Paige Bueckers and UConn's PERFECT ending! | Sports Are Fun!

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Welcome back to 'Sports Are Fun!' presented by TurboTax, where Kelley O'Hara and Merritt Mathias discuss the biggest headlines in women's sports. This week, we have a quick recap of the crew's Final Four weekend, breaking down the games, UConn's win, Paige Bueckers' legacy, Azzi Fudd, and more. We also dive into the USWNT's games against Brazil. Check back every Tuesday for a new episode of 'Sports Are Fun!' 'Sports Are Fun!' is a show that’ll remind you why you fell in love with (women’s) sports in the first place. Join World Cup champ, Olympic gold medalist, and aspiring barista Kelley O’Hara as she sits down with sports journalist Greydy Diaz and a revolving cast of co-hosts and friends. Together, they're talking the biggest, funnest, and most need-to-know stories in the world of women’s sports. From on-court drama to off-field shenanigans, to candid (and silly) chats with the most important personalities in the space, this show screams "Sports Are Fun!" Just Women’s Sports is the leading digital media platform dedicated exclusively to women’s sports. In a world where women’s sports have been historically underfunded and under-promoted, Just Women’s Sports exists to shine a light on all the stories, athletes and moments that define and fuel the space. Through original podcasts, premium video programming, social media, editorial content, a newsletter, and exclusive merchandise and live events, Just Women’s Sports is committed to making it both easy and fun to be a women’s sports fan. Listen to Sports Are Fun! here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sports-are-fun/id1522055041 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RTMyWpdSBY9I4vO528qX3?si=4ffbdaf315814b19 iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-sports-are-fun-68461888/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a6f36ad8-f5e2-4478-8650-3f6f8805810b/sports-are-fun Add us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justwomenssports/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/justwsports Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@justwomenssports? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is this most outstanding player? I'm like, it's the most valuable player. What's a mop?
0:04.0	What are we doing?
0:08.0	Welcome to a different episode of sports are fun. We were supposed to be off this week,
0:17.2	but because we had our live show in Tampa, Tampa, ahead of the Final Four in the championship,
0:23.1	but sports never sleep. So we had to get on here, recap the weekend, obviously a big weekend
0:28.2	in college basketball, big weekend in US Women's National Team. So here we are. I'm your host,
0:32.9	Kelly O'Hara. I'm Mayor Matthias. From broadcast to podcast, I mean, we're just always on in doing this, I guess. Sorry, I was like, I'm usually going last. I wasn't ready for my intro. Nope, you're up. Second. Hey. Oh, it's just me. Listen, the professor is in the house. The professor's in the house. This was your first live show that we did in Tampa. What did you
0:55.1	think? That was your first time you were at our live show as a guest at NDPSEL Championship,
1:00.2	but this was your first live show as a host. So yeah, first live show as a host. I thought it was
1:06.4	so much fun. It's really great to have like the audience there. Like you can interact with them.
1:11.8	Just like the energy was great. I thought our guests were unbelievable. Just wonderful insight,
1:17.4	really fun to be around, really brought the energy. And, you know, all around, it was just a
1:21.5	wonderful time. I was so happy to be a part of it. Yeah, no, I feel the same. I feel like, um,
1:26.4	live shows are so fun because you get to be out with the listeners, with our fans, with the people. Yeah, no, I feel the same. I feel like live shows are so fun because you get to be out
1:28.7	with the listeners, with our fans, with the people, and experience their energy and excitement
1:33.7	around sports because we all have the same. So it was a good time. And like you said, my,
1:39.0	my highlight of this live show was the guests. Not that it wasn't the last live show because you were one of the
1:44.9	I'm sorry, I was a guest. I should be. What the hell? And that was. We did. We had great guests at
1:50.1	any such a show you know, we had Lisa Leslie, we had Alia Edwards, we had Kelsey Mitchell,
1:59.4	and we had Gabrielle Huckus, and they just were fantastic.
2:04.0	We had such a well-rounded team on the weekend.
2:08.2	Yeah, it was awesome.
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