Luka Doncic loves the Backstreet Boys, Micah Parsons and the Cowboys are fighting, Son Heung-min’s shocking move, and a juicy WNBA trade
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Madeline and Charlotte are back with a very special announcement: The Sports Gossip Show has officially joined The Athletic Podcast Network! The gals couldn’t be more excited. If you’re new here, this show breaks down and adds context to the wildest developments in the messy world of sports — because it’s much more fun to watch athletes on the field if you know what they’re doing off it.
Whether you’re a die-hard fan who has the standings of multiple leagues memorized or someone who thinks Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map, join Madeline and Charlotte as they watch sports with one eye on the game and one eye on the personal life section of athletes’ Wikipedia pages.
Today’s episode kicks off with an important update about Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Everyone’s favorite WNBA social media stars, the StudBudz, signed a baby. LA Lakers star Luka Dončić signed a contract extension with general manager Rob Pelinka, and then they took the team to see the Backstreet Boys in Las Vegas. The gals may or may not put on a short play about this.
The USTA announced that a dating show will take place at this year’s US Open called Game, Set, Matchmaker (groan!). WNBA star Dijonai Carrington was traded from the Dallas Wings to the Minnesota Lynx a month after her girlfriend, NaLyssa Smith, was traded from the Wings to the Las Vegas Aces. In more WNBA news, the minority owner of the Celtics bought the Connecticut Sun and wants to move the team to Boston.
Tom Brady is still very online. Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys are in a messy will-they, won’t-they situation. Premiere League star Son Heung-min is heading to LA in an historic move for the MLS. And a quick compressed flower check-in for Kemba Walker’s wedding!
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like we're both having hair troubles today. Oh my god. Well, but yeah, part of it is like, |
| 0:05.7 | you know, you put the headphones on and then you're like, well, does this look stupid? I know. And then you're hyperfocusing. Yeah, and I'm like this one little straight. See, like right now, it's too flat on this side. No, I think it looks good. I mean, I'm hyper focused because I'm attempting to make my hair wavy. I got bamboozled by wavy hair talking. |
| 0:20.2 | You didn't get bamboo. You didn't get bamboo. No, I have wavy hair. I know I have wavy hair. |
| 0:23.7 | You're figuring out how to make it wavy I got bamboozled by wavy hair talking you didn't get you didn't get |
| 0:21.4 | bamboo no I have wave I know I have wavy hair but figuring out how to make it wavy |
| 0:25.1 | I'm going with the wave of life all right well let's see how that sounded okay |
| 0:31.5 | testing testing |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Hi Charlotte. |
| 0:41.7 | Madeline, hello. |
| 0:42.9 | We're back. |
| 0:43.5 | We're back. |
| 0:44.3 | And we're not doing this ourselves. |
| 0:48.1 | We are so, so excited to announce that we have officially joined the Athletics Podcast Network |
| 0:52.5 | and truly could not be more thrilled. No, this is, is huge. If you're a long time listener, you'll know we like to say |
| 0:59.7 | we're doing this ourselves. We clearly are not anymore. We're so thrilled to have the support of |
| 1:05.6 | the athletic. They're amazing, you know, amazing team. All of their reporting, which we've based a lot of our |
| 1:13.2 | stories off of. But before we get into all that, if you're new here, Madeline, tell the people |
| 1:17.8 | what this show is. Well, the show is for people like myself and Charlotte who spend time during |
| 1:23.7 | sporting events looking up the Wikipedia personalized section of athletes because it helps explain what's going on on the field. |
| 1:29.9 | If you understand what's going on in their personal lives, what's going on in their business |
| 1:34.5 | dealings, what's going on on their Instagram, it really does help paint a bigger, a better picture |
| 1:38.8 | of these players. |
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