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Joy Taylor’s Thoughts on Project College Sports Act; WNBA Has Become Polarizing, and Olivia Miles’ Rookie Surge · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: So there are some things happening in college sports with
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  Speaker 2: the nil. Everyone is always freaking out about the nil.
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  Speaker 2: Everything these be regularly.
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  Speaker 1: It's the wild wild West. What's happening? Well? According to reports, there's.
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  Speaker 2: An update on a timeline for the Protect College Sports Act.
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  Speaker 2: Intel from Congressional staff meetings today payt an incredibly busy
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  Speaker 2: final week for the Senate before it's month on recess
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  Speaker 2: and could put in jeopardy the bill reaching the floor
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  Speaker 2: for a full vote this week.
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  Speaker 1: This is according to Ross Dellinger on Twitter or ex
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  Speaker 1: whatever you choose to call it.
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  Speaker 2: The Senate Commerce Committee is planning to soon release the
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  Speaker 2: final text of the College Sports Act, per a committee aid,
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  Speaker 2: and there remains hope that the bill will be voted
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  Speaker 2: on this week.
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  Speaker 1: So that means there's a slim possible chance.
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  Speaker 2: That the College Sports Act makes it to the floor
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  Speaker 2: for a vote before the senatece month on recess.
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  Speaker 1: That must be nice. The language of the bill is very.
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  Speaker 2: Vague, but it seeks to regulate and il on other
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  Speaker 2: aspects of college sports with some specific college football elements.
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  Speaker 2: Big ten SEC commissioners have signed on recently, which means
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  Speaker 2: there's some momentum behind it.
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  Speaker 1: I do not like this though. This is the problem
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  Speaker 1: with regulating ANIL.
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  Speaker 2: There seems to be some sort of notion that college
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  Speaker 2: sports is fair and that everyone is on this level
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  Speaker 2: playing field, and that has never been the case and
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  Speaker 2: will never be the case.
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  Speaker 1: And the idea that you are going to.
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  Speaker 2: Put the US government in charge of college sports and
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  Speaker 2: the amount of money that a particular institution can pay
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  Speaker 2: a college athlete and make that on the same level
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  Speaker 2: as a no other institution to pay a college athlete, according.
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  Speaker 1: To NIL, is essentially impossible. And what this bill is
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  Speaker 1: going to do is.
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  Speaker 2: Limit eventually what college athletes can make. This has been
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  Speaker 2: a problem since the beginning of NIL. Well before NL
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  Speaker 2: was a thing. I was working in sports media, and
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  Speaker 2: the drum beats of NIL becoming a thing and the
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  Speaker 2: fear mongering around it was always built on the idea
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  Speaker 2: that somehow college sports was going to lose its amateurism,
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  Speaker 2: which anyone who has spent any time covering college sports
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  Speaker 2: already knew that there was no amateurism. In college sports,
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  Speaker 2: and these institutions were making billions and billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: while not paying into the athletes that were making.
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  Speaker 1: These institutions billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Now because of the Internet, mostly the opportunity for these
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  Speaker 2: student athletes to come into these institutions with already built
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  Speaker 2: in fan bases, bringing a value that is essentially impossible
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  Speaker 2: to put a number on because you have no idea
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to make while they're in in the future,
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  Speaker 2: with bringing in recruits, with merchandise sales, with the growth
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  Speaker 2: of the institution because of their success, there's really no
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  Speaker 2: way to measure it.
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  Speaker 1: So this particular bill is sweeping.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredibly unfair to the institutions in certain states who
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  Speaker 2: to other institutions. And by institutions, of course, I mean
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  Speaker 2: colleges who feel like they have an unfair advantage.
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  Speaker 1: They do. They do.
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  Speaker 2: They have bigger alumni basis, they have better facilities, they
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  Speaker 2: have bigger sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what NIL is.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot tell someone how much they can make based
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  Speaker 2: off of their own name, image, and likeness.
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  Speaker 1: That is the entire point of NIL.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're going to have regulation on it, you're
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  Speaker 2: essential telling a particular individual what they can make. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when you have institutions involved, I understand it gets complicated,
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  Speaker 2: and I am not going to sit down and break
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  Speaker 2: down this bill.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: But I do know that this particular bill is not
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  Speaker 2: the answer, and there needs to be a lot more
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  Speaker 2: transparent conversation about what NIL is, why it needs to
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  Speaker 2: be regulated, because it doesn't need to be regulated because
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  Speaker 2: there are smaller schools who don't have the same advantage
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  Speaker 2: as bigger schools.
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  Speaker 1: That's always been the case. That's always been the case, babe.
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  Speaker 1: There's no difference here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very complicated situation and I don't think pushing
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  Speaker 2: something quickly through Congress is the answer when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to college sports. And as always, i'd like to remind
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  Speaker 2: everyone college sports is not just college football.
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  Speaker 1: There's college basketball, there's women's sports. There is.
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  Speaker 2: Women's basketball, there's women's volleyball, there's track and field, there's gymnastics.
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  Speaker 2: Like this is not limited to what happens with college football.
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  Speaker 2: This is so these kind of sweeping institutional level rulings
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  Speaker 2: affect all college athletes. It's an extremely complicated situation and
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the day. If you have a
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  Speaker 2: voice and you have a platform, you should be able
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  Speaker 2: to make money on it. That's how it works. I
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  Speaker 2: know it can't be that simple, but I do not
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  Speaker 2: agree with this bill. So let's move from that to
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  Speaker 2: some other political conversation which is going on in the
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  Speaker 2: WNBA right now. So FEVER regards Sophie Cunningham is at
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  Speaker 2: the center of attention when it comes to the WNBA
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  Speaker 2: right now. Pretty much the FEVER are the center of
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  Speaker 2: attention with Caitlin Clark, with Sophie Cunningham, with Kelsey Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: playing the way that she's playing, which.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to in a second.
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  Speaker 2: The WNBA has been, in a very interesting way, completely politicized.
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  Speaker 2: So it went from a league that everyone was constantly
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  Speaker 2: complaining was begging for too much attention, and by everyone,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Men and straight man at that and now you have
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  Speaker 1: a league that is the.
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  Speaker 2: Center of political conversation, which I think is so interesting
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about what's happened with Angel Reese and
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  Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark and the growth of the league and the
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  Speaker 2: renaissance of women's sports, and Sophie has shared some very
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  Speaker 2: controversial transgender views, which has sparked protests and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of political conversation, and in response to that, other teams
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  Speaker 2: have made comments on it, other coaches links coach Cheryl
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  Speaker 2: Reeves spoke about it before their game because of the protests.
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  Speaker 1: And I just find the entire.
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  Speaker 2: Way that the league has become politicized and become the
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  Speaker 2: center of social conversations to be so interesting and it
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  Speaker 2: is so reflective of so much that has happened when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about sports.
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  Speaker 1: Being a microcosm of society.
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  Speaker 2: While I don't agree with the political opinions that have
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  Speaker 2: been expressed and the way that the league has been
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  Speaker 2: polarized from a political perspective, I do find that it
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  Speaker 2: is a very positive movement that we have these kind
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  Speaker 2: of conversations happening.
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  Speaker 1: Because while they are divisive, and while.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are rooted in truly negative, horrible stereotypes
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  Speaker 2: and are used to be fuel for hate towards whole
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  Speaker 2: entire demographics and communities, I think that it positions women's
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  Speaker 2: women athletes at this particular time to be true voices
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  Speaker 2: for change.
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  Speaker 1: And you can, on one hand.
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  Speaker 2: Continuously argue that women's sports don't matter and that they
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  Speaker 2: have no influence, and that they have no audience, and
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  Speaker 2: that they have no power, and then constantly be popping
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  Speaker 2: them up as these examples for strong voices and movements,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, big statements like either they don't matter
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  Speaker 2: or they do. But you cannot hold these two truths
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  Speaker 2: in one space. And in that way, I think that
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  Speaker 2: the truth and equality and movement will overpower the hate
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  Speaker 2: and the divisiveness that is happening right now. But overall,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's more important that people are telling on themselves.
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  Speaker 2: You can't constantly be beating this drunk that women's athletes
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  Speaker 2: have not deserved to be paid and that no one
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  Speaker 2: is paying attention, and then it doesn't matter what women do,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter what women say, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter that they're out there playing and none of this.
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  Speaker 2: They shouldn't be paid and there are no sponsors and
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  Speaker 2: there's no audience. But you can't stop talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't stop putting these quotes on your page, you
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  Speaker 2: can't stop tweeting about it, you can't stop writing think pieces,
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  Speaker 2: you can't stop putting these things on your show.
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  Speaker 1: So if it doesn't matter, don't talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: But it does, so you can't prop it up and
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  Speaker 2: then simultaneously say that it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You got to make a choice here.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that what's happening with the WNBA is
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  Speaker 2: very important, and I think it's very influential, and in
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  Speaker 2: the end, it is going to separate people that have
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  Speaker 2: to stand on their reality and their authenticity because you
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  Speaker 2: cannot continue to say that women's sports don't matter and
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  Speaker 2: then continue to use them as talking points.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way. Well, let's say the w and
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  Speaker 1: end on a good note. The rook Everyone's rook.
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  Speaker 2: Olivia Miles bless us with another electric twenty eight point
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  Speaker 2: performance in links win over the Fever. On Sunday night,
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina head coach and hoop's legend John Staley was
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  Speaker 2: watching and.
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  Speaker 1: G I think I should probably use a little AI
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 2: But she changed the WNBA logo to Olivia Miles and
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  Speaker 2: Tagger and said, got me in my house cursing on
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday Lord have mercy, WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a logo change in this app. Let's use it.
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  Speaker 1: And she posted a I have to say, adorable.
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  Speaker 2: Update to the WNBA logo with Olivia Miles with her
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  Speaker 2: goggles so good. Olivia is just she's incredible. She's very
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  Speaker 2: Magic Johnson to me, and I just love to see
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  Speaker 2: her continue to excel and have these moments in the WNBA.
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  Speaker 2: And she also said that it was her welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the WNBA moment because she was having to match up
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  Speaker 2: constantly with Kelsey Mitchell, who's having an unbelievable season for
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  Speaker 2: the Fever. And yeah, she's just having such an amazing
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  Speaker 2: rookie season. She's averaging nineteen point seven points, four point
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  Speaker 2: seven rebounds, and five point eight isis one point eight
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  Speaker 2: steals defense too, which is really impressive. She leads all
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  Speaker 2: rookies and points and she's also a title contender in
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  Speaker 2: points and assist so she's been unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: She is absolutely sweeping the.
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  Speaker 2: Sports world right now with her rookie performance. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: just so excited to see how she continues to excel
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  Speaker 2: because the way she's playing, her court, vision, her passing,
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  Speaker 2: like I compared her to Magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember who too. There was so much that
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  Speaker 1: was going on during.
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  Speaker 2: Also our weekend for the WNBA, but it's she does
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  Speaker 2: really feel like Magic, the way she sees the floor,
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  Speaker 2: she wastes, the way she's so effortlessly and creatively passes
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  Speaker 2: the ball is just so fun to watch, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: so excited for her and another big performance, so running
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