Speaker 1: Welcome to a Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're
Speaker 1: hoping that Trinity Rodman's Call her Daddy interview goes mainstream
Speaker 1: enough for people to finally, once and for all stop
Speaker 1: asking her if her dad will be at the game.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, December twentieth, and on today's show, we'll give
Speaker 1: you a trio of segments A yes and about one
Speaker 1: of the best women's basketball players ever, A good Game,
Speaker 1: fact you about UNC women's soccer success, and what the
Speaker 1: fact that puts their dominance in even more context. Plus
Speaker 1: our little trio finally decides on a name. It's all
Speaker 1: coming up right after this Welcome back slices, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today in NWSL news,
Speaker 1: per Sports Illustrated, forward Lynn Williams and goalkeeper Cassie Miller
Speaker 1: have been traded from New York New Jersey Gotham FC
Speaker 1: to the Seattle Rain for midfielder Jalen Howell and an
Speaker 1: undisclosed transfer fee. Sources told SI that Williams, who's from California,
Speaker 1: wants to finish her career at a club on the
Speaker 1: West Coast, and that request factored into this trade. Williams
Speaker 1: join Gotham back in twenty twenty three and has been
Speaker 1: a huge part of the club's rejuvenation over the past seasons,
Speaker 1: including helping them to their NWSL championship win in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. She's the NWSL's all time leading goal scorer
Speaker 1: with eighty total goals, and she ranks third all time
Speaker 1: for assists with twenty eight. In two seasons with Gotham,
Speaker 1: she racked up eleven goals and four assists in thirty
Speaker 1: five matches. In lacrosse News, Athletes Unlimited has decided to
Speaker 1: suspend its Pro Lacrosse League indefinitely, effective immediately. AU released
Speaker 1: a statement detailing the decision on Wednesday. The international competition
Speaker 1: schedule and athlete availability during the summer months in the
Speaker 1: next few years were cited as obstacles which make it
Speaker 1: impossible to project the league's growth over that period. AU
Speaker 1: did state that every athlete who's played in its Lacrosse
Speaker 1: league will continue to benefit from its profit participation plan
Speaker 1: in their final season and the nineteen years that follow.
Speaker 1: In Pro Hoops, it feels like Asia Wilson racks up
Speaker 1: another accolade. Every Day Sports Illustrated named the Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Aces Star two time WNBA champ and three time MVP.
Speaker 1: Their twenty twenty four WNBA Player of the Year low
Speaker 1: refresher on the unbelievable season Asia had In thirty eight
Speaker 1: regular season games. She set the WNBA record for points
Speaker 1: at a season with oneenty twenty one, becoming the first
Speaker 1: player to eclipse the one thousand point mark in WNBA history.
Speaker 1: She set the WNBA record for rebounds in a season
Speaker 1: and became the only player in WNBA and NBA history
Speaker 1: to lead a season in points, rebounds, and blocks, en
Speaker 1: route to a unanimous MVP selection. College Hoops News a
Speaker 1: disturbing situation that we mentioned a while back has come
Speaker 1: to a conclusion. Robert Cole Parmally, the forty year old
Speaker 1: man who was arrested back in August for stalking yukon
Speaker 1: basketball star page Beckers, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a
Speaker 1: second degree charge at Rockville Superior Court. He received a
Speaker 1: one year suspended sentence and three years probation. Parmelly's plea
Speaker 1: agreement dictates that he must abide by a protective order
Speaker 1: that's been in effect since September sixteenth and will remain
Speaker 1: in place until January fourth, twenty sixty four and must
Speaker 1: comply with treatment recommendations for his mental health. He's also
Speaker 1: banned from the state of Connecticut during his three year
Speaker 1: probation and from arenas, hotels, and practice facilities where the
Speaker 1: Yukon women's basketball team is present. The WNBA has barred
Speaker 1: him from all arenas and practice facilities as well. It's
Speaker 1: frankly infuriating that this is a thing that Paiges had
Speaker 1: to deal with, but we're glad that the situation was
Speaker 1: taken seriously and resulted in some meaningful punishment. All Right,
Speaker 1: Slice says, it's time for the triumphant return of one
Speaker 1: of our favorite segments. Yes, and now, if you've been
Speaker 1: listening to our shows this week, you may have heard
Speaker 1: our conversation with sophomore sensation Juju Watkins. Last season, in
Speaker 1: the final year of the Pac twelve Conference, Watkins led
Speaker 1: a resurgence in SoCal, helping the Trojans to their first
Speaker 1: number one seed in the NCAA Tournament since nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: and she scored nine hundred twenty points. That's good for
Speaker 1: the most points by a freshman in D one history.
Speaker 1: Speaking in nineteen eighty six, though, what was going on
Speaker 1: back then? Who led that team to a number one
Speaker 1: seed in the attorney. Well, that would be Cheryl Miller, arguably
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever lace him up the
Speaker 1: Ford was a four time All American and three time
Speaker 1: Naysmith Award recipient, and to this day, she still holds
Speaker 1: USC records for career scoring with threeenty eighteen points, rebounds,
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and thirty four, rebound average twelve rebounds per game,
Speaker 1: and free throws mate seven hundred. Miller led the Trojans
Speaker 1: to back to back NCAA championships in nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: and eighty four, and she dominated with Team USA as well,
Speaker 1: winning a gold medal at the eighty four Olympics. For
Speaker 1: her impact on the game, she's been recognized as both
Speaker 1: the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer and a Women's
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Famer. Now, if you recall, we also
Speaker 1: told you yesterday that another recent college hoops superstar, Caitlin Clark,
Speaker 1: will have her jersey retired at Iowa at the beginning
Speaker 1: of February when the team faces off against what a
Speaker 1: coincidence USC. Of course, that honor is extremely well deserved.
Speaker 1: Clark changed the trajectory of the entire Hawkeyes program and
Speaker 1: of women's basketball at large. Pretty cool, right, We'll get this, folks.
Speaker 1: Miller had her jersey retired too, during the eighty six
Speaker 1: season while she was still playing. Miller's was the first
Speaker 1: basketball jersey USC retired ever, regardless of gender. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the delightful and insightful Jordan Robinson for reminding us
Speaker 1: about this through a post on Blue Sky. We'll link
Speaker 1: to that in the show notes. So yes, ju Ju Watkins, Yes,
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, and Cheryl Miller. Because Cheryl Miller was her
Speaker 1: and frankly still is. She got her flowers at WNBA
Speaker 1: All Star Weekend this summer and was selected to coach
Speaker 1: Team WNBA. During the All Star Game, her squad won
Speaker 1: one seventeen to one oh nine, beating a team of
Speaker 1: players roster for the US national team that went on
Speaker 1: to win gold in Paris. Now, the WNBA didn't exist
Speaker 1: when Miller graduated from USC, and her career was also
Speaker 1: cut short by severe knee injuries. But ask your favorite
Speaker 1: player's favorite player who their favorite player is, and we
Speaker 1: bet at Cheryl Miller. We got to take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, We're actually gonna pick a trio
Speaker 1: name this time seriously, for real, we promise, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Slices. We're bringing in producers Mish and
Speaker 1: Alex for this conversation because we got it once and
Speaker 1: for all. Pick a name for ourselves now. If you
Speaker 1: listened earlier in the week, we were kind of talking
Speaker 1: about nailing it down to possibly the Grove. But while
Speaker 1: we were talking about that, the name Big Citrus came
Speaker 1: up as kind of a joke, and one of our faves,
Speaker 1: Colleen Conahan, multi time guest, longtime listener, said she actually
Speaker 1: likes Big Citrus as our name, so we got to
Speaker 1: consider Big Citrus. And then Amy Liss, longtime listener, one
Speaker 1: of my faves. Shout out to Amy, wrote us, if
Speaker 1: you're the Grove, Alex and Mesh are the produce ers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are, which is incredible. I did not even think
Speaker 1: about that produce amazing, incredible. And then Amanda Vallo, who
Speaker 1: sent us some good co ed sports etiquette editions, came
Speaker 1: back to the email and she wrote, quote real Ladies
Speaker 1: Marmala based on the show tune Creole Lady Marmalade. It
Speaker 1: represents Chicago Lady Gaga Oranges. How could you go wrong,
Speaker 1: you guys would be setting the record straight and owning
Speaker 1: the lyric on the daily. Apparently this is a song
Speaker 1: about a guy trying to hook up with a hooker.
Speaker 1: That's not important, y'all, but I do think it's really
Speaker 1: fun to say real lady mud every single time you
Speaker 1: hear it. She also suggested Sam Sam the first letter
Speaker 1: amalgamation of Sarah, Alex and meish and when people ask
Speaker 1: who you are what you do, you can have fun
Speaker 1: saying I am Sam or Sam I am. Amanda also
Speaker 1: said you could lean into the growth and success of
Speaker 1: the WNBA and call yourselves the Orange Hoodies the hood
Speaker 1: for short, Home of the Slices. And most importantly, she said, ps,
Speaker 1: I work at a service dog organization, and anytime you're
Speaker 1: in Denver you're invited for a tour, I promise it
Speaker 1: will include lots of dog time and an ending where
Speaker 1: you're smothered in puppies. Please consider end quote yea duh,
Speaker 1: I mean duh On the last part. We're clearly if
Speaker 1: I am in Denver, I will be reaching out and
Speaker 1: I will be smothered in puppies. Okay, Alex Mesh, let's
Speaker 1: whittle this down I don't think I want to go
Speaker 1: with SAM.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: I kind of love the orange hoodies the hood for sure,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cute and it does tie in WNBA, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it supersedes the other ideas. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's for us, Okay.
Speaker 2: I mean I do want to maybe FLAG Could we
Speaker 2: do ASM instead? Like who says SAM has to be
Speaker 2: the order that we could compete with the American Society
Speaker 2: of Microbiology.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I don't like that because it reminds me
Speaker 1: of ASMR. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll someday add a third producer Rachel or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then people will expect us to do our
Speaker 1: shows like this and hope that we'll give them really
Speaker 1: good sports content. And that's just not my style. So
Speaker 1: we're not gonna be SAM, and we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: ASM or R. Real Ladies Marmelote is hilarious, but I
Speaker 1: don't think it really rolls off the tongue, and I
Speaker 1: will then insist every time we say it that I
Speaker 1: go real ladies, Mama. I don't think I can handle
Speaker 1: that exactly, think anyone can handle that, including me. So
Speaker 1: we're back to where we started with Big Citrus and
Speaker 1: the Grove, and frankly, I'm stumped. I'm gonna need you
Speaker 1: to to help us come to a consensus here.
Speaker 3: This is a big This is probably the hardest problem
Speaker 3: I've ever been tasked with solving in life, in life,
Speaker 3: generally speaking, the biggest thing. So from our last conversation,
Speaker 3: I was a big fan of the Grove. I still
Speaker 3: I've got some eggs in that basket. But Plaine and
Speaker 3: Big Citrus, I think I told y'all when we first
Speaker 3: saw her message. I enjoy the kind of conspiratorial vibe
Speaker 3: that comes from Big Citrus because Big Pharma. Not that
Speaker 3: I want to be associated with Big Pharma, you know,
Speaker 3: we do.
Speaker 1: I want to make that kind of bag, but we
Speaker 1: do not want to go to jail ruin people's lives. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: Can we just have the first half that's grown up me,
Speaker 1: that's grown upb me, Alex.
Speaker 2: I think I was the one that originally pitched the grove,
Speaker 2: and I can't remember if I said the grove or
Speaker 2: the Orange Grove. But I'm now on the Big Citrus train.
Speaker 2: I just I agree, Mesh, conspiratorial sounds like we got
Speaker 2: some stuff to hide.
Speaker 1: We stuff going on you know, I love drama. I
Speaker 1: don't know everything. Yeah, and I just I think there's
Speaker 1: something very clever and more fun about saying we hear
Speaker 1: a big citrus rolling out some episodes about or we
Speaker 1: hear a big citrus decided to say you to fill
Speaker 1: in the blank, as opposed to we hear at the grove.
Speaker 1: The grove is nice, it's sweet, It is where oranges grow.
Speaker 1: Promulgate Is that the word I'm looking for? My brain
Speaker 1: just said it? Is that correct? Would you say prommelgate?
Speaker 1: I've never heard that google, probable gate, prommel gate, promote
Speaker 1: or make widely known an idea or cause? Yeah, where
Speaker 1: did you even pull that? I don't know. My brain
Speaker 1: just goes prom gate. Anyway, I think we got to
Speaker 1: go with big Citrus. I think we made a decision.
Speaker 1: Shouts to Klain for picking up on our joke about
Speaker 1: big citrus and being like, that's actually it, which h
Speaker 1: It's Sometimes the best way to come to a consensus
Speaker 1: is to stumble upon it, like a perfectly ripe orange
Speaker 1: in a grove. Nice, that was smooth. That was smooth.
Speaker 2: I don't want to restrict us from lemons or limes either.
Speaker 2: Citrus is a wide category, and I don't want us
Speaker 2: to just feel like we have to be orange all
Speaker 2: the time always.
Speaker 1: You know what, You've opened up a door for potential
Speaker 1: segment about lemons, because you know when something's a real lemon,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, Boss Nation, too many balls. That
Speaker 1: was a real lemon. We're never gonna let them move
Speaker 1: that down. No, we really are, until they change which
Speaker 1: times Ticking black is sticking, all right, Big Citrus, it
Speaker 1: is congratulations to us on making a decision.
Speaker 2: To put our hands in and cheer.
Speaker 1: Yeah what I mean, the only cheer I always do
Speaker 1: is what time is it game? Tom? Which is from
Speaker 1: the nineties Bulls. I'm just not sure that works as
Speaker 1: well for Big Citrus.
Speaker 3: That's not from high school musical excuse me me, Oh,
Speaker 3: that's a completely different thing anyway anyway.
Speaker 1: Also, if it was, it would be a shout out
Speaker 1: to the nineties Bulls greatness. It would not be something
Speaker 1: that was promulgated by high school music. See away, it's
Speaker 1: time to I'm just showing off. Time to move on,
Speaker 1: Big Citrus. Time for a little good game. Good game
Speaker 1: fact you with the UNC women's soccer team winning the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four NCAA title. An impressive street continues. So
Speaker 1: every four year UNC student who enrolled since nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: seven has been on campus for at least one Tar
Speaker 1: Heels team winning a national title. Wow, even more impressive,
Speaker 1: UNC's women's soccer team had so much success in the past.
Speaker 1: Every UNC student enrolled between nineteen seventy seven and twenty
Speaker 1: twelve was on campus for at least one women's soccer
Speaker 1: national title. Specifically, fantastic stuff, right, congratulations to the tar Heels.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to listen to this
Speaker 1: next part though, because that leads us straight into today's
Speaker 1: what the Fact. So, as part of USA Today's really
Speaker 1: excellent coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of Title nine and
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Rachel Axson and Lindsay Schnell, friend of
Speaker 1: the show, reported on the high percentage of colleges that
Speaker 1: aren't in compliance with the law and still aren't providing
Speaker 1: equal opportunities in sport to their female students. What does
Speaker 1: that have to do with UNC? Take a listen to
Speaker 1: a bit of their findings. Quote. USA Today found eighty
Speaker 1: seven percent of colleges and universities are not offered athletic
Speaker 1: opportunities to women proportionate to their enrollment. According to the
Speaker 1: News organization's analysis of one hundred twenty seven public and
Speaker 1: private schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision during the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty one academic year, proportionality is the surest
Speaker 1: of the three ways that school's athletic departments can show
Speaker 1: compliance with Title nine under the US Department of Education's
Speaker 1: three prong test. Calling the measure of a quote unquote
Speaker 1: safe harbor, the agency states that the gender composition of
Speaker 1: its athletic program should substantially match that of its undergraduate enrollment.
Speaker 1: To measure schools proportionality. USA Today used enrollment data from
Speaker 1: the National Center for Education Statistics and athletic participation data
Speaker 1: from NCAA reports that it obtained from the schools under
Speaker 1: public records law or the Equity and Athletics Disclosure Act database.
Speaker 1: It found that one hundred ten schools would need to
Speaker 1: add a total of eleven thousand, five hundred and one
Speaker 1: female roster spots to close the participation gap. That's an
Speaker 1: average of one hundred four per school, roughly the size
Speaker 1: of a football team, and enough to add three or
Speaker 1: four women's teams each. Among the schools with the biggest
Speaker 1: gaps were the University of Memphis, the University of Louisiana
Speaker 1: and Monroe, and the University of South Alabama. None was
Speaker 1: larger than the University of North Carolina, though it would
Speaker 1: need to add three hundred ninety five female roster spots.
Speaker 1: The analysis found end quote. That's right. In twenty twenty
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, UNC was three hundred ninety five female
Speaker 1: roster spots short of providing equal sports opportunities to their
Speaker 1: female students. So congrats on the lengthy title streak. How
Speaker 1: about working on your participation gap, UNC, I mean, haven't
Speaker 1: the women's teams been successful enough to prove the value
Speaker 1: of even more opportunity, more teams, more titles? Right? What
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Speaker 1: report shows that gender diverse boards lead to positive business results.
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Speaker 1: their board saw a fifteen percent boost in return on
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Speaker 1: a year. You can read the full report at elfbauty
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Speaker 1: Cheryl Miller Reggie Miller's sister, he ain't the one who
Speaker 1: scored one hundred five points in a single game. Good
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