Sideline Stories

Sideline Stories

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Sideline Stories episodes

  • Sideline Stories: The WNBA’s About to Get Messy: 2025 Hot Takes & Bold Predictions

    In this episode of Sideline Stories, the Can’t Retire From This crew breaks down which teams we’re keeping our eyes on this 2025/2026 WNBA season, which players have something to prove, and why some of y’all might be sleeping on the Sparks.

    From hot takes on the Aces and Liberty to the rise of Paige Bueckers, Skylar Diggin's divorce tour, and the arrival of Dominique Malonga to America—no one is safe. Will she and BG have a dunk off? We'll be watching.

    We also take a real moment to talk about youth hoops, NIL, and why it feels like the next generation might be losing the love for the game.

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    43 min
  • Sideline Stories: Lindsay Allen Gets Initiated (To Our Crew)

    In this episode of Sideline Stories, the CRFT crew welcomes WNBA guard of the Connecticut Sun, AND DMV legend Lindsay Allen! From making noise in high school to locking down the point in the pros, Lindsay chops it up with the crew about her deep hoops roots, her transition from idolizing stars to competing against them, and what makes the DMV such a basketball powerhouse.

    With a few call-outs (Mel, we see you), the crew breaks down Lindsay’s journey through AAU battles, the WNBA grind, and why she can’t retire from this. Oh — and we vote on her official induction to the pod.


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    42 min
  • Protect the Game: DEI in the Women's Basketball Space

    In this episode of Sideline Stories, the Can't Retire From This crew gets real about the rising tide—and backlash—of DEI in the women’s basketball space. Plus a break down of the brand moves that matter, the ones that miss, and why multi-year deals are critical to protect the sport.




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    23 min
  • Sideline Stories

    Coming Soon! Sideline Stories - a Can't Retire From This Podcast.


    Founder and Creator of Can't Retire From This, Melanie Page, is joined by host Misha Jones, along with Jazmine Dallas, and Tenishia Benson.


    We really can't retire from this. Can you?!


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    3 min

About Sideline Stories

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Sideline Stories - a Can't Retire From This Podcast is from the mind of Melanie Page, creator of the Can't Retire From This project, a platform dedicated to women's basketball storytelling. As the director of the award-wining documentary of the same name that explores basketball in the DMV area, the podcast is an inclusion of those themes and expands on her and her co-hosts point of view on the women's hoops world as forever hoopers themselves.