April 28, 2025 • 28 mins
In honor of our 200th episode and the beautiful community we’ve all built, we are celebrating both our day-one slices and new slices with a show dedicated to Good Game lore, from a glossary of terms you need to know today (and every day) to an ode to our favorite show segments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're putting
two hundred candles on the cake and celebrating our bi centennial.
But we don't think we look a day over one
hundred and ninety nine. It's Monday, April twenty eighth, and
that's right. Today's show is our two hundredth episode. What
the actual, y'all? We've been giving you the good stuff
since July seventeenth of last year, and time has literally
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flown by. We've enjoyed every second that we've spent creating
the women's sports hangout you always wanted, cultivating the women's
sports community you've always needed, and bringing you the star
stake stats and stories of the athletes, teams, and leagues
you simply must know about. So today, in honor of
the beautiful community we've all built together, we want to
celebrate our longtime slices and welcome the new slices, the rookies,
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the seedlings who are just starting to sprout with the
little show education to catch everyone up on what they
might have missed. Our big old Celebrication episode is coming
up right after this. Welcome back Slices. That's you, the
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lovely listener, you're called slices, like the orange slices handed
out at halftime or at the end of a good game.
Get it. And here's a little bit more you might
need to know to follow the show. The Everyday Good
Game team is Me Mesh and Alex. Mesh is a
DMV loyalist and a former college hooper who didn't care
much for defense. When they're not working on this show,
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they're a color commentator for their alum William and Mary,
among other places. She's also a child, and because she's
still in her twenties, often doesn't get my references. Sometimes
I'm too old for producer Alex too. They keep me
in check and remind me to explain things to our
younger listeners. You know, old fashioned stuff like rotary phones,
dial up internet, and how it's possible to have an
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attention span longer than a goldfish. Alex is a research
fiend who enjoy deep dives into collective bargaining agreements and
knowing everything there is to know about obscure Olympic rules
and regulations. If you ever have a burning question about
the top five closest Olympic lose races, she's your girl.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Did you know that Louis is the only sliding sport
in one of the only sports in general that measures
all the way to the thousandth of a second.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
She's also an artist and enjoys lurking on message boards
and in chat groups, including one called dorm Room Mama's,
even though she doesn't have a child in college or
a child at all. I'm from Chicago and I was
a heptathlete at Cornell. I'm obsessed with Michael Jordan and
equally obsessed with my three dogs and husband Brad. I
was briefly a minority owner of the Chicago Red Stars.
I tore my achilles and improblematically competitive. All of these
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things somehow tend to come up regularly. Collectively, we're known
as Big Citrus. So how did we get that name? Well,
back in December, we got kinda tired of having to
say each of our names every time we introduced ourselves. Plus,
since y'all had such a cute name, we were kind
of jealous, so we put it to a vote Iago style.
Of course, vote early vote often you slices narrowed our
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options down to coaches, senior slices, the grove, Orange Blossoms,
good gamers, good Sports and peels, and in episode one
O eight, which dropped December sixteenth, the three of us
did our final deliberation, settling on Big Citrus. In hindsight,
it's a pretty cool name. Just know that we've got
better morals than Big Pharma, Big Tech and all those
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other guys. We only use our powers for good. We
regularly have Big Citrus conversations now dissecting happenings in and
around women's sports competition. Alex brings for research and Olympic expertise,
Mech brings their basketball player slash analyst knowledge, and we
all bring our opinions, lots of opinions. It's truly one
of my favorite things about our show, and you slices
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who have been around have told us repeatedly how much
you love those conversations too, so we'll keep bringing them
to you now. Most shows we start out with the
need to know the women's sports news of the day
that you frankly can't get anywhere else. As the only
daily women's sports show of any kind, we just want
to make sure you're updated on the trades, scores, business
deals and more going on every single day in the
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women's sports world. So in a twist on that. Last
week we asked you longtime slices what you think new
listeners need to know about our show, and we got
some awesome responses. So here's what you need to know today,
Good Game with Sarah Spain Edition. Let's start with the
glossary of terms things you might hear us say on
the show or talk about on the show. Mish and
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Alex help me out with this one. One of my favorites.
Hoops and gay shit and footy in gay shit and
fucks and gay shit, and you get the point. All
the great gay moments you can only find in women's sports,
where teammates and opponents share wedding vows, beds, babies and
breakup stories. It's not good sportsmanship. They're lesbian stacy google
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it newbies.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Friend of the show what we call former and repeat guests.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And we also got are not friends of the show.
Those are transphobes, people who abused animals, politicians who use
women's sports as a way to promote fear and misogyny,
and cheaters.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've got unfiable, which is kind of my own personal
mantra that I've brought to the show. A state of
mind really like no one gets to live rent free
in my head, and you can try, but you can't
fight with me. Too centered to serve myself, too unfiniable.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The Slices our end of the year awards, voted on
by the slices.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We've got Tits to the turf, volvet to the velodrome,
mount to the ground, and lots of other varieties. All
entries from slices answering our question, what's an equivalent to
the old idiom balls to the Wall, which we assumed
was about men, But it's actually about cars, so we're
still going to use the alternates.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
We've got stars, steak stats, and stories. This is my
go to approach to teaching folks about a new league.
We're welcoming new fans to a sport or a team.
You'll hear it come up often on the show, and
I Frank should trademarket before someone steals it. Thanks to
super Slice Amanda Vallo, who chimed in with a few
more of our go to phrases and reminded us of
some that we might have forgotten. Here's what she wrote.
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Ceist a slang term producer Meiche might use when she's
psyched or excited about something. No, niche didn't invent it,
but she did introduce us to it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Vib's younger hip version of volleyball in a sentence, can't
go to the mall.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I got Vibes practice tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And for the record, Sarah tried to hate but now
she's using it, and now it's in our glossary just saying.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
We've got the n NBA the Men's National Basketball Association,
a distinction made to point toward league equity for the
Women's National Basketball Association WNBA. See also Men's World Cup.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We've got giant rice crispy treat table, a somewhat mythic
piece of college apartment furniture, a young Dinah Tarassi used
in the styling and preparation of her iconic hair bunon
tater pigs think pigs in a blaket.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
A hot dog stuck inside a hole drilled into a
baked potato.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Now, if you're wondering how that came up in the show,
then you clearly missed darch Madness, a very special potato
based event that we had. All Right, I think that's
most of them, but let us know if there are
any glossary terms we've forgot. Now let's talk episodes. We
often hear from folks about our Christine Brennan episode from
October third. It's a show that doesn't really fit our
usual format, but it was definitely a compelling listen and
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an important topic, So definitely check that one out. As
for which episodes you slices think our little seedling should
listen to in order to truly catch our vibe, here
are some of our faves that you suggested. Pamela Mudway said,
Welcome to the Good Place, the very first episode definitely
sets the tone, and August thirtieth, Hoops and Gayshit, which
is not only a great episode but the start of
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a must know good game phrase.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amanda chimed in here again with Big Citrus Energy from
December sixteenth. It's a bit seasonal, gives a great flavor
and feel for the producer vibes and origin of the name.
Also biased toward the nature of co ed adult sports
etiquette code. I thought that was great. Amanda also enjoyed
the Human Condition with Big Citrus from March fourth, saying,
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more serious but definitely impactful vibe takes listeners' brains out
and squishes them around for a while in a good way.
I love a good brain squish.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Andrea Vie said, Group chat Bag of Joy with Aaron
Foley and Morgan Murphy from July twenty fifth and Tits
to the Turf with Big Citrus from March twenty fourth.
She also added, good game, Big Citrus, Good game, Women's Sports.
You only allowed to choose two favorite episodes, just two
out of two hundred. That's a terrible conversion rate.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's fair. That's fair, Andrea, Last, but not least, use
Lights was offered up some great general advice about Slice life,
so Pamela Mudwey chimed in again. She said, quote the
best part of the show is it not only highlights
the power of women's sports, but brings a real human
touch to the stories, the guests, the players, and the
chaos still occurring in the world of women's sports equity.
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Sarah Meish and Alex bring knowledge, empathy and laughter each episode.
There really is nothing like it out.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There, Amanda Vallo said, to remind everyone of our show
side the Minnesota Aurora, a community driven women's soccer club
built for community by community. Here at the show, we
encouraged anyone interested to get some skin in the game
and become a team owner with us to help grow
and build women's sports. We give regular updates on the team,
which competes in the Heartland Division of the usl W League,
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a pre professional women's soccer league that gives players a
place to keep competing and helps prep some other players
to go on to the NWSL or pro leagues abroad.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Mary Ze says, my basketball wife and I laugh at
how just when we think we won't be that interested
in the day's episode, we end up loving it and
learning something new. I feel like every day your guest says, wow,
that's a really good question, and your intros are also epic.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
From a producer, some behind the scenes secrets, there are
a lot of times when guests say that was a
really good question, and we end up cutting it because
they've said it four times in a row and it
gets kind of tired after a while.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So you know you're doing it right. And Sandra Robinson
reminded us that fandom is a lifelong adventure. She wrote,
my wife and I are mystics founding fans and season
ticket holders since the beginning of the franchise. I want
to shout out truly older fans of women's sports, like me,
age seventy five, still physically active in fighting for opportunities
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our generation never had. I love that you never take
the current gains for granted. We love that, Sandra, you're
an og and a trailblazer, and we love that you're listening.
All right, we got to take a quick break. When
we come back, we crack open our history books, stick around,
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welcome back slices. Now here a good game. We do
a handful of recurring segments, many of them aimed at
helping folks learn the history of women's sports, passed highs
and lows of their favorite leagues, maybe the stories of
the athletes who paved the way. What good is knowing
a record was broken if you don't know who's said
it the first time. Right, So here are a few
segments you can expect to hear pretty regularly. First, there's
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yes and now this one's all about giving props on
a recent accomplishment while simultaneously honoring those who did it
first and aren't given enough flowers, or paying homage to
the folks who laid the groundwork for it to be possible.
Because what's happening today only matters in the context of
what's come before it. For example, one of our faves
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was from our December twentieth episode, A Yes and about
USC superstar Juju Watkins take a listen. Last season, in
the final year of the Pac twelve Conference, Watkins let
a resurgence in SoCal, helping the Trojan to their first
number one seed in the NCAA Tournament since nineteen eighty six,
and she scored nine hundred twenty points. That's good for
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the most points by a freshman in D one history.
Speaking in nineteen eighty six, though, what was going on
back then? Who led that team to a number one
seed in the attorney Well, that would be Cheryl Miller,
arguably one of the best to ever lace them up.
The forward was a four time All American and three
time Naysmith Award recipient, and to this day she still
holds USC records for career scoring with threeenty eighteen points,
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rebounds fifteen hundred and thirty four, rebound average twelve rebounds
per game, and free throws mate seven hundred. Miller led
the Trojans to back to back NCUBA championships in nineteen
eighty three and eighty four, and she dominated with Team
USA as well, winning a gold medal at the eighty
four Olympics. For her impact on the game, she's been
recognized as both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer
and a Women's Basketball Hall of Famer. Now, if you recall,
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we also told you yesterday that another recent college hoops superstar,
Caitlin Clark, will have her jersey retired at Iowa at
the beginning of February when the team faces off against
what a coincidence USC. Of course, that honor is extremely
well deserved. Clark changed the trajectory of the entire Hawkeyes
program and of women's basketball at large. Pretty cool, right,
We'll get this, folks. Miller had her jersey retired too,
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during the eighty six season while she was still playing.
Miller's was the first basketball jersey USC retired ever, regardless
of gender. Shout out to the delightful and insightful Jordan
Robinson for reminding us about this through a post on
Blue Sky. We'll link to that in the show notes.
So yes, ju Ju Watkins, Yes, Caitlin Clark, and Cheryl Miller.
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Because Cheryl Miller was her and frankly still is, she
got her Flowers at WNBA All Star Weekend this summer
and was selected to coach Team WNBA. During the All
Star Game, her squad won one seventeen to one oh nine,
beating a team of players roster for the US national
team that went on to win gold in Paris. Now,
the WNBA didn't exist when Miller graduated from USC, and
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her career was also cut short by severe knee injuries.
But ask your favorite player's favorite player who their favorite
player is, and we bet at Cheryl Miller. All right,
so we've also got our what the Facts presented by
elf Beauty. We use these segments to illuminate shocking or
infuriating stats and facts, you know, the things that make
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you say, what the fact. A great example of this
was our segment from November fifteenth discussing USA Hockey's complete
and total muck up of their twenty fourteen Olympic jersey
design and unveiling. This honestly still chaps my ass. Take
a listen, let's go back to twenty fourteen. USA Hockey
is hyping the unveiling of the Nike design jerseys that
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the men's and women's hockey teams will wear at the
upcoming Sochi Olympics and Paralympics, and in a press release
and in a press conference with men's players, they didn't
invite anyone from the women's team. USA Hockey excitedly announces
some of the details on the jersey, including the fact
that they had paid homage to pass USA gold medal
winning teams by stitching the years nineteen sixty and nineteen
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eight inside the collar. So cool, right, Only problem they
didn't include the year nineteen ninety eight, the year the
women won gold in Nagano, Japan. Incidental, Accidental, doesn't matter.
What matters is that a whole room of people at
USA Hockey, a whole other room full of designers at Nike,
and god knows how many other rooms of pr people
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and marketing and everyone else simply did not consider the
women's team. These were the jerseys that they would be wearing,
jerseys that they would put on to represent their country
and to realize the accomplishment of their life stream, and
they were forgotten about entirely. And how about the sled
hockey team that won gold in two thousand and two
and twenty ten. They would be wearing those jerseys at
the Paralympics without their accomplishments honored either. This is just
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part of a long pattern from USA Hockey, and this
slight was one of many that inspired the twenty seventeen
women's team to threaten a boycott. Just two weeks ahead
of the World Championships that were set to take place
on home soil in Michigan, the players announced they were
boycotting quote unless significant progress has been made on the
year long negotiations with USA Hockey over fair wages and
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equitable support end quote. USA Hockey tried to get scabs,
it didn't work, and ultimately the women got a four
year contract with most of their demands met, and went
on to win not just those World Championships in Michigan,
but gold the next year at the twenty eighteen Olympics.
They shouldn't have needed to fight so hard for basic
respect and acknowledgment. Truly, what the fact? Next up a
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segment we call the Good Game Hall of Fame, where
we shine a light on great women's sports stories that
should be known, spread widely, and chatted about regularly over
beers at the local bar. There are endless examples of
men's sports lore becoming common knowledge for sports fans from
Michael Jordan's flu game, to Wilt Chamberlain claiming to have
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slept with two thousand women, to MLB Hall of Famer
George Brett poop and his pants, and the lobby of
the Blagio. It's about time we start sharing women's sports
Lord too. So in the ten months that we've been
doing shows, we've put up eight plaques in the Good
Game Hall of Fame. Sylvia Fowls dunking in her final
All Star Game at the age of thirty six, her
first in game dunk in thirteen years, the first US
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women's national team in nineteen eighty five who set the
stage for years of US soccer dominance. Cheryl Swoops and
Candace Parker returning to the court after pregnancy. Superfan Prince
throwing the Minnesota Links a postgame party at Paisley Park
after their twenty fifteen WNBA title win. Former NWSL star
Merit Matthias's legendary tweets about her acl being torn by
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another player. Legendary Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summit racing
back to Knoxville to give birth to her son, Tyler
so she wouldn't give birth an enemy territory, Carolyn Peck
gifting South Carolina coach John Staley with a piece of
the NCAA Championship net after leading Purdue to the title,
and Staley continuing and extending that tradition with other black
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head coaches in basketball, Anne Wisconsin's Kirsten Simms calling her shot,
asking for the penalty show in the NCAA Hockey Championship
and burying it. Now, there's one story in particular that
inspired the Good Game Hall of Fame, and it's who
else but the ninety nine Ers. Take a listen from
our very first episode, the traffic Jam and the ninety
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nine Ers women's soccer team. The players were stuck on
their bus complaining about all the traffic that they were
in as they were trying to get to their World
Cup opening game at Giant Stadium, only to find out
that the traffic was for them seventy eighty nine hundred
and seventy two fans en route to watch their game.
That's such a cool story, Faudy talks about it. Julie
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Foudy of the ninety nine Ers team, sitting on the bus,
what is all this traffic? We're going to be laid
to the game. Oh, my God, it's for us.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
If we need to know about I don't know Derek
Jeter's infamous gift bags and a Rod's alleged centaur painting,
then I think we should know about the ninety nine
Ers traffic jam. And finally, we don't just love to
dish on women's sports, lower we loved to read about
it too. So we've got the Good Game Book Club.
It's a chance to plug and catalog books that we
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love and books written or suggested by our guests. That
list has included Locker Room Talk, A Woman Struggle to
Get Inside by Melissa Ludkey, Hail Mary, The Rise and
Fall of the National Women's Football League by Frankie de
la Creta and Lindsay Darkangelo, Slaying the Trolls by David
Berry and Nefertid Walker, and The Fast Track Inside the
Surging Business of Women's Sports by Jane McManus, and so
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many more. And if you want to see the full
list of book wrecks in the Good Game Book Club,
you're in luck. All because of the hard work of
one particular super slice, Aaron raw who has compiled not
only all the books we've recommended so far, but also
all the podcasts, documentaries, essays, shows and stories that we've
shouted out, and all the merch we've highlighted, from Moolah
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Kicks to Play a Society to our very own Good
Game with Sarah Spain merch. This spreadsheet that she sent
us might have made Alex cry full tears, and it
definitely made the entire team get a little misty eyed.
You rule the most Erin. We'll link to the spreadsheet
again in our show notes so you can catch up
and keep up with everything we've recommended. By the way
Erin for all your hard work, I'm going to be
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sending you a little surprise as the unofficial show historian.
You more than deserve it. Now we've got a couple
more repeating segments that you'll come to know when you listen.
When we shout out positive facts, good game, good Game
fact you, and where else where we spotlight things that
only happen in the good place that is women's sports.
But for now you get the picture. Basically, we relish
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the opportunity to teach and learn more about women's sports,
how we got here, who the major players are, and
what obstacles still stand in our way. It's great to
know where we are and get excited about where we're going.
But we can be so much more tactical and intentional
about growing and expanding when we know our history too.
We got to take another break when we come back
the good place, the correct number of stars, and a
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call to action welcome back slices. As we reflect on
two hundred episodes, I thought about the very first brainstorming
sessions that we had about the show, and I actually
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went back and found some old notes and emails, and
as we thought about what the show would look like,
there were a bunch of words that we wrote down
like what we wanted it to feel like. Some of
those were welcoming, inclusive, warm, safe, funny, fair, honest and starky,
not annoyingly earnest, and not constantly griping about how unfair
things are. We thought, if our listeners were going to
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hang out with us every day for thirty to forty minutes,
it should be fun and funny while also sometimes rightly
complaining about shit. Our north Stars at the beginning were
Tina Fay, Amy Poehler, Samantha Bee, Don Staley, Chelsea Handler,
Sue Berd, Michelle Obama, Billy Jean King, all these really smart, badass, successful, funny,
unfuckiable women with a very clear point of view and perspective.
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We wanted the show to highlight that athletes and women's
sports are multi to me, and that when we let
them be authentically themselves, everybody wins. Same goes for fans.
We can all be masculine, feminine heroes, villains, funny, serious, competitive, physical, loving, mothering,
fashionable everything. We can be men or women or non
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binary folk who just love women's sports. We wanted to
be sure we showed that women's sports can be X's
and O's game recaps, strategy and tactics, and also be
stories about a player's favorite clothing brand or beauty rituals
or dating life. It can be about demanding more investment
and better coverage, and about celebrating the team's leagues and
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networks that are getting it right, changing the game, and
shaping the future in ways that should be applauded. Now.
I said on the very first show that women's sports
is the good place. That's actually what I wanted to
name the show, and I thought that because going to
a game in the women's sports world means being in
a place that's inclusive, fun, kind, competitive, exciting, and full
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of a diversity of people, all of whom you just
know that you'd want to party with after the game ends.
I always think that, looking around the stadium, everyone here
looks cool and awesome, and I want to party with them.
So as we were noodling around that, we thought, how
do we create the podcast version of the Good Place?
What would it look like to create something new? What
do we take from other shows and men's sports podcasts
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that we like, and what do we leave behind that
doesn't serve us? How do we create a community that
inspires folks to belong to it without relying on toxicity
or meanness to rally people together. You might already know this,
but research sadly shows that people respond to negativity and
engage more with anger and criticism than positivity. And of course,
we know way too many examples of shows and websites
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that have big fandom basically centered around cruelty and or ignorance.
So we wanted to really work to bring people together
around a shared love of something instead. And that's why
on the very first show we were already soliciting names
for you slices. We knew you would be a huge
part of this show, and we do want to keep
hearing from you, collaborating with you, and hopefully more and
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more in the future actually meeting you and getting everyone
together at games and events. You all bought in so
fast and you made this a real community so quickly.
It's genuinely tough to express just how grateful we are.
From Slice Joey Maldonado making women's sports schedules so we
all know where and how to watch stuff, to Aaron
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roj Show spreadsheet of our suggestions to sixty plus abuse
slices helping invest nearly two hundred thousand dollars in Minnesota
Aurora FC. From your hilarious emails, your great guest suggestions,
and your delightful voicemails, it has all been just so incredible.
And of course all the folks rock in the good
game with Sarah Spain merch, especially the ones I got
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to see in person at the Final four, and all
of you sending me your photos wearing the merch. It's
just an amazing feeling. By the way, if you haven't
gotten yours yet, Breaking Tea dot Com, slash Spain is
where you go, and we are planning to roll out
another color or two soon, so keep your eyes out
for that. You are all a mass part of the show.
You basically are this show, So we thank you so
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much for listening. In fact, every show we tell you
that we love that you're listening, But we also tell
you we want you to get in the game every
day too, So slices and seedlings, this is the call
to action that's part of pretty much every show, the
good Game play of the day. If you're new here
and you haven't already done so subscribe to the podcast.
We've done a lot of awesome stuff in two hundred episodes,
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and we don't plan on slow and down. And if
you're not new, can you please send one episode you
really like to a friend, a colleague, a family member,
just anyone you think might love our show. If we're
going to keep building this Good Game community, we need
your help. Also, we're always fielding suggestions for guests and
segment topics. Do you really want to hear from someone?
Do you have some bizarre what the fact? A guess?
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And maybe a submission for the Good Game Hall of
Fame or the Good Game Book Club. We want all
of them. Send them our way. You can hit us
up on email, good game at wondermedianetwork dot com, or
you can always get at me on social Spain two
three two three on Instagram, Sarah Spain on Twitter, slash
xan Sarahspain dot com on Blue Sky. We also always
throw the contact info for producers me Alex in the
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show notes too, and we always tell you this on
every episode. Ratings and reviews help our podcast so much,
and on every episode we give you this reminder, don't
forget to subscribe, rate and review, and then we show
you just how easy it is to review stuff like this.
Folks who subscribe rate and review our show, rating five
out of five stars, just like they're given us review.
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We love a slice you can take direction every show
we tell y'all to subscribe, rate and review, and so
many of you have listened, like Abina two, who gave
us five stars and wrote best part of my day.
And this podcast has everything smart, questions, funny people, great
takes on women's sports and gets me excited to watch
new sports and Happy Transfer, who wrote in part no
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episode disappoints and a must in the library of anyone
wanting to be up to date and in the know
about everything happening in in sports. Also shout out to
TeX's NYC, who said, in part, thank goodness I found
this podcast and telling all my college friends about it,
reviewing and spreading the word about the show. Now that's
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a super slice. I know you've heard the phrase subscribe,
rate and review so much that it might at this
point basically sound like the adults in the Peanuts movies
like the waw Waw waw Waw. But honestly it really
helps us, y'all, especially when there are still jamokes chiming
in with the one star and saying, you know, go
Trump liberal trash. Yeah, so let's go ahead and get
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enough fives to drown out that one star. What do
you say? Now, it's your turn, rate and review. If
you're not sure how, just go to the show's main
page on Apple Podcasts, scroll down until you get to
the stars, and click ratings and reviews. Thanks y'all, and
thanks to all of you for listening, whether this was
your two hundredth listen or your first. We'll see you
tomorrow when we shine a light on Throttle Therapy with
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Catherine Legg, one of the other awesome shows on the
iHeart Women's Sports Network. We'll be spreading the love for
the rest of the week, so make sure you tune
in Good Game slices, Good Games Seedlings, you time. Can
you just chill for like one second? At this rate,
We're gonna be on an episode four hundred before we
know it. Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart
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Women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network,
our producers are Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive
producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan, and Emily Rudder.
Our editors are Emily Rutterer, Britney Martinez, and Grace Lynch.
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Our associate producer is Lucy Jones and I'm Your host
Sarah Spain
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're putting
two hundred candles on the cake and celebrating our bi centennial.
But we don't think we look a day over one
hundred and ninety nine. It's Monday, April twenty eighth, and
that's right. Today's show is our two hundredth episode. What
the actual, y'all? We've been giving you the good stuff
since July seventeenth of last year, and time has literally
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flown by. We've enjoyed every second that we've spent creating
the women's sports hangout you always wanted, cultivating the women's
sports community you've always needed, and bringing you the star
stake stats and stories of the athletes, teams, and leagues
you simply must know about. So today, in honor of
the beautiful community we've all built together, we want to
celebrate our longtime slices and welcome the new slices, the rookies,
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the seedlings who are just starting to sprout with the
little show education to catch everyone up on what they
might have missed. Our big old Celebrication episode is coming
up right after this. Welcome back Slices. That's you, the
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lovely listener, you're called slices, like the orange slices handed
out at halftime or at the end of a good game.
Get it. And here's a little bit more you might
need to know to follow the show. The Everyday Good
Game team is Me Mesh and Alex. Mesh is a
DMV loyalist and a former college hooper who didn't care
much for defense. When they're not working on this show,
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they're a color commentator for their alum William and Mary,
among other places. She's also a child, and because she's
still in her twenties, often doesn't get my references. Sometimes
I'm too old for producer Alex too. They keep me
in check and remind me to explain things to our
younger listeners. You know, old fashioned stuff like rotary phones,
dial up internet, and how it's possible to have an
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attention span longer than a goldfish. Alex is a research
fiend who enjoy deep dives into collective bargaining agreements and
knowing everything there is to know about obscure Olympic rules
and regulations. If you ever have a burning question about
the top five closest Olympic lose races, she's your girl.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Did you know that Louis is the only sliding sport
in one of the only sports in general that measures
all the way to the thousandth of a second.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
She's also an artist and enjoys lurking on message boards
and in chat groups, including one called dorm Room Mama's,
even though she doesn't have a child in college or
a child at all. I'm from Chicago and I was
a heptathlete at Cornell. I'm obsessed with Michael Jordan and
equally obsessed with my three dogs and husband Brad. I
was briefly a minority owner of the Chicago Red Stars.
I tore my achilles and improblematically competitive. All of these
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things somehow tend to come up regularly. Collectively, we're known
as Big Citrus. So how did we get that name? Well,
back in December, we got kinda tired of having to
say each of our names every time we introduced ourselves. Plus,
since y'all had such a cute name, we were kind
of jealous, so we put it to a vote Iago style.
Of course, vote early vote often you slices narrowed our
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options down to coaches, senior slices, the grove, Orange Blossoms,
good gamers, good Sports and peels, and in episode one
O eight, which dropped December sixteenth, the three of us
did our final deliberation, settling on Big Citrus. In hindsight,
it's a pretty cool name. Just know that we've got
better morals than Big Pharma, Big Tech and all those
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other guys. We only use our powers for good. We
regularly have Big Citrus conversations now dissecting happenings in and
around women's sports competition. Alex brings for research and Olympic expertise,
Mech brings their basketball player slash analyst knowledge, and we
all bring our opinions, lots of opinions. It's truly one
of my favorite things about our show, and you slices
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who have been around have told us repeatedly how much
you love those conversations too, so we'll keep bringing them
to you now. Most shows we start out with the
need to know the women's sports news of the day
that you frankly can't get anywhere else. As the only
daily women's sports show of any kind, we just want
to make sure you're updated on the trades, scores, business
deals and more going on every single day in the
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women's sports world. So in a twist on that. Last
week we asked you longtime slices what you think new
listeners need to know about our show, and we got
some awesome responses. So here's what you need to know today,
Good Game with Sarah Spain Edition. Let's start with the
glossary of terms things you might hear us say on
the show or talk about on the show. Mish and
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Alex help me out with this one. One of my favorites.
Hoops and gay shit and footy in gay shit and
fucks and gay shit, and you get the point. All
the great gay moments you can only find in women's sports,
where teammates and opponents share wedding vows, beds, babies and
breakup stories. It's not good sportsmanship. They're lesbian stacy google
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it newbies.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Friend of the show what we call former and repeat guests.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And we also got are not friends of the show.
Those are transphobes, people who abused animals, politicians who use
women's sports as a way to promote fear and misogyny,
and cheaters.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We've got unfiable, which is kind of my own personal
mantra that I've brought to the show. A state of
mind really like no one gets to live rent free
in my head, and you can try, but you can't
fight with me. Too centered to serve myself, too unfiniable.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
The Slices our end of the year awards, voted on
by the slices.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We've got Tits to the turf, volvet to the velodrome,
mount to the ground, and lots of other varieties. All
entries from slices answering our question, what's an equivalent to
the old idiom balls to the Wall, which we assumed
was about men, But it's actually about cars, so we're
still going to use the alternates.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
We've got stars, steak stats, and stories. This is my
go to approach to teaching folks about a new league.
We're welcoming new fans to a sport or a team.
You'll hear it come up often on the show, and
I Frank should trademarket before someone steals it. Thanks to
super Slice Amanda Vallo, who chimed in with a few
more of our go to phrases and reminded us of
some that we might have forgotten. Here's what she wrote.
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Ceist a slang term producer Meiche might use when she's
psyched or excited about something. No, niche didn't invent it,
but she did introduce us to it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Vib's younger hip version of volleyball in a sentence, can't
go to the mall.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I got Vibes practice tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And for the record, Sarah tried to hate but now
she's using it, and now it's in our glossary just saying.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
We've got the n NBA the Men's National Basketball Association,
a distinction made to point toward league equity for the
Women's National Basketball Association WNBA. See also Men's World Cup.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We've got giant rice crispy treat table, a somewhat mythic
piece of college apartment furniture, a young Dinah Tarassi used
in the styling and preparation of her iconic hair bunon
tater pigs think pigs in a blaket.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
A hot dog stuck inside a hole drilled into a
baked potato.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Now, if you're wondering how that came up in the show,
then you clearly missed darch Madness, a very special potato
based event that we had. All Right, I think that's
most of them, but let us know if there are
any glossary terms we've forgot. Now let's talk episodes. We
often hear from folks about our Christine Brennan episode from
October third. It's a show that doesn't really fit our
usual format, but it was definitely a compelling listen and
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an important topic, So definitely check that one out. As
for which episodes you slices think our little seedling should
listen to in order to truly catch our vibe, here
are some of our faves that you suggested. Pamela Mudway said,
Welcome to the Good Place, the very first episode definitely
sets the tone, and August thirtieth, Hoops and Gayshit, which
is not only a great episode but the start of
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a must know good game phrase.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Amanda chimed in here again with Big Citrus Energy from
December sixteenth. It's a bit seasonal, gives a great flavor
and feel for the producer vibes and origin of the name.
Also biased toward the nature of co ed adult sports
etiquette code. I thought that was great. Amanda also enjoyed
the Human Condition with Big Citrus from March fourth, saying,
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more serious but definitely impactful vibe takes listeners' brains out
and squishes them around for a while in a good way.
I love a good brain squish.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Andrea Vie said, Group chat Bag of Joy with Aaron
Foley and Morgan Murphy from July twenty fifth and Tits
to the Turf with Big Citrus from March twenty fourth.
She also added, good game, Big Citrus, Good game, Women's Sports.
You only allowed to choose two favorite episodes, just two
out of two hundred. That's a terrible conversion rate.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's fair. That's fair, Andrea, Last, but not least, use
Lights was offered up some great general advice about Slice life,
so Pamela Mudwey chimed in again. She said, quote the
best part of the show is it not only highlights
the power of women's sports, but brings a real human
touch to the stories, the guests, the players, and the
chaos still occurring in the world of women's sports equity.
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Sarah Meish and Alex bring knowledge, empathy and laughter each episode.
There really is nothing like it out.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There, Amanda Vallo said, to remind everyone of our show
side the Minnesota Aurora, a community driven women's soccer club
built for community by community. Here at the show, we
encouraged anyone interested to get some skin in the game
and become a team owner with us to help grow
and build women's sports. We give regular updates on the team,
which competes in the Heartland Division of the usl W League,
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a pre professional women's soccer league that gives players a
place to keep competing and helps prep some other players
to go on to the NWSL or pro leagues abroad.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Mary Ze says, my basketball wife and I laugh at
how just when we think we won't be that interested
in the day's episode, we end up loving it and
learning something new. I feel like every day your guest says, wow,
that's a really good question, and your intros are also epic.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
From a producer, some behind the scenes secrets, there are
a lot of times when guests say that was a
really good question, and we end up cutting it because
they've said it four times in a row and it
gets kind of tired after a while.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So you know you're doing it right. And Sandra Robinson
reminded us that fandom is a lifelong adventure. She wrote,
my wife and I are mystics founding fans and season
ticket holders since the beginning of the franchise. I want
to shout out truly older fans of women's sports, like me,
age seventy five, still physically active in fighting for opportunities
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our generation never had. I love that you never take
the current gains for granted. We love that, Sandra, you're
an og and a trailblazer, and we love that you're listening.
All right, we got to take a quick break. When
we come back, we crack open our history books, stick around,
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welcome back slices. Now here a good game. We do
a handful of recurring segments, many of them aimed at
helping folks learn the history of women's sports, passed highs
and lows of their favorite leagues, maybe the stories of
the athletes who paved the way. What good is knowing
a record was broken if you don't know who's said
it the first time. Right, So here are a few
segments you can expect to hear pretty regularly. First, there's
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yes and now this one's all about giving props on
a recent accomplishment while simultaneously honoring those who did it
first and aren't given enough flowers, or paying homage to
the folks who laid the groundwork for it to be possible.
Because what's happening today only matters in the context of
what's come before it. For example, one of our faves
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was from our December twentieth episode, A Yes and about
USC superstar Juju Watkins take a listen. Last season, in
the final year of the Pac twelve Conference, Watkins let
a resurgence in SoCal, helping the Trojan to their first
number one seed in the NCAA Tournament since nineteen eighty six,
and she scored nine hundred twenty points. That's good for
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the most points by a freshman in D one history.
Speaking in nineteen eighty six, though, what was going on
back then? Who led that team to a number one
seed in the attorney Well, that would be Cheryl Miller,
arguably one of the best to ever lace them up.
The forward was a four time All American and three
time Naysmith Award recipient, and to this day she still
holds USC records for career scoring with threeenty eighteen points,
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rebounds fifteen hundred and thirty four, rebound average twelve rebounds
per game, and free throws mate seven hundred. Miller led
the Trojans to back to back NCUBA championships in nineteen
eighty three and eighty four, and she dominated with Team
USA as well, winning a gold medal at the eighty
four Olympics. For her impact on the game, she's been
recognized as both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer
and a Women's Basketball Hall of Famer. Now, if you recall,
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we also told you yesterday that another recent college hoops superstar,
Caitlin Clark, will have her jersey retired at Iowa at
the beginning of February when the team faces off against
what a coincidence USC. Of course, that honor is extremely
well deserved. Clark changed the trajectory of the entire Hawkeyes
program and of women's basketball at large. Pretty cool, right,
We'll get this, folks. Miller had her jersey retired too,
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during the eighty six season while she was still playing.
Miller's was the first basketball jersey USC retired ever, regardless
of gender. Shout out to the delightful and insightful Jordan
Robinson for reminding us about this through a post on
Blue Sky. We'll link to that in the show notes.
So yes, ju Ju Watkins, Yes, Caitlin Clark, and Cheryl Miller.
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Because Cheryl Miller was her and frankly still is, she
got her Flowers at WNBA All Star Weekend this summer
and was selected to coach Team WNBA. During the All
Star Game, her squad won one seventeen to one oh nine,
beating a team of players roster for the US national
team that went on to win gold in Paris. Now,
the WNBA didn't exist when Miller graduated from USC, and
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her career was also cut short by severe knee injuries.
But ask your favorite player's favorite player who their favorite
player is, and we bet at Cheryl Miller. All right,
so we've also got our what the Facts presented by
elf Beauty. We use these segments to illuminate shocking or
infuriating stats and facts, you know, the things that make
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you say, what the fact. A great example of this
was our segment from November fifteenth discussing USA Hockey's complete
and total muck up of their twenty fourteen Olympic jersey
design and unveiling. This honestly still chaps my ass. Take
a listen, let's go back to twenty fourteen. USA Hockey
is hyping the unveiling of the Nike design jerseys that
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the men's and women's hockey teams will wear at the
upcoming Sochi Olympics and Paralympics, and in a press release
and in a press conference with men's players, they didn't
invite anyone from the women's team. USA Hockey excitedly announces
some of the details on the jersey, including the fact
that they had paid homage to pass USA gold medal
winning teams by stitching the years nineteen sixty and nineteen
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eight inside the collar. So cool, right, Only problem they
didn't include the year nineteen ninety eight, the year the
women won gold in Nagano, Japan. Incidental, Accidental, doesn't matter.
What matters is that a whole room of people at
USA Hockey, a whole other room full of designers at Nike,
and god knows how many other rooms of pr people
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and marketing and everyone else simply did not consider the
women's team. These were the jerseys that they would be wearing,
jerseys that they would put on to represent their country
and to realize the accomplishment of their life stream, and
they were forgotten about entirely. And how about the sled
hockey team that won gold in two thousand and two
and twenty ten. They would be wearing those jerseys at
the Paralympics without their accomplishments honored either. This is just
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part of a long pattern from USA Hockey, and this
slight was one of many that inspired the twenty seventeen
women's team to threaten a boycott. Just two weeks ahead
of the World Championships that were set to take place
on home soil in Michigan, the players announced they were
boycotting quote unless significant progress has been made on the
year long negotiations with USA Hockey over fair wages and
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equitable support end quote. USA Hockey tried to get scabs,
it didn't work, and ultimately the women got a four
year contract with most of their demands met, and went
on to win not just those World Championships in Michigan,
but gold the next year at the twenty eighteen Olympics.
They shouldn't have needed to fight so hard for basic
respect and acknowledgment. Truly, what the fact? Next up a
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segment we call the Good Game Hall of Fame, where
we shine a light on great women's sports stories that
should be known, spread widely, and chatted about regularly over
beers at the local bar. There are endless examples of
men's sports lore becoming common knowledge for sports fans from
Michael Jordan's flu game, to Wilt Chamberlain claiming to have
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slept with two thousand women, to MLB Hall of Famer
George Brett poop and his pants, and the lobby of
the Blagio. It's about time we start sharing women's sports
Lord too. So in the ten months that we've been
doing shows, we've put up eight plaques in the Good
Game Hall of Fame. Sylvia Fowls dunking in her final
All Star Game at the age of thirty six, her
first in game dunk in thirteen years, the first US
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women's national team in nineteen eighty five who set the
stage for years of US soccer dominance. Cheryl Swoops and
Candace Parker returning to the court after pregnancy. Superfan Prince
throwing the Minnesota Links a postgame party at Paisley Park
after their twenty fifteen WNBA title win. Former NWSL star
Merit Matthias's legendary tweets about her acl being torn by
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another player. Legendary Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summit racing
back to Knoxville to give birth to her son, Tyler
so she wouldn't give birth an enemy territory, Carolyn Peck
gifting South Carolina coach John Staley with a piece of
the NCAA Championship net after leading Purdue to the title,
and Staley continuing and extending that tradition with other black
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head coaches in basketball, Anne Wisconsin's Kirsten Simms calling her shot,
asking for the penalty show in the NCAA Hockey Championship
and burying it. Now, there's one story in particular that
inspired the Good Game Hall of Fame, and it's who
else but the ninety nine Ers. Take a listen from
our very first episode, the traffic Jam and the ninety
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nine Ers women's soccer team. The players were stuck on
their bus complaining about all the traffic that they were
in as they were trying to get to their World
Cup opening game at Giant Stadium, only to find out
that the traffic was for them seventy eighty nine hundred
and seventy two fans en route to watch their game.
That's such a cool story, Faudy talks about it. Julie
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Foudy of the ninety nine Ers team, sitting on the bus,
what is all this traffic? We're going to be laid
to the game. Oh, my God, it's for us.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
If we need to know about I don't know Derek
Jeter's infamous gift bags and a Rod's alleged centaur painting,
then I think we should know about the ninety nine
Ers traffic jam. And finally, we don't just love to
dish on women's sports, lower we loved to read about
it too. So we've got the Good Game Book Club.
It's a chance to plug and catalog books that we
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love and books written or suggested by our guests. That
list has included Locker Room Talk, A Woman Struggle to
Get Inside by Melissa Ludkey, Hail Mary, The Rise and
Fall of the National Women's Football League by Frankie de
la Creta and Lindsay Darkangelo, Slaying the Trolls by David
Berry and Nefertid Walker, and The Fast Track Inside the
Surging Business of Women's Sports by Jane McManus, and so
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many more. And if you want to see the full
list of book wrecks in the Good Game Book Club,
you're in luck. All because of the hard work of
one particular super slice, Aaron raw who has compiled not
only all the books we've recommended so far, but also
all the podcasts, documentaries, essays, shows and stories that we've
shouted out, and all the merch we've highlighted, from Moolah
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Kicks to Play a Society to our very own Good
Game with Sarah Spain merch. This spreadsheet that she sent
us might have made Alex cry full tears, and it
definitely made the entire team get a little misty eyed.
You rule the most Erin. We'll link to the spreadsheet
again in our show notes so you can catch up
and keep up with everything we've recommended. By the way
Erin for all your hard work, I'm going to be
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sending you a little surprise as the unofficial show historian.
You more than deserve it. Now we've got a couple
more repeating segments that you'll come to know when you listen.
When we shout out positive facts, good game, good Game
fact you, and where else where we spotlight things that
only happen in the good place that is women's sports.
But for now you get the picture. Basically, we relish
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the opportunity to teach and learn more about women's sports,
how we got here, who the major players are, and
what obstacles still stand in our way. It's great to
know where we are and get excited about where we're going.
But we can be so much more tactical and intentional
about growing and expanding when we know our history too.
We got to take another break when we come back
the good place, the correct number of stars, and a
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call to action welcome back slices. As we reflect on
two hundred episodes, I thought about the very first brainstorming
sessions that we had about the show, and I actually
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went back and found some old notes and emails, and
as we thought about what the show would look like,
there were a bunch of words that we wrote down
like what we wanted it to feel like. Some of
those were welcoming, inclusive, warm, safe, funny, fair, honest and starky,
not annoyingly earnest, and not constantly griping about how unfair
things are. We thought, if our listeners were going to
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hang out with us every day for thirty to forty minutes,
it should be fun and funny while also sometimes rightly
complaining about shit. Our north Stars at the beginning were
Tina Fay, Amy Poehler, Samantha Bee, Don Staley, Chelsea Handler,
Sue Berd, Michelle Obama, Billy Jean King, all these really smart, badass, successful, funny,
unfuckiable women with a very clear point of view and perspective.
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We wanted the show to highlight that athletes and women's
sports are multi to me, and that when we let
them be authentically themselves, everybody wins. Same goes for fans.
We can all be masculine, feminine heroes, villains, funny, serious, competitive, physical, loving, mothering,
fashionable everything. We can be men or women or non
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binary folk who just love women's sports. We wanted to
be sure we showed that women's sports can be X's
and O's game recaps, strategy and tactics, and also be
stories about a player's favorite clothing brand or beauty rituals
or dating life. It can be about demanding more investment
and better coverage, and about celebrating the team's leagues and
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networks that are getting it right, changing the game, and
shaping the future in ways that should be applauded. Now.
I said on the very first show that women's sports
is the good place. That's actually what I wanted to
name the show, and I thought that because going to
a game in the women's sports world means being in
a place that's inclusive, fun, kind, competitive, exciting, and full
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of a diversity of people, all of whom you just
know that you'd want to party with after the game ends.
I always think that, looking around the stadium, everyone here
looks cool and awesome, and I want to party with them.
So as we were noodling around that, we thought, how
do we create the podcast version of the Good Place?
What would it look like to create something new? What
do we take from other shows and men's sports podcasts
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that we like, and what do we leave behind that
doesn't serve us? How do we create a community that
inspires folks to belong to it without relying on toxicity
or meanness to rally people together. You might already know this,
but research sadly shows that people respond to negativity and
engage more with anger and criticism than positivity. And of course,
we know way too many examples of shows and websites
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that have big fandom basically centered around cruelty and or ignorance.
So we wanted to really work to bring people together
around a shared love of something instead. And that's why
on the very first show we were already soliciting names
for you slices. We knew you would be a huge
part of this show, and we do want to keep
hearing from you, collaborating with you, and hopefully more and
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more in the future actually meeting you and getting everyone
together at games and events. You all bought in so
fast and you made this a real community so quickly.
It's genuinely tough to express just how grateful we are.
From Slice Joey Maldonado making women's sports schedules so we
all know where and how to watch stuff, to Aaron
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roj Show spreadsheet of our suggestions to sixty plus abuse
slices helping invest nearly two hundred thousand dollars in Minnesota
Aurora FC. From your hilarious emails, your great guest suggestions,
and your delightful voicemails, it has all been just so incredible.
And of course all the folks rock in the good
game with Sarah Spain merch, especially the ones I got
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to see in person at the Final four, and all
of you sending me your photos wearing the merch. It's
just an amazing feeling. By the way, if you haven't
gotten yours yet, Breaking Tea dot Com, slash Spain is
where you go, and we are planning to roll out
another color or two soon, so keep your eyes out
for that. You are all a mass part of the show.
You basically are this show, So we thank you so
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much for listening. In fact, every show we tell you
that we love that you're listening, But we also tell
you we want you to get in the game every
day too, So slices and seedlings, this is the call
to action that's part of pretty much every show, the
good Game play of the day. If you're new here
and you haven't already done so subscribe to the podcast.
We've done a lot of awesome stuff in two hundred episodes,
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and we don't plan on slow and down. And if
you're not new, can you please send one episode you
really like to a friend, a colleague, a family member,
just anyone you think might love our show. If we're
going to keep building this Good Game community, we need
your help. Also, we're always fielding suggestions for guests and
segment topics. Do you really want to hear from someone?
Do you have some bizarre what the fact? A guess?
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And maybe a submission for the Good Game Hall of
Fame or the Good Game Book Club. We want all
of them. Send them our way. You can hit us
up on email, good game at wondermedianetwork dot com, or
you can always get at me on social Spain two
three two three on Instagram, Sarah Spain on Twitter, slash
xan Sarahspain dot com on Blue Sky. We also always
throw the contact info for producers me Alex in the
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show notes too, and we always tell you this on
every episode. Ratings and reviews help our podcast so much,
and on every episode we give you this reminder, don't
forget to subscribe, rate and review, and then we show
you just how easy it is to review stuff like this.
Folks who subscribe rate and review our show, rating five
out of five stars, just like they're given us review.
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We love a slice you can take direction every show
we tell y'all to subscribe, rate and review, and so
many of you have listened, like Abina two, who gave
us five stars and wrote best part of my day.
And this podcast has everything smart, questions, funny people, great
takes on women's sports and gets me excited to watch
new sports and Happy Transfer, who wrote in part no
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episode disappoints and a must in the library of anyone
wanting to be up to date and in the know
about everything happening in in sports. Also shout out to
TeX's NYC, who said, in part, thank goodness I found
this podcast and telling all my college friends about it,
reviewing and spreading the word about the show. Now that's
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a super slice. I know you've heard the phrase subscribe,
rate and review so much that it might at this
point basically sound like the adults in the Peanuts movies
like the waw Waw waw Waw. But honestly it really
helps us, y'all, especially when there are still jamokes chiming
in with the one star and saying, you know, go
Trump liberal trash. Yeah, so let's go ahead and get
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enough fives to drown out that one star. What do
you say? Now, it's your turn, rate and review. If
you're not sure how, just go to the show's main
page on Apple Podcasts, scroll down until you get to
the stars, and click ratings and reviews. Thanks y'all, and
thanks to all of you for listening, whether this was
your two hundredth listen or your first. We'll see you
tomorrow when we shine a light on Throttle Therapy with
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Catherine Legg, one of the other awesome shows on the
iHeart Women's Sports Network. We'll be spreading the love for
the rest of the week, so make sure you tune
in Good Game slices, Good Games Seedlings, you time. Can
you just chill for like one second? At this rate,
We're gonna be on an episode four hundred before we
know it. Good Game with Sarah Spain is an iHeart
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Women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
You can find us on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. Production by Wonder Media Network,
our producers are Alex Azzie and Misha Jones. Our executive
producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz, Jenny Kaplan, and Emily Rudder.
Our editors are Emily Rutterer, Britney Martinez, and Grace Lynch.
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Our associate producer is Lucy Jones and I'm Your host
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