HeyJaredRaising the Game: A Women’s Sports Podcast
Women’s Sports Podcast covering the WNBA, NWSL, PWHL, and NCAA. We explore the business, growth, and future of women's athletics.
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Ep. 38 | WNBA's Playoff Bracket Is Pure Chaos, Miles Breaks the Record, NWSL's Transparency Problem (opens the original)
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The WNBA regular season ends Thursday and the playoff bracket from the four seed down is still completely unsettled, with six teams able to finish almost anywhere. Minnesota, Golden State and Las Vegas have the top three locked, but Atlanta, Indiana, New York, Washington and Dallas are all bunched together with two games left, and four of those teams are playing each other to close the season. We walk through the tiebreakers and the realistic seeding scenarios, including a few brackets where thr
Ep. 37 | Team USA's Third-Quarter Takeover Wins FIBA Gold, WNBA Seeding Chaos, USWNT vs. Spain Roster Predictions (opens the original)
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Team USA won its fifth straight FIBA Women's World Cup gold in Berlin, and the whole thing turned on one quarter of basketball. France led 45-43 at halftime, shot the lights out from three, and looked like the more consistent team for most of the tournament. Then the U.S. won the third quarter 30-12 and closed it out 97-79. Breanna Stewart took home her second World Cup MVP, the first player ever to win two. We break down the Kara Lawson substitutions that swung the end of the first half, the ro
Interview | Jeff Goldberg on UConn's Dynasty Years & the Rivalry That Built Women's Hoops (opens the original)
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This bonus episode is our full conversation with Jeff Goldberg, the Hartford Courant writer who covered UConn women's basketball from 2001 to 2006 and whose books became source material for Apple TV's The Dynasty: UConn Huskies. If you already caught this week's regular episode, this is the same conversation pulled out on its own so you can share it or revisit it without the rest of the show. If you're new here, welcome: this one stands alone. Goldberg wrote Bird at the Buzzer, about the 2001 UC
Ep. 36 | UConn's Dynasty With Jeff Goldberg, NWSL Race, FIBA Discussions (opens the original)
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Women's basketball has been so busy fighting for its future that it never learned to look after its past. That's Jeff Goldberg's line, and it anchors our first-ever RTG interview. Interview starts at 49 minutes. Goldberg covered UConn women's basketball for the Hartford Courant from 2001 to 2006, wrote Bird at the Buzzer and Unrivaled, and is featured as one of the main interviewees in "The Dynasty: UConn Huskies" on Apple TV (not to mention his books were also a lot of the source material). He
Ep. 35 | NWSL's Playoff Scramble, WNBA's FIBA Break, and the Angel Reese Rebound Record Math (opens the original)
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Angel Reese just set the WNBA's single-game and single-season rebounding records, and the comment section already has its rebuttal loaded: they're all "me-bounds." So we ran the numbers. Alex pulled every rebound Reese has this season, stripped out the putbacks off her own miss, and the answer is not what the discourse wants it to be. We walk through the math, the league-average baseline, and what's actually left of the argument. From there it's the last week of WNBA basketball before the FIBA W
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