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

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Speaker 1: how to correctly pronounce Lily Johannes's Dutch club Ijax not

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Speaker 1: a Jacks, Stupid American. Thanks to regular listen Hagi Litzer

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Speaker 1: for the heads up. It's Wednesday, November thirteenth, and on

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Speaker 1: today's show, we're gonna get you ready for the second

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Speaker 1: season of the Pro Women's Hockey League with some p

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Speaker 1: WHL one oh one led by Alex our resident hockey expert,

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Speaker 1: plus the Juicy Three, the Citrus Squad, and Accidental Dollporn.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this welcome back slices.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. In college soccer,

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Speaker 1: the sixty four team NCUABLEA D one bracket is set.

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Speaker 1: Thirty teams automatically qualified for the twenty twenty four NC

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Speaker 1: Double Attorney aka the College Cup via their conference championship,

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Speaker 1: while thirty four programs received at large bids. Duke, Southern cal,

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Speaker 1: Florida State, and Mississippi State all received number one seeds

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Speaker 1: in the tournament. FSU are the defending champs. They beat

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Speaker 1: Stanford five to one last season, securing the program's second

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Speaker 1: national championship in three years and fourth in program history.

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Speaker 1: To win the title, you gotta win six games. The

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Speaker 1: first round gets underway this weekend, and the tournament continues

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Speaker 1: till the national championship game Monday, December ninth. Will link

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Speaker 1: to the full bracket and schedule in the show notes.

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Speaker 1: In College Basketball News, USC sophomore sensation Juju Watkins has

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Speaker 1: a docu series about to drop. The series, titled On

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Speaker 1: the Rise, Juju Watkins explores the Watts Natives connection to

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Speaker 1: grew up in, plus how both play a role in

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Speaker 1: the success she's seen on and off the hardwood. Watkins,

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Speaker 1: who calls herself an introvert, told The Hollywood Reporter that

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Speaker 1: the series will quote give people more insight into who

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Speaker 1: so much pride in it end quote. Per Boardroom. She's

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Speaker 1: the first women's college hooper to star in and executive

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Speaker 1: produce her own show. The other executive producers are Rich

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Speaker 1: Paul's Clutch Sports, Lebron James Uninterrupted, and four four forty.

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Speaker 1: The series premieers on November twenty third at three pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern on NBC, right before USC squares off with Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame More College hoops News. Onward State, a student run

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Speaker 1: news outlet at Penn State University, published a story on

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Speaker 1: Monday detailing allegations of player harassment and trauma by Penn

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Speaker 1: State head coach Carolyn Keeger. Before I dig into this,

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Speaker 1: some mentions of suicide, Okay. So, Onward State conducted interviews

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Speaker 1: with thirteen of Keeger's former players from Marquette, Keeger's previous

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Speaker 1: coaching stop, and from Penn State. Three players spoke positively

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Speaker 1: the other ten players described playing for her as one

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Speaker 1: mental health, made multiple players suicidal, and incorporated aspects of racism,

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Speaker 1: body shaming, bullying, and more end quote. Five players spoke

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Speaker 1: Several players said they left their respective programs because of

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Speaker 1: Keeger's behavior. Former Marquette player Danielle King said quote in

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Speaker 1: suicidal thoughts. I was talking to Keeger about it, and

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Speaker 1: why I was depressed. End quote. Former Penn State player

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Speaker 1: Jada Travasio Green told Onward State that after tearing an

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Speaker 1: about the allegations. Quote, Penn State and Penn State Athletics

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Speaker 1: take seriously any allegations of misconduct, and any reports are

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Speaker 1: thoroughly reviewed. In addition, in her collegiate Athletics conducts annual

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Speaker 1: sport programs. Based on direct feedback from student athletes, coach

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Speaker 1: Keeger and the women's basketball staff provide a positive and

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Speaker 1: State's full story in our show notes and keep you

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Speaker 1: updated on this as more reporting comes out to WNBA News.

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Speaker 1: The Chicago Sky introduced new head coach Tyler Marsh on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Vegas Ace's assistant walking into wind Trust Arena holding his

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Speaker 1: biggest off season priority for the Sky, Marsh said, quote, shooting.

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Speaker 1: We want shooting and lots of it. End quote. Sky

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Speaker 1: Forward in front of the show, Elizabeth Williams was sitting

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Speaker 1: next to Marsha at the presser. She has not attempted

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Speaker 1: In Hockey News. On Tuesday, the PWHL announced the launch

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Speaker 1: players in the spotlight. As part of PWHL Media House,

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Speaker 1: the league acquired the jockson Jills podcast, featuring co host

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Speaker 1: Tessa Bonham and Julia Toscherry. The first episode of season

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Speaker 1: two went live on Tuesday, detailing more about the POD's

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Speaker 1: new home, reactions to the recent Jersey releases, and more.

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Speaker 1: Hockey fans be sure to subscribe. Also check out iHeart

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Speaker 1: Women's Sports new pod mom Sue Puck with Madison and

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Speaker 1: Anya Packer. Much more on the PWHL later in the show.

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Speaker 1: In Golf News, WNBA Rookie of the Year, Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 1: Am in bel Air, Florida, presented by Gainbridge. She scheduled

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Speaker 1: Anica Sorenstam. The Golf Channel is going to offer highlights,

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Speaker 1: live look ins, and preview coverage of the pro am,

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Speaker 1: including a live stream of Clark's warm up range session

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Speaker 1: featured on various social media channels and in round walk

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Speaker 1: and talk with her and more. The LPGA Tour event

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Speaker 1: at Theonico runs Tomorrow through Sunday, the seventeenth. Last year,

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Speaker 1: American Lily Avoo took home the trophy I mentioned Gambridge.

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Speaker 1: There they joined the Women's Sports Foundation and the Athlete

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Speaker 1: Partnership Platform Parody for the second annual Parity Week by Gainbridge,

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Speaker 1: a nationwide movement intended to celebrate and amplify girls and women.

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Speaker 1: So Gainbridge, Parody and the Women's Sports Foundation awarded a

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Speaker 1: athletics and education. And in addition to the grants, Parody

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Speaker 1: Week includes two anchor women's sports events sponsored by Gainbridge,

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Speaker 1: the BJK Cup Finals begin today in Malaga, Spain, with

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Speaker 1: twelve countries battling it out on the hard courts the

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Speaker 1: last women's tennis trophy of the season. Canada, Australia, Checchia

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Speaker 1: and Italy have each earned bys, while the US and

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Speaker 1: seven other teams will play matches this week looking to

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Alex gets you up to speed ahead of the second

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Speaker 1: season of the PWHL. Welcome back Slices. It's time for

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Speaker 1: a little PWHL one oh one, which means it's time

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Speaker 1: for Alex sixplains.

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Speaker 2: I have been waiting for this moment my whole life,

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Speaker 2: and I guarantee that you are going to learn something new,

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Speaker 2: whether you have been watching women's hockey since day one

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Speaker 1: All right now, how many PWHL teams are there?

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Speaker 2: There are currently six teams in the PWHL. You've got

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Speaker 2: three in KNA the Toronto Scepters, Ottawa Charge and Montreal Victoire,

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Speaker 2: plus three in the US the Minnesota Frost, Boston Ish

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Speaker 2: learned while hosting a panel at the espnW summit last month.

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Speaker 2: The league is planning to expand to include another two

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Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up, why the ish for New York

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, in season one, New York played most of

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Speaker 2: its home games in Connecticut, and this year they're playing

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Speaker 1: So that's cool and all. But when did the PWHL.

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Speaker 2: Start just under a year ago? Season one officially began

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Speaker 2: on January first, twenty twenty four, and it wrapped up

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Speaker 2: in June. Season two going to be a little bit longer.

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Speaker 2: Training camps are already underway right now and games start

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Speaker 2: on November thirtieth. The regular season goes until May third,

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Speaker 1: Wowsers. So, if the PWHL is only one year old,

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Speaker 1: I guess that means women's pro hockey is pretty new, right.

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Speaker 2: You could not be more wrong. So let's break it down,

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Speaker 2: because people have been trying to make women's pro hockey

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Speaker 2: and the result has been a whole lot of acronym soup.

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Speaker 2: A few years ago I did a deep dive on

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to nineteen eighty eight. It was the

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Speaker 2: Olympics were still being held. In the same year, Wekleyfield

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Speaker 2: What a time to be alive. And in New York,

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Speaker 2: even as fans of women's sports, this idea was pretty

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Speaker 2: So let's fast forward ten years later. It's nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 2: and ahead of the debut of women's hockey at the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: a guy named Ed Saunders tried to launch another league. Now,

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Speaker 2: the idea actually got a lot of news coverage and

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Speaker 2: but without tangible support from either USA Hockey or the NHL,

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Speaker 2: that women's hockey was a really good idea. It's probably

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Speaker 2: why the NHL trademarked the name WNHL all the way

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Speaker 2: the next two decades or so, we're talking early two thousands,

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Speaker 2: there weren't very many opportunities to make money playing hockey

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Speaker 2: after gradu waiting from college, Lots of players had to

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Speaker 2: the landscape was pretty bleak. One of the only post

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Speaker 1: Wait the NWHL, I thought that came around in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Alex, you are a proper hockey historian. That was really impressive.

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Speaker 2: Where to start. First of all, it's great finally seeing

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Speaker 1: More contact. I'm in. I'm feeling good about this league.

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Speaker 1: How and where can I watch Alex?

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Speaker 2: Season two starts on November thirtieth. Full broadcast plans haven't

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Speaker 1: Something tells me we're going to put him in the

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