I thought it was very moving at his memorial that the first three people to speak after

Vanessa Bryant were Diana Tarasi, Sabrina Inescu, and Gino Aramma, you know, three

women's basketball legends.

Well, I hope we continue to have the conversation about, you know, how we treat, you know,

legacies and, you know, how we cover rape cases and rape trials and the media.

And I think that's also part of his legacy.

I hope that, you know, women's basketball and changing minds and hearts and sponsorship dollars about women's basketball is something that much, many more people will take to heart.

Yeah. is something that much many more people will take to heart. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we talk to the writer

of PowerPlay, a no BS newsletter about sexism in sports,

and the co-host of the Burn It All Down podcast, Lindsay Gibbs. Also, I'm going to be reading a poem

by the great poet Kevin Powell about his experience at Kobe Bryant's Memorial at the Staples

Center last week, followed by an interview I did with Kevin Powell about the writing of that poem.

Not your typical sports podcast fair, but very powerful stuff.

I also have a Kaepernick watch that looks at two athletes who took the knee in a volleyball game

to protest Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

But first, Lindsay Gibbs. I just wanted to start by asking you, you messaged me that it's an

extremely eventful time in women's pro sports. Why is that? Well, we're coming in. So we have

just last month, the WMBA and, or I guess when people are listening to this now,

two months ago, the WMBA and the WMBA Players Association just came into a landmark

collective bargaining agreement that very much allows players in the WMBA to make significantly more money than they were before.

And that has led to what has been the most exciting WMBA free agency season in league history.

So that's all been going on during the month of February.

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