The Yankees can grow beards, Josh Allen saved Hailee Steinfeld’s party, Kyle Kuzma is engaged, and Paige Bueckers in GQ

The Sports Gossip Show

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Sports

4.8 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Sports Gossip Show is back with another episode full of all the athletic drama you could dream of. Madeline and Charlotte start out with a proposal — Milwaukee Bucks player Kyle Kuzma is engaged to supermodel Winnie Harlow! The happy couple celebrated with the time-honored tradition of athlete-style flower arrangements and an announcement in Vogue, the 30 Under 30 of weddings. UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers was featured in GQ magazine, and she looked phenomenal.

The gals dig into the New York Yankees new policy that will allow, for the first time in close to 50 years, facial hair. Are the Yankees the sorority girls of baseball? The gals discuss. Reigning NFL MVP Josh Allen saved the launch party of his fiancée, actress Hailee Steinfeld, by ripping open a vending machine. Speaking of physical strength, the 4 Nations hockey tournament was a display of athleticism, politics, and fistfights.

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembenyama is sadly out for the rest of the season with a blood clot in his shoulder, which brings up the question, “who is the face of the NBA?” And some talk about how cool the French are. JJ Reddick, coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, has been giving some amazing locker room speeches lately, and NFL champion A.J. Brown bought a mannequin to display his unwashed uniform. Plus: Timothée Chalamet played poker with LeBron James’ agent, Rich Paul, and Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla is once again saying weird stuff.

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0:00.0	You sound kind of like Kermit the frog. I did sound like Kermit the frog.
0:03.6	Kermit the frog. Wait, that's him big. That's his name. Yeah. Okay. What?
0:17.3	Did you think you got Kermit's name wrong? No, for second. I was like just based on your reaction of your face. I thought I had said the wrong person. Oh no. Sorry. I was just, The wrong Muppet.
0:20.3	The wrong, fuzzy thing.
0:20.9	I just
0:21.8	was stuck on the fact
0:23.9	that that's how it came out of my...
0:25.4	Yeah, that's okay.
0:26.5	One, two, three.
0:28.6	Oh my God.
0:29.5	Okay.
0:29.7	Sure. We're back. How are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? Fantastic. Fabulous. Another day, another sports gossip show. Oh, my God. So much drama. As always. Such a treat. Such a treat. I really should have thought of something more clever to say to start this off. You know, I was actually kind of surprised you didn't do something different. Like you have the past couple weeks. Right, but I have to keep you on your toes. You do. I just mean I didn't have like a little, here's a little anecdote. I could anecdote. Oh, what happened? Oh, I was just like an anecdote. Okay. I went to my friend's wedding this past weekend.
1:15.3	Oh yes. In Kiowa Island. Shout out to Danny. Congratulations. It was a beautiful wedding. What'd you do this
1:21.8	weekend? What did I do this weekend? Went out to dinner. where'd you go that was exciting plas de fette
1:30.5	oh i want to try that place in clinton hill very nice it's very very good or four green i don't know what
1:35.9	technically that would be whatever um yeah it was great my cousin was here who's a big fan of the sports
1:40.7	gossip show shout out shout out um and we just had a great time. Lovely. That sounds like a lovely weekend. It was. I'm trying to think of what else I did. Oh, we went for two very long walks. Two very long walks. Walked around Prospect Park. Walked up to Brooklyn Heights.
2:01.0	Oh.
2:02.4	You did some hot girl walks.
2:03.1	Hot girl walks.
2:05.0	Yeah, hot couple walks.
2:07.1	Yeah, I guess I worked.
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