🏀 Roll out that orange carpet
NCAA-to-pro pipeline: Women’s basketball
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Pro women’s basketball is on the rise, and the sport’s historic growth is fueled in part by the college game’s skyrocketing popularity. The WNBA is the gold standard league in the U.S. — but there are other domestic opportunities for NCAAers to make it big.
June 26, 2024
🏀 Call the amateurs and cut ’em from the team
Roster cuts loom for former NCAA stars on WNBA decision day
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The WNBA season starts tomorrow, and teams must finalize their rosters today…meaning at least six squads must make brutal cuts to reach the league maximum of 12 rostered players.
May 13, 2024
🏀🏈 Big money moves
Major moves rock NCAA basketball and football as spring transfer portal windows close
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Unlimited trips to the transfer portal mean basketball and football players always keep us on our toes, even in the offseason.
May 01, 2024
🏀 GOAT vs. Rook
The party’s just starting for the 2024 WNBA Draftees as the season tip-off approaches
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April 17, 2024
With league enthusiasm (and lewks) at an all-time high, what comes next for the W’s newbies?
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Ep #384

Gender parity at the Paris Olympics

July 25, 2024
Gender parity at the Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics are almost here!

In a very special episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz dive into gender parity at the Olympics, sponsored by our pals at Canadian Tire. Since 1900 when women first competed at the Olympics to 2024, there’s been enormous progress in terms of gender equity at the Games — and the Paris Olympics will be the most equitable ever.

In addition to discussing the history of women at the Olympics, this episode features two insightful conversations with Kim Saunders of Canadian Tire and Julia Wilkinson, a former Team Canada Olympic swimmer, who have both seen the growth of women’s sports firsthand from a business and athlete perspective. Trust us — you don’t want to miss this.

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🏀 Live from New York, it’s Monday night!
Tonight’s 2024 WNBA Draft welcomes the NCAA’s best women’s basketball players to the pros
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Roll out the Orange Carpet, because the NCAA’s best women’s basketball players turn pro tonight at the 2024 WNBA Draft
April 14, 2024
🏀 Royal blue
UConn makes its case for blue blood status with second consecutive NCAA men’s basketball championship
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After Monday’s 75–60 dub over fellow No. 1–seed Purdue, Naismith Coach of the Year Dan Hurley’s UConn Huskies became the first back-to-back national champions in 17 years, reigniting an internet debate: Are the Huskies now officially a blue blood?
April 10, 2024
🏆 Everybody’s hands go up
No. 1 South Carolina women’s basketball goes undefeated to win NCAA title
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After graduating all five of last year’s starters, No. 1 South Carolina women's basketball went a perfect 38-0 to win their second NCAA title in the last three seasons and third in program history.
April 08, 2024
🏀 The last dance
No. 1 UConn faces No. 1 Purdue in tonight’s men’s March Madness finale
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Two highly-decorated No. 1 seeds, the UConn Huskies and Purdue Boilermakers, will duke it out for the national trophy tonight at 9:20 p.m. ET on TBS.
April 08, 2024
🏀 This is what you came for
Today's women's Final Four is packed with star power
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Record-setting viewership, stunning starpower, and a whole lot of hoopla later, the women’s March Madness tournament culminates this weekend. First up, tonight’s stacked Final Four lineup, with two spots in Sunday’s 3 p.m. ET championship game on the line.
April 05, 2024
🏀 Two Davids, two Goliaths
The men’s Final Four features two No. 1–seeds and two underdogs
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The men’s Final Four start their semifinal dance tomorrow on TBS, and both blockbuster matchups feature powerhouse programs vs. scrappy underdogs.
April 05, 2024