Caitlin Clark and This Moment in Women's Sports
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
With the NCAA basketball tournament, Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, sports writer and co-author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League (Hachette, 2021), talks about the effect of Caitlin Clark on basketball and women's sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC and for our last 10 minutes or so today back to March Madness. |
| 0:16.5 | We started the show with the controversy over Dartmouth and USC athletes talking about unionizing. |
| 0:23.4 | Now we're going to come back and talk about a whole other thing. |
| 0:26.4 | Are you excited about the college basketball tournaments |
| 0:29.7 | about to really start? |
| 0:31.3 | Emphasis on the S there, torn immense, because it looks like most of the |
| 0:35.8 | excitement might be on the women's side this year. Iowa star Caitlin Clark has broken out as a kind of, I don't know, Taylor Swift of the sport. |
| 0:44.8 | When she plays on the road, ticket prices go up and the local economy gets a bump. |
| 0:50.1 | And with us to talk about the phenomenon of Caitlin Clark |
| 0:52.8 | and this moment in the women's game. |
| 0:54.2 | We're joined by Lindsay Darkangelo, |
| 0:56.3 | sports writer and co-author of Hail Mary, |
| 0:58.9 | the rise and fall of the National Women's Football League. |
| 1:02.3 | Lindsay, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:03.4 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.0 | And listeners, we can take a few phone calls here too. |
| 1:09.6 | Are you following the women's basketball tournament as much as or more than the men's this year. |
| 1:15.6 | 212 433. |
| 1:17.8 | WNYC, anyone filling out women's march madnessackets, text or call us |
| 1:23.8 | 212, 433, 9692, maybe even have some current or former women college |
| 1:30.8 | athletes who want to talk about the state of women's college sports and its |
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