January 23, 2025 • 26 mins
Minnesota Aurora FC co-founder Andrea Yoch and former Aurora midfielder Morgan Stone join Sarah to talk about the team’s community capital raise ending January 31st (grab your slice!), the USL W League pipeline to pro soccer, the club’s long term goals, and a magical creature named Rory the Aurorasaurus. Plus, the NWSL schedule is here, a lesson in the rule of the road, and a legendary Jeopardy answer.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're celebrating
the news that Google will no longer default to men's
soccer results when you search for a club. So while
we're still bummed that Naomi Germa appears to be headed
to Chelsea, at least we won't be faced with sexist
search results whenever we search for the score for latest game.
It's Thursday, January twenty third, and on today's show, we'll
be talking to co founder of the Minnesota Aurora, Andrea
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Yak and former Aurora player Morgan Stone about the inspiration
behind the community funded team, the team's long term goals,
and all the reasons both meaningful and silly, like Rory
the Aurora Sorus to join us as owners. Plus a
Jeopardy answer we can get behind TV numbers that show
promise and a message hidden in the timing of a
contract announcement. It's all coming up right after this welcome
(00:52):
back slices. Here's what you need to know today in
college hoops, there are a bunch of big games tonight
with lots of ranked teams in act. That includes a
matchup between number seven Texas and number seventeen Tennessee at
eight pm Eastern on ESPN. The Longhorns are coming off
a big eighty nine to fifty one win against number
eight Maryland on Monday, in which sophomore forward Madison Booker
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recorded twenty eight points worth noting that the two most
recent NCAA champs, number two South Carolina and number five LSU,
were also set to meet tonight, but that game has
been moved to Friday due to travel difficulties because of
the winter storm that coated Louisiana in a thick layer
of snow. If you haven't seen the photos and videos
coming out of Louisiana, they are wild. Google them. But also,
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can we get all that snow up out of New
Orleans before I head there for Super Bowl Radio row?
Mama needs a break from cold weather. Come on. Oh. Also,
remember earlier this week when we told you about the
new deal Don Staley just signed, making her the highest
paid coach in women's soops. Well, given that LSU coach
Kim Mulky previously held that record, it makes you think
maybe South Carolina was trying to send a message with
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the timing of that announcement just days ahead of sc
versus LSU. Anyway, we'll have more on what to expect
in that NCAA champion showdown during tomorrow show. A bunch
of other ranked teams also in action tonight, including number
one UCLA and number three Notre Dame. Will link to
the full schedule in the show notes to Soccer. The
NWSL schedule is out. We got a few highlights to
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look forward to in twenty twenty five. First play gets
underway with the Challenge Cup on March seventh, featuring a
rematch of last year's championship, the Orlando Pride versus the
Washington Spirit. Regular season gets started the following week and
continues for twenty six count them twenty six match weeks.
The league is introducing a new Rivalry weekend scheduled for
August eighth through the tenth, that will feature matchups between
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Portland and Seattle, Angel City and San Diego, and Gotham
and Washington. The regular season comes to a close on
November two with the return of Decision Day. That's right,
all fourteen teams competing on the final day, though we're
not yet sure if all those games will be kicking
off at the same time. You know, we're crossing all
our fingers and toes for chaos and a close title race. Also,
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some of the teams put out some pretty fun schedule
release videos, so go peruse their socials and give them
a watch. More NWSL. On Tuesday, Angel City big wigs,
including new controlling owner Willow Bay, who invested in the
team with her husband Bob Eiger last year, gathered to
cut the ribbon on a new team performance center at
California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The performance center
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is part of a nine acre training base that Angel
City inherited from the Los Angeles Rams when the NFL
team moved to Woodland Hills last year. It includes a
fifty four hundred square foot gym, three locker rooms, a
film room, a medical treatment and hydro therapy area, a
children's playroom, a full soccer pitch, and an adjoining half field. Man,
do we love the facility? Wars that are going on
in women's sports right now? Every week, a new facility,
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a new record, a new amount of money spent. What
a time? What a time. Kristin Press of Angel City
said the facility will help the team recruit, especially now
that the NWSL has done away with the draft quote
for the last three years, when we go as a
club and talk to top players in the world, we
didn't have this facility to offer, said Press. It's a
huge part of our day to day experience as an athlete,
and it matters quote. Recruiting will also be easier with
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a full time head coach, and ACFC doesn't have one
right now. For now, they've signed Sam Lady, former head
coach the Houston Dash and former assistant coach of the
Seattle Rain, to manage the club on an interim basis
while they look for a permanent hire. Too unrivaled where
TV ratings from the debut weekend are out. Viewership of
the opening game featuring league co founders Brianna Stewart and
Nafisikalier averaged three hundred and thirteen thousand viewers, while Friday
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second game averaged three hundred and eleven thousand viewers, both
figures lower than what WNBA games had brought in during
recent years, but still strong for the upstart league. We
got to take a quick break. When we come back,
we talk all things Aurora FC, with Andrea Yak and
Morgan Stone joining us now the co founder of Minnesota
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Aurora and chair of the Aurora FC board. A sports
and entertainment marketer, she was formerly VP of business development
at Minnesota United and was part of the team that
was awarded the MLS expansion franchise after building up the
NASL team. She's also led a wide range of events
for different orgs, including two Minnesota Super Bowls. A broken
leg and a knee brace will not keep her from
rock and a poofy dress to a T Swift concert.
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It's Andrea Yach. What's up Andrea? Hi, Sarah, thanks for
coming on joining her. A former Minnesota Aurora player, she
joined the Aurora summer off season of twenty twenty two
in their inaugural season, helping them to the USLW League Finals.
She was the second highest goal scorer that year, and
returned the following two years, becoming a team captain. She
helped the team win the division all three years there.
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She's now playing professionally and Lisbon, Portugal, presumably living on
Pasta de Nata and sardines. It's Morgan Stone. What's up, Morgan?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Hello? How are you? Thanks for having me?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We are all jealous that you're in Portugal right now,
enjoying some sunshine and all the delicious food. We can't
wait to learn more about our official good game with
Sarah Spain team, the Minnesota Aurora. So Andrea tell us
just starting out, how did the Aurora come to be?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So Aurora is the effort of some normal community people
in the Twin Cities who were tired of waiting for
a rich person to start a women's soccer team. So
a group of us met together in a park during
COVID and decided why not us? And in hindsight, you know,
we didn't know what we didn't now, but we figured
it out. And the biggest thing for us is because
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none of us were rich, we didn't have any funding.
And we decided to become a community owned team, which
had been done on the men's side but had never
been done by a women's team before. And so we
launched that in twenty twenty one and sold out our
first round of shares with three thousand and eighty owners.
And so last fall twenty twenty four, we decided to
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do it again. So we are open for ownership, but
we're the largest independent women's community owned team in the country.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Amazing. Can you tell us about the USLW level in
which the team competes.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, so that's a good question. We were an inaugural
team in the USL W of which Morgan was a part.
It is an amateur league that is meant to fill
the gap for either college players who are looking for
more touches and more experience during the summer, or players
who finished college and because there's not a lot of
pro soccer yet in the US for women and not
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a lot of jobs, they need somewhere to continue to
work on their careers so that they can get pro contracts.
And we're really proud that of our teams of our
first three seasons, we have fifteen players that are playing
professionally now that came through Aurora and were able to
go pro. Incredible, so that's something that was really important
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when we founded the team, was to create space for
young women on and off the field to get the
experience they needed to advance their careers.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And for listeners who remember hearing the name or the
words or the letters USL on this show before. There
is also a new USL league that has been given
professional accreditation at the same level as the NWSL, just
started in the last year. This is a different league
from that. This is pre professional and this is USLW
versus the other league. Kind of confusing, but as Andrew
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just said, this is sort of that feeder league into
other professional leagues. Morgan, like I said, you spent three
seasons with the team. Can you tell listeners about the roster.
Who are the players that you were playing alongside.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, so we call them the OG's, the ones that
have been there through all three years of it being
a team. So we kind of got to experience such
a cool inaugural season, but then we saw how good
of a league, this is, how good of a community
it was to be a part of, and so we
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just had to come back for the next few years
and we wanted to be a part of it even more.
And I was really grateful to be able to play
alongside some of those players. Those fifteen girls like she
had mentioned that are now playing professionally, and I myself
included like have gotten to that love as well. So
it's definitely filled with a roster of really really talented
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players that are going to make a big impact in
the professional and people are now making impact in the
professional colleagues.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And it sounds like you started playing in the off
season while still in college, and then after graduation you
continued to play. What's the best part of your experience
of playing with Rora.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I think everything that Aurora stands for is really unique
and being a part of something that is bigger than yourself.
Being a part of this team means not just being
on a team, but being a part of the community
and a community that supports really good causes and has
made strides in women's sports. And I think just being
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able to represent something a lot bigger than yourself is
probably my favorite part. In being able to interact with
those people, interact with young girls, with people in the
LGBTQ community that support us, and we stand for so
many different things in the country, but in our community especially,
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and I think just being a part of that and
taking to stand for those things is really important to me.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's obviously pre professional, so you're not paid a salary.
What is covered in terms of like expenses and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They take really good care of us. Even though it
isn't a like full professional team. It has an abundance
of resources. So I myself am not from Minnesota or
the Minnesota area, so my housing was covered while I
was there. All of the pregame post game type meals
are covered, facilities amazing, and we have access to Twin
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City Orthopedics, which is right there in case knock on wood,
anybody gets hurt, things like that that happens, and also
training house being there on our things, so they definitely
take really good care of us as players. As well
as transportation. There's other teams in the league that can
afford to travel their players, but we have an amazing
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bus driver that is our superstar, Steven, so they definitely
take really good care of us.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Shout out Steven Andrea. This particular capital raise ends January thirty. First,
we're encouraging all the slices to get involved. Before then,
why should folks want to invest in the team?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So we know that a lot of people recognize that
women have not been treated well in the world, but
in sports in particular, and in a lot of cases
it's hard to know what to do about this. One
hundred dollars minimum investment ensures that not only can we
continue to do all the things on the soccer field,
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but we can keep doing the things off the soccer field.
So if you really believe in creating space for women
to achieve what they want to, achieve and helping equal
the playing field. This is a great way to do
it because we are trying to remove all the barriers.
Part of what your money goes towards is housing. As
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Morgan mentioned, we pay for our players US Soccer registration.
I didn't know before starting Aurora how much it actually
costs to register to play soccer in the United States.
My boys aged out after high school and so things
like that cost a lot of people money. And if
you don't have that money, that means you have to
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give up on soccer. That's not fair and that's also
not the equality that we're all hoping for in the country.
So that's where your money goes. We take really good
pair of our players. We give back to our community
as much as we can. And not only do we
have these fifteen women playing pro our first head coach
now works at US Soccer. We have a young woman
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who interned for US who's at the athletic We have
another former player who now works in sports sponsorships. So
we're creating this feeder system that's giving opportunities and all
of that comes from this community ownership fund and helping
us really exist higher than an amateur team. Should and
it allows us to accomplish a lot more.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's awesome. What happens if someone's listening to this late
it's past January thirty first, will they still be able
to invest? Or how does that capital raise window work?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So, because this is actually a formal security as an
exchange commission transaction, January thirty first is the cutoff for
this campaign, but we absolutely encourage people to buy merchandise.
If you're coming through town, come to a game, follow
us on social media, tell your friends. There are so
many ways that we can all be supporting women's sports.
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Listening to your show, you know, if you're in a
market where Unrivaled is with a bunch of our friends
from the Minnesota Links, right, yeah, find something in your market.
It doesn't have to be Aurora, but there's something college
women's basketball is you know hot. Just go do something
and help.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It matters.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You matter, the individual matters. This is not an issue
that's so big that it feels overwhelming. Women's sports is
something we can all easily do something to help support.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well through January thirty first. We hope that support comes
in the form of getting involved with our new team,
the Minnesota Aurora Morgan. Does it feel different playing for
a community owned team.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, I think it definitely has a different take on
it because, you know, you can be out in the
community and I can be wearing my Minnesota gear and
somebody might call me aside and say, hey, I'm a
community owner, like I own part of your team, And
it's happened to me multiple times, and I think it's
just cool because it's like, oh, like you were. You
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were a part of the reason why I'm able to
do what I love and I'm able to play soccer,
and you funded, like she said, you know, like the
registration fees in my housing, and I'm just connecting with
somebody that was willing to invest in in sports so
that I'm able to do what I love. It really
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has a cool spin to it. You don't normally get
to meet the people that are doing these things and
investing their time and their money, so again, it just
puts that cherry on top of your doing it for
a bigger cause than yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, all right, Andrea, When does the season start?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
A season will start in May, hopefully schedule comes out
in February.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What are the goals for this season? Championship? We've been,
We've been very close.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sorry, Morgan, I hate bringing this up, but we lost
in the championship game in twenty twenty two, which I
thought I'd experienced heartbreak in sports, but nothing like actually
losing a team that you are part of an ownership.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And then we've been.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
In the playoffs our last two seasons without the trophy.
So the trophy is the goal.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So undefeated in regular season play for three straight seasons,
but never the winner at the very end.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Never the winner at the very end.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So we're we're doing some stuff this year.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
We're going to add in a little bit more preseason
competition to get us ready. Our head coach Jen Leric
is working hard on recruiting and we're going to come
out strong. But the hard thing is is when we
started in this league there were forty four teams. There's
going to be over one hundred teams twenty five, So
getting that trophy means we have to step on a
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lot of people to get there. But that's the goal
we're not going to shy away from it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Is there a longer term, larger goal for this team. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So we average sixty five hundred fans a game. That's
good of the best attended women's teams in the United States,
including the NWUSL. Now things are changing in the NBUSL,
but in our first few seasons we would have been
in the middle of the pack for attendance and we
do a very great amount of merchandise sales. So our
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goal is to go pro. What we don't know right now,
and thank you Denver for driving the up even more
on a franchise, is we just don't know how much
that's going to cost. And the beauty of our team
is that we're community owned. We're all normal people. The
hard part is we don't hang out in the rooms
with the really rich people that are buying these teams.
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So that's part of what we're going to do over
the next few years. We've proven the model, we've proven
that Minnesota loves women's soccer and everybody will show up.
Now we need to go find the money to go pro.
And that price tag just keeps going up. So if
anyone listening has two hundred million dollars and wants some
women's soccer team, please let us know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Eventually you would like to bring the NWSL to Minnesota, we.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Would and we absolutely believe the Twin cities deserves it.
The NWSL recognizes that this would be a really good
market two. But unfortunately we did not have this idea
in twenty nineteen when my book club could have bought
us in for a million bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So yeah, that's where we have changed. Stakes have changed.
Someday we will go pro with the USL Super Leagues.
Already we're actually keeping our eye on the Canadian Northern
Super League too because we're practically in Canada. Yeah so,
but we we deserve to go pro, our players deserve
to go prow and that's our cult.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And in the meantime, people can go to uslw league
dot com to find out more about all the different
teams and the different divisions. I just took a look
to figure out, you know, how do you play one
hundred different teams, But there are different divisions Great Lakes, Heartland, Metropolitan,
et cetera. So you can find all the different teams
and eventually soon the schedules as well.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We do come down to Chicago's, Chicago's and our division. Sarah,
So now that you're an owner, when we schedule comes out,
we're going to see you down there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I will, I guess root against my home city and
everything I stand for in in support of the team
that I part own. Okay, before we let you go,
fun fact about Rory the Aurorasaurus tell me literally anything.
I'm already obsessed with the mascot. Morgan thoughts experiences great
memories with Rory. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Rory is the best us like, brings the most energy
to the games, and we didn't have him in the
first year and now it's It also helps with the kids.
The kids absolutely adore Rory and it just adds another
level of professionalism. You know, every pro team has some
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sort of mascot going around during the game, so Rory
is that for us and is really engaging for the
whole for the whole community.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We're already in love over here at the show. We're
huge fans of Rory. If you want to check out Rory,
if you want to buy merch to support the team,
if you want to learn more, you can go to
Mnaurora dot com. You could join the Land of ten
Thousand owners, as they say in the Land of ten
Thousand Lakes. We'll put more information again in the show
notes about how you can become an investor and get
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that sweet hat that only Slices to invest in the
team can get celebrating our collab. Thanks much to Andrew
and Morgan for hopping on to tell us a little
bit more about the team. We're excited to be a
part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you, Thank you, Sarah. We are so excited to
have you on board. And this is going to You're
the key, this is this is it. We're gonna win
the championship this year with you.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Okay, I would love to take credit for it after
doing literally nothing in terms of play, but I'm here
for that kind of credit. Big thanks to Andrea and
Morgan for taking the time, especially Morgan coming to us
from Portugal. We got to take another break when we return.
What are women's sports? Welcome back, Slices. I hope you
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enjoyed yesterday's chat with Catherine Legg. What a delightful person
and what a lovely voice. I will listen to her
podcast just for that British lilt. It's so nice. You
might recall that we talked about driving on the quote
unquote wrong side of the road while Michelle d, a
so called humble Slice, an unrivaled Vinyl fan, wrote in
to say that folks drive on the left side in
the US Virgin Islands too. She went there to watch
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her South Carolina game Cocks in the Paradise Jam sick
Field trip Michelle, and she was freaked out every single
time she hopped in a car and got on the wrong
side of the road, which had me thinking. So I
did a quick Google search and way more countries than
I thought drive on the left hand side, So right
hand traffic is still the norm. It's used in one
hundred and sixty five countries and territories, mainly the America's Continental, Europe,
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most of Africa, mainland Asia except South Asia, But seventy
five countries use left hand traffic, which is a lot
more than I thought. That's about six of the world's
land area, a quarter of its roads, and about a
third of its population. The other fun fact I learned
is that many of the left hand jurisdictions are on islands,
so they kind of operate literally on an island. But
then there are cases where vehicles might be driven from
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a left hand traffic side across a border into a
new country that has right hand traffic. Can you even imagine,
like all of a sudden you have to navigate the
road with a wheel on the wrong side of the
car and just like cross a border and suddenly start
driving on the other side wild like. Once I got
used to driving in Ireland and New Zealand, it felt
pretty natural to me, but with the wheel on the
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wrong side would be really hard. That feels like a
recipe for disaster. And also pro tip so is forgetting
to look for oncoming traffic to the right instead of
coming from the left, because I nearly got clipped like
a half a dozen times when I first got to Dublin. Anyway,
thanks for writing in, Michelle, Thanks for sending us down
this road to learn a little bit. The more you know.
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I hope you also enjoyed our chat with Andrea and
Morgan today. Fun fact about the Aurora FC SO friend
of the show, Teresa Resh, you might remember, the president
of the Neutronto Tempo WNBA team and a certified slice,
reached out after listening to the show and said that
as a proud Minnesotan, she was an early investor in
Aurora FC and she was even part of the community
ownership group that got to vote on the team name
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and the logos back in twenty twenty one, I love it.
She sent me some cool screen grabs of all the
different team names they were choosing from the logos the
final three, and she said she got her whole family
involved in voting on what they'd like to see. So yeah,
one of those special Aurora times good game hats is
definitely coming your way. Teresa, you're an Aurora og speaking
of I bet y'all can guess the good gameplay of
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the day. Yep, that's right. Invest in the Minnesota Aurora.
You heard it in the interview. The Capitol Raised window
ends January thirty first, so if you want to get
in on the show's new soccer side, you got to
get her done in the next week or so. Wefunder
dot com slash mn Aurora is where you sign up
to be an owner. Starts at one hundred bucks and
goes up from there. We'll put that link in the
show notes so you can click and get to it.
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And honestly, again, if the time is not right for you,
we totally get it. Like Andrea said, just being engaged
in women's sports helps push us all forward. Following the team,
supporting the team, all of that, and that also includes
listening to this show, telling all your friends about us,
chatting with us on social, hitting us up on email,
good game at wondermediaetwork dot com, leaving us a voicemail
eight seven two, two oh four fifty seventy. All of
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it helps just continue to push the growth of women's sports.
Oh it also helps if you leave us a nice review,
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We need less of that, and we need more like
this one from murfh six point thirty quote. Exceptional and informative.
Sarah and her team deliver every single episode. I've learned
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so much and laugh at the same time. This has
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Thanks mrph favorite pod that really makes my day. I
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Speaker 4 (24:30):
Alex getting a Jeopardy response wrong but still winning in
our Hearts rating three out of three Daily Doubles review.
During Monday's episode of Jeopardy, the final Jeopardy clue was quote.
A US Navy website says its journey from New London
to Norway in nineteen fifty seven opened up Arctic waters
previously ruled by the Soviets. Unfortunately, contestant Jen Feldman wasn't
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able to supply the correct response what is the Ussnautilus?
But Jen, who is the only woman of fifteen returning
champs competing in the Champions Wildcard tournament, was able to
pass our test, which, if we're being honest, is the
only one that matters. She wrote, what is watch more
Women's sports? Jen, on top of being a women's sports
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fan and badass Jeopardy competitor, also happens to be an
aluma of Wellesley, my own alma mater, so I reached
out to ask her about the moment. On top of
sending love to her favorite team, the New York Liberty,
she also told me that she hopes highlighting women's sports
on Jeopardy might earn her a shout out from her
own all time favorite athlete, Sue Bird. Sarah, I think
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we can pass that memo along.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh, I can pass that memo along. Sue Bird will
be getting that note. By the way, Alex, you completely
buried the lead because when you first reached out for
the first thing she said was oh mg, I love
Sarah Spain. I can't believe you buried the lead. What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Jen?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We love a badass Jeopardy bitch, and I also never
would have gotten the answer to that question the USS Nautilus.
Absolutely not. I prefer watching celebrity Jeopardy. I get more
right anyway. Message is headed to Sue byrd right now.
Thanks for that review, Alex. Now it's your turn rate
and review, and thanks for listening slices. See you tomorrow.
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only include questions about men's sports. Good Game with Sarah
Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with
Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on
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Production by Wonder Media Network, our producers are Alex Azzie
and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz,
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Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are Emily Rudder,
Britney Martinez, and Grace Lynch. Our associate producer is Lucy
Jones and I'm your host Sarah Spain
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're celebrating
the news that Google will no longer default to men's
soccer results when you search for a club. So while
we're still bummed that Naomi Germa appears to be headed
to Chelsea, at least we won't be faced with sexist
search results whenever we search for the score for latest game.
It's Thursday, January twenty third, and on today's show, we'll
be talking to co founder of the Minnesota Aurora, Andrea
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Yak and former Aurora player Morgan Stone about the inspiration
behind the community funded team, the team's long term goals,
and all the reasons both meaningful and silly, like Rory
the Aurora Sorus to join us as owners. Plus a
Jeopardy answer we can get behind TV numbers that show
promise and a message hidden in the timing of a
contract announcement. It's all coming up right after this welcome
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back slices. Here's what you need to know today in
college hoops, there are a bunch of big games tonight
with lots of ranked teams in act. That includes a
matchup between number seven Texas and number seventeen Tennessee at
eight pm Eastern on ESPN. The Longhorns are coming off
a big eighty nine to fifty one win against number
eight Maryland on Monday, in which sophomore forward Madison Booker
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recorded twenty eight points worth noting that the two most
recent NCAA champs, number two South Carolina and number five LSU,
were also set to meet tonight, but that game has
been moved to Friday due to travel difficulties because of
the winter storm that coated Louisiana in a thick layer
of snow. If you haven't seen the photos and videos
coming out of Louisiana, they are wild. Google them. But also,
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can we get all that snow up out of New
Orleans before I head there for Super Bowl Radio row?
Mama needs a break from cold weather. Come on. Oh. Also,
remember earlier this week when we told you about the
new deal Don Staley just signed, making her the highest
paid coach in women's soops. Well, given that LSU coach
Kim Mulky previously held that record, it makes you think
maybe South Carolina was trying to send a message with
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the timing of that announcement just days ahead of sc
versus LSU. Anyway, we'll have more on what to expect
in that NCAA champion showdown during tomorrow show. A bunch
of other ranked teams also in action tonight, including number
one UCLA and number three Notre Dame. Will link to
the full schedule in the show notes to Soccer. The
NWSL schedule is out. We got a few highlights to
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look forward to in twenty twenty five. First play gets
underway with the Challenge Cup on March seventh, featuring a
rematch of last year's championship, the Orlando Pride versus the
Washington Spirit. Regular season gets started the following week and
continues for twenty six count them twenty six match weeks.
The league is introducing a new Rivalry weekend scheduled for
August eighth through the tenth, that will feature matchups between
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Portland and Seattle, Angel City and San Diego, and Gotham
and Washington. The regular season comes to a close on
November two with the return of Decision Day. That's right,
all fourteen teams competing on the final day, though we're
not yet sure if all those games will be kicking
off at the same time. You know, we're crossing all
our fingers and toes for chaos and a close title race. Also,
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some of the teams put out some pretty fun schedule
release videos, so go peruse their socials and give them
a watch. More NWSL. On Tuesday, Angel City big wigs,
including new controlling owner Willow Bay, who invested in the
team with her husband Bob Eiger last year, gathered to
cut the ribbon on a new team performance center at
California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The performance center
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is part of a nine acre training base that Angel
City inherited from the Los Angeles Rams when the NFL
team moved to Woodland Hills last year. It includes a
fifty four hundred square foot gym, three locker rooms, a
film room, a medical treatment and hydro therapy area, a
children's playroom, a full soccer pitch, and an adjoining half field. Man,
do we love the facility? Wars that are going on
in women's sports right now? Every week, a new facility,
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a new record, a new amount of money spent. What
a time? What a time. Kristin Press of Angel City
said the facility will help the team recruit, especially now
that the NWSL has done away with the draft quote
for the last three years, when we go as a
club and talk to top players in the world, we
didn't have this facility to offer, said Press. It's a
huge part of our day to day experience as an athlete,
and it matters quote. Recruiting will also be easier with
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a full time head coach, and ACFC doesn't have one
right now. For now, they've signed Sam Lady, former head
coach the Houston Dash and former assistant coach of the
Seattle Rain, to manage the club on an interim basis
while they look for a permanent hire. Too unrivaled where
TV ratings from the debut weekend are out. Viewership of
the opening game featuring league co founders Brianna Stewart and
Nafisikalier averaged three hundred and thirteen thousand viewers, while Friday
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second game averaged three hundred and eleven thousand viewers, both
figures lower than what WNBA games had brought in during
recent years, but still strong for the upstart league. We
got to take a quick break. When we come back,
we talk all things Aurora FC, with Andrea Yak and
Morgan Stone joining us now the co founder of Minnesota
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Aurora and chair of the Aurora FC board. A sports
and entertainment marketer, she was formerly VP of business development
at Minnesota United and was part of the team that
was awarded the MLS expansion franchise after building up the
NASL team. She's also led a wide range of events
for different orgs, including two Minnesota Super Bowls. A broken
leg and a knee brace will not keep her from
rock and a poofy dress to a T Swift concert.
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It's Andrea Yach. What's up Andrea? Hi, Sarah, thanks for
coming on joining her. A former Minnesota Aurora player, she
joined the Aurora summer off season of twenty twenty two
in their inaugural season, helping them to the USLW League Finals.
She was the second highest goal scorer that year, and
returned the following two years, becoming a team captain. She
helped the team win the division all three years there.
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She's now playing professionally and Lisbon, Portugal, presumably living on
Pasta de Nata and sardines. It's Morgan Stone. What's up, Morgan?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Hello? How are you? Thanks for having me?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We are all jealous that you're in Portugal right now,
enjoying some sunshine and all the delicious food. We can't
wait to learn more about our official good game with
Sarah Spain team, the Minnesota Aurora. So Andrea tell us
just starting out, how did the Aurora come to be?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So Aurora is the effort of some normal community people
in the Twin Cities who were tired of waiting for
a rich person to start a women's soccer team. So
a group of us met together in a park during
COVID and decided why not us? And in hindsight, you know,
we didn't know what we didn't now, but we figured
it out. And the biggest thing for us is because
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none of us were rich, we didn't have any funding.
And we decided to become a community owned team, which
had been done on the men's side but had never
been done by a women's team before. And so we
launched that in twenty twenty one and sold out our
first round of shares with three thousand and eighty owners.
And so last fall twenty twenty four, we decided to
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do it again. So we are open for ownership, but
we're the largest independent women's community owned team in the country.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Amazing. Can you tell us about the USLW level in
which the team competes.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, so that's a good question. We were an inaugural
team in the USL W of which Morgan was a part.
It is an amateur league that is meant to fill
the gap for either college players who are looking for
more touches and more experience during the summer, or players
who finished college and because there's not a lot of
pro soccer yet in the US for women and not
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a lot of jobs, they need somewhere to continue to
work on their careers so that they can get pro contracts.
And we're really proud that of our teams of our
first three seasons, we have fifteen players that are playing
professionally now that came through Aurora and were able to
go pro. Incredible, so that's something that was really important
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when we founded the team, was to create space for
young women on and off the field to get the
experience they needed to advance their careers.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And for listeners who remember hearing the name or the
words or the letters USL on this show before. There
is also a new USL league that has been given
professional accreditation at the same level as the NWSL, just
started in the last year. This is a different league
from that. This is pre professional and this is USLW
versus the other league. Kind of confusing, but as Andrew
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just said, this is sort of that feeder league into
other professional leagues. Morgan, like I said, you spent three
seasons with the team. Can you tell listeners about the roster.
Who are the players that you were playing alongside.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, so we call them the OG's, the ones that
have been there through all three years of it being
a team. So we kind of got to experience such
a cool inaugural season, but then we saw how good
of a league, this is, how good of a community
it was to be a part of, and so we
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just had to come back for the next few years
and we wanted to be a part of it even more.
And I was really grateful to be able to play
alongside some of those players. Those fifteen girls like she
had mentioned that are now playing professionally, and I myself
included like have gotten to that love as well. So
it's definitely filled with a roster of really really talented
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players that are going to make a big impact in
the professional and people are now making impact in the
professional colleagues.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
And it sounds like you started playing in the off
season while still in college, and then after graduation you
continued to play. What's the best part of your experience
of playing with Rora.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I think everything that Aurora stands for is really unique
and being a part of something that is bigger than yourself.
Being a part of this team means not just being
on a team, but being a part of the community
and a community that supports really good causes and has
made strides in women's sports. And I think just being
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able to represent something a lot bigger than yourself is
probably my favorite part. In being able to interact with
those people, interact with young girls, with people in the
LGBTQ community that support us, and we stand for so
many different things in the country, but in our community especially,
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and I think just being a part of that and
taking to stand for those things is really important to me.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It's obviously pre professional, so you're not paid a salary.
What is covered in terms of like expenses and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They take really good care of us. Even though it
isn't a like full professional team. It has an abundance
of resources. So I myself am not from Minnesota or
the Minnesota area, so my housing was covered while I
was there. All of the pregame post game type meals
are covered, facilities amazing, and we have access to Twin
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City Orthopedics, which is right there in case knock on wood,
anybody gets hurt, things like that that happens, and also
training house being there on our things, so they definitely
take really good care of us as players. As well
as transportation. There's other teams in the league that can
afford to travel their players, but we have an amazing
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bus driver that is our superstar, Steven, so they definitely
take really good care of us.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Shout out Steven Andrea. This particular capital raise ends January thirty. First,
we're encouraging all the slices to get involved. Before then,
why should folks want to invest in the team?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So we know that a lot of people recognize that
women have not been treated well in the world, but
in sports in particular, and in a lot of cases
it's hard to know what to do about this. One
hundred dollars minimum investment ensures that not only can we
continue to do all the things on the soccer field,
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but we can keep doing the things off the soccer field.
So if you really believe in creating space for women
to achieve what they want to, achieve and helping equal
the playing field. This is a great way to do
it because we are trying to remove all the barriers.
Part of what your money goes towards is housing. As
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Morgan mentioned, we pay for our players US Soccer registration.
I didn't know before starting Aurora how much it actually
costs to register to play soccer in the United States.
My boys aged out after high school and so things
like that cost a lot of people money. And if
you don't have that money, that means you have to
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give up on soccer. That's not fair and that's also
not the equality that we're all hoping for in the country.
So that's where your money goes. We take really good
pair of our players. We give back to our community
as much as we can. And not only do we
have these fifteen women playing pro our first head coach
now works at US Soccer. We have a young woman
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who interned for US who's at the athletic We have
another former player who now works in sports sponsorships. So
we're creating this feeder system that's giving opportunities and all
of that comes from this community ownership fund and helping
us really exist higher than an amateur team. Should and
it allows us to accomplish a lot more.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
That's awesome. What happens if someone's listening to this late
it's past January thirty first, will they still be able
to invest? Or how does that capital raise window work?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So, because this is actually a formal security as an
exchange commission transaction, January thirty first is the cutoff for
this campaign, but we absolutely encourage people to buy merchandise.
If you're coming through town, come to a game, follow
us on social media, tell your friends. There are so
many ways that we can all be supporting women's sports.
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Listening to your show, you know, if you're in a
market where Unrivaled is with a bunch of our friends
from the Minnesota Links, right, yeah, find something in your market.
It doesn't have to be Aurora, but there's something college
women's basketball is you know hot. Just go do something
and help.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It matters.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You matter, the individual matters. This is not an issue
that's so big that it feels overwhelming. Women's sports is
something we can all easily do something to help support.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well through January thirty first. We hope that support comes
in the form of getting involved with our new team,
the Minnesota Aurora Morgan. Does it feel different playing for
a community owned team.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, I think it definitely has a different take on
it because, you know, you can be out in the
community and I can be wearing my Minnesota gear and
somebody might call me aside and say, hey, I'm a
community owner, like I own part of your team, And
it's happened to me multiple times, and I think it's
just cool because it's like, oh, like you were. You
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were a part of the reason why I'm able to
do what I love and I'm able to play soccer,
and you funded, like she said, you know, like the
registration fees in my housing, and I'm just connecting with
somebody that was willing to invest in in sports so
that I'm able to do what I love. It really
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has a cool spin to it. You don't normally get
to meet the people that are doing these things and
investing their time and their money, so again, it just
puts that cherry on top of your doing it for
a bigger cause than yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, all right, Andrea, When does the season start?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
A season will start in May, hopefully schedule comes out
in February.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
What are the goals for this season? Championship? We've been,
We've been very close.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Sorry, Morgan, I hate bringing this up, but we lost
in the championship game in twenty twenty two, which I
thought I'd experienced heartbreak in sports, but nothing like actually
losing a team that you are part of an ownership.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And then we've been.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
In the playoffs our last two seasons without the trophy.
So the trophy is the goal.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
So undefeated in regular season play for three straight seasons,
but never the winner at the very end.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Never the winner at the very end.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So we're we're doing some stuff this year.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
We're going to add in a little bit more preseason
competition to get us ready. Our head coach Jen Leric
is working hard on recruiting and we're going to come
out strong. But the hard thing is is when we
started in this league there were forty four teams. There's
going to be over one hundred teams twenty five, So
getting that trophy means we have to step on a
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lot of people to get there. But that's the goal
we're not going to shy away from it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Is there a longer term, larger goal for this team. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So we average sixty five hundred fans a game. That's
good of the best attended women's teams in the United States,
including the NWUSL. Now things are changing in the NBUSL,
but in our first few seasons we would have been
in the middle of the pack for attendance and we
do a very great amount of merchandise sales. So our
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goal is to go pro. What we don't know right now,
and thank you Denver for driving the up even more
on a franchise, is we just don't know how much
that's going to cost. And the beauty of our team
is that we're community owned. We're all normal people. The
hard part is we don't hang out in the rooms
with the really rich people that are buying these teams.
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So that's part of what we're going to do over
the next few years. We've proven the model, we've proven
that Minnesota loves women's soccer and everybody will show up.
Now we need to go find the money to go pro.
And that price tag just keeps going up. So if
anyone listening has two hundred million dollars and wants some
women's soccer team, please let us know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Eventually you would like to bring the NWSL to Minnesota, we.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Would and we absolutely believe the Twin cities deserves it.
The NWSL recognizes that this would be a really good
market two. But unfortunately we did not have this idea
in twenty nineteen when my book club could have bought
us in for a million bucks.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So yeah, that's where we have changed. Stakes have changed.
Someday we will go pro with the USL Super Leagues.
Already we're actually keeping our eye on the Canadian Northern
Super League too because we're practically in Canada. Yeah so,
but we we deserve to go pro, our players deserve
to go prow and that's our cult.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And in the meantime, people can go to uslw league
dot com to find out more about all the different
teams and the different divisions. I just took a look
to figure out, you know, how do you play one
hundred different teams, But there are different divisions Great Lakes, Heartland, Metropolitan,
et cetera. So you can find all the different teams
and eventually soon the schedules as well.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We do come down to Chicago's, Chicago's and our division. Sarah,
So now that you're an owner, when we schedule comes out,
we're going to see you down there.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I will, I guess root against my home city and
everything I stand for in in support of the team
that I part own. Okay, before we let you go,
fun fact about Rory the Aurorasaurus tell me literally anything.
I'm already obsessed with the mascot. Morgan thoughts experiences great
memories with Rory. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Rory is the best us like, brings the most energy
to the games, and we didn't have him in the
first year and now it's It also helps with the kids.
The kids absolutely adore Rory and it just adds another
level of professionalism. You know, every pro team has some
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sort of mascot going around during the game, so Rory
is that for us and is really engaging for the
whole for the whole community.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We're already in love over here at the show. We're
huge fans of Rory. If you want to check out Rory,
if you want to buy merch to support the team,
if you want to learn more, you can go to
Mnaurora dot com. You could join the Land of ten
Thousand owners, as they say in the Land of ten
Thousand Lakes. We'll put more information again in the show
notes about how you can become an investor and get
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that sweet hat that only Slices to invest in the
team can get celebrating our collab. Thanks much to Andrew
and Morgan for hopping on to tell us a little
bit more about the team. We're excited to be a
part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Thank you, Thank you, Sarah. We are so excited to
have you on board. And this is going to You're
the key, this is this is it. We're gonna win
the championship this year with you.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Okay, I would love to take credit for it after
doing literally nothing in terms of play, but I'm here
for that kind of credit. Big thanks to Andrea and
Morgan for taking the time, especially Morgan coming to us
from Portugal. We got to take another break when we return.
What are women's sports? Welcome back, Slices. I hope you
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enjoyed yesterday's chat with Catherine Legg. What a delightful person
and what a lovely voice. I will listen to her
podcast just for that British lilt. It's so nice. You
might recall that we talked about driving on the quote
unquote wrong side of the road while Michelle d, a
so called humble Slice, an unrivaled Vinyl fan, wrote in
to say that folks drive on the left side in
the US Virgin Islands too. She went there to watch
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her South Carolina game Cocks in the Paradise Jam sick
Field trip Michelle, and she was freaked out every single
time she hopped in a car and got on the wrong
side of the road, which had me thinking. So I
did a quick Google search and way more countries than
I thought drive on the left hand side, So right
hand traffic is still the norm. It's used in one
hundred and sixty five countries and territories, mainly the America's Continental, Europe,
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most of Africa, mainland Asia except South Asia, But seventy
five countries use left hand traffic, which is a lot
more than I thought. That's about six of the world's
land area, a quarter of its roads, and about a
third of its population. The other fun fact I learned
is that many of the left hand jurisdictions are on islands,
so they kind of operate literally on an island. But
then there are cases where vehicles might be driven from
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a left hand traffic side across a border into a
new country that has right hand traffic. Can you even imagine,
like all of a sudden you have to navigate the
road with a wheel on the wrong side of the
car and just like cross a border and suddenly start
driving on the other side wild like. Once I got
used to driving in Ireland and New Zealand, it felt
pretty natural to me, but with the wheel on the
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wrong side would be really hard. That feels like a
recipe for disaster. And also pro tip so is forgetting
to look for oncoming traffic to the right instead of
coming from the left, because I nearly got clipped like
a half a dozen times when I first got to Dublin. Anyway,
thanks for writing in, Michelle, Thanks for sending us down
this road to learn a little bit. The more you know.
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I hope you also enjoyed our chat with Andrea and
Morgan today. Fun fact about the Aurora FC SO friend
of the show, Teresa Resh, you might remember, the president
of the Neutronto Tempo WNBA team and a certified slice,
reached out after listening to the show and said that
as a proud Minnesotan, she was an early investor in
Aurora FC and she was even part of the community
ownership group that got to vote on the team name
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and the logos back in twenty twenty one, I love it.
She sent me some cool screen grabs of all the
different team names they were choosing from the logos the
final three, and she said she got her whole family
involved in voting on what they'd like to see. So yeah,
one of those special Aurora times good game hats is
definitely coming your way. Teresa, you're an Aurora og speaking
of I bet y'all can guess the good gameplay of
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the day. Yep, that's right. Invest in the Minnesota Aurora.
You heard it in the interview. The Capitol Raised window
ends January thirty first, so if you want to get
in on the show's new soccer side, you got to
get her done in the next week or so. Wefunder
dot com slash mn Aurora is where you sign up
to be an owner. Starts at one hundred bucks and
goes up from there. We'll put that link in the
show notes so you can click and get to it.
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And honestly, again, if the time is not right for you,
we totally get it. Like Andrea said, just being engaged
in women's sports helps push us all forward. Following the team,
supporting the team, all of that, and that also includes
listening to this show, telling all your friends about us,
chatting with us on social, hitting us up on email,
good game at wondermediaetwork dot com, leaving us a voicemail
eight seven two, two oh four fifty seventy. All of
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it helps just continue to push the growth of women's sports.
Oh it also helps if you leave us a nice review,
if you like what you're hearing. We need y'all slices
to offset the bro that just wrote Trump with one star.
We need less of that, and we need more like
this one from murfh six point thirty quote. Exceptional and informative.
Sarah and her team deliver every single episode. I've learned
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so much and laugh at the same time. This has
become my absolute favorite pod. Good Game Team end quote.
Thanks mrph favorite pod that really makes my day. I
love that. If you're still not convinced that reviews are
fun and easy, well take it away.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Alex getting a Jeopardy response wrong but still winning in
our Hearts rating three out of three Daily Doubles review.
During Monday's episode of Jeopardy, the final Jeopardy clue was quote.
A US Navy website says its journey from New London
to Norway in nineteen fifty seven opened up Arctic waters
previously ruled by the Soviets. Unfortunately, contestant Jen Feldman wasn't
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able to supply the correct response what is the Ussnautilus?
But Jen, who is the only woman of fifteen returning
champs competing in the Champions Wildcard tournament, was able to
pass our test, which, if we're being honest, is the
only one that matters. She wrote, what is watch more
Women's sports? Jen, on top of being a women's sports
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fan and badass Jeopardy competitor, also happens to be an
aluma of Wellesley, my own alma mater, so I reached
out to ask her about the moment. On top of
sending love to her favorite team, the New York Liberty,
she also told me that she hopes highlighting women's sports
on Jeopardy might earn her a shout out from her
own all time favorite athlete, Sue Bird. Sarah, I think
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we can pass that memo along.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh, I can pass that memo along. Sue Bird will
be getting that note. By the way, Alex, you completely
buried the lead because when you first reached out for
the first thing she said was oh mg, I love
Sarah Spain. I can't believe you buried the lead. What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Jen?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
We love a badass Jeopardy bitch, and I also never
would have gotten the answer to that question the USS Nautilus.
Absolutely not. I prefer watching celebrity Jeopardy. I get more
right anyway. Message is headed to Sue byrd right now.
Thanks for that review, Alex. Now it's your turn rate
and review, and thanks for listening slices. See you tomorrow.
Good Game, Andrea, Good Game, Morgan Q trivia hosts that
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only include questions about men's sports. Good Game with Sarah
Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with
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Production by Wonder Media Network, our producers are Alex Azzie
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Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are Emily Rudder,
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