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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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WNBA players are wearing “Pay Us What You Owe Us” shirts but what are they really owed? Buck Sexton weighs in on the controversy, joined by former Division I athlete Paula Scanlan of the American Principles Project. As a swimmer who competed alongside Riley Gaines and shared a team with Lia Thomas, Paula brings a unique perspective on women’s sports, fairness, and what’s driving the latest backlash.
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0:14.8 | WMBA players say that they should be paid what they're owed. |
0:18.8 | What are they owed? |
0:20.3 | Well, I'm a guy, so maybe I'm not allowed |
0:22.5 | to weigh in on this because it's women's athletics, although I guess I could identify as a woman, |
0:27.1 | but that's a whole other conversation. Let's bring somebody in here who can bring a female |
0:31.8 | perspective to this, and it's somebody who also swam at the division one level, |
0:38.0 | uh, Paula Scanlan is with this. |
0:39.4 | She is of the American Principles Project and was on the same team where that guy |
0:43.7 | became a quote girl and then won the championship. |
0:46.4 | And now Trump has turned that around. |
0:48.7 | We'll get into that. |
0:49.5 | But first, |
0:50.1 | so what, |
0:50.9 | what's with the, |
0:51.7 | I know you're not a basketball, |
0:52.9 | you're, |
0:53.1 | you're tall. So maybe you're good at basketball. |
0:55.9 | I don't know, but I don't think you played in the WMBA, to my knowledge. |
1:01.3 | What's with the pay us, what you owe us, T-shirts as one woman athlete, looking at all these women athletes now in the WMBA. |
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