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A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

It’s Neck & Neck For WNBA MVP! + Alyssa Thompson on Her CRAZY Celebrations

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The Vox Media Podcast Network

Sports, Basketball, Soccer

4.4764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sue and Megan are joined by Angel City FC forward and youngest NWSL draft pick ever, Alyssa Thompson. We ask her our most burning questions, like how she comes up with her celebrations on the field? Does she ever get into fights with her sister on the field? And how is the team’s new coach making them better? And we throw her some merciless Bench/Start/Cut’s.  The WNBA’s MVP race is heating up, and we breakdown who it’s coming down to and why. Do game absences matter? Plus: the WNBA and NWSL are setting new attendance records, and we have a new Workout of the Week, involving stairs and swimming. A Touch More: The Podcast is produced in partnership with VOX MEDIA and TOGETHXR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. We are back after dropping a live show last week. So hopefully you guys enjoyed that. It was right before my statue revealing. I had a wonderful weekend. Shout out to the storm, the organization, the city. Shout out to my boo. Megan, who set up all the extra curricular activities. That was pretty good. You kept that, you did a pretty good job keeping that a secret. Yeah, we only had a couple bean spillers, but honestly, I, it's like in another life, you're a travel agent, another life.'m a party planner I am like I am just like

0:40.9

thriving as basically like your EA and I love it we had so much fun I know I'm going to give one

0:49.0

bean spiller I'm going to have to call her out friend Jess, who forwarded me the evite or paperless

0:57.6

post, forwarded via email, the invite to then tell me, oh, sorry, I can't make it. I was like,

1:07.3

I just don't even understand it. Me neither. Me neither. It was so funny.

1:11.4

So that was the only being spillage, but it really didn't tell me too much.

1:15.4

You rented out my favorite cocktail bar, had everybody go there on Saturday night.

1:21.8

Saturday night?

1:22.3

After the show, yeah, after the show.

1:24.6

And then you rented out a little area in one of our favorite restaurants on Sunday for everyone to kind of hang out. And those were probably outside of the actual statue, which looks amazing. It really does. I can't wait to like go see it again. It's like, it's not even like, oh, that looks like Sue Burt. It's like that's Sue.

1:44.3

That is. I'm telling you, that's how I felt. That's how I felt when I saw the clay. When I saw the clay version, I was like freaked out a little bit. It's weird to see yourself that big. It's dead on. But yeah, but it was amazing weekend. But my statue wasn't the only epic WMBA news this week. Candace Parker had her second one, two, second jersey

2:04.9

retirement. The Chicago Sky honored Candace, retired her jersey. She obviously won a title there.

2:10.6

Also had her jersey retired earlier this year by the Sparks. So a huge congratulations to Candice.

2:17.2

She joins an elite group. It's an elite group

2:18.9

of two people. It's her and Lindsay Whalen. Her and Lindsay Whalen are the only two players

2:24.3

to have their jerseys retired by two different teams in the same year. Honestly, somebody

2:29.2

goes search it up. Has that ever happened in any other sport, male, female, whatever? I think it's pretty incredible, so I just want to say congratulations to her. That is, that's a very elite group of two. They probably ran a mean pick and roll. And then they're really playing together. Yeah. You know what I mean, though. They were. USA basketball. USA basketball. Yeah. Yeah, USAB. Congratulations to Candace. Um, incredible. Obviously,

2:53.7

you deserve it all all the time, one of the best ever. Speaking of incredible career that's

2:58.6

continuing on, I sat down on the couch before I went to dinner last night. I flipped the old

3:04.7

tele on. And there's Venus Williams, giving the business to Makova.

3:11.4

Listen, Makova ended up winning. She's an 11 seed in the U.S. Open.

3:15.2

Venus was out here just whacking with the power and her service on. And I'm just like, you know what?

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