Good Game with Sarah Spain

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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Trailblazing motorsport driver Katherine Legge joins Sarah to discuss how she got into racing as a kid, the win-win deal she and her dad made that helped accelerate her career, and whether women’s-only racing helps or hurts the development of female drivers. Plus, Naomi Girma is about to get a whole lotta stamps, a belated congrats to a dawg, and a review about a douche who can’t get out of women’s soccer fast enough.

• Listen to “Throttle Therapy” with Katherine Legge here

• Check out “Full Circle” – a new podcast co-hosted by WNBA star Lexie Brown and sports media personality Mariah Rose – here 

• Watch tonight’s LOVB action here

• More on the PWHL’s inaugural Breakthrough Cup here 

• The college hoops schedule is here 

• Become an owner of the Minnesota Aurora FC here

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Big Citrus reconvenes to talk about the debut of Unrivaled hoops, volleyball star Haleigh Washington’s elite trolling, and our show’s new side, Aurora FC. Plus, two women pop the cork on a new snowboard trick, an underfrog story for the ages, and stop putting things off, people! 

• Watch goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher learn she's been named Player of the Year here

• Watch Chloe Kim’s winning snowboard halfpipe run here

• Check out Haleigh Washington’s MLV-inspired “Mad-Libs” here 

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• Check out Rory the Aurorasaurus here

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Jemele Hill, author, executive producer, podcast host, and staff writer at The Atlantic, joins Sarah to talk about how she’s maintaining her inner light during a rough start to 2025, how a second Trump presidency could affect the women’s sports landscape, and how she's preparing for the forthcoming chaos.

• Read Jemele’s memoir Uphill here

• Read the other memoir Jemele recommended – “Plain Jayne” by Jayne Kennedy – here

• Subscribe to the Spolitics podcast here

• Watch the documentary 13th on Netflix 

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Basketball reporter Rob Knox, who covers HBCU hoops for The Next, joins Sarah to discuss how team success can affect player odds for individual awards, the college hoops stars currently flying under the radar, and the HBCU and mid-major teams everyone should be talking about. Plus, how to prep for Unrivaled’s tip-off, when heckling goes wrong, and an open question about just how many new pro volleyball leagues one country can have.

• Buy your own slice of Minnesota Aurora FC! Details can be found here 

• Check out Rob’s recent reporting for The Next here 

• Follow broadcaster Dom Patrick here 

• Watch the video of Danielle Collins heckling back here 

• Learn more about the rules Unrivaled will use via this helpful post from Just Women’s Sports

• Read more about the NCAA vote to provide “performance units” to women’s basketball teams here 

• The full college basketball schedule can be found here 

• Get your tickets to the Beanpot championship game here

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Award winning journalist, producer and author Katie Barnes joins Sarah to explain the “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act” bill that the House passed earlier this week. They discuss who and what could be affected if the Senate passes the bill, potential unintended consequences, and what is and isn’t made clear in the language of the bill. Plus, another un-retirement, PVF players hit the court tonight, and some extremely gay math.

• Get Katie’s book, “Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates” here

• Find the PVF schedule here

• Check Frankie de la Cretaz’s insight on queer players competing in Unrivaled here

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It’s Unrivaled Team Draft Day! Sarah, Alex, and Mish debut a fool-proof points system to help you pick which Unrivaled club to root for in the league’s inaugural season! It’s part hoops draft, part Seventeen magazine quiz and part Buzzfeed personality test. Plus, WoSo wedding szn and super slices have us siced!

• Want to help contribute essentials to those impacted by the LA fires? The folks at Deep Blue Sports are helping organize a drive. Details can be found here! 

• All of the Unrivaled rosters, logos, coaches, and branding can be found on the league’s website. Check it out here

• We want to see your Unrivaled draft sheet! Post a photo on social (and tag Sarah!) or send us an email at [email protected]  

• Check out ArtButMakeItSports’s recent twitter post featuring Naomi Osaka and the 1830s painting “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” here

• Shoutout to super slice Joey for making a composite calendar for LOVB, Unrivaled, AU Basketball, and Pro Volleyball Federation games. You can find that schedule here

• Check out Toronto Tempo merch here 

• The Brittney Sykes dancing video Misha referenced can be found here

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Basketball analyst and former Notre Dame hoops head coach Muffet McGraw joins Sarah to talk about the incredible job her successor Niele Ivey is doing with the program, Hannah Hidalgo’s case for National Player of the Year, the pushback surrounding a post Hidalgo shared on social media last summer, and why the coaching landscape still doesn’t pass the gender bias test. Plus, Team Canada soccer is shaking things up, the coldest pot of beans you ever saw, and some excellent reading recs.

• Watch Muffet McGraw’s viral comments on women in leadership here

• Read Emily Jo Roberts’ essay on investing in women coaches here

• Read Linda Lu and Chantal Hildebrand’s co-leadership essay here

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We nominated, you voted, and now the results of our first ever Slice-ee Awards are in! Plus, Sarah gets you caught up on the latest NWSL headlines, juiciest NCAA hoops upsets and favorites for the first tennis Slam of the year. Then, a PWHL “Good Game, Good Game, Fact You” featuring shattered records and the new iHeart Women’s Sports pods you should add to your rotation.

• Links to funds helping those affected by the LA wildfires:

• Donate to The LA Unified School District Education Emergency Relief Fund here, offering direct cash assistance and support to families and LAUSD employees affected by the fires

• Donate to the LA Fire Department Foundation here, supporting the heroic firefighters responding in real-time

• Donate to the International Community Foundation here, supporting front/second line farmworkers, day laborers, essential workers and families impacted by the fires

• Help displaced families in the historically Black Altadena community affected by the fires here

• Sydney Colson’s X post, the winner of The Very Unserious Syd Colson Award, For Excellence in Social Media Trolling, is here

• Sam Kerr Tackling The Pitch Invader Video We Can’t Stop Watching Award winning video is here 

• The Serena Williams Catsuit Fit of the Year Award winning ensemble is here

• Follow stylist Amadi Brooks here

• Subscribe to Serving Pancakes here

• Subscribe to Throttle Therapy here

• Subscribe to Welcome to the Par-Tee here

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We close out our “New Year, New Leagues” series with a few more women’s sports leagues to keep tabs on in 2025 and beyond. Plus, Big Citrus convenes to review everything we learned this week, from what excites us most about these new leagues to some lingering questions and concerns. 

• You have one last chance to vote for the Slice-ees (aka our end-of-2024 women’s sports awards) before we reveal the winners next week. Vote here!

• Follow the Women’s Lacrosse League here

• Follow the Northern Super League here 

• Follow the Women’s Pro Baseball League here

• Get tickets for the Lexus Championship Series – featuring the debut of the WLL – here 

• You can check out WLL merch here 

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