How does a more experienced Team Canada stack up against the more youthful Team USA, with the Olympics less than a month away? Michaela and Vanessa have thoughts as the Canadian team is unveiled. How much did PWHL performance affect roster decisions? Abby on Abby crime in the PWHL: Montreal’s Abby Roque is suspended for a game for a high hit on Vancouver’s Abby Boreen. Ottawa wins six in-a-row to climb out of last place. Yet another deadline passes without movement in WNBA CBA negotiations. Free agency was supposed to open January 11th. NWSL’s Denver Summit FC are signing some serious players right now, including Canadian Janine Becky. The IIHF U-18 World Hockey Championship is wrapping up in Cape Breton; Slovakian phenom Nela Lopusanova has been lighting it up.

How did you spend your break? We saw not one, but two sports weddings over the holidays! Despite a recent four-game winning streak, the Ottawa Charge remain in last place in the PWHL. The surprising Boston Fleet are still in first place despite injuries, scoring by committee. Have the New York Sirens finally arrived? The Olympic hockey rosters are being released. The U.S. squad looks terrifying with a crop of up-and-coming college players mixing in with proven vets. CBA negotiations break down between the WNBA and its players.

Michaela and Vanessa look back at their hottest sports takes of 2025. Then they dare to peer ahead and make bold predictions for 2026. They even answer your random listener questions!

The WNBA Players’ Association members have voted to authorize a strike, if need be, unless a deal with the league can be reached by the twice-extended deadline of January 9th. Michaela and Vanessa present their year-end awards: it’s the She’s Got Gameys! Who were your top athletes? What were your top moments? Who’s your team of the year? Who should be named style icon? Michaela and Vanessa reveal their lists of favourites for 2025.

The WNBA Players’ Association members have voted to authorize a strike, if need be, unless a deal with the league can be reached by the extended deadline of January 9th. Michaela and Vanessa present their year-end awards: it’s the She’s Got Gameys! Who were your top athletes? What were your top moments? Who’s your team of the year? Who should be named style icon? Michaela and Vanessa reveal their lists of favourites for 2025.

Team Canada has been outscored 20-6 in the first three games of the Rivalry Series vs. Team USA – Michaela and Vanessa will tell you if it’s time to panic and what needs to change. PWHL Minnesota Frost player Britta Curl, booed in arenas across the league for past transphobic social media posts, tries to rebuild her reputation – did the attempt succeed or fail? The ‘Heated Rivalry’ Crave TV series, adapted from the hockey romance novel, is a hit. A’ja Wilson is named both Time and AP Athlete of the Year for doing what no other basketball player (male or female) has ever done in a single season: win a championship, the scoring title, League MVP, Finals MVP and defensive player of the year. Is there finally hope in the CBA talks between the WNBA and its players? Sue Bird has her no. 10 retired by UConn. Michaela and Vanessa give you an NCAA hoops update. Why did the NWSL void star Trinity Rodman’s new contract with the Washington Spirit and will Rodman bolt for another league? The Champions League Group Stage is winding down – who will advance?

Michalea and Vanessa want to know what’s in your Spotify Wrapped? PWHL Ottawa Charge head coach Carla McLeod is taking some time away from the team after a breast cancer diagnosis. Haley Irwin will serve as Ottawa’s interim head coach. The Seattle Torrent’s home opener broke an attendance record for U.S. pro women’s hockey with over 16,000 fans. The expiring WNBA CBA has been extended yet again until after the new year. The exact same thing happened in 2020, the last time there was a CBA negotiation in the WNBA. 1.2 million viewers tuned into the NWSL championship, an increase of 22% over last year. Spain defeats Germany to capture the Nations League, but suffer a huge blow when superstar midfielder Aitana Bonmati breaks her leg in training. Canada’s Women’s National Soccer Team is on a five-game losing streak and haven’t scored a goal in any of those losses, their worst run of play since 2005.

Michaela and Vanessa speak with the makers of Pink Light – director Harrison Browne and executive director Sean Addis – a Canadian short fiction film that explores identity, transition and the intersection of sport and gender. The film’s director, Harrison, is a former athlete who came out as pro hockey’s first-ever openly transgender player. For the second time in three years – and second time in franchise history – Gotham FC wins the NWSL championship – as the no. 8 seed… and Michaela called it! The WNBA draft lottery is in the books and the Dallas Wings get the no. 1 pick for the second-straight year. Will Dallas draft Azzi Fudd to play alongside superstar Paige Bueckers? The new PWHL season is underway. Sarah Nurse scores the first-ever goal in Vancouver Goldeneyes history in a win over Seattle, their expansion cousins, but then gets hurt and misses Vancouver’s second game, a 5-1 loss in Ottawa. Montreal’s Marie-Philip Poulin becomes the first PWHL player to reach 50 points. Penny Oleksiak accepts her two-year ban from competitive swimming for skipping out on performance-enhancing drug tests.