Madness in Women's Hoops, an Angel in the Outfield, and Nepalese Helicopter Scams

About this episode

Katie Nolan and the Casualties discuss women's basketball, the Final Four drama, and various sports news and controversies.

Hello! It's the podcast that hates mops but loves MOPs. Today, Katie and the Casualties congratulate UCLA on their women's basketball national championship, Lauren Betts on her tournament MOP, and Holly Rowe for calling out why Lauren didn't get a trophy for that, and get into the Final Four drama between Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley over the weekend. Who was right? Who was wrong? Who said they would beat whose ass? The team discusses, and looks at whether Lauren Betts or Awa Fam could've surpassed Azzi Fudd as the #1 pick in next week's WNBA Draft, the WNBA bungling the presentation of the expansion draft, and Angel Reese being traded to Atlanta ahead of WNBA free agency. Then, Katie and the Casualties get into the Men's Final Four and the rumors that the tournaments could be expanding to 76 teams next year, Lebron's comments about disliking Memphis, Gary Cohen's comments about St. Louis, and whether it's OK to publicly dislike a city, the PWHL selling out Madison Square Garden, the Islanders replacing their head coach four games before the playoffs, a baby being born at the Oilers game this weekend, the Nationals celebrating their 21st anniversary, bucketheads at Yankee…

People in this episode

Host: Katie Nolan

Topics covered

• women's basketball
• WNBA
• Final Four
• sports controversies
• baseball
• insurance fraud

Keywords

• women's basketball
• WNBA Draft
• Final Four
• Angel Reese
• insurance fraud

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WNBA, PWHL

Places: Madison Square Garden, St. Louis, Yankee Stadium, Mt. Everest

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