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

Soccer, Sports, Basketball

4.4 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 79 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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0:42.6	Hey everybody, welcome back to the show. We are back after dropping a live show last week.
0:49.2	So hopefully you guys enjoyed that. It was right before my statue revealing. I had a wonderful weekend. Shout out to the
0:57.1	storm, the organization, the city. Shout out to my boo. Megan, who set up all the extra-curricular
1:04.2	activities. That was pretty good. You kept that, you did a pretty good job, keeping that a secret.
1:09.3	Yeah, we only had a couple bean spillers, but honestly, I, it's like in another life, you're a travel agent, another
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1:27.6	We had so much fun.
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