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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're making

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Speaker 1: the chocolate muffins everyone raved about in the Olympic village.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to at Jordan the Stallion eight on TikTok for

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Speaker 1: tracking down the recipe. On today's show, we're going to

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Speaker 1: help you prepare for the second half of the WNBA

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Speaker 1: season with the host of the podcast in case you

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Speaker 1: missed it, Christina Williams. Plus will tell you which new

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Speaker 1: women's soccer leagues to care about and which don't even exist.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this. Welcome back, my

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Speaker 1: lol Laune slices. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: The numbers are in and so many of you beautiful

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Speaker 1: people tuned in to watch the beautiful game. That's right,

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Speaker 1: US women's national team beating Brazil in the gold medal

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Speaker 1: soccer match average approximately nine million viewers on NBC and Peacock.

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Speaker 1: That's the most watched gold medal soccer game since the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four Athens Olympics. And of course we

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Speaker 1: love that, but also just a little bit of context

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Speaker 1: because it's kind of a no shit Sherlock moment. Twelve

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Speaker 1: years ago, when the US women's national team last played

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve London Olympics. The game was on cable and

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Speaker 1: as a result, it was visible to far fewer viewers.

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Speaker 1: Four years earlier in Beijing, the gold medal game was

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Speaker 1: on a special on demand cable channel for Charter subscribers.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, this is the most watched gold medal soccer

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Speaker 1: game since four and also the first time the women's

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Speaker 1: So you do the math. If you make women's sports

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Speaker 1: easy to watch, people tune in. You want some more numbers.

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Speaker 1: We got some more numbers. USA Basketball's gold medal win

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Speaker 1: over France, a nine to thirty am Eastern start, drew

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Speaker 1: seven point eight million viewers on NBC and Peacock. The

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Speaker 1: game peaked at ten point nine million viewers for that

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Speaker 1: sphincter tightening last half hour of play, and two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty seven thousand people attended Stage one of the

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Speaker 1: Tour de France FEM on Monday. They crowded around the

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Speaker 1: start in Rotterdam, Netherlands, along the roads of the one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four kilometer course, and at the finish

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Speaker 1: Charlotte Coole backed up per win in stage one of

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and fellow Dutch cyclists Demi Voloring one stage three.

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Speaker 1: Say it with me, all everyone watches women's sports. Also,

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Speaker 1: I've got an update on my complaint that not enough

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Speaker 1: Olympic champs give us good. Behind the scenes of their celebrations,

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Speaker 1: USA Basketball and Las Vegas ASA star Asia Wilson took

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Speaker 1: it up a notch and after the team's medal ceremony,

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Speaker 1: Wilson went live on IG from the team's bus, and

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Speaker 1: despite Dinah Tarrossi's insistence that only folks with a blue

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Speaker 1: check could join, Asia made one lucky fans day by

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Speaker 1: adding them to her live stream. It was just some

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Speaker 1: random dude like waving and congratulating them suddenly brought onto

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Speaker 1: the live stream. It was hilarious. We love a star.

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Speaker 1: That's for the people. Asia. The WNBA is almost back,

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Speaker 1: which means we get New York Liberty mascot Ellie the

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Speaker 1: course she never disappoints. Ellie performed on stage with Sierra

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Speaker 1: in our show notes. I've frankly never wanted to be

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Speaker 1: an elephant so bad in my life. Speaking of the WNBA,

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Wings, who are tied for last in the

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Speaker 1: league at six and nineteen, are now at least temporarily

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Speaker 1: the league's most valuable franchise. Here's what's up. Two investors,

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Speaker 1: local hedge Fund founder Randy Eisenman and Jed Kaplan, a

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Speaker 1: minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies, reportedly bought a one

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Speaker 1: It feels like those front office dealings don't always make

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Speaker 1: USA gymnast Jordan Childs would lose her bronze medal for

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Speaker 1: If only the Paralympics were on to continue the excitement.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point, but I'm guessing there's a good reason,

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Speaker 2: First gotta update my title to Olympic and Paralympic expert.

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Speaker 2: I want any other way, Sarah, but I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: lay out some numbers for y'all. Five hundred athletes competed

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Speaker 2: at the upcoming Paralympics. That is a lot of people

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Speaker 2: administrative staff. That is a lot of people, and honestly

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Speaker 2: also a lot of really really tired people. I worked

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Speaker 2: on six Olympics and five Paralympics, and if you had

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Speaker 2: I would have rolled over and said no, thank you.

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Speaker 2: And so I think people sometimes underestimate just how much

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Speaker 2: behind the Olympics. It's not like it's some small side show.

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Speaker 2: It's a huge, huge event. Venues need converting everything from

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Speaker 2: signage to competitive elements. For example, the Eiffel Tower Stadium,

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Speaker 2: will host five A side soccer also known as blind

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Speaker 1: Follow up question quickly because I saw some people commenting

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Speaker 2: the Winter Olympics actually don't get to use that title,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like to if they started to switch

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Speaker 1: coming with the info. Speaking of waiting, which we are

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Speaker 1: doing for the Paralympics, We've got the WNBA returning tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: some new leagues, both real and imagined. I'll explain. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with the new CBA. So last week on August ninth,

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Speaker 1: Sportico that they had agreed to a new collective bargaining

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Speaker 1: we know about the deal so far via Eben Novy

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Speaker 1: particularly necessary because of the major growth that the league

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Speaker 1: the coming years. So let me explain. The current five

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Speaker 1: most NWSL franchises were valued in the single digit millions now.

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Speaker 1: That CBA was a big deal. Back in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: there was no such thing as free agency. This CBA

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Speaker 1: in two hundred and forty million over four years. That

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Speaker 1: that's still a huge jump in revenue. So that, combined

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Speaker 1: with those skyrocketing valuations, the players clearly deserve to see

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty seventh season, So this new CBA,

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