The Knicks’ vibes are off, Tyrese Haliburton’s dad is free, three UNC sisters won a championship, Paige Bueckers-Azzi Fudd update, and Tom Brady’s recession indicator
The Sports Gossip Show
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4.8 • 738 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Madeline tells Charlotte about her disastrous travel day yesterday, which is why The Sports Gossip Show is coming to you on a Wednesday instead of a Tuesday. But the good news is that Madeline still got her Tuesday Chick-fil-A, and she also found the cheese shop from that Capital One commercial.
The gals start off with the NBA Playoffs. The Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder have been playing to see who comes out of the Western Conference, but the real drama has been in the East. Simply put: The Knicks’ vibes are totally off. There has to be some co-worker interpersonal drama going on, because nothing else could explain the kind of strange collapses the team has had (also, the President of the Knicks, Leon Rose, is star Jalen Brunson’s godfather). The Pacers have been cookin’ thanks to Tyrese Haliburton, whose dad was banned from games after getting into a fight with Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. His dad is allowed back at the arena now, and Haliburton is ballin’.
Karli Kloss is joining the ownership group of the New York Liberty — and does anyone else think she and her husband are strategically trying to tie themselves to Taylor Swift still? Real Swifties know. In other women’s basketball news, did former UConn teammates Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers just hard launch their relationship on TikTok?
Then, a quick check in on football coach Bill Belichick, who once again renamed his boat — potentially because he’s engaged to Jordon Hudson. Unless it’s just commemorating her cheerleading national championship. Tough to say. Staying in New England for a moment, the Humphrey sisters from Darien, Connecticut won a lacrosse national championship at UNC, which is a story Charlotte tells Madeline that involves some serious tangents.
F1’s Lando Norris hard-launched his girlfriend, Margarida Corceiro, at the Monaco Grand Prix, so Madeline explains what that’s all about. NFL rookie Travis Hunter’s new wife wore a very compressed flower veil, and he gave her a car at their wedding. And, finally, Andy Murray is no longer coaching tennis star Novak Djokovic, which that gals could’ve told you was never a good idea.
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| 0:00.0 | I need to get some soft shorts. |
| 0:01.5 | I need to get those Patagonia ones. |
| 0:03.5 | Well, I ordered those. |
| 0:04.4 | We'll see how those J-Crew pants are. |
| 0:06.1 | Do you want to borrow pants? |
| 0:07.1 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:07.5 | I'll be fine. |
| 0:07.9 | Oh, I just realized we're recording. |
| 0:24.7 | Hi, Charlotte. |
| 0:26.4 | Madeline, welcome home. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:28.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm happy to be back. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm thrilled you made it back. |
| 0:36.2 | For those who didn't follow on our Instagram story, which you should be following both of us and our show on Instagram, |
| 0:39.1 | Madeline got stuck in the Austin airport yesterday. It was a travel day from hell truly. Yeah, truly. I have never gone crazier. |
| 0:46.1 | Internally. Well, you, I was losing my mind. You do a really good job of like going externally |
| 0:51.0 | Zen and just getting through it, except you have have to i guess at hour like 15 for you |
| 0:55.6 | i did get a selfie where i was like someone someone i think i'll insert it actually someone in the |
| 1:01.1 | harfield jackson airport has to go to a wellness check on madeline who's eating chick-fil-a on the floor |
| 1:06.0 | yeah in a leaky terminal like a leaky term no no the terminal was actually leaking it. So I finally make my connection from Austin to Atlanta, |
| 1:13.8 | which by the way, |
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