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Trinity Rodman’s Big Comeback, Cyclists Losing Their Periods for the Podium, and Luka Dončić’s Hot Boy Summer

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4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Trinity Rodman is so back. After spending months sidelined with a back injury, the Washington Spirit forward made her return and scored a game-winning goal. Tears, hugs, and a vulnerable celebration ensued. Blake and Caroline also dive into why the women’s Tour de France has some cyclists talking about periods, infertility, and overtraining.  In this episode of Well Played, we also cover: Blake and Caroline’s recap of Diana Taurasi’s docuseries premiere in New York The will-they-won’t-they situationship between Micah Parsons and Jerry Jones Just how fast Caitlin Clark clocked Jordan Chiles’ disloyalty to the Fever  The tea on the potential $325 million sale of the Connecticut Sun Why Luka Dončić is gaining honorary millennial status  Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke Caroline’s IG: @cghendy theSkimm’s IG: @theskimm PS: Did you know theSkimm has a sports newsletter? Sign up at theskimm.com/sports.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Well Played presented by The Skim. I'm Caroline Henderson. And I'm Blake Morgan. I got to watch some summer I turned pretty last week. Because you bullied me. I was just about to say, you know what my favorite thing about you is, is that you're the younger sister I never had, that I can bully you into things. So true. Like I can bully you into doing things with me like my sisters did to me. Yeah. So technically I'm just passing on the love that I was taught. Yeah, exactly. Well, it worked. Except I have thoughts. Okay. And also, I said I watched it. I only watched like the first episode. I freaking knew it. I was going to say what episode did you get to?

0:38.9

I'm bad at binging.

0:41.1

Also, it was terrible so I couldn't continue watching. It is a little cringy. It's so cringy. That's what makes it the show. I know. Okay, quick, gut check. Team Conrad, team Jeremiah. In the first episode, it was one. there's literally a clear answer from the jump

0:53.6

what are you saying

0:56.4

I think Jeremiah your team one um there's literally a clear answer from the jump wait jeremiah what do you say i think jeremiah

0:57.6

your team jeremiah because conrad just so angsty get out of the get out of the room he's just so teen

1:02.0

angst you know you know that is literal childhood love right there i know and also she wants him the

1:08.3

most in in in that episode yeah Like she has a thing for him.

1:11.2

I mean, he's cute.

1:12.0

Yeah.

1:12.5

But then I can't believe she gets involved with the other one.

1:14.4

I know.

1:25.0

Sorry, spoiler. That's where the plot thick ends. But also, my problem with the show is that she was never ugly to begin with. So it's like really disingenuous for them to call the show the summer I turned pretty. It's just like the summer I went through puberty.

1:25.8

Yeah, totally.

1:47.0

But you know, like as a girl going through puberty, your mind, puberty, your mind just plays tricks on you and you think like everything's wrong. I'm ugly. Yeah, exactly. When you're absolutely not. Yeah. I got to see you last night on a school night. It was a school night? It was Monday. Because we got to go to Diana Tarasi's premiere, I guess it It was her premiere.

1:47.8

Yeah, premier. school night. It was Monday. Because we got to go to Diana Tarasi's premiere, I guess it was. It was her

1:47.6

premiere. She was there. Of her Amazon Prime series called Tarasi, and it's a three episode series

1:53.7

coming out this Thursday. Yeah, August 7th. And we watched episode two. And she was so cool and so scary at the same time.

2:04.8

I know.

2:05.1

And I'm like really trying to hold back right now on telling you guys the story because it was so crazy.

2:10.5

There were so many details I had no idea about it.

2:13.0

Basically the first episode is like a recap of her growing up and how she got to Yukon,

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