New Year, New Leagues: Bats, Balls and Sticks with Big Citrus
01/10/25 • 34 min
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We close out our “New Year, New Leagues” series with a few more women’s sports leagues to keep tabs on in 2025 and beyond. Plus, Big Citrus convenes to review everything we learned this week, from what excites us most about these new leagues to some lingering questions and concerns.
- You have one last chance to vote for the Slice-ees (aka our end-of-2024 women’s sports awards) before we reveal the winners next week. Vote here!
- Follow the Women’s Lacrosse League here
- Follow the Northern Super League here
- Follow the Women’s Pro Baseball League here
- Get tickets for the Lexus Championship Series – featuring the debut of the WLL – here
- You can check out WLL merch here
- Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at [email protected]
- Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.bsky.social Instagram: @Spain2323
- Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist
- Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social
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We close out our “New Year, New Leagues” series with a few more women’s sports leagues to keep tabs on in 2025 and beyond. Plus, Big Citrus convenes to review everything we learned this week, from what excites us most about these new leagues to some lingering questions and concerns.
- You have one last chance to vote for the Slice-ees (aka our end-of-2024 women’s sports awards) before we reveal the winners next week. Vote here!
- Follow the Women’s Lacrosse League here
- Follow the Northern Super League here
- Follow the Women’s Pro Baseball League here
- Get tickets for the Lexus Championship Series – featuring the debut of the WLL – here
- You can check out WLL merch here
- Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at [email protected]
- Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.bsky.social Instagram: @Spain2323
- Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist
- Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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- Follow the WER on Instagram here
- Follow WER player Emma Farnan on Instagram here
- Follow Dr. Jessica Hammond-Graf on X here
- Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at [email protected]
- Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.bsky.social Instagram: @Spain2323
- Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist
- Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social
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- Leave us a voicemail at 872-204-5070 or send us a note at [email protected]
- Follow Sarah on social! Bluesky: @sarahspain.bsky.social Instagram: @Spain2323
- Follow producer Misha Jones! Bluesky: @mishthejrnalist.bsky.social Instagram: @mishthejrnalist TikTok: @mishthejrnalist
- Follow producer Alex Azzi! Bluesky: @byalexazzi.bsky.social
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Good Game with Sarah Spain - New Year, New Leagues: Bats, Balls and Sticks with Big Citrus
Transcript
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're still holding out hope that someone anyone will acquire the rights to a league of their own TV series, reboot it and give us a season.
Speaker 2Two Netflix, Hulu. Anyone. Come on.
Speaker 1It's Friday, January tenth, and on today's show, we're closing out our New Year, New League's Week with bats, balls and
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