BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports

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BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports episodes

July 01, 2025 Ep. 4: Valkyries And The Gender Pay Gap
The Valkyries lead the WNBA in attendance, and Valks merch is EVERYWHERE. Will popularity mean better pay for the players?
21 min
June 17, 2025 Ep. 3: Rikki's - The Bay Area's First Women's Sports Bar
There is a wave of women’s sports bars opening across the United States. The trend started up in the Pacific Northwest a couple of years ago and has recently landed in the Bay Area with Rikki's.
19 min
June 03, 2025 Ep. 2: Coach Nakase Is Full Of Firsts
It's the second episode of BOUNCE, KALW’s basketball podcast that’s all about The Valkyries first season in the Bay. This one’s all about the team’s fearless leader: Coach Natalie Nakase.
17 min
May 20, 2025 Ep.1: First Of A Lifetime
The night finally arrived. Something fans anticipated for generations. The. First. Game.
25 min
May 06, 2025 Trailer: The Valkyries' 1st Season In The Bay
The Golden State Valkyries will play their first game ever tonight! And to welcome the team to the Bay, we’re revamping BOUNCE, our the nationally award-winning basketball podcast, by, about, and for the Bay. Here’s a taste of what’s in store.
4 min
January 15, 2020 Ep. 15 - Original San Francisco Warrior Tom Meschery On The Team’s Return To The City
Tom Meschery was the first player in Golden State Warriors franchise history to have his jersey number retired. He grew up in San Francisco and played for the Warriors when the team moved to the City from Philadelphia in 1962. But it was off the court that Meschery had a second career as an accomplished poet and writer.
18 min
July 11, 2019 Ep. 14 - A homegrown national sportswriter on the team's final days in the Town
Marcus Thompson writes about basketball for the national outlet The Athletic. In recent years he wrote biographies of Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. But before all that, Marcus grew up a Warriors’ fan in Oakland’s Sobrante Park.
33 min
July 03, 2019 Ep. 13 - Will the Warriors take their philanthropy with them?
The Warriors Community Foundation has donated over $10 million to nonprofits in Alameda and San Francisco counties since launching in 2012.
13 min
June 27, 2019 Ep. 12 - Warriors final words on a season gone awry
The Golden State Warriors’ off-season is underway. In one of their last moves in Oakland, the team introduced its three draft picks at its convention center practice facility. But while the new players posed for the media, the vets have other things going on. In the latest episode of Bounce: the Warriors’ last season in Oakland, KALW’s Ben Trefny has more.
11 min
June 20, 2019 Ep. 11 - Illuminaries bring Warriors spirit to Oakland walls
The Golden State Warriors season ended last week with a dramatic loss to the Toronto Raptors. It’s not the send-off Oakland fans were hoping for as the team bids farewell to Oracle Arena. Now, a season of promise turns into an off-season of uncertainty. There are still signs of the team all over the Town and that’s not going to change any time soon. In fact, the logo for this podcast is the iconic Warriors’ bridge image dripping off a brick wall, and that’s from a mural in Oakland by Illuminaries. In this edition of Bounce, we catch up with Illuminaries co-founder Tim Hon whose crew are painting for the Dubs.
16 min

About BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports

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Women’s professional sports is happening, and it’s taking off right here, in the Bay. In the third season of BOUNCE, we're still here, covering the Valkyries. But we’re also putting our focus on…