Bieber Balls Out, a Taylor Touchdown Celly, and College Football’s Firing Boom

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It was a big week in basketball news. Justin Bieber played in a rec league designed for “CEOs, VIPs, and people from all walks of life” (you may raise your eyebrows) while the NBA faces two scandals of its own. One deals with illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. The other? Jaylen Brown’s hairline. Also: Blake and Caroline surprise each other with sporty Halloween costumes for the pod, so watching on YouTube or Spotify is a must this week. In this week’s episode, we also discuss: The moment we became Justin Fields stans A World Series game so crazy, Blake and Caroline are even intrigued U.S. Soccer’s work to support pregnant and post-partum players on the USWNT Why getting fired as a college football coach is almost as lucrative as being an active one How to watch the NWSL Decision Day games this coming Sunday Send Its: The Lions fan who welcomed a new member into the fandom: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQPezPlgcIC/?img_index=2&igsh=NHU0NWI4ajRuYW14 Panthers players got us feeling old: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQKT1fSkRJC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The A’ja Wilson effect on Bam Adebayo’s game: https://www.instagram.com/p/DQO_avMga6L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Travis Kelce hits the “The Fate of Ophelia” touchdown celly: https://www.tiktok.com/@courtneymarycrain/video/7566093931478273335 Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke Caroline’s IG: @cghendy theSkimm’s IG: @theskimm Want more sports? Sign up for theSkimm’s sports newsletter at theskimm.com/sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Well Play, presented by the skim.
0:06.2	I'm Caroline Anderson.
0:07.8	I'm Blake.
0:08.7	If you're not watching the video of today's episode, run.
0:13.2	Do not walk to YouTube, Spotify, wherever you can watch the video.
0:16.2	Because I'm telling you, we are dressed in full Halloween costume right now.
0:20.0	Both of us are blindfolded or just like not looking.
0:22.5	And we're about to reveal our Halloween costumes to each other.
0:26.4	I'm shaking in my boots.
0:27.8	I'm literally so nervous.
0:29.3	Okay, should we do it?
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:30.8	Okay, three, two, one.
0:34.0	What the fuck are you?
0:35.6	What are you?
0:38.3	No, you're mad!
0:40.3	You're mad!
0:41.3	I know!
0:43.3	Missy me!
0:45.3	Missy!
0:47.3	Oh my God, I'm crying!
0:51.3	Oh my God, that's so good. Wow, you even curled your hair for the face. I know. That's why I was so late today. Wait. What are you? Read my sign. Redwood. Sorry, I had to move my nap in. No, it's okay. I understand. You're a tree. A specific kind of tree. A redwood tree. It ain't hard to see.
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