WEBVTT - Stop Looking At Me, Swan! with Big Citrus 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're basking 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.520 in the glory of correctly predicting the Women's College World 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:07.240 Series winner. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:09.319 I'm not the kind of person to say I told 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:09.920 you so, so. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.720 Who am I kidding? I'm absolutely that person I told 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.160 you so. It's Monday, June ninth, and on today's show, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.160 Big Citrus will reconvene to talk Texas's first Softball National 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.000 Championship Athletes, Unlimited Softball Leagues opening day, Coco Goff's French 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.240 Open win, and we'll check in on happenings in the WNBA. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:34.320 Plus the House versus NCAA settlement is done, NWSL expansion side, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.120 Boston Legacy FC has its logo, and one team's new 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.440 tradition is so good it should be illegal. It's all 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:57.040 coming up right after this. Welcome back Slices, Happy Monday. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.480 Here's what you need to know today. In tennis, Coco 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.440 Goff took home her first French Open title and second 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.440 major title on Saturday, defeating world number one Arena Sablenka 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.280 in three sets. Goff's victory marks the first time the 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.120 French Open trophy has been hoisted by an American since 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:15.399 Serena Williams did. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.480 It back in twenty fifteen. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.200 Goff actually dropped the first set of the final, but 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.760 she bounced back to win the latter two handily. It 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.800 made the twenty one year old the first woman in 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.319 tennis history to rally from a set down to win 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.800 their first two major titles. The other was at the 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.240 twenty twenty three US Open, also a win over Sabolenka. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.800 If you didn't catch the match, you missed a. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.080 Lot, including the elation that Coco Goff displayed after the 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:38.840 final point. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.119 It was so pure. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.360 We'll link to a slow mo video of that moment 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.080 in our show notes. You also have to check out 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.040 her adorable celebration with the French Open ball kids. We'll 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.440 link to that one too. After the contest was all 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.120 said and done, runner up Seblanka gave Golf her props 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.280 in the on court interview, saying, quote to Coco, you 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.680 deserve it. You're a hard worker, a fighter. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.560 End quote. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.920 But then in the press conference, Sablenka made some interesting comments. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.160 She told reporters in part, quote, I think she won 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.840 the match, not because she played incredible, just because. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.960 I made all of those mistakes. End quote. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.600 Sablenka also alluded to the idea that fellow WTA superstar 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.720 Egas Fontech might have defeated Goff had she been the 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.359 one to make it to the final. This, of course, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.519 set off alarms across the tennis space, but Sablenka took 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.600 to her Instagram story on Sunday to try to make 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.200 things clear. She wrote, in part quote, she was the 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.040 better player yesterday, and I want to give her the 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.840 credit she earned. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:35.680 You all know me. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.480 I'm always going to be honest and human, and how 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.880 I process these moments. I made over seventy unforced errors, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.720 so I can't pretend it was a great day for me. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.400 But both things can be true. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.920 I didn't play my best, and Coco stepped up and 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.320 played with poise and purpose. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.280 She earned that title respect end quote. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.320 And you know what, I like that because Golf did 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.800 step up and play her ass off, and I liked that. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.200 Sablenka decided to make things right by saying, so what's 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.680 off to you, Coco, and thanks for breaking the curse 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.720 for American women at Roland Garros. Some college sports news, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.959 the House versus NCAA anti trust settlement has officially come 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.600 to a conclusion. On Friday, Judge Claudia Wilkin formally approved. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.800 The deal that will allow schools to. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.920 Pay their athletes directly ending three federal antitrust lawsuits that 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.720 claimed the NCAA was illegally limiting college athletes earning power. Now, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.079 you might remember we did a very in depth episode 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.000 about this not too long ago, So if you want 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.680 the real nitty gritty, go back and listen to that. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:31.400 For now. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.119 The gist of it is, athletic departments will be able 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.040 to dule out roughly twenty and a half million dollars 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.880 in name, image, and likeness revenue to athletes over the 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.160 twenty twenty five to twenty sixth season. The NCAA and 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.200 the Power conferences also agree to pay out nearly two 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.640 point eight billion dollars in damages over the next ten 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.480 years to D one athletes that weren't allowed to sign 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.320 NIL deals dating back to twenty sixteen. The Women's Sports 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.720 Foundation released a statement about the House Versus NCAA ruling 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.520 being done, writing in part, quote, while it fails to 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.800 remedy the concerns raised by WSF and others that class 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.040 members are prohibited from bringing Title nine claims regarding the 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.760 allocation of damages. The settlement does specifically state that Title 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.800 nine claims can be brought regarding any new benefits and 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.200 compensation made under the settlement if schools violate the law. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.320 End quote. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.919 Will be of course, keeping an eye on how Title 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.960 nine intersects with this ruling and the future of college 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.440 sports to softball. Congratulations to the Texas Longhorns, who won 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.239 the school's first ever softball national championship. They beat lone 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.920 star state foe Texas Tech ten to four in Game 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.760 three of the Women's College World Series Championship series on 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.440 Friday night. The Longhorns bats were hot from the start. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.440 They scored five runs on five hits in the bottom 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.479 of the first inning against Texas Tech. Star pitcher Nijerie Kennedy, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.160 who had thrown six hundred and eighty six consecutive pitches 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.320 for the Red Raiders over forty eight innings dating to 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.520 the start of Superregionals on May twenty second, Superwoman finally 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.719 met her match and it was too many pitches. Kennedy 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.240 was subbed out once the inning ended. In the bottom 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.160 of the fourth, the long Horns had their second best 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.040 inning of the game when Mia Scott hit a home 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.000 run to center field, good for a Grand Slam. This 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.839 win has got a taste extra suite for the Longhorns, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.039 as they were championship runner ups in two of the 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.160 last three seasons. It's also the first ever title win 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.920 for Texas head coach Mike White, who'd previously been to 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.080 the Championship Series on eight occasions as a coach at 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.440 both Texas and Oregon. Less than a week after losing 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:36.120 her grandmother, sophomore pitcher Teagan Cavan won Most Outstanding Player honors, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.880 allowing no earned runs in all thirty one and two 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.320 thirds innings that she pitched. While we feel for Nijorie 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.360 Kennedy taking the l she's still rake it in the dollars. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:45.680 Yeall. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.520 She was the first softball player to sign a million 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.159 dollar nil contract, and now she's the first to sign 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.680 two million dollar nil contracts. She inked another seven figure 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.760 deal with the Mattador Club the Red Raiders Collective. With 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.640 this smooth the two time National Fast Pitch Coaches Association 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.440 Pitcher of the Year put any and all transfer rumors 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:05.880 to rest. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.360 She'll be returning to play for Texas Tech. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.039 Add this new bag of bucks to the fire in 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.599 her gut from the championship loss, and she's going to 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.680 be more motivated than ever next season. I can't wait 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.400 to see what that brings for Kennedy More Softball. Saturday 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.000 saw the first games of the brand spankin new AUSL 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.880 Pro Softball League, with each of the four teams in action. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.839 On opening day, the Bandits defeated the Talents three to 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.160 one in Rosemont, Illinois, jumping into the lead on a 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.479 two run triple from Aaron Koffel and hanging on for 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.240 the first win in league history. The first home run 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.920 in league history went to the Talents, though courtesy of 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.920 outfielder Sierrasaco, who hit a solo shot in the top 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.479 of the third in her very first professional at bat. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.400 On Sunday, the Talents got their revenge in front of 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.320 another sellout crowd in Rosemont, earning their first win of 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.919 the season six to three in a balanced effort that 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.960 saw every Talents player record at least one hit in 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.560 the win over the Bandits. Saturday night, in Whichita Can, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.440 the Volts and Blaze played in the second game of 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.400 the two game opening night, and the Volts beat the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.880 Blaze five to one in extras a three run homer 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.160 from Mackenzie Clark was part of a four run eighth 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.600 inning for the Volts, and on Sunday, the Volts made 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.280 it two in a row with a second straight win 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.040 over the Blaze in Wichita. Lots to share later in 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.480 the show about my day at the ballpark in Rosemont 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.440 checking out all the AUSL opening Day festivities to soccer. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.360 After a five month design process, NWSL expansion franchise, Boston 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.920 Legacy FC, unveiled its official logo at a fan event 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.640 on Boston Commons Saturday afternoon. The crest includes a swan 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.600 with eight feathers inside a black and green shield with 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.480 the Boston name across the top. The club told The 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.520 Boston Globe that the swan's feathers represent the eight teams 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.720 that competed in the NWSL's debut season back in twenty thirteen, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.800 including the now defunct Boston Breakers. Its feathers are angled 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.000 to reflect the lines of the Zakim Bridge. But why 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.040 the swan well, Per the team's social posts, quote from 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.440 the swan boats in the public garden, to the and 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.920 the Charles and the Mystic, to Romeo and Juliet, who 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.560 spend their winters at the Franklin Park Zoo. Swans have 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.600 been a fixture in Boston for over one hundred and 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.720 fifty years end quote. Legacy controlling owner Jennifer Epstein also 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.400 told the Boston Globe, quote, Swans encompass are core club 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.080 values of integrity, grit, and style. They are famously loyal, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.880 relentless in defending their territory and iconic residence of our 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.240 waterways and green spaces end quote. I think I got 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.880 to give these Swans a minute to grow on me. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.760 I love the colors, and I think the logo is 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.800 actually super elegant and clean. I just kind of have 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.559 to get used to the idea of a Swan as 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.160 a sports mascot. I'm not used to it, but I 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.160 feel like, like Angel City and Racing and the Valkyries 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.640 used colors that we didn't often see in sport, the dusty, rose, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.840 lavender and violet that I really love. Now I got 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.439 to be open to the idea of previously ignored animals 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.559 and birds getting their moment in the sun, or I 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.760 guess I should say moment in the shield. I also 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.440 googled swan mascot just to see if I had forgotten 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.640 any notable examples of the bird making it big in sports. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.480 And apparently there's a mascot named Cyril the Swan who 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.800 is iconic in the United Kingdom. He's the mascot of 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.880 SWANSEAFC in Wales, and I highly recommend that you look 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.280 up this wonky ass, nine foot tall, freak show waking 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.559 nightmare of a mascot. Per his Wikipedia quote, Cyril was 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.520 voted best mascot by readers of the BBC's Match of 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.280 the Day magazine. His antics have got him into trouble 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.280 with the police on several occasions, mainly for fighting with 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.320 other mascots and stewarts, and he has been accused of 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.679 bringing the game into disrepute. Highlights of his trouble sem 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.960 antics include removing the head of Millwall mascot Zampa the 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.079 Lion and drop kicking it along the ground on a 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.720 Dutch TV documentary. When asked what he said to Zampa, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.040 he replied, don't with the Swans. The Swan was fined 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.720 one thousand pounds for the incident. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:57.640 End quote. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.280 We could only hope that ba Swan brings that same 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:06.040 energy with considerably less drop kicking of heads. We'll put 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.640 a link in the show notes to a frankly fascinating 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.920 medium dot com story about the man inside Cyril. Worth 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.439 noting the story says that Cyril the Swan is allegedly 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.080 now reformed and married to. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.640 His wife Sybil. Apparently she's calmed him down. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.360 More footy May's NWSL awards are out, and first up 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.720 it was Kansas City current forward ten whewinga earning Player 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.720 of the Month honors. The striker scored in three straight 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.240 games to finish the month of May. She also passed 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.920 Sophia Wilson formerly Sophia Smith to become the fastest player 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.280 in league history to notch twenty five goals with her 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.400 game winner against the Orlando Pride on May sixteenth. Took 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.520 her just thirty four games to reach that milestone. Rookie 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.760 of the Month award went to Angel City forward Riley Tiernan, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.360 who leads all rookies in scoring and this is the 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.040 second straight Rookie of the Month honor for Tiernan. She's 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.680 currently fifth in the Golden Boot race with six goals 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:57.800 in total on the season. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.280 Last, but not least, Coach of. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.480 The Month went to first Your San Diego WAVEFC head 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.360 coach Jonas Idavol. His Wave went undefeated in the month 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.199 of May and at one point sort as high as 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.679 second in the league standings to the WNBA, where the 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.679 Chicago Sky got the news many expected but hoped wouldn't come, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.240 and MRI on Sunday revealed an ACL tear for point 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.520 guard Courtney van der Slut, who went down in the 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.079 sky seventy nine to fifty two loss to the Indiana 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.360 Fever Saturday night at the United Center. Vander Slute is 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.400 out for the remainder of the season. The injury occurred 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.880 in front of a Sky single game record crowd of 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.280 nineteen thousand, four hundred ninety six, surpassing Chicago's previous high 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.520 of sixteen thy, four hundred and forty four back in 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.080 twenty sixteen. It was the first WNBA game ever held 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.480 at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.560 Chicago Blackhawks. More, WNBA got to give a couple shoutouts 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.880 to WNBA players Satu Sabili and Angel Reese, who both 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.640 debuted player editioned. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.720 Shoes over the last week. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.640 Sabily, a Jordan brand athlete until she signed with Adidas 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.400 in January, showed off her Don Issue six un Corn 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.720 kicks for the first time ahead of her Phoenix Mercury's 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.160 game against Seattle on Saturday. Those shoes aren't available for 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.400 retail sale, which is a bummer because they're and. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.200 Fly Chicago sky Ford. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.120 Reese's PE is rebox engine a pretty gritty colorway, and 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.440 it dropped for one hundred and twenty dollars retail sale 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.160 in the company's website on Wednesday. The shoe is complete 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.800 with their new signature logo as well, which was unveiled 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.920 late last month. If you haven't seen that, it's pretty slick, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.760 go check out that logo. Reese also has a signature 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.720 shoe in the works, which is currently slated for release 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:30.720 in twenty twenty six. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:31.600 We'll link to. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.480 Both pes and our show notes so you can check 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.800 them out for yourself. And I think we might have 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.200 mentioned this before, but I sometimes even forget, so just 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.840 in case you don't remember. A signature shoe is a 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.120 shoe that is designed in collaboration with and named after 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.960 a specific athlete, while a pe A player exclusive shoe 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.080 is a custom version of an existing shoe, often with 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.480 some sort of unique design or graphic or colorwave, that's 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.120 created for a specific player but not generally released to 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.960 the public as you see it with Angeoresa's sometimes it 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.320 is and you can buy it more. WNBA money moves 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.840 as the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the LVCVA 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.000 is once again sponsoring Las Vegas Aces players, giving everyone 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.760 on the roster a one hundred thousand dollars sponsorship deal. Now, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.440 you may remember, after last year's deals from the LVCVA, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.480 the WNBA announced an investigation into the team, the results 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.320 of which have still not yet been revealed. Per friend 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.040 of the show, Callie Finn of the Las Vegas Review Journal, quote, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.959 the league's investigation, the cause of which has not been 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.640 publicly addressed, most likely intends to determine whether the Aces 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.559 conspired with the LVCVA to go over the WNBA's salary 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.839 cap and pay players under the table end quote. LVCVA 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.480 president Steve Hill told the Review Journal that his organization 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.959 has not heard from the WNBA regarding the status of 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.200 the investigation into last year's payments to hockey slices. The 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:56.280 PWHL expansion draft is finally here. PWHL Seattle and PWHL 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.800 Vancouver add pieces to their inaugural rosters tonight, beginning at 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:04.160 a eastern Both squads signed the max of five players 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.320 that were permitted during the league's exclusive signing window, with 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:12.160 Vancouver adding Claire Thompson, Sophie Jake's Emirates mash Meyer, Sarah Nurse, 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.760 and Jen Gardner, while Seattle signed Hillary Knight, Danielle Sir Dakney, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.440 Kayla Barnes, Alex Carpenter, and Corin Schroeder. Tonight, each of 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.200 those teams will make seven more picks to reach a 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.320 twelve player roster. Coverage of the draft will be hosted 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.920 by Friends of the Show and Jackson Jill's hosts, Julia 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.720 Toscherry and Tessa Bonham, and you can watch it all 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.680 happen live at the PWHL dot com and on the 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.760 PWHL YouTube channel. We'll also link to where you could 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:43.720 track the picks in our show notes slices, we got 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:44.680 to take a quick break. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.000 When we come back, Big. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:50.680 Citrus is serving up a glass a juicy conversation pulp optional. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:14:59.880 Welcome back, slices. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.560 I hope you had a gate gay weekend. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.680 Happy pray. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.040 I did have a gay weekend. That's all right, We're 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.320 it's great, We're keeping it in. Welcome back. I hope 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.840 your weekend was gay or great or both. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.720 I'm gonna welcome in my producers, Alex, Hi, Alex. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.520 Hello, and me. She's crying. Hi, Mesh, Liza. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.040 We're gonna have a little big Centrius conversation about a 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.920 weekend chock full of sports news and games and gays 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.800 if you were Mesh, I want to. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.360 Talk about the Boston Swans first. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.200 First of all, I really enjoyed doing a deep dive 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.920 into Cyril the swan, and I really recommend everyone else too, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.640 So kind of a sad story actually about the man 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.000 inside the swan, but just the pictures alone are worth 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:44.600 it because. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.120 It looks like his wings are on backwards. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.680 But anyway, back to the Boston Swans, what do y'all 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.400 think about it? Because I'm trying not to be critical 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.080 for no good reason. It just is weird for it 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.880 to be a swan, But I also think it's pretty 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:56.920 so I'm reserving judgment. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.760 So it's so funny to hear your reaction to it, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.600 because swans actually are kind of a symbol of Boston, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.400 and I realized that that information was just ingrained in 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.200 my brain in a way that I thought was common 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.240 knowledge for the rest of the world. But apparently it's not. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:17.480 So I think it's fine, but I cannot stop thinking 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:22.840 about fans just honking like a real Swan, and I 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:28.239 cannot stop laughing. I just want like a whoa. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.440 First of all, that's a really good Swan. It's a 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.800 great wait, do it, do it again? Do it again? 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.040 Hold on, hold on stage right? Seriously. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.080 Ha ha, You're just full of surprises, Alex. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.440 You just really good. It's a really good Swan. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.320 I do worry now that you said that, that they 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.240 might have like a Vouzela situation where they think that 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.360 that's close enough to a bunch of swan talking, because 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.480 the Vouzelas are no good in my book. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.520 No, I agree, I mean, I listen. I just think 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.240 you gotta embrace the weirdness of your mascot, regardless of 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.840 what the mascot is. So I guess we'll see. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.520 Me swan thoughts. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.280 So I have an unfair bias against swans because I 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.840 had a teacher named miss Swan who was not very 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:22.520 nice to me. 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.080 Oh well, don't hold that against the birds. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.440 Yeah, so's it's tough. It's tough. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.640 It's just when I hear the name Swan. There's one 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.800 thing but two and I kind of fell on the 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:33.840 same side of the line as you. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.080 It's like, I don't I don't immediately think of a swan. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.960 What I think of sports or mascots. I think of 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.720 just literally anything else, just beauty and grace, beauty, maybe. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:43.639 Beauty and grace. I don't know. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:48.000 I think when I saw the controlling owner's comments saying 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.320 that they're gritty, immediately I thought, no, but you told us, 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:52.760 what did you tell us about you as well? 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:53.480 In the campus? 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.000 So these are not swans, these are geese. But I'm 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.760 just thinking to myself, I've never approached a swan in 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.760 the manner that some have a roach to geese, and 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.600 they've learned real quick that you don't with geese. Like 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.119 ESPN had to put up signs all over the Connecticut 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.720 campus that were like, we're not kidding, stay away from 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.720 the geese because when they're mating or when they have babies. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.400 They will few up. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.719 And I feel like maybe swans are the same, and 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.480 we just don't approach them in the same manner because 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.600 they stay in the water more and the geese are 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 always kind of like in our business. So I'm willing 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.480 to afford them the benefit of the doubt that swans 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.240 can be as gritty and territorial as geese, and we 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:31.919 just don't know it because we're usually looking at them 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.840 from afar, floating along on the surface, looking beautiful. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.600 And I will say, you know what, Boston has an 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.360 opportunity to prove us all wrong. They have an opportunity 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.919 to in so many legacy, in. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.440 So many ways of the swan. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.560 Okay, one final note on this, because I just googled 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:54.120 swan reputation birds. Fun fact about swans, y'all. A study 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.359 into the reputation for aggressiveness of swans found that they're 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.200 more likely to be hostile to their own kind to 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.320 other birds. Boy, I sense a team full of drama. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.480 Oh, we're gonna have a lot of juicy tea coming 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.240 out of that locker room in fighting. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:09.320 Yeah. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.280 I also whenever I don't even really watch a lot 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.560 of Adam Sandler, but they're all ingrained in my head 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.400 as a result of it just being part of the 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:17.680 societal lexicon. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.240 So I always think of Billy Madison and he says. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.120 Stop looking at me, swan, And so that's the first 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:24.720 thing I thought of when I saw the shield, and 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.520 I was like, I'm going to use that in every 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.919 social post about this team every time, and it's just 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.240 gonna it's just gonna be a regular thing. Okay, So 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:38.399 we're we're excited, enthusiastic, patient about how the whole Swan 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.320 thing will work out for them. I want to talk 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.000 AUSL Opening Day because it was the bulk of my 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.359 weekend and it was a frickin' blast. I didn't end 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.359 up getting to watch a ton of the final Women's 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.680