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

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Speaker 1: another gold medal as in Jordan Childs's future when she

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Speaker 1: debuts on Dancing.

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Speaker 2: With the Stars tonight. Wait, do they give medals on

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Speaker 2: that show? Trophies, mirror balls.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, September sixteenth, and on today's show, we'll be

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Speaker 1: chatting with San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Marissa and Jemmy

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Speaker 1: about covering women's sports in the Bay Area. Her biggest

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Speaker 1: takeaways from the Golden State Valkyrie's inaugural season, the team's

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Speaker 1: opening round series with the Minnesota Links, and more, plus

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Speaker 1: Vegas rolls on. The NWSL makes a good call, and

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Speaker 1: we induct the latest member of the Good Game Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. It's all coming up right after this.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Max Slices. Here's what you need to know today.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the NWSL and a scary incident that

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Speaker 1: occurred during Sunday night's match between Racing Louisville and.

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Speaker 1: During the first half of the contest, Racing midfielder and

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Speaker 1: friend of the Show, Savannah Dedmello, had a medical emergency

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Speaker 1: while on the pitch. She sat down on the field,

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Speaker 1: then collapsed and was quickly treated by medical staff. Demello

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Speaker 1: was then taken by ambulance to a local hospital for

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Speaker 1: further evaluation, with the team and league announcing that she

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Speaker 1: was alert and instable condition. The league suspended the match,

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Speaker 1: announcing that the remainder of the game will be played

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Speaker 1: at a later time. The decision to postpone the game

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Speaker 1: was applauded, especially given an incident earlier this year when

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Speaker 1: Angel City player Savvy King received life saving care on

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Speaker 1: taken to the hospital. The NWSL Players Association released a

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Speaker 1: statement on Monday morning commending the league's decision to suspend

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Speaker 1: the match, saying, in part, quote, our hearts are with

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Speaker 1: Savannah Demello and her family following last night's game. Her

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Speaker 1: relieved she is receiving the medical.

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Speaker 2: Attention she needs. End quote.

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Speaker 1: While we haven't gotten any further updates on Demello's status,

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Speaker 1: March after experiencing dizziness and chest tightness. She later revealed

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Speaker 1: sending Savannah our best, wishing her a very quick recovery,

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Speaker 2: She's ready to the WNBA.

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Speaker 1: The Aces opened their playoff push with a seventeenth straight victory,

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Speaker 1: defeating the Seattle Storm one oh two seventy seven late

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. I guess my prediction of a close game

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Speaker 1: they'll tie the league record for most consecutive wins. The

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one LA Sparks also won eighteen in

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Speaker 1: a row en route to that year's WNBA title. Also tonight,

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Speaker 1: game two of the Atlanta Dream Indiana Fever series, with

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Speaker 1: Semis with a win on the road in Indy. The

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Speaker 1: other two Round one series continue on Wednesday night. More

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Speaker 1: WNBA news On Monday, Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton

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Speaker 1: was named the twenty twenty five WNBA Most Improved Player.

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Speaker 1: Burton was the starting point guard in all forty four

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Speaker 1: steals per game, all of which were career highs. According

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Speaker 1: to The Valkyrie, she's the first player in WNBA history

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Speaker 1: to have a year over year improvement of eight plus

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Speaker 2: And the vote was nearly unanimous.

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Speaker 1: Burton received sixty eight of a possible seventy two first

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Speaker 1: place votes. Azare Stevens finished in second place with two votes,

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Speaker 1: Queens City Championship on Sunday, the third LPGA victory of

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Speaker 1: after world number one Gino Tittucul took four putts on

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Speaker 1: semi finals of the Women's World Cup will take place

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Speaker 1: this Friday and Saturday. New Zealand, Canada, France, and England

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Speaker 1: USA was ousted following group play after the Eagles posted

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Speaker 1: players couple soccer players, including their retired goalkeeper Mary ERPs.

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Speaker 1: You could find that on alone O mar and Mary

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Speaker 1: ERP's Instagram accounts. All right, we got to take a

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Speaker 1: quick break. When we come back, put your v's up.

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Speaker 1: It's Marissa and Jemmy. We caught up with her on

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Speaker 1: Monday following the Valks defeat in Game one, joining us now,

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Speaker 1: she covers the Golden State, Valkyrie, BFC Stanford and Cow

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Speaker 1: Women's Basta ball and more women's sports. Enterprise and investigative

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Speaker 1: The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and more. She

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Speaker 1: was the twenty twenty four National Sports Media Association California

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is twenty twenty four was a good year

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Speaker 1: for her. It's Marissa and Jemmy. Hi, Marissa, Hi.

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Speaker 3: There, Wow, Oh my gosh. She just like made me

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you just want a bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 1: All I did was read that you want a bunch

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Speaker 1: of stuff, which did happen, And I said investigative.

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Speaker 2: Every time I come across.

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Speaker 1: That word, I choose whether I'm gonna say it a

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Speaker 1: different way, because sometimes I say investigative, but I feel

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Speaker 1: like investigative sounds more fun, right, It sounds like, I

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Speaker 1: the beat in the middle of the WNBA playoffs. You're

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Speaker 1: actually joining us the day after the Valkyrie's first ever

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Speaker 1: playoff game. Disappointing result losing to the Minnesota Links one

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Speaker 2: At all in their inaugural year.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get to that. We're going to get

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Speaker 3: It's fascinating because we're at this moment where there are

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Speaker 3: other expansion teams coming in, So the Valkyries were always

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Speaker 3: There hasn't been expansion in the WNBA in a long time.

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Speaker 3: I think teams will be better equipped for expansion going forward,

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Speaker 3: and this year has just been kind of a fascinating

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Speaker 3: this team has invested the resources, the crowd is there,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it's so interesting.

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Speaker 1: building off of what the Warriors started in the Bay

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Speaker 3: Helped because the Warriors cared. I think we've seen, like

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Speaker 3: this is someone who's understood the women's basketball landscape for

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Speaker 3: because they're like we the Valkyries and Warriors are on

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Speaker 3: equal footing, and I just I don't think i've really

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Speaker 3: seen that like walk the walk in women's sports before. So, like,

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Speaker 3: And I think that's a really good blueprint for like

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Speaker 1: Well, and we know that the families will show up

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Speaker 3: I think they've leaned in. I mean they won a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a season ticket holder named Megan Doherty Baker

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Speaker 3: Like that's where their audience is. Every season ticket holder

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Speaker 1: Game two is Wednesday. Due to scheduling conflicts, it will

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Speaker 1: What's lost with this team not being able to host

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Speaker 1: at their home arena, the place they've sold out every

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Speaker 1: single game to play, what they've established a really amazing

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Speaker 1: home court advantage and culture.

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Speaker 3: It's a bummer. There's no way to sugarcuat it. They

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Speaker 3: tried everything in their power to not make it happen.

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Speaker 3: So like, this isn't a case of like in the

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Speaker 3: past where like Phoenix or Washington or Minnesota where like

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Speaker 3: move for Disney on ice or something. The Labor Cup

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Speaker 3: Tennis tournament like that was scheduled like almost three years ago.

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Speaker 3: That was before the Valkyries existed. And there's so much

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Speaker 3: money put into that day, we're just stuck. It's bad timing.

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Speaker 3: I don't think something like this would happen in this organization. Again,

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Speaker 3: they wanted to go to Oakland originally, but there was

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Speaker 3: a private event going on there, so they couldn't make

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Speaker 3: it happen. The good news, SAP Center is a great facility,

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Speaker 3: Like it's easy to get to the train, it's right

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Speaker 3: next to the cow train, there's a ton of parking.

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Speaker 2: I'm Lake Chase Center.

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Speaker 3: And they're bringing down like their floor, like all their

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Speaker 3: game day stuff. So from my understanding is it'll still

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Speaker 3: be sold out. I think the crowd is what matters,

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Speaker 3: So I don't think it'll be as bad as it

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Speaker 3: feels like it is. Like it's hard because I'm like,

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Speaker 3: this is a bummer, Like there's no way around it.

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Speaker 3: But I also don't think they will lose like the

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Speaker 3: crowd advantage off that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Right, well, And it's still a professional sports arena. It's

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Speaker 1: not like they're going down the street to like a

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Speaker 1: college facility and having to play somewhere that feels really

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Speaker 1: less than It's just kind of a bummer after a

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Speaker 1: whole season of setting marks, at the Chase Center to

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Speaker 1: not be able to have that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: What do they need to do to pull off a

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Speaker 2: winning game two?

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Speaker 3: Gosh, they need to shoot consistently. It was really tough

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Speaker 3: because like they're shot. When the Valkyrie shoot, they're really

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Speaker 3: hard to beat. But they go into these extended, long

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Speaker 3: slumps where they just don't shoot at all. So in

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Speaker 3: game one, they made nine field goals in the first quarter,

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Speaker 3: and they made eleven the rest of the game. They

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Speaker 3: cannot do that. They need to have a consistent shot,

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Speaker 3: and part of that is you've got to make those layups.

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Speaker 3: They were getting into the paint early on and they

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Speaker 3: just weren't executing. So they really need to execute. They

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Speaker 3: can't give away possessions. They love to let it fly,

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Speaker 3: but I think they need to be a little more

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Speaker 3: intentional about how they're shooting, and then they just can't

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Speaker 3: get frustrated. Like they do a pretty good I mean,

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Speaker 3: they give up one hundred and one point, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of those came late too. I think they do

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Speaker 3: a pretty good job defensively. On Minnesota. They weren't shooting

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Speaker 3: at all early. They were really frustrating their three point shot.

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Speaker 3: They were confusing them going into the zone a little bit.

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Speaker 3: They need to keep their composure and they need to

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Speaker 3: just take very intentional shots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen throughout the season. I think what's really

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Speaker 1: impressed us. We shared your questions about the roster coming

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Speaker 1: into the season. We were surprised more big name free

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Speaker 1: agents weren't interested in being a part of this very

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Speaker 1: first season. Even though usually expansion teams don't have great success.

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Speaker 1: They out did expectations in terms of wins and losses,

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Speaker 1: in terms of attendance and everything else, and out did

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Speaker 1: expectations in terms of the.

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Speaker 2: Play of the folks on their roster.

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Speaker 1: A lot of that having to do with Natalie Nicasse

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Speaker 1: and really feeling like she tells them what to do

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Speaker 1: and they execute it. What stands out to you about

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Speaker 1: her performance as a head coach in this first season

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Speaker 1: and what do you hear from the players about her.

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Speaker 3: I like that she just is so direct, you know

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Speaker 3: what you're getting from her. She doesn't really beat around

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Speaker 3: the bush, if that makes sense, Like she's sure doesn't.

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Speaker 3: She's wanted to say what she wants. She's stuck to

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Speaker 3: her gun too. Early in the year, their three point

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Speaker 3: shooting was terrible and they never got away from it.

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Speaker 3: They went from being glass in the league tonight at

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Speaker 3: the end of the year, and a lot of that

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Speaker 3: is some roster adjustments, like to Chileo Xandalssini came back

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Speaker 3: from injury, Iliana Repair joined the team. But they stuck

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Speaker 3: to their guns the whole time. And that's Natalie. She

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Speaker 3: believed in her vision and stuck to it. And I

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Speaker 3: think that's impressive because early on they could have gotten

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Speaker 3: away from that, and would have had every reason to,

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Speaker 3: but she believed very specifically in what she was doing.

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Speaker 3: And the players respond to that.

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Speaker 2: What do you expect from you? Or two of the valks.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna immediately assume that they're going to be

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Speaker 1: out in two but let's just say it's possible that

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Speaker 1: Wednesday could be the last game of the season for

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Speaker 1: this team, going up against the juggernaut that is the Links,

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Speaker 1: which will have us looking ahead so year two, especially

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Speaker 1: with so much player movement that's expected this offseason, when

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Speaker 1: and if the new CBA has agreed to do you

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Speaker 1: see a whole bunch of free agents now wanting to

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Speaker 1: come Do you see a lot of the players that

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Speaker 1: got us bablished in this first season returning.

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Speaker 3: It's so hard to project next season in this league

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Speaker 3: because we don't know the CBA. We don't know what

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Speaker 3: the expansion draft is going to look like. I just

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Speaker 3: did a redd at Ama and the Valkyrie's subreddit, like

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Speaker 3: right before coming on here, and every question is just like,

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Speaker 3: what's the expansion draft look like? You know, like, girl,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I've been asking every week.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if it's gonna happen on time.

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Speaker 3: Right, So it's like it's hard to project. My expectation

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Speaker 3: is to lock in on keeping Veronica Burton, to lock

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Speaker 3: in on keeping Zandalasini. They have five UFAs and Kayla Thornton,

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Speaker 3: Monique Billings, Kyler Charles, Tiffany Hayes, and Timmy Fake Benley.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Tip is looking at returning or not.

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Speaker 3: If she's been banged up all year, KT got hurt

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Speaker 3: at the end or in midway through the season. I

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Speaker 3: don't know where she's at. I would imagine they'd want

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Speaker 3: to bring back some of the young players, especially Carla

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Speaker 3: Lates under contract. You say the sites coming from overseas,

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Speaker 3: she was the first round pick from Lithuania. I think

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Speaker 3: this team could look a little bit younger maybe next year,

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Speaker 3: but it really and like who they want to swing for?

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Speaker 3: Who do they lose an expansion? Who do they protect?

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Speaker 3: Do they have to even participate in expansion? What does

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Speaker 3: a college draft look like? They're going to have the

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Speaker 3: number eight pick. It looks like, but I don't know

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Speaker 3: if they're going to change it up, So it's really

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Speaker 3: hard to project.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think everybody feels that way.

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Speaker 1: We're sort of imagining this insane free for all where

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Speaker 1: every player changes teams because there are so few that

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Speaker 1: are locked into deals beyond this season. But that isn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily going to be the case just because a new

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Speaker 1: CBA happens.

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Speaker 2: If it does happen, and if it happens on time.

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Speaker 1: Well, we've really enjoyed watching the Valkyries this season, and

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Speaker 1: we've really loved watching your coverage and very cool to

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Speaker 1: get to start your coverage of them from day one

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Speaker 1: and to really be there to witness this team starting out.

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Speaker 2: So thanks to the time. Appreciate it. Yeah, thank you

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Marissa for hanging out. We got to

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Speaker 1: take another break. When we come back, get out the

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Speaker 1: plaque engraver. It's time for another entry into the Good

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Speaker 1: Game Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: Welcome backslices.

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Speaker 1: It's time to introduce the latest addition to the Good

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Speaker 1: Game Hall of Fame. Yes, the Good Game Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: where we celebrate women's sports lore, the kind of legendary

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Speaker 1: stories we should all know by heart, just like we

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Speaker 1: know about Mike Tyson biting a vander Holyfield's ear or

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Speaker 1: Chris Saale going all Edward scissorhands on the White Sox

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Speaker 1: throwback jerseys. We got some catching up to do when

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Speaker 1: it comes to women's sports stories. So grab another plaque

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Speaker 1: and find a good place on the wall, because today

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Speaker 1: we've got another inductee. On yesterday's show, we told you

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Speaker 1: about Melissa Jefferson Wooden's one hundred meters win at the

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Speaker 1: World Track and Field Championships in Tokyo over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Jefferson Woulden top the field with a time of ten

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Speaker 1: to sixty one, making her the fourth fastest woman in

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Speaker 1: history in the event. But it's not Melissa's speed that

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Speaker 1: earned her a spot in our hall. No, the Hall

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Speaker 1: is about so much more than winning. She's in it

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Speaker 1: for the journey she took to reach this moment. When

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Speaker 1: she was a junior in high school, Melissa's father was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed with Mielo dysplastic syndrome. Now you might recall Robin

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Speaker 1: Roberts talking about her having the same condition right here

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Speaker 1: on this show. In my interview with her, Roberts told

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Speaker 1: me about how her sister was the best match to

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Speaker 1: provide a bone marrow transplant. Well, when Melissa's father, Melvin,

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Speaker 1: was diagnosed, he was first placed on a donor list,

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Speaker 1: but when no matches were found, doctors tested Melvin's family

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Speaker 1: members and the best candidate ended up being Melissa, who

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Speaker 1: was seventeen at the time. In an interview with NBC

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Speaker 1: sportswriter Nick Sacrdi, Melvin recalled how Melissa responded to the news, saying, quote,

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Speaker 1: She's like, Okay, it's.

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Speaker 2: My time to step up to the plate. And I

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Speaker 2: was like wow.

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Speaker 1: So it did something to me and for me to

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Speaker 1: know that she doesn't even think about whatever it takes

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Speaker 1: when it comes to having to do something in order

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Speaker 1: to save someone much less her dad end quote. After

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Speaker 1: the successful transplant, Melissa returned to high school with the

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Speaker 1: goal of running track in college. She got a partial

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Speaker 1: scholarship to Coastal Carolina University, a school that isn't exactly

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Speaker 1: known for producing elite tre and field athletes, but by

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Speaker 1: her junior year of college in twenty twenty two, she

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Speaker 1: was winning races against athletes from the powerhouse programs, and

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Speaker 1: she turned pro soon after. We loved watching Melissa get

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Speaker 1: the dub at Worlds in Tokyo, and you know who

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Speaker 1: else did to her?

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Speaker 2: Dad, Melvin.

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Speaker 1: He's essentially been live streaming the competition on his Facebook

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Speaker 1: page and it's exactly as cute as you think it

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Speaker 1: would be. So welcome to the Good Game Hall of Fame, Melissa.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we'll be rooting around later this week too,

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Speaker 1: when she looks to add the two hundred meter world

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Speaker 1: title to her resume as well. And check out the

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Speaker 1: show notes for a link to Nick's great feature on

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Speaker 1: Melissa from earlier this month. We love that you're listening,

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Speaker 1: but we want you to get in the game every

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Speaker 1: day too, So here's our good game.

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Speaker 2: Play of the day.

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Speaker 1: Continue to reach out to your representatives to oppose the

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Speaker 1: Score Act and make it clear to the folks pushing

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Speaker 1: the bill that it wouldn't survive a vote. For those

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Speaker 1: who don't remember, the Score Act is a potential college

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Speaker 1: sports bill that would completely fail women athletes. We're grateful

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Speaker 1: to everyone who are already responded to our call to

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Speaker 1: get involved with Representative Lori Trahan's fight against it. Momentum

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Speaker 1: is growing with more women in sports speaking out, and

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Speaker 1: last Wednesday, the WNBPA and NWSLPA even sent out a

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Speaker 1: presser rejecting the bill, warning Congress of its negative outcomes

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Speaker 1: for women, wrote NWSLPA executive director and friend of the

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Speaker 1: Show Megan Burke. Quote, My message is simple. The Score

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Speaker 1: Act is the modern version of repealing Title nine. The

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Speaker 1: NCAA's attempts to move their responsibilities under the law outside

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Speaker 1: the purview of Title nine must be rejected. We have

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Speaker 1: come too far to lose Title nine now end quote.

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Speaker 1: Representative Trehan and the Democratic Women's Caucus have been gathering

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Speaker 1: folks to fight against SCORE. So I've been working with

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