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The Lead

Starting Five: Ignore Your Caddie, Pay The Price

The Lead

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Sports News, Olympics, Fifa, The Athletic, Ncaa, Cfb, Uefa, Sports New, Cbb, Nfl, Nba, Mlb, News, Nhl, Daily News, Wnba, Tokyo2020, Mls, Sports

3.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Plus: Tom Brady’s strange week ends up in the land of conspiracy theories. And a historic heavyweight bout could be on the cards – if the price is right. 

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead, add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:09.0

Drilla Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.

0:14.0

We asked people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives.

0:19.0

We used that as a springboard for conversation.

0:21.0

And then at the end of the show, we asked them for a word that they'd be happy never to hear again.

0:26.0

So that's Drilla Words with made John Bishop and Tony Pitts listen to every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.

0:36.0

Hey, everyone. I just wanted to point out that this episode that you're listening to right now is actually from our spin-off podcast, The Lead Starting 5.

0:43.0

That is our daily 10-minute sports news show.

0:46.0

That show has its own feed with new episodes publishing there every Monday through Friday.

0:51.0

And we'll keep airing episodes here on the lead's feed on Mondays just to introduce more people to that show.

0:57.0

So go check it out and subscribe if you like it.

1:00.0

Alright, here's today's episode.

1:09.0

The WNBA is defending champs face a do-wred-die game three on the road, even though they're the higher seed.

1:15.0

One of you of C's most dominant champion suffers an absolutely stunning knockout.

1:21.0

And two Tom Brady conspiracy theories emerge in the same weekend.

1:25.0

From Wondry, I'm St. Frazier.

1:27.0

And I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Monday, August 22nd. And this is starting 5.

1:32.0

5 sports headlines in 10 minutes.

1:36.0

Alright, let's start the WNBA where the first round of the playoffs is almost wrapped up.

1:41.0

And Tiff, two of those series are now heading to winner-go-home game threes. So what's the latest?

1:47.0

Yeah, Tiff. So the Las Vegas aces in Seattle Storm both swept their first round matches.

1:51.0

One big highlight from Sunday besides Seattle star Spirina Stewart and Superrd combining for 39 points in their victory was Superrd becoming the oldest player in WNBA history to record a playoff double-double.

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