Sarah Spain

Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're loving the Brandi Carlile-Ted Lasso collab.

It's not weird to turn on a show because you wanna hear the opening song just as much as you wanna watch the episode, right? It's Thursday, October 8th, and today, Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello returns to the show.

We caught up with Sandy before the Tempo's inaugural season started, so we had to catch up again earlier this week to hear what it was actually like to coach Canada's team, how she's handling not making the postseason for the first time in 13 years, her biggest tips for expansion teams to come, and her scouting report on the four remaining teams in the WNBA playoffs.

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Hi, Sandy.

Hey, Sarah.

How are you? [laughs]

That mullet was something.

Correct.

I wonder if you consider the power of sort of your reach in spotlighting or platforming certain stories versus how meaningful it is to get out your opinion about them.

That is the hardest thing about being an internet personality right now.

Like, to be online and to make your money from the clicks, which is, that is my main source of revenue, it's really hard to balance that with the kind of trying to keep the conversation in the right place.

And I am lucky enough that I am good enough financially and, like, set in a way and not afraid anymore that if I don't speak on this one thing, it's not gonna be good.

[upbeat music] Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're happy to see the strategy of add DeWanna Bonner, win playoff games is still working.

It's Monday, October 5th, and on today's show, Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod joins us to discuss how a routine mammogram led to a breast cancer diagnosis and a transformational year, the way her team surrounded her with love and support while she underwent treatment, and how she's preparing for the upcoming PWHL season with four more expansion teams in the mix.

Plus, East and West divisions, a bunch of Easter eggs we still haven't found, and another reminder that women's sports is the good place.

It's Carla MacLeod.

Hi, Carla.

Hi, Sarah.

Thanks for that intro.

That's fun.

Mm-hmm.

What inspired you to leave that track and move into movie production and Canopy, where you're repping college athletes?

I was never gonna be a corporate lawyer for very long.

Uh, from day one, I stuck out like a sore thumb.

But, um, I love sports, I love media, I love film, um, and so I always knew I would kind of find my way there, and having a name like Davis Polk on my resume was definitely not gonna hurt me.

But it was also just, like, being so in touch and in love with sports media and just seeing where things were going.

As, as we'll dive into, but I think female athletes are just incredibly slept on.

Now that's, like, a joke because look at the-

Alex, Bianca, get in here.

Hey, guys.

How you doing?

Hi.

And also the, uh, the Lenny Kravitz meme where he's wearing a comically large scarf also popped into my socials.

I believe he says something like, "It's the first day of fall.

Make sure you have your giant scarf." Um, and also if you guys have not seen the Lenny Kravitz Barbie, I command you to Google it.

[laughs] I'm doing it right now.

[upbeat music] Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're running into WNBA playoff season with as much force as A'ja Wilson running into that lady who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[laughs] It's Tuesday, September 29th, and on today's show, we're headed to the nation's capital to talk to the two queens behind Capital Queens, the first ever joint women's sports week in DC: Kim Stone, CEO of the NWSL's Washington Spirit, and Allison McCauley, Chief Business Officer for the WNBA's Washington Mystics.

McCauley also talks to us about the Sticks' plans for the playoffs and beyond, and Stone shares the secrets of Rowdie Outie and looks ahead to DC hosting the upcoming NWSL championship.

Nine.

[beep] you, tearing your Achilles when you're minutes away from a world record.

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