March Madness, Mulkey, and no men
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
After an exciting run of games during this year's women’s NCAA March Madness tournament, the final four teams are set. Today on Post Reports, two sports reporters discuss this season’s most prominent characters and why women’s basketball is having a moment.
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All eyes are on the women’s March Madness this year, with millions tuning in to watch such record-breaking players as Iowa’s Caitlin Clark and USC’s JuJu Watkins. The unparalleled viewership comes just years after a gender equity review revealed major disparities in the NCAA’s resources and attention to women’s sports.
Sports reporters Ava Wallace and Kent Babb talk about how this happened and share their predictions for this season and the future of the sport. Plus, Kent talks about some of his reporting on LSU coach Kim Mulkey that landed him in the middle of the March Madness discourse.
Today's episode was produced by Sabby Robinson. It was mixed and edited by Ted Muldoon. Thanks also to Joe Tone.
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| 0:00.0 | So I try not to drink soda because I've been told it's like injecting poison directly into your veins, but I do about every other night have a full coke zero. |
| 0:11.0 | That being said, so... |
| 0:12.0 | One time I gave up soda for an entire year. |
| 0:15.0 | I was a big diet Dr. Pepper guy. |
| 0:17.0 | Hmm. Oh, Dr. Pepper is like a full dessert. |
| 0:20.0 | It is. |
| 0:21.0 | It's like having a sense of cake out of it. |
| 0:22.0 | I felt myself getting addicted. |
| 0:24.0 | So if you guys were playing in March Madness, |
| 0:27.0 | if you had like Caitlin Clark level fame |
| 0:29.0 | and you could be sponsored by any soda company. |
| 0:33.0 | Which one would you pick? |
| 0:34.0 | Because it seems like you guys have a lot of |
| 0:36.0 | Well, not soda, but Popeyes, for one. |
| 0:39.0 | And... |
| 0:40.0 | I like that you've clearly thought about this. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, of course I have. |
| 0:42.0 | You're just the first person asking me about this. Oh of course I have. You're just the first person asking |
| 0:43.3 | me about it. From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post reports, |
| 0:51.6 | I'm Martine Powers. It is Wednesday, April 3rd. |
| 0:56.8 | We are nearing the end of March Madness, aka the college basketball championship tournament that happens at the end of every season and I |
| 1:04.6 | have not personally been watching all of the games but I do feel like I have not been able to escape |
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