The Waves: Get on the WNBA Train Already!

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Waves, the Las Vegas Aces beat the New York Liberty to win their second WNBA championship in a row. But more impressive is that they played in front of one of the biggest crowds to ever attend a WNBA game. Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by sports journalist and founder of the Power Plays newsletter Lindsay Gibbs to unpack the recent surge in popularity for women’s sports, why you should make an effort to support women’s basketball, and more. In Slate Plus: Lindsay tries to convince Daisy to get into women’s college basketball If you liked this episode, check out: Watch The Women’s World Cup, Damnit! Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected]. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on The Waves. Sign up now at slate.com/thewavesplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wave's Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and today, the WNBA and the
0:10.5	incredible season that just wrapped up.
0:13.2	Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing that we cannot get off
0:16.3	of our minds, and today you've got me, Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of
0:20.5	audio here at Slate.
0:22.3	And later, I'll be joined by writer Lindsey Gibbs, founder of Powerplace, a newsletter
0:26.6	that she calls, and I can confirm is, a no BS newsletter about women's sports.
0:33.4	Last week, the Las Vegas Aces beat the New York Liberty to win their second WNBA championship
0:38.9	in a row.
0:39.9	The Aces beat the Liberty in Brooklyn in front of one of the biggest crowds to ever attend
0:44.8	a WNBA game.
0:46.3	Each team out of time out, Aces by 1, 8.8 to go, the fourth quarter of game four.
0:52.8	Here we go.
0:53.8	Good ask a handbag, try to get it to Stuart.
0:56.8	Don't sit in Stuart Juggles, Petsch's, six seconds left.
1:00.8	Stuart with five, throws the double, plainly to the corner, and her sleuth, no, and that
1:07.3	is an unforgettable finish to game four.
1:14.0	A resilient conclusion.
1:17.2	Now if you are a regular waves listener, you might remember the episode I did about the
1:21.3	Women's World Cup earlier this year.
1:23.8	The waves is not a sports show, but with women's sports doing so well these last few years,
1:29.0	I know that, as with women's soccer, you might feel compelled to start following the sport,
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