker 1: With Frost defender and badass med school student Claire Thompson
Speaker 1: from her hotel room ahead of tonight's game, so we'll
Speaker 1: bring it that interview tomorrow. To lacrosse and the debut
Speaker 1: of the Women's Lacrosse League.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry.
Speaker 1: The Maybolene Women's Lacrosse League competition gets underway tonight as
Speaker 1: part of a week long tournament that's part of the
Speaker 1: plll's men's Championship Series. The Marilynd Charm and New York
Speaker 1: Charging play tonight. That game is at seven pm Eastern
Speaker 1: on ESPN Plus. Still no word on what the future
Speaker 1: of the WL is beyond this tourney, but regardless, we're
Speaker 1: excited to see these players take the field in the
Speaker 1: six's format that will also be used at the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight Olympics. To alpine skiing, American star Mikaela Shiffrin
Speaker 1: announced that she won't attempt to defend her world title
Speaker 1: in the giant slalom at this week's World Championships in Austria.
Speaker 1: Schiffrin said she's been dealing with PTSD following the crash
Speaker 1: in November that resulted in a deep puncture wound and
Speaker 1: severed oblique muscles, causing her to spend nearly two months
Speaker 1: away from competition. In a statement shared with the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: Schiffrin said, quote, I'm mentally blocked in being able to
Speaker 1: get to the next level of Payson's speed and putting
Speaker 1: power into the turns, and that kind of mental psychological
Speaker 1: like PTSDSQ struggle.
Speaker 2: Is more than I anticipated. End quote.
Speaker 1: Schiffrin, the most decorated alpine skier in modern World Championship history,
Speaker 1: said she still plans to enter Thursday slalom, as well
Speaker 1: as the slalom portion of the team event, a new
Speaker 1: event that gets under way today. Finally, we're sending our
Speaker 1: best to former Iowa basketball player Ava Jones, who announced
Speaker 1: on social media that she's been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with Jones, this is a kid
Speaker 1: who has been through a lot. Back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: just days after committing to the Hawkeyes, she and her
Speaker 1: family were walking on a sidewalk when they were struck
Speaker 1: by a driver who was under the influence a crash
Speaker 1: that tragically killed her father, injured her mother, and left
Speaker 1: Ava with a brain injury. IOWA honored her basketball scholarship,
Speaker 1: and she was on the team as a freshman before
Speaker 1: she retired from the sport due to medical reasons. In
Speaker 1: a post on social Ava wrote it for cancer diagnosis quote,
Speaker 1: this is the news no one ever wants to get,
Speaker 1: but especially after spending the last two and a half
Speaker 1: years working my butt off and recovering from getting hit
Speaker 1: by a car, body is very strong and I'm confident
Speaker 1: in the doctors here at Iowa.
Speaker 2: End quote. We're sending you our best, Ava, all right, Selicais.
Speaker 1: We want to give a quick shout out to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles assistant sports performance coach Autumn Lockwood, who became the
Speaker 1: first black woman coach to win a Super Bowl on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Way to Go, Autumn. As part of a future story
Speaker 1: published to the Philadelphia Eagles site earlier this month, Lockwood
Speaker 1: was asked about the importance of Black History Month. She said, quote,
Speaker 1: Black History Month is important to me because it's a
Speaker 1: time to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of all of
Speaker 1: those who have come before us and give them their
Speaker 1: flowers for paving the way. It's dedicated and acknowledged. Time
Speaker 1: to reflect on just how far we've come. It's a
Speaker 1: time to empower the current generation to continue to push
Speaker 1: the needle in a positive direction. While we may not
Speaker 1: get to reap the benefits, I believe that by doing
Speaker 1: good and what is right in the here and now,
Speaker 1: the future generations to come will live amongst each other
Speaker 1: in nothing but love and unity, becoming one like the
Speaker 1: one above wants for us end quote, make it history
Speaker 1: during Black History Month. That's something we love to see.
Speaker 1: We'll link to that full feature, which includes interviews with
Speaker 1: three other members of The Eagle staff. In our show notes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 1: My conversation with NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman, who I spoke
Speaker 1: with last week at Radio Row in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Stick around.
Speaker 1: Joining us now the commissioner of the National Women's Soccer
Speaker 1: League since twenty twenty two. A Michigan undergrad and a
Speaker 1: Fordham Law School product, she spent time with the National
Speaker 1: Football League and National Lacrosse League before joining the NWSL.
Speaker 1: Winner of the Sports Business Journals twenty twenty four, Executive
Speaker 1: of the Year Award and SI's twenty twenty four Innovator
Speaker 1: of the Year. Mom of two occasionally mistaken for Marley
Speaker 1: Mattlin and one hell of a Dancer, it's Jessica Berman.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love that intro, Hi.
Speaker 4: Anyone, thank you're Marley Mattlin and Radio Row Today.
Speaker 3: You're my first. But I have heard it before.
Speaker 1: I mean when we went to the NWSLPA party, the
Speaker 1: first one in New York with fat Joe, who's more
Speaker 1: like sh medium Joe now. But when we went there
Speaker 1: and we did the dancing in that one booth and
Speaker 1: I posted it to Instagram, Soon's like, is that Marley Mattlin?
Speaker 4: I love it? Ye, I love it.
Speaker 3: That was a fun night, very fun.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the biggest news of the
Speaker 1: last couple weeks. We've seen a handful of players Naomi Germa,
Speaker 1: Crystal Dun, Jedda Niswang or head over to Europe. Should
Speaker 1: the NWSL be worried about losing players to these European clubs?
Speaker 5: Short answer, no, okay, It's part of the global game
Speaker 5: and it's a testament to the interest in women's soccer everywhere.
Speaker 5: And when we say we want to be the best
Speaker 5: league in the world. We know that there's competition for that.
Speaker 5: It's going to keep us on our toes, keep us
Speaker 5: on our game. And by the way, we took in
Speaker 5: more players than we lost in this transfer window, so
Speaker 5: we're excited about the players we brought in. We wish
Speaker 5: the players who decided to go elsewhere the best of
Speaker 5: luck and look forward to welcoming them back when it's
Speaker 5: time for them to come home.
Speaker 1: That's such a great point. It's so jinguistic of us
Speaker 1: that we're like, how could they leave? But then when
Speaker 1: people come to us, it's not as big of a
Speaker 1: note to us.
Speaker 5: We're like, look up the eleven players who came into
Speaker 5: our league in this transfer window, and if you don't
Speaker 5: know their name now, you will when our season starts.
Speaker 1: Well, we certainly saw that last year rite with ten
Speaker 1: Wischhewinga and Barbara Bandon, all these new players coming in
Speaker 1: from foreign leagues. You know, the new CBA set a
Speaker 1: standard for player rights in autonomy. It also put the
Speaker 1: league more in sync with global football rules and regulations
Speaker 1: at schedule?
Speaker 4: Was that a hard sell to owners? What did those
Speaker 4: negotiations look like on the league side?
Speaker 5: Surprisingly not to most people. It was actually our choice
Speaker 5: to approach the union and present something that was innovative,
Speaker 5: and it was in truth driven by our owners. Coming
Speaker 5: out of the Women's World Cup of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: it was clear to us that there was going to
Speaker 5: be competition for our asserted claim of being the best
Speaker 5: league in the world, and in order to compete with
Speaker 5: the global game, you need to play by their rules.
Speaker 5: And so we've always said since twenty twenty two when
Speaker 5: I came, we were going to be really intentional about
Speaker 5: the policies and protocols that we adopt from the men's
Speaker 5: leagues and the ones that we don't. This was one
Speaker 5: that wasn't serving us any longer, and in a world
Speaker 5: of global free agency, we didn't want to be different.
Speaker 5: We didn't want to have artificial impediments or obstacles to
Speaker 5: bringing in the best in the world. And you've heard
Speaker 5: comments from US men's national team players historically who decided
Speaker 5: to go play overseas because they didn't appreciate that professional
Speaker 5: women's soccer in the US was not in sync with
Speaker 5: the rest of the world's rules. And so we remove
Speaker 5: those barriers and it's actually when I got the Innovator
Speaker 5: of the Year award from SI. It was in large
Speaker 5: part because of that, and really testament goes to our
Speaker 5: owners and the players who joined together to decide and
Speaker 5: reimagine what was in the best interest of the NWSL
Speaker 5: moving forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and particularly obviously, abolishing the college draft is a
Speaker 1: massive move for a professional, high level league in the
Speaker 1: United States. It's very interesting to see how people from
Speaker 1: other leagues, particularly players will look over and be like, well,
Speaker 1: that looks nice.
Speaker 3: Funny to be here at the NFL.
Speaker 5: Because my first interview after we made that announcement in
Speaker 5: August of twenty twenty four was do you think the
Speaker 5: NFL is going to remove their I'm like, you know what.
Speaker 5: I love that it's making people question because those decisions
Speaker 5: to maintain or change your rules should always be intentional.
Speaker 5: It's easier to maintain the status quo, no doubt, but
Speaker 5: you should pressure test all those asking.
Speaker 4: Very different leagues.
Speaker 1: It definitely serves the NWSL and makes it a better
Speaker 1: league to get rid of it.
Speaker 4: Would it make the NFL a.
Speaker 1: Better league when it's not as much of a global sport,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have rules and regulations that they're trying to
Speaker 1: align with across the globe, But like you said, it's
Speaker 1: always worth asking because doing things because they've always been
Speaker 1: done is never the right answer, never the right or anything,
Speaker 1: and that's not how.
Speaker 4: You win Innovator of the AAR Awards.
Speaker 1: Has the final language of that CBA been solidified because
Speaker 1: we saw the report of it being done months ago,
Speaker 1: but we haven't actually seen the document.
Speaker 3: I believe we're in the final I dots and T crossing.
Speaker 4: Between the dat above an eye is called a tittle.
Speaker 5: I've never heard that before, and I should have known
Speaker 5: since I was a former labor lawyer.
Speaker 3: But yeah, drafts have been going back and forth.
Speaker 5: I think we're down to like the final minutia and yeah,
Speaker 5: it'll be out very soon and I'm sure shared by
Speaker 5: the NWSLPA and US when it's ready. But we are
Speaker 5: already operating under those rules. All of what our clubs
Speaker 5: and players need to know has already been communicated. It's
Speaker 5: just formalizing the document and we're days away.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we used to wear the shirts that said it
Speaker 1: is the schedule out yet?
Speaker 6: Meg?
Speaker 4: And now we're going to wear is the CBA out yet?
Speaker 6: Meg?
Speaker 4: Until we see the doc perfect exactly.
Speaker 1: We are seeing some impressive facility wars going on in
Speaker 1: the NWSL, new training centers being built, it is fantastic.
Speaker 1: It also further highlights the haves and have nots of
Speaker 1: the league, and I wonder if the league has an
Speaker 1: interest in supporting or subsidizing the teams that have fewer investors,
Speaker 1: lower revenue, or is your philosophy that those places will
Speaker 1: eventually be forced to catch up or shut up shop.
Speaker 5: I believe that investors in sports are inherently competitive, and
Speaker 5: I believe that the incentives are aligned in our league
Speaker 5: to force everyone to think about how they're going to
Speaker 5: retract and recruit the best players, and free agency is
Speaker 5: going to be a forcing function for that. If you
Speaker 5: look at where we are today versus where we were
Speaker 5: a year ago or even three months ago, since then,
Speaker 5: five new teams have either announced or actually are opening
Speaker 5: a brand new purpose built training facility. So that is
Speaker 5: angel City that already announced that they're opening, Portland, I believe,
Speaker 5: announced yesterday, we have they in process of being built,
Speaker 5: and of course our two expansion teams in Denver and Boston.
Speaker 5: So between those five plus the ones that already have them,
Speaker 5: more than half of our league will have purpose built
Speaker 5: training facilities by twenty twenty six, and no one could
Speaker 5: have imagined that three years ago. So it is happening,
Speaker 5: and we have ongoing conversations right now with all of
Speaker 5: our owners thinking about the ways in which they can
Speaker 5: leverage public private partnerships, support school districts, identify other sources
Speaker 5: of capital, and all of the options are on the
Speaker 5: table about how we can incentivize and support and motivate
Speaker 5: that investment, which is obviously great for the game.
Speaker 1: So in your opinion, it is worth trying to at
Speaker 1: least lend a hand to teams that have struggled or
Speaker 1: are struggling and see if they can get themselves elevated.
Speaker 1: Before the answer is simply let them drop off if
Speaker 1: they can't.
Speaker 5: Hang, we're doing it already. I mean we see all
Speaker 5: of the changes that are happening. I often quote Rick
Speaker 5: Welts from the NBA, who is an original David Stern
Speaker 5: disciple built the Golden State Warriors, recently announced to be
Speaker 5: the CEO in Dallas, and he told me, I'll never
Speaker 5: forget this when we had breakfast last year. The reason
Speaker 5: you're so exhausted is because you all have done in
Speaker 5: two years what it took the NBA.
Speaker 3: Twenty five years to do.
Speaker 5: And I think about that often because in the first
Speaker 5: two years that everyone we brought in came into the league,
Speaker 5: we sold nine of our fourteen teams. The change is
Speaker 5: happening so quickly. I don't know that we would want
Speaker 5: to force it to happen faster, because those changes require
Speaker 5: time and intentionality and digestion in the system. And there's
Speaker 5: hundreds of millions of dollars coming into the professional women's game,
Speaker 5: and we want that to be done strategically and thoughtfully
Speaker 5: so that we accomplish our ultimate objective of creating a viable,
Speaker 5: sustainable business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so true, and we talk about that a
Speaker 1: lot in terms of giving people context for how attendance
Speaker 1: and viewership and investment and money and everything works on
Speaker 1: the women's side. When you don't have one hundred year
Speaker 1: head start or a thirty year head start or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. You recently said, there's no reason in the
Speaker 1: ENWSL couldn't expand to thirty teams. What does the timeline
Speaker 1: look like on that.
Speaker 5: Then, I think it's going to be evaluate and see.
Speaker 5: Most important thing is that as we expand, we do
Speaker 5: it without compromising the quality of the competition and the
Speaker 5: quality of the business. And as I was just alluding
Speaker 5: to in the other context, as it relates to infrastructure,
Speaker 5: ingesting new teams requires holistic setting of expectations in terms
Speaker 5: of how technical staff is distributed, in terms of the
Speaker 5: pipeline for talent, as it relates to players, all of
Speaker 5: the fandom, the media value, the sponsorship that we're selling,
Speaker 5: to make sure all of it is in line with
Speaker 5: not where we were, but where we are, and so
Speaker 5: it has to be done thoughtfully. We've done what I
Speaker 5: described shorthand two by two for the last essentially six years,
Speaker 5: which is a tremendous amount of growth, and we have
Speaker 5: to make sure that we have the infrastructure in place
Speaker 5: at the league office to make sure that we operationalize
Speaker 5: that successfully because there's nothing more important than that for
Speaker 5: increasing values of teams. So bottom line is time will tell.
Speaker 1: As part of the recent settlement regarding the league's role
Speaker 1: in widespread allegations of abuse, it's creating a five million
Speaker 1: dollar player compensation fund and could be hit with up
Speaker 1: to two million dollars in penalties if it defaults on
Speaker 1: any terms of an agreement that includes things like vetting coaches,
Speaker 1: front office staff fires, creating multiple ways for players to
Speaker 1: report misconduct, dedicated HR staffers for every team, and more.
Speaker 4: How do you plan to ensure that each team complies?
Speaker 1: Because there's been an incredible predominance of this across the
Speaker 1: league and so many different coaches and owners and spaces,
Speaker 1: it's hard to understand why it's so common and also
Speaker 1: how it continues happening.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I would say that it isn't
Speaker 5: endemic to the NWSL. It's endemic to women and girls' sports,
Speaker 5: and so we were the focal point of it, and
Speaker 5: that gave us an opportunity to reset expectations and institute
Speaker 5: the necessary systemic reform and policies and protocols that will
Speaker 5: change the game forever. We are very confident that we've
Speaker 5: done that.
Speaker 3: It will continue to be an.
Speaker 5: Evaluated process where we make sure that we're continuing to
Speaker 5: be best in class. We didn't actually make a big
Speaker 5: deal about it, but in twenty twenty four we were
Speaker 5: the first professional sports league men or women to be
Speaker 5: recognized by the Center for Human Rights in Sport as
Speaker 5: best in class on these types of safeguarding health and
Speaker 5: safety issues. We couldn't be doing more than we're doing
Speaker 5: to ensure that the system is safe and is a
Speaker 5: place that is welcoming and makes everyone in the ecosystem,
Speaker 5: players included, of course, proud to play.
Speaker 3: That is our goal.
Speaker 5: That is what the standard by which we will continue
Speaker 5: to evaluate ourselves, and we know that that is critical
Speaker 5: to our future success. This will always be part of
Speaker 5: our history, and it's a dark time that no one
Speaker 5: enjoys talking about, but we can't ignore it. And this
Speaker 5: was a reminder that it is still there and it
Speaker 5: is still part of our story, and we're going to
Speaker 5: continue to face it down and make sure we do
Speaker 5: all of the hard things that are necessary to make
Speaker 5: the league a success.
Speaker 1: We just talked about players feeling safe, and you said
Speaker 1: in November that the league's values wouldn't change after Donald
Speaker 1: Trump became president. Again, do you feel empowered to remain
Speaker 1: committed to that moving forward, especially as we're seeing things
Speaker 1: like the recent executive orders. Does the league policy change
Speaker 1: it all on trans athletes? Does anything change as the
Speaker 1: results of what might come from above.
Speaker 5: Our focus is on maintaining our core values no matter
Speaker 5: who is president, no matter what the political climate, There
Speaker 5: is no doubt and our fans tell us consistently that
Speaker 5: the NWSL is a place that gives them a sense
Speaker 5: of belonging, that makes them feel seen, that makes them
Speaker 5: feel heard. And we're confident that there are so many
Speaker 5: people in our country that want that, that enjoy that,
Speaker 5: and we have no reason to question or doubt whether
Speaker 5: that is something that will be supported from a business perspective.
Speaker 5: And so we're going to continue to do all the
Speaker 5: things that got us here over the last few years
Speaker 5: and lean into the things that make us unique and
Speaker 5: differentiated in the marketplace and be a beacon of hope
Speaker 5: and light for people who are looking for the things
Speaker 5: that we have to offer.
Speaker 4: I love that. I know you've got to run. We're
Speaker 4: going to have you on again.
Speaker 2: You've walked up to the stage.
Speaker 1: You said, I can't believe I haven't been on your
Speaker 1: show yet, and I'm taking that as.
Speaker 4: A confirmation that you'll come back anytime. We'll get to
Speaker 4: all the other questions I didn't have time for anytime.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Let's stance soon.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Thanks to Jessica for stopping by. We got to
Speaker 2: take another break. When we come back, be mine, so XO.
Speaker 1: You're cute who you send in candy hearts to this
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Come on back, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too, So here's our
Speaker 1: good game play of the day. Watch the debut of
Speaker 1: the Women's Lacrosse League tonight and let us know what
Speaker 1: you think. We'll link to the schedule in the show notes.
Speaker 1: Also keep sending us those platonic Valentines. We already got
Speaker 1: one from a Slice who kept things anonymous.
Speaker 6: Take a listen, Hello, longtime Slice, first time caller. I'm
Speaker 6: calling to shout out my platonic WNBA crushes for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6: Want a first shout out Big Mama Steph Stephanie Dolson
Speaker 6: back when she was on the Chicago Sky you were
Speaker 6: my first WNBA crush. Also want to shout out Tush Cloud.
Speaker 6: You are so wonderful every time we see you around
Speaker 6: Win Trust Arena, so thoughtful to take photos of people
Speaker 6: even though that's not your team, so thank you for that.
Speaker 6: And then my newest platonic crush on this bride, Nick Buckets,
Speaker 6: So shout out to those folks, and also shout out
Speaker 6: to my actual lover Andy, thank you for falling in
Speaker 6: love with a WNBA so that you could keep going
Speaker 6: on dec Thank you, Happy Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: Thank you anonymous slice.
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