Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we can't
Speaker 1: stop watching Tanaia Latson's gravity defying five defender beating game
Speaker 1: winner from Sunday's Florida State win over thirteenth ranked UNC
Speaker 1: the top scorer in all of college hoops given US
Speaker 1: Highlight Reel Magic. It's Monday, January twenty seventh, and on
Speaker 1: today's show, Chelsea got their woman, Djto gets teed up,
Speaker 1: a controversial new commercial earworm, and an important Hoops and
Speaker 1: gayshit update. It's all coming up right after this Welcome
Speaker 1: back slices. Happy Monday. Here's what you need to know today.
Speaker 1: We start with some major WNBA news. We first saw
Speaker 1: a friend of the show, Annie Costable of the Chicago
Speaker 1: Sun Times, report on Saturday about a potential three team
Speaker 1: trade that would send Jewel Lloyd to the Aces and
Speaker 1: Kelsey Plum to the Sparks, and that other big WNBA
Speaker 1: free agency moves might be on hold till the.
Speaker 2: Deal was finalized.
Speaker 1: Then late on Sunday, ESPN's sham Shrania, Ramona Shelbourne, Kendra Andrews,
Speaker 1: and Alexa Philippoo together confirmed the deal. A source reportedly
Speaker 1: told the ESPN's cadre of reporters that in addition to
Speaker 1: Lloyd to the Aces and Plumb to the Storm, the
Speaker 1: Storm will get the number two pick in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five WNBA draft and Lee Yaru from the Sparks.
Speaker 1: In the deal, Sparks will get the number nine pick
Speaker 1: from Seattle and the Aces will get the number thirteen
Speaker 1: draft pick from LA. That's all we've got as of
Speaker 1: this recording, but plenty to say about this deal in
Speaker 1: the future, and we expect a lot more dominoes to
Speaker 1: fall in free agency once.
Speaker 2: This deal is done.
Speaker 1: In tennis, American Madison Keyes won her first Grand Slam
Speaker 1: title over the weekend, defeating world number one Arena Sablenka
Speaker 1: in a thrilling three set match on Saturday. At age
Speaker 1: twenty nine, Keys became the second oldest first time winner
Speaker 1: of the Australian Open, the all time record holder China's
Speaker 1: Lee Nah, who won her first title in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: at age thirty one. Keys, seated nineteenth, had to also
Speaker 1: go through the second and seventh ranked players before meeting
Speaker 1: several in the final. More Australian Open shout out to
Speaker 1: front of the show Taylor Townsend and check Player Katerina Sinyakova,
Speaker 1: who won the women's doubles title on Sunday. Townsend and
Speaker 1: Sennyakova produced a solid resume of results since teaming up
Speaker 1: last year. In addition to this new trophy, they also
Speaker 1: won Wimbledon and reached the semis of the US Open
Speaker 1: last year. To soccer, or as this player's new team
Speaker 1: refers to it, football, Naomi Germra's move to Chelsea is official.
Speaker 1: The women's Super League team announced that Germa has signed
Speaker 1: a four and a half year deal with the club,
Speaker 1: making the twenty four year old defender officially the first
Speaker 1: female player to earn a one million dollar transfer fee.
Speaker 1: The signing was revealed on Sunday when Germa walked out
Speaker 1: onto the pitch ahead of Chelsea's match against Arsenal truly
Speaker 1: some movie type stuff. In a story on Chelsea's website,
Speaker 1: Germa said, quote, there are a lot of things about
Speaker 1: Chelsea that made me want to come here. The culture,
Speaker 1: the winning mentality, staff and players. It's a top environment
Speaker 1: to learn and grow in.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Germa also thanked San Diego Wave in a post on
Speaker 1: Instagram for quote creating an environment that allowed me to
Speaker 1: grow and reach my potential end quote more soccer News.
Speaker 1: You already know that you can get into the ownership
Speaker 1: game by joining the show and buying a slice of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Aurora link in the show notes. If you
Speaker 1: still haven't bought, but if any of your slices have
Speaker 1: some big M money and want to get into the pros,
Speaker 1: you can set your sites on the Houston Dash. Per Sportico,
Speaker 1: Ted Siegal, owner of both the Dash and the Dynamo
Speaker 1: of the MLS, has hired an investment bank to assess
Speaker 1: investment options for the Dash. In a memo written to
Speaker 1: staff and reviewed by Sportico, Siegel wrote, quote, given this
Speaker 1: backdrop and the unprecedented levels of interest in the NWSL
Speaker 1: from high quality investors, I believe now is the right
Speaker 1: time to explore whether there are additional resources that we
Speaker 1: can attract to help the Dash succeed well into the future.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Now it's worth noting the Dash of qualified for the
Speaker 1: nwslayoffs just once since joining the league in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: The team has also struggled with both player and coach turnover.
Speaker 1: In the last two years, five different people have filled
Speaker 1: the latter role, either on an interim or a so
Speaker 1: called permanent basis, and Maria Sanchez, who signed one of
Speaker 1: the biggest NWSL contracts of all time to join the
Speaker 1: Dash in twenty twenty three, requested a trade from the
Speaker 1: club just a few months later. All that to say,
Speaker 1: the quote unquote right time to explore additional resources and
Speaker 1: invest in the brain trust and the player experience might
Speaker 1: have been a few years ago, but either way, we're
Speaker 1: here for it if it improves the Dash to college hoops.
Speaker 1: A couple of ranked teams were upset over the weekend,
Speaker 1: including number ten Kansas State falling to unranked Colorado sixty
Speaker 1: three fifty three on Saturday, and number sixteen West Virginia
Speaker 1: dropping a seventy seven to sixty two contests to unranked
Speaker 1: Arizona that day as well. Also, as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: Tanaia Latson, putting up twenty five points to lead unranked
Speaker 1: Florida State, passed the thirteenth ranked tar Heels.
Speaker 2: Eighty six eighty four on Sunday.
Speaker 1: A couple of nice wins for top ranked teams too, though,
Speaker 1: including Loren Betts putting up thirty three points to send
Speaker 1: number one UCLA pass number eight Maryland eighty two to
Speaker 1: sixty seven on Sunday, Sarah Strong and pagebackers leading numbers
Speaker 1: Yukon with twenty six and twenty two points respectively in
Speaker 1: a seventy two to sixty one win over Big East
Speaker 1: Vauxe Crayton on Saturday and a big win for number
Speaker 1: two South Carolina on Friday night over number five LSU
Speaker 1: Anissa Morros fifteen points, pacing the Game Cocks in that
Speaker 1: sixty six to fifty six win. More hoops news, Melissa
Speaker 1: Smith is unrivaled. The Indiana Fever forward has signed an
Speaker 1: injury relief contract with the Three on three Leagues misted BC,
Speaker 1: same team as her girlfriend, Dja Carrington. Smith made her
Speaker 1: debut for the Myst on Saturday, playing five minutes. We'll
Speaker 1: have to wait a little bit longer to see Carrington
Speaker 1: and Smith play side by side, as Carrington is one
Speaker 1: of the players currently out with injury, along with Jewel Lloyd.
Speaker 1: After the weekend, the Myst are the only team without
Speaker 1: a win and unrivaled. They're sitting at oh to four.
Speaker 1: The Laces and the Lunar Owls lead the league with
Speaker 1: perfect three and oh marks heading into their matchups tonight
Speaker 1: with Rose b C and Vinyl BC respectively to the
Speaker 1: p WHL, The Toronto Scepters and New York Sirens met
Speaker 1: for the second annual Battle on Bay Street on Saturday,
Speaker 1: competing in front of a sold out crowd of nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand and one oh two at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
Speaker 1: The Scepters won the contest four to two, with Hannah
Speaker 1: Miller scoring two goals. At the conclusion of the weekend,
Speaker 1: Miller and Minnesota's Kendall Cooin Schofield lead the PWHL in
Speaker 1: goals scored with six apiece this season, but it's a
Speaker 1: tight race behind him, with several players sitting on five
Speaker 1: to Snowboarding American Chloe Kim won her eighth X Games
Speaker 1: snowboard halfpipe title on Saturday, to break her tie with
Speaker 1: Kelly Clark for most women's halfpipe titles and X Games history.
Speaker 1: Seven of Kim's wins have come at the aspin X Games,
Speaker 1: while one was won at the X Games in Oslo, Norway.
Speaker 1: After the win, Kim said on the broadcast she felt
Speaker 1: in a rut the last few years, but she entered
Speaker 1: this season just wanting to focus on doing runs that
Speaker 1: felt good and she's happy it worked out. Looking down
Speaker 1: the road at next year's Milan Cortina winner Olympics, Kim
Speaker 1: could become the first snowboarder of any gender to win
Speaker 1: snowboard halfpipe gold at three consecutive Olympics. More snowsports news.
Speaker 1: Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffren is set to make her return
Speaker 1: this week at a World Cup stop in Frame. Schiffrin,
Speaker 1: who has won ninety nine career World Cup races, has
Speaker 1: been out since November when she tore obliqu muscles when
Speaker 1: she fell during a giant slalom that could have been
Speaker 1: her one hundredth win. Want to give a shout out
Speaker 1: to the absolutely six Surf City uniforms worn on Saturday
Speaker 1: by the Rainbow Wahiney, the University of Hawaii women's hoop
Speaker 1: squad that surf with a uh in the middle for
Speaker 1: University of Hawaii SUHRF. The jerseys are the design of
Speaker 1: Isaac Daggett, a University of Wyoming student who beat out
Speaker 1: over one hundred and twenty five other submissions in the
Speaker 1: school's first ever fan design contest. Hawaii beat Big West
Speaker 1: co leader UC Irvine on Saturday in Beaman's Bigger Bash,
Speaker 1: named after head coach Laura Beeman and they were rocking
Speaker 1: the rainbow design. You can check them out via link
Speaker 1: in the show notes where you can bid to take
Speaker 1: one of the Jersey's home auction ends tonight.
Speaker 2: We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, the unrivaled call is coming from
Speaker 1: inside the house. Welcome back, slices. We had a big
Speaker 1: weekend of sports. A couple stories to dig into. First
Speaker 1: quick note on that LSU South Carolina game I mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier Don Staley's squad getting the wind despite Kim Molki
Speaker 1: trying to harness the power of the current planetary parade
Speaker 1: with her celestial themed blazer. Anyway, after the game, Tiger
Speaker 1: star Flage Johnson called out the DJ at Colonial Life
Speaker 1: Arena for playing the song cut Friends by rapper Camouflage
Speaker 1: after the game Cocks win Now. Camouflage is Flage's father.
Speaker 1: He was murdered in two thousand and three when her
Speaker 1: mother was still pregnant with her She wrote quote, I'll
Speaker 1: take my l on the chin, but this just nasty behavior.
Speaker 1: None funny about that on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of
Speaker 1: the DJ's Instagram, where after someone pointed out that playing
Speaker 1: Camouflage at the end of the game was crazy. The
Speaker 1: DJ replied my bad with a laughing face. The DJ
Speaker 1: who goes by djto first responded by posting, quote, people
Speaker 1: will find something to be mad about, just let them
Speaker 1: end quote. But then she followed up with a statement
Speaker 1: that said, in part quote, I apologize for playing cut
Speaker 1: Friends instrumental at the game yesterday. It is never my
Speaker 1: intent to disrespect anyone or offend anyone when my job
Speaker 1: is to have fun and make sure other people have
Speaker 1: a good time. She went on, I'm from the low
Speaker 1: Country Seaport area, so I've been playing it for years,
Speaker 1: even at other games, but I shouldn't have played it
Speaker 1: at yesterday's game, and then said quote, I can't control
Speaker 1: how anyone takes it, but I can take responsibility and
Speaker 1: apologize end quote. Now that's a shit apology, and honestly,
Speaker 1: it reads like she's blaming Flage and others for taking offense.
Speaker 1: I can't control how anyone takes it. Well, how would
Speaker 1: you take someone playing your murdered father's song right after
Speaker 1: your team got beat and then doubling down with a
Speaker 1: my bad and a laughing emoji.
Speaker 2: Thankfully sc agreed with me in a statement.
Speaker 1: South Carolina Athletics apologize to Flage and her family, and
Speaker 1: Djto has been suspended for a game, though I'd argue
Speaker 1: she deserves a much longer break. Speaking to South Carolina,
Speaker 1: they take on number seventeen Tennessee tonight and Lady Vols
Speaker 1: coach Kim Caldwell plans to coach despite having her first
Speaker 1: baby exactly one week ago Monday, a boy named Connor
Speaker 1: Scott all while she was battling the flu. Now, Caldwell
Speaker 1: Mister teams lost to Texas on Thursday night, but she
Speaker 1: was back in practice on Friday.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Props to the new mama if coaching today is what
Speaker 1: she wants, get after it, but no judgment for her
Speaker 1: or anyone that needs more time than that. Sticking with Hoops,
Speaker 1: it's been a while since we gave you a Hoops
Speaker 1: and Gay Shit update, but we've got a good one
Speaker 1: for you now. I don't know if this is for
Speaker 1: sure true, but using previous Hoops and Gay Shit knowledge
Speaker 1: and some context clues, we're thinking that Melissa Smith was
Speaker 1: crashing with girlfriend Dja Carrington in Miami for the duration
Speaker 1: of the Unrivaled season, and then when the myst realized
Speaker 1: that injuries had their roster short a couple players. They
Speaker 1: just looked in house for a replacement. Literally, like in
Speaker 1: Djana's house. Old girl was there ready to play faster
Speaker 1: than you could say, Delissa or Najane.
Speaker 2: What we got to figure out their ship name y'all?
Speaker 1: Only in women's sports, right, I've never heard of a
Speaker 1: men's pro player shacking up with his boo and getting
Speaker 1: the call to suit up when injury struck. Hopefully one
Speaker 1: day I will, though, And if I do, that honestly
Speaker 1: wouldn't be much crazier than hearing a remix of Kia's
Speaker 1: My Neck, My Back in a Dove ad on national television.
Speaker 2: But folks, that is a reality in the year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Now, if you haven't been watching Unrivaled or college hoops,
Speaker 1: you might not have caud yet, but this ad is
Speaker 1: basically the new ubiquitous commercial during women's basketball broadcasts. The
Speaker 1: original song, in case you don't remember or your Misha's age,
Speaker 1: was this naughty little tune with a very memorable chorus.
Speaker 1: If you have kids in the car, ear Muff's time,
Speaker 1: got it okay? That memorable chorus was my neck, my back,
Speaker 1: lick my pussym my crack Now Dove's version is my neck,
Speaker 1: my back, my legs and pits all that my neck,
Speaker 1: my back, your thighs will be intact, which really doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, but anyway, you get the picture. I
Speaker 1: never thought i'd see the day, honestly, like, what's next,
Speaker 1: mister Peanuts sing and give me that nut and a
Speaker 1: Planter's ad. Now, I love peanuts, and Peanuts love me.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it anyway. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: a more family friendly story, I do have one. Over
Speaker 1: the weekend, a pair of sisters met in the Australian
Speaker 1: Open Junior Doubles girls draw and they were even wearing
Speaker 1: matching fits.
Speaker 2: This was awesome.
Speaker 1: Twin Americans ann again Christina Pennicova faced off against Czech
Speaker 1: sisters Elena and Yanikovakova, with the twins advancing and going
Speaker 1: on to win the title. And for more sister sister fun,
Speaker 1: you could check out Keith Jenkins ESPN story on sisters
Speaker 1: in college hoops.
Speaker 2: We'll link to that in the show notes.
Speaker 1: All right, so we mentioned earlier in the show that
Speaker 1: American Chloe Kim won her eighth X Game snowboard halfpipe
Speaker 1: title to break her tie with Kelly Clark for the
Speaker 1: most women's half pipe titles in X Game's history, and
Speaker 1: that brings us to the latest edition of Yes and
Speaker 1: So a little context on what it means for Chloe
Speaker 1: Kim to break Kelly Clark's record. Back in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: Chloe mathematically qualified for the US Olympic team, but at
Speaker 1: age thirteen, she was too young to compete at the Games,
Speaker 1: so Kelly and company went to Russia while Chloe stayed home.
Speaker 1: One year later, Chloe won her first X Games title
Speaker 1: at age fourteen, and in doing so, she ended Kelly's
Speaker 1: four year wind streak. Kelly finished second and was nothing
Speaker 1: but a good sport celebrating Chloe's accomplishment and sport progressing
Speaker 1: tricks with the media. And no exaggeration here, but Kelly
Speaker 1: was literally twice Chloe's age thirty one and.
Speaker 2: Fifteen at the time.
Speaker 1: But here they were two women were I guess technically
Speaker 1: one woman and one teenager pushing their sport forward at
Speaker 1: the same time. And there's actually a pretty famous story
Speaker 1: about how the two first met. So when Chloe was
Speaker 1: eight years old, she was riding at Mammoth Mountain in
Speaker 1: California when she saw Kelly waiting in the lift line.
Speaker 1: Chloe tugged on the sleeve of Kelly's jacket to get
Speaker 1: her attention and asked if she could ride up with her.
Speaker 1: Kelly obliged, and as the story goes, they did a
Speaker 1: few runs together. Kelly went on to become a mentor
Speaker 1: of Chloe's. They trained together in California for years, and
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, Chloe, seventeen, was finally old enough to
Speaker 1: compete at the Olympics. Kelly, then thirty four, made the
Speaker 1: team too, becoming one of the first American women to
Speaker 1: compete at five Winter Olympics. Chloe went on to win gold,
Speaker 1: while Kelly finished just off the podium in fourth. And
Speaker 1: while finishing fourth at the Olympics normally means going home
Speaker 1: empty handed, that wasn't the case this time around. That's
Speaker 1: because the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has something called
Speaker 1: the Order of eCos Award. Each US athlete who wins
Speaker 1: a medal is able to bestow the honor on someone
Speaker 1: who helped them reach the Olympic podium. Now, most athletes
Speaker 1: pick their coach, but in twenty eighteen, Chloe picked Kelly.
Speaker 1: It was just the second time that an athlete chose
Speaker 1: to award the Order of eCos to a fellow athlete.
Speaker 1: Asked about her decision, Chloe said, of Kelly quote, she
Speaker 1: really took me under her wing, has guided me through
Speaker 1: every possible situation, good and bad, and I'm so happy
Speaker 1: to call her my friend.
Speaker 2: End quote. So yes to Chloe Kim and to Kelly Clark.
Speaker 2: Love that story.
Speaker 1: Speaking of yes, ending a slice is saying yes to
Speaker 1: new teams and trying to figure out how to keep
Speaker 1: track of all of them. Megan Werner wrote us and said,
Speaker 1: in part quote, how to keep track of all my teams?
Speaker 1: I'm loving following all my new teams lately, Minnesota, Frost,
Speaker 1: Lunar Owls, Love Madison. Do any of you know how
Speaker 1: a league gets to be one of the options at
Speaker 1: ESPN's scores section of the app. I can find snooker, chess,
Speaker 1: and badminton, among other obscure sports, but no PWHL for example.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know the criteria. Do leagues and governing
Speaker 1: bodies pay for it? Is it based on ESPN's perceived interest?
Speaker 1: Do these new leagues want fans going to their own
Speaker 1: sites to follow results instead?
Speaker 2: Would be nice if.
Speaker 1: I could check on my new teams in similar ways
Speaker 1: that I check on my hapless men's teams.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, per my friends at ESPN who have been
Speaker 1: working to push for more women's sports content for a while,
Speaker 1: it's not a simple ad. So one of them tried
Speaker 1: to tackle the issue right when she got to the company.
Speaker 1: And apparently it's a manual process to add a new league,
Speaker 1: and it scores, schedule stats, etc. So it's a pretty
Speaker 1: big technological lift and if not up to anyone person
Speaker 1: to decide which leagues make the cut, it's part of
Speaker 1: a larger product roadmap and bandwidth decision. Also, producer Alex
Speaker 1: says that when she worked at The Messenger, she was
Speaker 1: involved in some convos about how to get a ticker
Speaker 1: added to the site, and even though women's sports were
Speaker 1: a priority, none of the sports data companies that sold
Speaker 1: the packages included women's leagues. Right now, ESPN is also
Speaker 1: working on rolling out its big direct to consumer streaming
Speaker 1: service called Flagship, So my guess is that the focus
Speaker 1: and the resources are going to be on that right now.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, though, you could check out an app
Speaker 1: called flash Score. It's producer Alex's favorite. The company that
Speaker 1: makes it is based in Prague, so most Americans haven't
Speaker 1: heard of it, but it's got almost every league on it.
Speaker 1: Unrivaled hasn't been added just yet, but Love and the
Speaker 1: PWHL are both on it, so it's only a matter
Speaker 1: of time before Rivaled joins too. Plus if you make
Speaker 1: it account, you could favorite your teams and you can
Speaker 1: get alerts about scores and upcoming games. Thanks for the question.
Speaker 1: We agree that we would love to be able to
Speaker 1: track all of our teams in one spot. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Unrivaled and data across the timeline known for keeping track
Speaker 1: of women's hoop stats, just added Unrivaled this weekend, so
Speaker 1: now you could find all the Unrivaled data there along
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Speaker 1: by Tittles review at the Bowling I went to this
Speaker 1: weekend with friends. The screens offered up fun facts under
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