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Michaela and Vanessa thought the Minnesota Lynx would roll over the New York Liberty, but Brianna Stewart elevates her game in the playoffs once again and for the first time in WNBA history a no.8 seed upsets a no.1 seed. Napheesa Collier can’t seem to find post-season success. The WNBA regular season awards are announced – A’ja Wilson takes home her third straight MVP title. Arike Ogunbowale sets a WNBA record with 45 points in Game 2 of the Valkyries-Wings series. The PWHL releases its opening weekend schedule, slated for December 5th and 6th. The PWHL partners with CBC’s iconic Hockey Night in Canada. Spain defeats defending champion North Korea to capture the U-20 Women’s World Cup. Find out what Champions League play this week made Vanessa very upset and very confused. Canada’s Women’s National Soccer Team will visit Toronto and Montreal to take on Denmark in a pair of friendlies, and Michaela and Vanessa will be there! Leyla Fernandez gets a confidence boost by winning her first tennis tournament of the year at the Singapore 500. The NWSL’s 17th team, Expansion Atlanta FC, unveils its new kit and Michaela approves.

Michaela and Vanessa explain how the story of a rural Western Massachusetts covid-conscious LGBTQ+ bar inadvertently saved journalism. The PWHL announces its inaugural All-Star Game will be held in Toronto on March 7th, 2027. It’ll be a four-team 3-on-3 tourney with Canada, U.S.A., an International Team and an all-rookie team. Vanessa wonders, but hey, where’s the skills competition? Montreal Victoire bench boss Cori Cheverie, two years Michaela’s senior, is named head coach of Team Canada ahead of the upcoming World Championship. The WNBA playoffs are upon us! Could this finally be top-seeded Minnesota’s year? Paige Bueckers scores more points in her first two seasons than any other player in WNBA history. There’s a lot of soccer going on right now. The NSL season is winding down. Montreal’s late-season charge has come at Ottawa’s expense. The NWSL regular season doesn’t end until November 1st because of course it does. Gotham has been the league’s top team all season long. The L.A. Queens are the WPBL’s first-ever champion.

Have you had a hole in your life the past two weeks? Well, the WNBA returns to fill it! The United States captures yet another FIBA World Cup, beating France handily in the final. Michaela and Vanessa look ahead to the possible WNBA first round playoff matchups they’d like – and wouldn’t like – to see. The Women’s Pro baseball League championship round is here – the L.A. Queens vs. the San Francisco Firebells! Michaela and Vanessa dive deep into the WSL’s second week of action and get you caught up on the NWSL.

Injuries are piling up ahead of the WNBA playoffs, including A’ja Wilson, who’s out of the FIBA World Cup in Germany. Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and a whole new generation of Americans are making their World Cup debuts on a scary looking Team USA (Canada didn’t qualify). A bad look for LSU head coach Kim Mulkey who recruits Russian Anna Minaeva, causing Ukrainian Kate Koval to leave the program in protest. Michaela and Vanessa play Red Flag Green Flag, Would You Rather and a new game, Letterbox Reviews, where they read reviews of sports movies and try to guess the film! Michaela and Vanessa are getting antsy for the PWHL’s return but training camps don’t open for another ten weeks. Kendall Coyne Schofield reups in Minnesota for two years. Is Detroit, who signed Britta Curl, now the PWHL’s most heated squad? Canada’s Volleyball team qualifies for the 2028 L.A. Games and will participate in the Olympics for the first time since 1996!

Michaela and Vanessa share their thoughts on the new Toronto Tempo mascots. The Tempo get Brittney Sykes back but miss the playoffs. Nneka Ogwumike retires, fourth all time in WNBA scoring. Journalist Jeff Goldberg joins the show for part one of his discussion on the new docuseries all about the dynastic UConn teams of the early 2000s. The NSL Championship game will be held in Ottawa! Sydney Leroux is back at Angel City FC. Canada is the new women’s flag football champion of the world!

Part two of Michaela and Vanessa’s interview with UConn historian Jeff Goldberg, who gets into the feud between Huskies coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. The WNBA playoff teams are already set… a full month before the regular season ends. Angel Reese sets a new WNBA record for most rebounds in a season. The Walter Cup temporarily goes missing in Edmonton as Victoire players continue their summer celebration rotation. Spanish striker Esther Gonzalez shocks the world by signing in Saudi Arabia just weeks after leaving Gotham FC for personal reasons. The 2026 US Open singles draw is revealed.

A’ja Wilson gets 26 points – on an ‘off’ night – as the Las Vegas Aces storm back from 20 points down to beat the Indiana Fever. Chelsea Gray becomes the first WNBA player to force overtime with a three-pointer and win the same game in overtime with a three pointer. Minnesota’s Kayla McBride hits 10 three-pointers in a win over Dallas to set a single-game WNBA record. Chicago’s DiJonai Carrington is ejected for a flagrant foul on Indiana’s outspoken Sophie Cunningham, adding another layer to the WNBA’s most sensitive sore spot right now. American Olivia Moultrie could miss next summer’s World Cup after tearing her ACL playing for the NWSL’s Portland Thorns.  Carmelina Moscato will be the new head coach of NSL’s Ottawa Rapid FC. Michaela and Vanessa play ‘Sports Would You Rather’ and ‘Sports Red Flag Green Flag!’

A’ja Wilson is now 12th in all-time WNBA scoring. She turns 30 this week. Is she a top-5 all-time WNBA player? Kelsey Plum is fitting right in with Phoenix, scoring 20 points in her Mercury debut. Sophie Cunningham continues to double-down on her transphobia as teammate Caitlin Clark tries avoids the issue. FIFA nixes its plan to sell the World Cup to private equity interests. Women’s pro baseball is making a comeback as the four-team WPBL begins play! In yet another attack on trans athletes, the WTA will make gene testing mandatory in time for the 2028 Olympics. The NWSL is featured in the new season of Ted Lasso!

Michaela and Vanessa review the WBNA's All-Star festivities. Esther Gonzalez leaves Gotham FC and the NWSL entirely. Michaela and Vanessa offer their thoughts on the creation of the FIFA Forward Enterprise. Montreal Victoires GM Danielle Sauvageau will now be the GM of Team Canada as well.

Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello apologies for on-court comments made to Atlanta Dream star Angel Reese that got Brondello suspended for a game by the WNBA. Indiana Fever bench player Sophie Cunningham makes transphobic comments. The heart says Paige Bueckers should win this year’s MVP award but the numbers say A’ja Wilson is still the most deserving. How scary are the first place Minnesota Lynx now that Napheesa Collier is back? Caitlin Clark will be on the cover of 2K27. Ottawa Rapid FC remain atop the NSL table, however their head coach will be leaving at the end of the year. Canadian forward Jordyn Huitema suffers a brutal ACL injury.

Michaela and Vanessa see Paige Bueckers put up 34 points live as the Dallas Wings beat the Toronto Tempo in front of over 20,000 fans in Montreal’s first-ever WNBA regular season game. Minnesota Lynx point guard Olivia Miles is running away with the rookie of the year award. Did the NBA ask the WNBA to suspend Alyssa Thomas? Winnipeg will join the Northern Super League in 2027 as its seventh club. Don’t look now but Ottawa Rapid FC are in first place in the NSL. Sam Kerr makes her official return to the NWSL with Gotham FC.

Big week for the NSL as AFC Toronto signs Canadian centre-back Shelina Zadorsky. The Ottawa Charge will be moving their home games to Kanata. Reporter Chris Sinclair gives us a rundown of the Charge’s offseason to this point. Paige Bueckers is on fire: the only WNBA player in the top ten in points, assists and field goal percentage. Bueckers and the Dallas Wings come to Canada to face the Tempo in Montreal as part of the Tempo’s cross-Canada tour. Drama between Skylar Diggins and the Chicago Sky. Serena doesn’t get to play doubles with sister Venus at Wimbledon after all, which will feature an all-Czechia singles final.

The New York Liberty are your 2026 Commissioner’s Cup Champions, the first WNBA franchise to win the cup twice since its inception in 2023. At 9-10, the expansion Toronto Tempo are still looking for consistency in what’s been an up-and-down inaugural season. Michaela and Vanessa have strong thoughts on Alyssa Thomas being attacked online with racist remarks and death threats. Serena Williams bows out in the first round at Wimbledon. Canadian goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo is coming to the NSL, signing with AFC Toronto. Cassie Campbell-Pascal is inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame… and we’re still waiting for the Hockey HOF to follow suit. It’s not June anymore, but it’s always Pride Month at She’s Got Game! Michaela and Vanessa will once again participate in Rainbow Railroad Virtual 5K fundraiser for the Get REAL Movement to combat 2SLGTBQ+ discrimination and bullying. You can support them at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/team/shes-got-game-2

Unfortunate news out of the PWHL as Marie-Philip Poulin will require knee surgery with no timeline yet for her return. Make it five former Ottawa Charge players now who’ve been signed by expansion Hamilton. Cindy Curley is getting into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Are enough women getting in? Is there a double standard in the selection process? Serena Williams announces she’s not only coming back in doubles play but singles play as well. Is that a good move for Serena? Bianca Andreescu is also making a comeback, qualifying for the main draw at Wimbledon. A’ja Wilson’s annual Pride Month cake is back! Nneka Ogwumike drains a buzzer-beating 3 to win the WNBA’s 30th anniversary game for the L.A. Sparks over the New York Liberty. Is Caitlin Clark being targeted? Alexia Putellas is rumoured to be headed to London City.

Caroline Harvey goes first overall to Vancouver and Abbey Murphy second to Seattle in the 2026 PWHL entry draft. Picks 3-6 are given to the expansion teams. No Canadian is picked until ninth overall. PWHL Hamilton has several ex-Ottawa Charge players and they even have a similar colour scheme. Michaela and Vanessa break down the PWHL Award selections. The WNBA will expand to 50 games next season. Michaela and Vanessa take issue with the WNBA’s decision to resume regular season play before the Commissioner’s Cup Final between New York and Las Vegas is played. Tempo fans boo Atlanta’s Angel Reese vociferously in the Dreams’ recent visit to Toronto. It’s confirmed: Serena Williams will come out of retirement to play doubles with sister Venus. Sam Kerr is coming the NWSL, signing with Gotham FC. It’s Pride Month and Michaela and Vanessa will once again participate in Rainbow Railroad Virtual 5K fundraiser for the Get REAL Movement to combat 2SLGTBQ+ discrimination and bullying. You can support them at: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/team/shes-got-game-2