🏀🏈 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
🥍 Don’t stop ’em now
Top NCAA women’s lacrosse teams are fighting for automatic NCAA bids in conference tourneys
Teams are feverishly trying to lock down conference tournament trophies — and the automatic berths to the national tournament that come with them — ahead of Sunday’s selection show.
May 01, 2024
🏈 Welcome to the big time
The 2024 NFL Draft, by the numbers
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While Thursday’s first round had all the hype, the second and third days of the NFL Draft saw even more NCAA superstars’ dreams come true.
April 29, 2024
🏐 Killin’ it
The NCAA men’s volleyball tournament begins with tomorrow’s quarter-finals
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Even if there are no upsets when the national championship takes the court tomorrow, this year’s tourney is already a testament to the sport’s rising parity.
April 29, 2024
🥎⚾ No pressure, no diamonds
Four NCAA baseball and softball series top the weekend’s watchlist
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Warmer weather means softball and baseball, and these three-game weekend series will put you in a springtime mood.
April 26, 2024
🏈 Justice served
Legendary USC running back Reggie Bush’s 2005 Heisman Trophy is reinstated IMAGE
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On Wednesday, legendary Trojan running back Reggie Bush was reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, college football’s MVP award, 14 years after he was stripped of the honor.
April 26, 2024
⛳ <s> Road </s> Woad to the ’ship
Florida State’s Lottie Woad leads a crowded field in today’s NCAA women’s golf selection show
April 24, 2024
Women’s golf is having a moment, and the NCAA is adding to the momentum with today’s 2 p.m. ET national championship selection show on the Golf Channel.
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Ep #363

Women’s soccer roundup & WNBA Canada Game preview

May 02, 2024
Women’s soccer roundup & WNBA Canada Game preview

Guess what…it’s (already) May!

Today’s episode of The GIST of It is all women’s sports, all the time. Co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz kick things off with women’s soccer, first diving into Project ACL, a research initiative examining the environmental factors influencing the knee injury epidemic in the women’s game, before discussing allegations that may keep Zambia’s team out of the Paris Olympics.

Then get ready to hoop in part two, as the gals preview the second-ever WNBA Canada game, a preseason battle between the LA Sparks and the Seattle Storm that’s going down this Saturday in Edmonton.

Big shout out to Aflac for supporting today’s episode! Just like The GIST tackles the gap in women’s sports coverage, Aflac closes the gap that health insurance leaves behind. Learn more at aflac.com.

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🤸 The eye of the Tigers
LSU’s women and Stanford’s men win NCAA gymnastics championships
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The NCAA winter sports season officially wrapped when the LSU Tiger women and Stanford Cardinal men won their respective gymnastics championships on Saturday.
April 22, 2024
🏛️ Department of Education updates Title IX’s due process provision
The Department of Education’s Title IX updates allow student-athletes accused of sexual misconduct to compete during investigations
The U.S. Department of Education released updates to Title IX regulations that allow student-athletes accused of sexual misconduct to avoid suspension until university investigations conclude.
April 22, 2024
🏛️ Change is the only constant
The NCAA removed restrictions on the transfer portal and school-assisted NIL deals this week
The NCAA’s Division I Council made major moves to reduce restrictions on name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals and the transfer portal this week, changes the org’s implementing to try and keep up with the ever-changing college sports world.
April 19, 2024
🤸 Let’s flipping go
The NCAA women’s and men’s gymnastics seasons culminate in Saturday’s national championships
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A massive upset rocked last night’s women’s gymnastics national semifinals, leaving the field wide open for tomorrow’s championship meet.
April 19, 2024
🏀 GOAT vs. Rook
The party’s just starting for the 2024 WNBA Draftees as the season tip-off approaches
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With league enthusiasm (and lewks) at an all-time high, what comes next for the W’s newbies?
April 17, 2024