Weekly Highlights: Women’s Sports Performances and Podcast Growth

Caitlin: My favorite thing this week is women’s sports. It’s female athletes, it’s amazing performances. I know most of you are just listening to this, but if you’re watching, my call sheet this week is like 12 pages long because there’s so much that we have to cover.

Caitlin: Hi, I’m Caitlin.

Alex: Hi, I’m Alex.

Caitlin: And you’re listening to Raising the Game, a podcast covering the rise and opportunity, visibility and accessibility of women’s sports globally. We’re a wife-husband team who are avid sports fans, raising two young girls, and we find the exposure and investment in women’s sports a gateway for them and other young girls like them to see their passions for play, performance, and leadership. Not as extracurriculars to be added to a resume or a discipline with an expiration date after high school or college, but as a real opportunity to build a career as an athlete, a coach, an analyst, an athletic trainer, a director of sports operations, or maybe even…

Caitlin: Each week we’re bringing you the top stories in women’s professional and sometimes collegiate sports. We’ll highlight primetime performers, key business decisions, economic impacts, and the growing opportunities for women’s athletics. You’ll hear our perspectives on these stories as fans, but perhaps more importantly as parents who value what these stories mean for our kids. If there’s a storyline or topic you’d like to hear us talk about, reach out via email at raisingthegamepod@gmail.com or on social media at RTG_pod.

Caitlin: We’re back, y’all. We are back. Another week with you here.

Alex: Yeah. How are you?

Caitlin: I’m doing all right.

Alex: Doing all right?

Caitlin: Yeah. All right, good deal. We’ll start out the episode here just with another reminder. We’ll continue to have links in our bio for ways to support the community here in Minnesota. I’m sure there are other communities that are impacted as well, but obviously with us living here, it’s near and dear to our heart. So if you want to check those out, typically we’re anchoring into local businesses that we’re trying to support or local community action funds. So you can take a look at those in the show notes.

Alex: Yep.

Caitlin: Before we get into my favorite thing today, I just have to say thank you to the people who listen to this podcast. It’s been really fun. This is our eighth episode, seventh that we’ve published, and just the feedback, the random texts, people asking for us to cover different topics and dig in on different things. The inspiration that it’s providing for folks to go check out collegiate and professional women’s sports. It means the world to us.

Alex: It started out as almost weird to hear you say, “Oh, so-and-so is listening to the podcast.” And now it’s super fun when they’re like, “Oh, we’re going to this women’s sporting event this week because of your podcast.” And it’s like, this is why we do it.

Caitlin: Yeah. So just thank you. We’re kind of learning as we go, figuring it out, but we really appreciate people coming back in week over week. So, with that, what’s your favorite thing?

Alex: That hockey game. Just absolutely insane. I mean, we were both working and I was on a call towards the end. I’m not on mute, and I’m peeking my head out of the office to watch the game, to see them go up, to tie it, to go into overtime. And I’m running around the house, scream-whispering, “Yes, yes!”

Caitlin: It was not scream-whispering, folks, because I was also on a call and I just hear Alex yelling, “Yes! Yes!” And I’m like, oh my god, we must have scored.

Alex: Yeah, it was amazing. So I agree. If I had to pick one, I can’t even do it. My favorite thing this week is women’s sports. It’s female athletes. It’s amazing performances. I know most of you are just listening to this, but if you’re watching, my call sheet this week is like 12 pages long because there’s so much that we have to cover as far as these incredible performances. I was formatting it and I was like, this is an hour and a half. We’ve got the Olympics. There’s huge news in the WNBA right now. We’ve got the SheBelieves Cup coming up. There are just so many things that we could be talking about.

Caitlin: So I think it’s just a huge props to the women who are performing now, but also the women who came before them, who really paved the way and created the demand for the exposure that we now all get to appreciate. The performances and the dedication of these athletes. So my favorite thing is just women’s sports. Maybe cliché for a women’s sports podcast, but here we are. I’ll be a cliché all day long. All right. You want to move into headlines?

Alex: Yeah, let’s go through them.

ESPN’s Women’s Sports Sundays & NCAA Women’s Basketball Secondary Market Dominance

Caitlin: All right. In a major broadcast programming shakeup, ESPN to replace Sunday Night Baseball with Women’s Sports Sundays. Okay, I wish we had more time in the programming this week to talk about this because this is massive.

Alex: Huge.

Caitlin: First of all, I want to say I have a quote here actually from the ESPN Executive Vice President of Programming and Acquisitions, Rosalyn Durant. She said, “Women’s Sports Sundays,” which is what the show is going to be called, “isn’t an experiment. It’s a flag in the ground and a continuing commitment.” And I love that because I think the immediate reaction a lot of times is, oh, they’re testing this. And she’s coming out and saying this isn’t a test. We’ve already done the test. They passed with flying colors, and we’re going to now take what was probably, frankly, a tired broadcast on ESPN. Now, Sunday Night Baseball, just as a sidebar, is moving. NBC is going to own that going into the 2026 MLB season. So it’s not like that’s going away. If you still want to watch your baseball, you go over to NBC. But ESPN now is saying we want a spotlight, specifically WNBA and NWSL games of the week. So I think that’s awesome.

Alex: Women’s college basketball programs in LSU, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Iowa are outselling their men’s programs on the secondary market.

Caitlin: Also huge, and these are not small margins, y’all. All four of those women’s teams are ranked in the top 25. They’re actually in the top 15 right now. But LSU right now, their women’s program secondary market average ticket sale value is $77 a ticket. The men’s program, $16. Now, I don’t think the men’s program is ranked, so we could say it’s not apples to apples, but I do think Oklahoma’s men’s program is ranked. And that is going women’s side, 50 bucks, men’s side, 35. So amazing to see. Obviously, these are stellar, well-known programs on the women’s side for NCAA. But you love to see it.

Alex: Speaking of which, that LSU-South Carolina game we spotlighted last weekend in the primetime slot drew record views of 2.2 million peak viewers and 1.7 million average viewers while competing with the Olympics primetime broadcast and the NBA All-Star Game.

Caitlin: Yeah, so also a big deal. This became the most-viewed women’s college basketball game so far this season, and it’s the fourth most-watched women’s college basketball game on ESPN of all time.

Alex: Wow, that’s massive.

Global Headlines: Denver Summit FC Ticket Record, SheBelieves Cup, and Lindsey Vonn’s Surgery

Alex: Jordan Chiles lands her fifth perfect 10 in a row on the floor. She’s unstoppable.

Caitlin: Chiles can’t be stopped.

Alex: Denver Summit FC have sold 45,000 tickets to their home opener in their inaugural season and have opened up 500-level seating at Mile High Stadium.

Caitlin: That was 45,000, y’all, and they’re playing where the Broncos play. And likely to get close to that 50,000 mark is my guess. That’s wild.

Alex: U.S. Women’s National Team announces SheBelieves Cup roster for upcoming matches between March 1st and March 7th. We are going to talk about this a little bit later. We’ll rehash Caitlin’s score predictions for the roster. Jessica Pegula defeats Elina Svitolina in Dubai to win her 10th title.

Caitlin: I actually went through and tried to look for names and I totally missed that line.

Alex: Well, good luck with the next one. We’re going to try on this one. World number one Jeeno Thitikul wins home tournament, Honda LPGA Thailand.

Caitlin: Yes!

Alex: CVS signs partnership with NWSL and U.S. Soccer Federation.

Caitlin: I didn’t get to look into this one in a lot more detail, but I think it’s something we’ll come back to, the implications for that. CVS essentially wants to be the main virtual sponsor listed on games, which is a big signal. That’s a big deal. They see that as good exposure for them.

Alex: And Lindsey Vonn shares that she’d likely have to have amputated her leg had the surgeon in Italy not successfully performed her surgery.

Caitlin: Yeah. So she had three or four surgeries, I think, in Italy. There were more when she got back stateside. Y’all have probably seen the X-ray on social media; she shattered her tibia. And she just shared recently that had they not been able to act as quickly as they could, she’d have lost her leg.

Alex: How many knuckleheads have come out of the woodwork? See, I told you, too many.

Caitlin: I told you. Do you know what she would have done? She had to come back. She would have competed in the Paralympics. She would have cut it off there, beat those guys up in the media, went to the Paralympics.

Alex: Which are coming up, by the way. We’re going to do a quick mention of that, but we’ll start covering a little bit of that in the next couple of weeks here.

2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics: Viewership Records and Women Outperforming Men

Caitlin: All right. Olympics wrap up. Let’s do this. It’s been really funny these last couple of days. Our girls have been like, “Are the Olympics on?” We’re like, “Sorry, they’re not.” I feel like the timing with Milano Cortina was perfect because the moment you woke up in the morning, you kind of just have it on.

Alex: Yeah, you have something on.

Caitlin: We’re going to go through just a couple of headline pieces, some stats coming out around medal counts and viewership and things like that. And then, because I get to decide what we talk about here with Alex’s help, we are going to go through all of the incredible performances. Not all of the female athletes, because if we did that, we’d be here all night, but some of the spotlight ones. Some you’ve heard from us before, some are going to be a little bit new. We do hope you enjoy that. We’ll do a brief recap on a medal count, and then we’re going to talk a little bit about the Paralympics coming up.

Caitlin: Let’s just start by saying that these 2026 Winter Games were for the girls.

Alex: Yeah, 100%.

Caitlin: Women were in the spotlight. We’ve talked about here before that NBC made very intentional marketing decisions to feature female athletes in their promotional content for the games. That continued throughout the games, and even when you watch the advertising—there’s the commercial with Mikaela Shiffrin. But there’s that one where the family’s sitting on the couch next to the little boy in his jammies, but they’re watching women’s hockey. And he’s got a poster of a women’s hockey player. Those are very intentional choices because everyone watches women’s sports. Trademark Togethxr.

Caitlin: So a couple of statistics for you just to have a few things in your back pocket when you want to get into it with your coworkers about this. 47% of the athletes in the Winter Games were women. This was a record for the Winter Games, the most gender-balanced Winter Games in history. This is also from an American performance perspective: it is the first time that the U.S. finished solo second in both gold and total medals. They’ve tied for those before, but this time they finished as a clear second. 67% of gold medals were won by women, and that includes combined teams. We think of the Corys for mixed curling. There was a mixed aerials competition where we won a gold medal. And then 61% of all medals won by Team USA were won by women.

Alex: I was going to say, I think it was interesting because didn’t we have a stat that NBC was going to do 60% coverage of women over men? And it was exactly almost 60% winnings by women.

Caitlin: So I don’t think it was coverage; they do more coverage of women’s sports, but they tend to lean towards primetime viewing around women’s sports than they have had for the last couple of games, including summer. What is interesting and kind of ties into that is that this is the sixth consecutive Olympic Games, summer and winter included, where women have outperformed men on Team USA in gold and total medals. So they are bringing home more glory than our men’s athletes. Now, you may argue the competition is tougher on the men’s side, there’s more opportunity in other countries for men versus women, which is all very fair. What I do want to say is that we posted a little infographic at the end of last week, and if you looked across the top 10 medal-earning countries, eight of those were majority won by women. So it’s not just a USA thing. As opportunity and investment come around, women perform.

Caitlin: A couple of media highlights for us here. Right off the top, speaking of that gold medal hockey game, 7.7 million people tuned into the USA-Canada gold medal game at its peak, making it the most watched women’s hockey game in history. And then the AP wrote an article on the women’s sports ecosystem that is flourishing. This is actually something Alex and I want to do an episode on at some point—to talk about this entire ecosystem of journalism, reporting, and interviews chronicling that rise. We actually get a lot of our material from these places.

Caitlin: We mentioned Togethxr, that’s a conglomerate of top athletes who have essentially pooled funding and resources. They back certain initiatives, they do the media side. They’re the ones responsible for the “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” gear that you now see. There’s The GIST, Just Women’s Sports, The IX Sports, GOALS, Good Game with Sarah Spain, A Touch More—which is a podcast done by Megan Rapinoe and her wife Sue Bird, who is a WNBA UConn Husky legend. And then New Heights with Kylie Kelsey. I had to throw this in there because the Kelseys were at the Olympics and they got to do sit-down interviews with Mikaela Shiffrin, Laila Edwards, Breezy Johnson. It’s just so cool, and I think Kylie does an incredible job highlighting these women.

Caitlin: Fun fact and a shout out for the home team here: The Twin Cities were found to be tuning in more than any other major U.S. metro. There were 37 athletes at these Winter Games from or associated with Minnesota. Does anybody want to guess which state in the United States brought home the most medals?

Alex: Minnesota.

Caitlin: It was Minnesota. My notes here literally just say “it makes sense. We’re a winter people. We do winter things.” Pride and glory.

Alex: I think you do see it too. We turn out. I mean, we turn out for Lynx games. We turn out for Frost games. There are no slouches turning up at those games. On the men’s side of things, they play outdoor hockey professional games every once in a while and they go to different cities. It was like minus 20 degrees and people still go watch that hockey game.

Caitlin: I watched a Gopher game at TCF—now Huntington Bank Stadium—many years ago and my beer was freezing. It was turning to sludge, it was so cold. We do it. We’re a winter people. We show up.

USA Women’s Hockey Claims Olympic Gold

Caitlin: Shifting gears, I think you get the idea of how incredible the data is to support these performances. We’re going to start to go through some of them in case you missed them. Starting off the top from the host nation, Italy: Federica Brignone. She was 10 months post-crash where she sustained multiple broken bones and a torn ACL. She won not one, but two gold medals on her home soil in alpine skiing. And she’s the oldest gold medalist in the discipline. As a 38-year-old, this is my favorite type of story because it tells me I might still have a chance out there. No, I don’t. And you know what? Coming up next are just a couple of 40-year-old working moms.

Caitlin: Probably one of my favorite moments of the games was when Elana Meyers Taylor found out that she won the Monobob gold. If you go back and look at the video, she has two non-hearing sons. One of them has some developmental disabilities as well. She’s a hearing person, so she’s learned to sign to them. She’s in the waiting area, finds out she’s won. Her nanny is right there and her two boys. She bends over and is crying, pops up, and signs “Mommy won” to these boys. They give her a big hug. She’s got the flag draped over her. It was a win for moms everywhere. She shouted out her nannies, her husband, her support crew—we can’t do these things alone. Also, just real quick: most decorated Black athlete in Winter Games history. Oldest woman to win an individual medal.

Alex: Yeah, for the more mature audience.

Caitlin: And then alongside her, Kaillie Humphries. She pilots the two-woman bobsled to a bronze only 18 months postpartum. Women are superheroes. And her brakewoman Jasmine Jones, who is one of Team USA’s Black athletes, is also a mom. So a win for the moms.

Caitlin: Now we’re going to talk a little bit about USA women’s hockey. First gold since 2018. Eight gold medal games have been played in the Olympics all time. Seven of those have featured USA and Canada. Canada has won five golds, US now has three. You could not have scripted this better. This is going to become like what the 1980 Miracle on Ice was to film.

Alex: I think it was cool because they were talking about that at the end of the men’s game. They were saying the 1980 Miracle was an inflection point for young men in the United States to pick up hockey. And they’re saying that this might be exactly the point where young women and girls start looking at these hockey players and going, “I can do that. I can be a professional and go play for my country, play for a professional team.” This could be the upswing we start to see.

Caitlin: I agree with that 100%. The slight tweak I’ll make is that it used to be you’d watch women’s professional hockey at the Olympics and then say, “We’ll see them again in four years.” The PWHL has completely changed the landscape. I want to make sure we give credit to that league for creating a space. I’ve seen a lot of things online since the game asking, “Where can I watch more women’s hockey?” And it’s like, the PWHL starts again on Thursday.

Caitlin: A couple highlights from the USA women’s hockey team. First, Caroline Harvey. Tournament MVP, most points of all players, most assists, Olympic All-Star, best plus-minus. Give her every award. This is extra impressive coming off of what happened in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. She ended up playing minimal minutes. She was 19 at the time, got benched in the final game. But she used that to fuel her training and has really benefited from Mark Johnson’s tutelage.

Caitlin: Of course, we have to highlight Captain America, Hilary Knight. Storybook. Scores the game-tying goal with an empty net in the final to set the all-time U.S. scoring record in the Olympics, both for goals and points. She also got engaged while she was there to fellow Olympian, Brittany Bowe, the speed skater. They met at the 2022 Olympics. Super cute.

Alex: Laila Edwards, we talked about her quite a bit. First Black woman to suit up for Team USA, first to win a medal, first to win gold. The assist on the game-tying goal.

Caitlin: If you want to watch her, Caroline Harvey, or Kirsten Sims, just go watch the Badgers play in the WCHA conference tournament. Aerin Frankel: Team USA’s number one goaltender. First goaltender to record three shutouts in a single tournament. First American goaltender to shut out the Canadians in Olympic play—that 5-0 win in round-robin made history. And she made 30 saves in the gold medal match.

Alex: She hadn’t faced a ton of shots before, a ton of pressure. She was amazing.

Caitlin: Canada’s only goal came right at the beginning of the second. It was shorthanded, caught off guard. To stand how many more shots after that and keep it together was very impressive.

Caitlin: Just a couple of additional non-player moments. Head coach John Wroblewski’s reaction when they won brought me to tears. He just started to cry on the bench. His staff came around and was hugging him, the players are going nuts on the ice, but he was just soaking it in. Another tearjerker: Haley Winn’s three brothers. They dressed up crazy at every single game, famously wearing eagle masks at one game. They sent a voice memo to her talking about how much work she’s put in, and it ends with, “You have three older brothers who now look up to you.”

Alex: Yeah, it’s these moments.

Caitlin: Finally, going under the radar, I gotta mention Ellen Hughes. She is the mother of the Hughes boys in the NHL, and she is also on the coaching staff for the women’s team. She came on in 2023 as a player development coach. She’s worked closely with Hilary Knight and Megan Keller, who scored the game-winning goal. She won a silver medal at the IIHF Women’s World Championships in 1992 before they had women’s hockey at the Olympics. Just so cool to see the influence of one person.

Alex: I saw an interesting stat. This is the first year the men won the Olympic and the IIHF and the women won the Olympic and the IIHF. So we have all four golds right now. Target on your back. We won’t dig too much into the men’s team; we’re purposely avoiding that topic right now.

Figure Skating Triumphs: Alysa Liu’s Return and Amber Glenn’s Resilience

Caitlin: Let’s move on to figure skating. My personal faves: Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn. Isabeau Levito put in some amazing performances, but the spotlights were really on Glenn and Liu. To see Alysa Liu win gold on her own terms is an example of achievement in that sport that I don’t think we’ve ever seen before. Typically, there are a lot of stories about eating disorders and she decided to retire at 16, then come back and win a gold medal.

Alex: Watching her skate, there was a different aura around her of freedom, joy, and lightness. It was almost automatic. It didn’t seem like she was under pressure at all.

Caitlin: I have a couple of quotes from her. She said, “I just add skating into my life, but skating isn’t my life like it was before.” I think that is such a lesson. And she also is quoted as saying, “I don’t know if I’m changing the game…”

Alex: It’s very powerful. We saw Simone Biles step away for some mental health issues. The way Alysa Liu did this and got a medal for her mental health first shows a new template for young athletes. You don’t have to live, eat, breathe your sport 24/7.

Caitlin: One last thing on Liu: the vibe on the medal podium with Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. Sakamoto is leaving these Olympics as the most decorated individual female skater of all time with four medals. Ami Nakai is 17 years old and the only woman besides Amber Glenn to attempt a triple axel. They had such a moment of sisterhood.

Alex: Speaking of Amber Glenn, I was so inspired by her resilience. She bombed her short program, missed an entire jump, but she came back and nailed her free skate. She had the highest technical score, third highest overall, and went from 13th to 5th.

Caitlin: Amber Glenn’s quote was like, they’re not the normal image you think of with figure skaters. And if you haven’t watched her gala skate, go watch it. She does this lean back that is impossible.

Skiing, Snowboarding, and Curling: Mikaela Shiffrin, Eileen Gu, and the Corys

Caitlin: Moving on, we’ve got Mikaela Shiffrin. After we aired our episode, she had her final opportunity at a medal, needed to get that 2022 Beijing bugaboo off her back, and she did it. Golden. Third gold for her in her career, first U.S. skier to earn three Olympic golds.

Caitlin: Jessie Diggins, the home state girl, announced her retirement from competition after the March World Cup. But she gutted out a bronze medal in the 10-kilometer freestyle race after serious bruising to her ribs.

Caitlin: Eileen Gu—I gotta give some props to the Chinese national. She is now the most decorated man or woman to do freestyle skiing with six Olympic medals. First free skier to back-to-back medal in three disciplines. She scored a 1580 on her SAT and is the highest-paid woman at the Olympic Games. If you haven’t seen her viral press conference yet, an absurd reporter asked if her two silvers felt like golds lost. She laughs at him and says, “I’m the most decorated female freeskier in history.” Masterclass in how to respond.

Caitlin: Rapid fire: Marie-Philip Poulin is the top women’s hockey scorer of all time, five-time Olympic gold medalist. Kaila Kuhn was on that gold medal mixed aerials team. Cory Thiesse: first American woman to win a medal in curling (silver with mixed doubles), playing 193 ends of curling. Femke Kok set an Olympic record for the 500-meter speed skate. Marianne Fatton won the first ever Olympic gold in ski mountaineering. Chloe Kim got a silver in the halfpipe, conceding gold to her mentee, Choi Ga-on.

Where to Watch Winter Athletes Next: PWHL, NCAA Hockey, and Paralympics

Caitlin: Wrapping up our Olympics segment, where can you watch these athletes between now and the next winter games? PWHL season resumes on Thursday, February 27th. NCAA collegiate hockey conference tournaments begin this weekend. Ski season continues until the end of March with World Cup tournaments. Figure skating regional championships are in early March. Snowboard and free ski have the U.S. Revolution Tour in Aspen Snowmass in March. Bobsled competitive season runs November to March. And don’t forget the Paralympics starting March 6th through the 15th with 70 medals on the line.

USWNT SheBelieves Cup Roster Preview and Emma Hayes’ Strategy

Alex: Moving on to SheBelieves Cup roster preview and predictions. Caitlin had a prediction last week for every spot and went 17 for 26.

Caitlin: Notables about the roster selection from Emma Hayes: 19 NWSL players and 7 European-based players called up. Gotham FC had the most call-ups. Big omissions due to injury or return-to-play protocols: Catarina Macario, Sophia Wilson (still coming back from pregnancy), Avery Patterson, Emily Sams, Croix Bethune, and Michelle Cooper. No uncapped players on Hayes’ roster. You have an average of 30 caps per player, with three having 100+ caps (Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle, Emily Sonnett). Emma Hayes says this tournament allows them to replicate conditions that will prepare them for the World Cup qualifying campaign this fall.

Caitlin: The U.S. plays Argentina on Sunday, March 1st. Then Canada on March 4th. And Colombia on March 7th. I am excited about Jameese Joseph. The U.S. is missing Triple Espresso (Sophia Wilson and Mal Swanson are coming back from post-pregnancy protocols). I think Jameese Joseph might be the X-factor with the speed and finishing that works in an Emma Hayes system. I also put down Gisele Thompson; she transferred to Chelsea from the NWSL and is really creative out of the back.

Caitlin: Questions I have: Who is going to play the left-back position now that Crystal Dunn retired? Who’s going to play the nine? Will we see them settle in earlier than they did in the January friendlies? We will be watching closely.

WNBA CBA Negotiations: Impending Deadlines and Franchise Valuation Disconnects

Caitlin: Shifting gears to the WNBA. We have some breaking news just hours before we recorded. The WNBA has officially issued a deadline for reaching a CBA agreement in order to not delay the season start: March 10th. It’s a leverage tactic by the league.

Caitlin: Also announced today: for the first time ever under the old CBA, the revenue-sharing mechanism was unlocked. It leaves $8 million to be distributed across the 13 teams. Not even a million per team.

Alex: This feels like they’re not opening their books.

Caitlin: The league and union traded updates, and the league called the players union’s position “unrealistic.” Where they made concessions are on expenses (housing, chartered flights), but they have conceded nothing on revenue sharing.

Alex: You can’t claim these women don’t understand the finances when you won’t give them the whole picture. Tell them the gross revenues.

Caitlin: NNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike pointed out how the league tells investors franchises cost a quarter of a billion dollars, but tells the players there’s no money. The Golden State Valkyries expansion team is valued at half a billion dollars. New York Liberty at $400-420 million. The players are seeing these numbers and asking for transparency.

Weekend Watch Guide: NCAAW Tournament Positioning, PWHL Return, and Unrivaled Playoffs

Alex: Let’s wrap this up with What to Watch. NCAA collegiate hockey tournaments start this weekend. We’ll be watching the WCHA tournament with #1 Wisconsin, #3 Minnesota, #2 Ohio State, #10 Minnesota Duluth, and #14 Minnesota State.

Alex: NCAA basketball: #9 Duke at #22 North Carolina on Sunday at 11 a.m. on ESPN. #10 Ohio State and #18 Michigan State at 11 a.m. Sunday. #3 South Carolina and #16 Kentucky at 1 p.m. on SEC Network.

Alex: PWHL is back on Thursday. Montreal vs. New York on Thursday night. Toronto vs. Seattle on Friday. Boston vs. Ottawa on Saturday. Minnesota vs. Montreal on Sunday at noon.

Alex: Unrivaled finishes its regular season on Friday. Midday games: Rose vs. Phantom at noon Central, Mist vs. Vinyl at 1:15, Breeze vs. Laces at 6:30, and Hive vs. Lunar Owls at 7:45. Saturday is the first round of the playoffs at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Semifinals on Monday, championship next Wednesday.

Caitlin: If you wanted a women’s sports festival on Sunday, you can watch two basketball games, Minnesota vs. Montreal in hockey, and the U.S. Women’s National Team vs. Argentina. We should be going to a women’s sports bar.

Episode Wrap-Up: The Joy of Raising Kids on Women’s Sports

Alex: We always have time for losers and winners. My loser is Canada’s men’s and women’s hockey teams; they just got bad puck luck.

Caitlin: I have two losers. One, my sensors are up about the WNBA situation. And two, I’m sad the Olympics are over.

Alex: But we have NWSL, Women’s National Team, PWHL, College Hockey finals, and basketball tournaments coming up.

Caitlin: The way our girls get excited to watch these women is really the cherry on top. They’re always asking, they’re really into Unrivaled. They call the Unrivaled teams “the Cats,” “the Bees,” “the Snows.” It’s a great time in the household.

Alex: All right, y’all. Till next week, where can they find us?

Caitlin: RTG_pod on socials and email us at raisingthegamepod@gmail.com. Appreciate y’all being here.

Alex: Thanks everyone. Bye bye.