March Madness is Here and it’s…a Level Ten Gyat?

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The Vox Media Podcast Network

Soccer, Sports, Basketball

4.4 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

March Madness, NWSL Kickoff, AND Unrivaled’s first-ever championship? We’re feeling like kids in a candy shop this week. First up: the madness is real. We break down the final standings, what we’ll miss the most, and why this might be the hardest bracket to crack yet. Think you can out-predict us? Join our bracket challenge. Then, The Rose are officially Unrivaled’s first champions, and Chelsea Gray put on a performance for the ages. We talk about what this means for the league and why Unrivaled’s success is just the beginning. Over in the NWSL, Trinity Rodman is dropping hints about heading overseas. Should Spirit fans be worried? We discuss. In this week’s Intersection, ESPN’s list of top women’s college basketball players of all time has us debating what really makes a GOAT. Stats? Titles? Vibes? Finally, this week’s Bicker of the Week: a sunscreen application gone terribly, terribly wrong. 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	Welcome back, everybody. We've had an amazing week. We're fresh off of South by Southwest. We had a great show. I'm sure you guys heard wonderful interviews with Nikki and Gabby. We were able to take some time off. Took a little vacation. That's why you see the fresh tans. I was basically on the Rapino family vacation, if I'm being honest. You are.
0:21.9	Mammer. Mammers and Jim joined us. We had a wonderful time. I did find out that that Mammers is a corn
0:28.1	tortilla girl. I mean, she is gluten-free, so it makes sense. But on everybody in the whole world,
0:34.0	no, she's gluten-free. But when we got there, when we first got there and we got, you know, they walk you around
0:40.7	and they show you everything. I caught her when we got to the part where somebody makes
0:45.6	fresh tortillas in the morning. She was very excited about this. And then immediately turned to
0:50.8	the, turn to the person taking us around was like corn you got corn right it's like yes
0:56.0	mammors we've got corn everything's going to be okay it was very sweet and your dad you know
1:00.8	he took that welcome drink to the head got a little tahin on his forehead it started out great
1:04.4	yeah i had a great time it started out great yeah i mean it's normal to get a little tahin in the
1:09.1	in the side you know it's like yeah the forehead is a little unprecedented, but yeah, he was getting every last drop, as we all were. I love it. Back to the real world, which is very exciting. Women's sports is popping off. It's basically Christmas Eve. We're also going to talk about by weir, I mean, Sue is going to talk about the
1:28.0	greatest college women's basketball players of all time. Then I'll base my opinion on
1:32.7	basically Sue's opinion. And we're going to get into all that's happening right now. And I'm
1:38.6	really excited about it. I'm Megan Rapino. And I'm Sue Bird. This is a touch more. Let's get
1:43.2	into it. All right, Sue. Let's dive right
1:46.3	into the check-in. It's Christmas Eve. We've got the NWSL starting. We've got Unrivaled,
1:53.5	who crowned its first and inaugural champion. March Madness is kicking off. The WMBA season is
1:59.7	right around the corner.
2:03.6	Are you as excited as I am?
2:04.6	Obviously.
2:05.7	Obviously.
2:09.4	It's more like, for me, it's more like candy store vibes. I've just been plopped into women's sports candy land.
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