How did you spend your break? We saw not one, but two sports weddings over the holidays! Despite a recent four-game winning streak, the Ottawa Charge remain in last place in the PWHL. The surprising Boston Fleet are still in first place despite injuries, scoring by committee. Have the New York Sirens finally arrived? The Olympic hockey rosters are being released. The U.S. squad looks terrifying with a crop of up-and-coming college players mixing in with proven vets. CBA negotiations break down between the WNBA and its players.

Michaela and Vanessa look back at their hottest sports takes of 2025. Then they dare to peer ahead and make bold predictions for 2026. They even answer your random listener questions!

The WNBA Players’ Association members have voted to authorize a strike, if need be, unless a deal with the league can be reached by the twice-extended deadline of January 9th. Michaela and Vanessa present their year-end awards: it’s the She’s Got Gameys! Who were your top athletes? What were your top moments? Who’s your team of the year? Who should be named style icon? Michaela and Vanessa reveal their lists of favourites for 2025.

The WNBA Players’ Association members have voted to authorize a strike, if need be, unless a deal with the league can be reached by the extended deadline of January 9th. Michaela and Vanessa present their year-end awards: it’s the She’s Got Gameys! Who were your top athletes? What were your top moments? Who’s your team of the year? Who should be named style icon? Michaela and Vanessa reveal their lists of favourites for 2025.

Team Canada has been outscored 20-6 in the first three games of the Rivalry Series vs. Team USA – Michaela and Vanessa will tell you if it’s time to panic and what needs to change. PWHL Minnesota Frost player Britta Curl, booed in arenas across the league for past transphobic social media posts, tries to rebuild her reputation – did the attempt succeed or fail? The ‘Heated Rivalry’ Crave TV series, adapted from the hockey romance novel, is a hit. A’ja Wilson is named both Time and AP Athlete of the Year for doing what no other basketball player (male or female) has ever done in a single season: win a championship, the scoring title, League MVP, Finals MVP and defensive player of the year. Is there finally hope in the CBA talks between the WNBA and its players? Sue Bird has her no. 10 retired by UConn. Michaela and Vanessa give you an NCAA hoops update. Why did the NWSL void star Trinity Rodman’s new contract with the Washington Spirit and will Rodman bolt for another league? The Champions League Group Stage is winding down – who will advance?

Michalea and Vanessa want to know what’s in your Spotify Wrapped? PWHL Ottawa Charge head coach Carla McLeod is taking some time away from the team after a breast cancer diagnosis. Haley Irwin will serve as Ottawa’s interim head coach. The Seattle Torrent’s home opener broke an attendance record for U.S. pro women’s hockey with over 16,000 fans. The expiring WNBA CBA has been extended yet again until after the new year. The exact same thing happened in 2020, the last time there was a CBA negotiation in the WNBA. 1.2 million viewers tuned into the NWSL championship, an increase of 22% over last year. Spain defeats Germany to capture the Nations League, but suffer a huge blow when superstar midfielder Aitana Bonmati breaks her leg in training. Canada’s Women’s National Soccer Team is on a five-game losing streak and haven’t scored a goal in any of those losses, their worst run of play since 2005.

Michaela and Vanessa speak with the makers of Pink Light – director Harrison Browne and executive director Sean Addis – a Canadian short fiction film that explores identity, transition and the intersection of sport and gender. The film’s director, Harrison, is a former athlete who came out as pro hockey’s first-ever openly transgender player. For the second time in three years – and second time in franchise history – Gotham FC wins the NWSL championship – as the no. 8 seed… and Michaela called it! The WNBA draft lottery is in the books and the Dallas Wings get the no. 1 pick for the second-straight year. Will Dallas draft Azzi Fudd to play alongside superstar Paige Bueckers? The new PWHL season is underway. Sarah Nurse scores the first-ever goal in Vancouver Goldeneyes history in a win over Seattle, their expansion cousins, but then gets hurt and misses Vancouver’s second game, a 5-1 loss in Ottawa. Montreal’s Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 points. Penny Oleksiak accepts her two-year ban from competitive swimming for skipping out on performance-enhancing drug tests. 

Michaela and Vanessa speak with Ottawa Charge forward Emily Clark who’s motivated after coming so close to capturing the Walter Cup last season. Emily also shares her thoughts on getting ready to travel to the west coast as Seattle and Vancouver enter the league and if the ongoing arena situation in Ottawa is affecting the team. The puck drops on the new PWHL campaign this weekend – Michaela and Vanessa gotchu covered with a full roster-by-roster season preview. Vancouver Rise are your first-ever NSL champions, hoisting the Diana B. Matheson trophy by braving a rare November lightning delay and upsetting heavily favoured AFC Toronto. Vancouver were beneficiaries of a goal off the foot of the opposing keeper and then parked the bus and withstood Toronto’s onslaught. The WNBA tables a new offer to the Union but will it be enough to entice the players to sign? It’ll be an unlikely all-east-coast NSWL final between upstarts Gotham FC and the Washington Spirit.

Could the PWHL Charge leave Ottawa? City council has approved the “Lansdowne 2.0” refurbishing project, which would see an over-2,000 seat capacity reduction in the Charges’ home arena, which the franchise argues will affect the long-term viability of the club in the nation’s capital. Canada drops the first two games of the Rivalry Series to the U.S. by a combined score of (gulp) 10-2. Should Canadians be concerned three months out from the Olympics? AFC Toronto takes on Vancouver Rise FC for the Diana B. Matheson Cup as the Northern Super League Final kicks off this weekend. Vancouver advanced by beating Ottawa Rapid FC on penalties, and Michaela has a controversial take regarding extra time in soccer. A massive upset in the NWSL playoffs as no.8 Gotham City took out the no.1 seeded Kansas City Current. The NWSL announces it’s adding a 17th franchise by expanding to Atlanta. 

Michaela and Vanessa are joined by Monica Henao, Content Manager for the Get REAL movement, dedicated to educating people and dispelling disinformation regarding the 2SLBGTQI+ community. Get REAL is offering upcoming workshops and you can donate to the Rainbow Road, their virtual 5K fundraiser: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/team/shes-got-game

Sandy Brondello, the first-ever head coach of the WNBA expansion Toronto Tempo joins Michaela and Vanessa! Despite an extension to the ongoing CBA negotiations, there’s been frustratingly little progress on a new WNBA agreement between the league and its players. A high-profile WNBA player joins a new Saudi-backed women’s basketball league, fueling the debate over sportswashing. We have new PWHL team names and logos to discuss – say hello to the Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes. The Hockey News ranked all eight PWHL team logos. The first leg of the NSL playoffs is in the books – Toronto and Vancouver are both leading on aggregate going into the second leg – can Montreal and Ottawa make things interesting? South of the border, the NWSL playoff quarterfinals are underway.