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Season's Angel recent Kaitlin Clarker have it. It's all coming up right after this Welcome back slices, Happy Friday. Here's what you need to know today. Some really awesome news out of the Paralympics. As Zakiya Kudu Dotti, who you heard Alex mention a couple episodes ago. That's the taekwond

athlete that the International Paralympic Committee helped escape from the Taliban. Well, she just won the first ever Paralympic medal for the refugee Paralympic team, despite the ban on women in sports in her country, in the first race of their first Paralympic Games. On Thursday, American swimmer Christy Rolly Crossley, who uses they, them and she her pronouns, broke a world record.

The thirty seven year old single mother of three posted a world record time of twenty seven point two eight seconds in the fifty meter freestyle for the S nine class, which includes athletes with weakness, limb loss or coordination difficulties. A few hours later, Raleigh Crossley won silver in the final, finishing point two eight seconds behind China's Chen Yee, who set her own world record for her classification. Athletes classified as both S nine and S ten compete against each

other in this event. Raley Crossley is expected to contend for a medal in three more individual events, plus one or two relays ahead of the Paralympics. The New York Times profile Rally Crossley. We'll link to it in our show notes. Because their disability isn't always as obvious as some of their competitors, she's had to face accusations of gaming the classification system. Quote. I've become a lightning rod of sorts where people are like, she's so fast, and

they I don't see the disability all the time. End quote. Remember Sarah Adam, the American wheelchair rugby player Alex told you about earlier this week. While she's the first woman to represent the US in the mixed gender sport of wheelchair rugby, and she scored six tries in Team USA's fifty one forty eight win over rival Canada on Thursday. Plenty more Paralympic events to look forward to this weekend. We'll let you know what's on deck in our show

notes to Hoops. There are four WNBA games today, all with playoff implications. We'll give you the full schedule in our notes, but we've got a spotlight one matchup in particular. It's the Indiana Fever at the Chicago Sky seven thirty Eastern on Ion and League Pass Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese for the last time in the regular season, Number seven versus Number eight. It's a duel between two squads with playoff hopes that are trending in sort of opposite directions.

This one's going to have some fireworks, and if Clark and Reeser involved, probably some records are going to get broken. To something else to note, this game is going to be the Sky's first ever Barbie theme game. Chicago became the first WNBA franchise to partner with Mattel's Barbie this week, and per a team press release, the partnership is meant to celebrate women athletes, with the goal of championing women in sports and encouraging girls to pursue their athletic passions.

Smart move when you got Shytown Barbie aka Bayou Barbie aka Podcast Barbie aka Angel Reese on the roster. Also some more news out of Chicago. Point guard Dana Evans is looking to leave the franchise. Evans first drived in twenty twenty one in a trade orchestrated by then head coach and GM James Wade. After Wade's departure, as well as that a veteran point guard, Courtney Vanderslute, many anticipated

it would be evans time to shine this season. With the emergence of Kennedy Carter and Lindsay Allen, her minutes have dwindled, but there's been some conflicting messages in the last couple of days. Here's how it unfolded. So during media availability on Wednesday, Evans told reporters that she wasn't happy with her role on the team, but said she had not requested a trade. But on Thursday, She took

to Twitter to clarify, writing, quote, I initiated trade talk a couple months ago, but after the Olympic break, I said I would go ahead and finish the season strong with Chicago end quote. So it seems like Evan's sustaining

put for now, all right. So we've got those four games tonight, and then there are six WNBA games this weekend, including two big ones on Sunday, a three to four matchup between the Seattle Storm and the Connecticut Sun at one pm Eastern, and then at four pm Eastern, a five to six matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and the Phoenix Mercury to the NWSL. The Case Current have acquired defender Kayla Sharples in a trade with BAFC in exchange for keeper Jordan Silkowitz and fifteen thousand dollars in

allocation funds. With the move, BAFC get to shore up their depleted goalkeeper position and eliminate the position redundancy created when they acquired defender Abby Dalkemper via a trade on Monday. Sharples, who spent most of her career with the Chicago Red Stars before leaving a free agency to launch the expansion BAFC team heads back to the Midwest and joins a third place KC squad. BFC are in action tonight, actually against the fifth seed Portland Thorns at ten pm Eastern.

That's streaming on Prime Video. There are six more NWSL games over the weekend, including the top of the table Orlando Pride hosting number four seeded New York New Jersey Gotham f s Orlando's riding an eighteen game unbeaten regular season streak dating back to last year. That game is at six pm Eastern on Sunday, streaming on Paramount Plus. In USL Super League news, Brooklyn's home opener on Saturday

against the Carolina Ascent has been postponed. So during installation of the soccer turf, the league and the team identified that there were deficiencies making the field surface unplayable and had to postpone the game. No makeup date has yet been announced, and there are no other USL games on the schedule for this weekend. They'll get back an action

next week. Finally, one last piece of soccer news, so, speaking of the USL Super League, there's a league below that the USLW a pre professional league and the Minnesota Aurora is in that league. They're the largest independent, community owned women's soccer team in the US, and they're doing another round of selling community shares. So if you've ever wanted to own a soccer team, for one hundred bucks, you can be an investor and part of that club. We'll throw a link in our show notes if you

want to get involved. In volleyball news, Nebraska's berg and Riley has signed an NIL deal with Red Bull, joining Texas superstar Madison Skinner and pitt National Freshman of the Year Olivia Babcock, who also have been given wings. In tennis. The US Open rolls on this weekend. Results are coming too fast and too furious to update here, but we'll be sure to link to a schedule in our show notes so you can keep up. The opens b Open

campaign continues this weekend, too. Started in twenty twenty, it's a social responsibility campaign that amplifies the voices of underrepresented communities. So the HBCU and LGBTQIA plus communities have already been honored, and this weekend's events include celebrations of the Hispanic and Latin American communities and Asian American Pacific Islander culture. We're going to take a quick break on a scale of ted Lasso to the nineteen eighty miracle on ice. What's

your level of belief? We'll find out next Welcome back my little slices. Yesterday we asked y'all to weigh in on the state of the Las Vegas Aces and while some of you have lost all altogether at a three pet, others refused to stop believing. We asked, if you had to put a percentage on it, what odds do you give in the aces to win it all again? We got everything from zero percent all the way up to seventy five percent. At Clean forty five said twenty three percent.

Three peten ain't easy and had a gift of my beloved Michael Jordan love that at Coorea, Cubs fans said seventy five percent because they have the MVP of the w at jd Man didn't give a percentage, but did give some solid analysis saying they're doing the classic post title hangover team that flips the switch at the right time,

so it sounds like he still believes. And finally at our d Mansini came through with the gold quote twenty two percent because three peating is hard and twenty two is the one you can count on for sure when it comes to this team. End quote. Ain't that the damn truth? Asia Wilson right now trying to put this whole team on her back, which is what led us

to this conversation in the first place. Forty two points the other night and an Aces loss that dropped them down to fifth at the time, and they got to battle their way back if they want to get a three peat. Now, before we even get into three peats, let's do a quick refresher on the history of just back to back titles in the WNBA. So when the Aces won last year, they became the first team to go back to back since the Sparks did it in one and o two, And the only team in WNBA

history to three peat has been the Houston Comets. They won the first four titles in league history ninety seven to two thousand. So this is an enormous feat that they're trying. But they certainly have the talent for it. It's just a matter of whether they can put it all together. So, Mesh, can they do it? What's your percentage of belief right now? Sarah I've got to go a little bit lower than everybody else.

a little bit the magic going on. I'm starting to believe in the Fever, Okay, but I think of those five teams, Vegas has like the fourth best chance, So I'm putting them at fifteen. Fever probably a like ten.

They've got a lot of Smith, Courtney Williams, Indy Caitlin Clark. Obviously, I'm a big fan of Temmy fag Benle Connecticut with Rena Maybrie New York, their whole bench is better. So I think Vegas might still have that same depth problem we talked about a lot last year.

in terms of style strategy. You know, the way the players are getting set up where they're just not going to her as much. I think she's still settling in.

it's not as consistent as it was. And for Chelsea Great, you know, she's the point God, she can dish that thing. That's her number one, A one in her game. And I mean as far as the scoring goes, I think that happens once she's able to open up the floor for the rest of her teammates. And because that's been so hard right now, we're also seeing her numbers in the points for a game.

that's when they're That's when they're getting their legs. They're getting their legs back. You know. They They might be exactly what our one listener said, which is hangover title team that comes back and turns it on right when it matters most. I would not be surprised at all. But I also I'm looking around the league and seeing other teams that just look better right now, Al, what's your take? What's your percentage of belief in the Aces?

fourth place vote Asia Wilson always has. They just want people to count them out so they can come back and prove everyone wrong.

of not dumb questions from you, slices. Let's start with certified slice Alyssa Obradovich, who's back with another one. She wrote, I've got a burning question after Tonight's huge Fever win over the Sun, the real fans want to know, assuming the Sun spends the night in Indianapolis, does Carrington stay at the team hotel or with Smith Alyssa from Champagne, Illinois. Okay, this is a juicy wanta lessa. Let's dive in for context, Dja Carrington at the Connecticut Sun is dating Indiana Fever

forward Melissa Smith. Their relationship dates back to their college days playing together at Baylor. They were on a break at one point last year and they were like off, but they're back together now. They're posting supportive messages on Insta about each other, and they're making little cutesy videos together, so they seem quite happy. So your question is, did Djna skip the team hotel with the fever and crash at Smith's house in Indy? Meish? This topic is hoops

and gay shit both of your accounts. What say you? That's a mess?

be a little more lady like. So I might seem like someone someone would want to take back to their dorm slash frat.

spend some special time. It's like on The Bachelor of the Bachelorette when they get to go to the fantasy suite and it's like, even if they're not going to bone, you still need to take that time to just like hang and like catch up. I'm sure that that's exactly what happens.

on X at WBB timeline. And I hope you're ready, Aaron, because to be honest, if we listed all of their accomplishments, we would be here for hours like marathon tantric stingstyle. If you know, you know, and by the I want you all to know that Misha didn't know because she interrupted our recording to be like stingstyle, is that like

bullet points in the list, No mesh. Sting, the musician, frontman for the Police and excellent solo artists as well, is known for publicly discussing his marathon sex sessions that go on for hours. They are called tantric sex. And now you know as well, and now we all know. Okay, let me give you the highlights from these records and we'll put the full list in our show notes. Here

we go. Angel Reese rookie record for the most games with fifteen plus rebounds, the first double double by a rookie in a WNBA All Star Game, WNBA record for consecutive games with a double double in a single season, first player in WNBA history to post twenty plus rebounds in three consecutive games. Caitlin Clark rookie record for most assists in a season, Indiana Fever single game assist record. As you mentioned, Aaron the rookie record for mad threes.

Also the fastest player to four hundred points and two hundred assists, faster than tier Sabrina Enescu, Don Staley. Pretty good and like I said, the list goes on on and on, so go check it out in the notes. It's been a truly epic summer for these two sensational rookies, and I'm hoping their teams hang on to those last two playoff spots because we'll get to see them the postseason.

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