On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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NYT Best-selling author Christine Brennan has written the definitive book on Caitlin Clark. Why is this young basketball player changing the face of women's sports? Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter. Learn More about “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://linktr.ee/micheletafoya Subscribe to “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://apple.co/3nPW221 Follow Michele on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya Follow Michele on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmicheletafoya/ Learn more about the Salem Podcast network: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Don't mess this up. This is the moment. This is the moment. Caitlin Clark is the one. |
| 0:06.6 | We've never seen anything like this in women's team sports, and I could make the case never |
| 0:10.3 | in the history of women's sports. You know, Angel needs Caitlin to sell out Angels Arena. |
| 0:17.3 | Right. Angel, and when they move to the United Center in Chicago, the prices drop when Caitlin is not, or the, right, and when they moved to the united center in chicago the prices drop when katelyn is not |
| 0:23.8 | or the right and the you know tickets are you know the secondary market goes crazy but angel's still in the |
| 0:28.8 | game but katelyn's not uh you know angel cannot sell out well she had 10 000 which probably |
| 0:34.8 | wasn't 10 000 in washington 24 24 hours later, apples to apples, |
| 0:39.2 | Caitlin Clark had over 20,000. So it's not Angel. Angel's a great rebounder, great player. |
| 0:44.3 | It is Caitlin Clark. |
| 1:11.4 | Caitlin Clark, Those two words can make people feel joy, anger, hatred, jealousy, all kinds of emotions. One woman who is changing women's sports, in particular the game of women's basketball. Christine Brennan has written a book on her game, Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's |
| 1:16.5 | Sports, and Christine Brennan is one of the foremost sports writers over the last four decades. |
| 1:22.1 | Bestsellers, she writes for USA Today, you've probably seen her on CNN, many, many places, NPR, PBS. She does a ton of work. |
| 1:29.5 | And this book is so journalistically thought out and presented. This was not done necessarily as an |
| 1:38.5 | authorized biography of Caitlin Clark. You're going to hear this. But the anecdotes, the information, |
| 1:43.9 | the data, the proof, the, oh, it's all great stuff. Christine Brennan is our guest. Please click that subscribe button wherever you're listening or watching. We'd love to have you on board for every single one of our episodes. Just click subscribe. It's free. It winds up in your mailbox. It's awesome. Please do that for us and we'll see you on every episode. |
| 2:01.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 2:02.7 | Christine Brennan on her book, on her game, Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports. |
| 2:12.0 | Christine, it's great to see you again and congratulations on this book. |
| 2:17.4 | It's, it's tremendous. And it's, it's, it's, it's a, it doesn't |
| 2:22.0 | amaze me because you've been doing this for so long and you're so accomplished and your books are |
| 2:26.1 | almost a guaranteed New York Times bestseller list. But it had to be thrilling for you to be the |
| 2:32.1 | one to sort of write the definitive book on Caitlin Clark |
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