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Headline Sports podcast with Jessica Kwong: Yankees say ex-teammate Severino was afraid to play them in June; Team USA bounces back after loss to WNBA All Stars; plus more news

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New York Mets Luis Severino responded to his old New York Yankee teammates group text saying he was afraid to face them last month in June. Severino replied he wasn’t afraid and that the Yankees only have two good hitters. (AP News file photo)

On Headline Sports podcast with Jessica:

#1 New York Mets Luis Severino said that the New York Yankees have only two good hitters and did not face his former team in June when the Mets faced the Yankees in a two game series at Citi Field in Queens. In a group text with Yankee players that said that Severino was afraid of them. Severino came back and said, “I’m not afraid of you. You guys only have two good hitters .

#2 After taking a loss to the WNBA All Star team at the WNBA All Star break last week Team USA came back and defeated Germany quite handedly 84-57 in US women’s Olympic basketball in London. Germany and Team USA will face off again on Aug 4th in Paris.

#3 The San Francisco 49ers fully intend to sign wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk. 49ers general manager John Lynch said he intends to keep Aiyuk. Aiyuk formally requested a trade from the 49ers last week the 49ers are steadfast as Aiyuk is under contract for one more season and hope to get him an extension soon or at least the first pre season game.

#4 LeBron James helped Team USA with a win over Germany 92-88 on Monday night at age 39. He finished with 20 points, six rebounds, and four assists. LeBron said that they have a group of guys, Joel Embiid, Stephen Curry, and when Kevin Durant returns.

#5 Team USA Women’s gets the win over Germany but still does their loss to the WNBA All Stars say they prove that leaving out Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark could have been a bad decision by the coaching staff or was there pressure from the veterans to keep them off because of their rookie status?

Join Jessica every other Wednesday for Headline Sports podcasts at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with Charlie O: WNBA’s Clark and Reese pack the house; Oilers can make Stanley Cup Finals history; plus more news

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The Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese (left), Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark (center), and the Los Angeles Sparks Cameron Brink (right) during the WNBA draft on Mon Apr 15, 2024. Reese and Clark have been big draws for the WNBA and Brink is out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL. (AP file photo)

On Headline Sports podcast with Charlie O:

#1 Charlie, this has been the year of the rookie in the WNBA and the league has never seen such coverage of their players starting with the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark and Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese who both have everyone even those who don’t follow the league that closely talking.

#2 The NHL Stanley Cup Finals could see it’s first team since the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs come back down 0-3 and win it with four straight win if the Edmonton Oilers can pull it off on Monday night in Florida in game 7 against the Florida Panthers. The task would not only be historic but it’s a tall order if the Oilers can pull it off on Panthers ice.

#3 Charlie, the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is just an added sad chapter to what is happening to Oakland as a city. Thao’s last interaction with the relocating Oakland A’s who leave after this season for Sacramento was when she and the Oakland Coliseum Joint Authority wanted $92 million for the A’s to play their remaining three years before they move to Las Vegas and Thao and the Coliseum ran the A’s away with the high rent ticket. When it rains it pours for the A’s and City of Oakland situation.

#4 Their known as the lovable losers the Chicago Cubs who had some success are back on hard times dead last in the National League East eight games back, four games below .500, the Cubs have lost six of their last ten games and open a four game series in San Francisco on Monday night. How has the Cubs demise surprised you?

#5 Three time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer will make his 2024 debut for the Texas Rangers today against the Kansas City Royals. Scherzer hasn’t pitched in a game since game 3 of last year’s World Series. In the off season he had to have lower back surgery, in rehab he had thumb soreness which doctors determined it was nerve issues that extended into his right triceps.

Join Charlie O for Headline Sports podcasts each Sunday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury News and Commentary podcast: Yankees Grisham silences critics with 3 run homer; Will Blue Jays be sellers with Guerrero? plus more news

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New York Yankees Aaron Judge (left) celebrates Trent Grisham’s (12) 3 run home run in the top of the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium in New York on Sun Jun 9, 2024 (AP News photo)

On That’s Amaury News and Commentary:

#1 New York Yankees fans chanted “We want Soto” when Trent Grisham made his third plate appearance at Yankee Stadium and Grisham who was batting in the five hole with a .086 average clouted one into the right field seats for a three run home run changing those chants around. Grisham was filling in for the injured Juan Soto who is out with forearm inflammation.

#2 Amaury, there’s been talk about the Toronto Blue Jays being sellers and they could deal a very sought after Vladimir Guerrero Jr whose hitting .292, with 73 hits, 7 home runs, and 30 RBIs. You got to see Guerrero over the weekend in a three game series in Oakland there is little doubt he could help a club?

#3 Amaury, talk about the Texas Rangers Marcus Semien who led off in the first on Sunday but got beaned in the helmet by San Francisco Giants pitcher Keaton Winn. Semien was glad he was alright came up in his at bat and hit his 11th home run of the season.

#4 Amaury, you wrote this week that the WNBA’s face of the league star player from the Indiana Fever Caitlin Clark who was not selected by the US Olympics women’s basketball team due to a lack of experience. In your view is there more to that why Clark was not selected to the Olympic team.

#5 Amaury, the WNBA just had it’s highest TV ratings in 26 with the most recently watched and most attended games when the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese Chicago Sky, have increased viewership with 138% with young girls watching, and huge increases when Hispanic and Black audiences were watching.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

WNBA podcast with Michael Roberson: With Clark face of the league race is a forefront discussion

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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever scored 20 points and turned the ball over 10 times against the Connecticut Sun in Clark’s WNBA debut at Uncasville CT on Tue May 14, 2024

WNBA podcast with Michael Roberson:

#1 The signing of Caitlin Clark with the Indiana Fever has raised the subject of race in the WNBA. Clark is the face of the WNBA since she singed. The Las Vegas Aces star player A’ja Wilson said people say it’s not about race, but Wilson insists, it is about race and Wilson said if your a top notch black woman player “maybe that’s something people don’t want to see.”

#2 Wilson added saying no matter how hard she works at it people don’t see the black or minority player as marketable and Wilson said that minority players are still being swept under the rug.

#3 Clark was raising TV ratings when she help lead the Iowa Hawkeyes to back to back championships and the networks and the NCAA and the press who covered her realized that she was the perfect marketing tool. It’s along the lines what Wilson was talking about who wants to listen to a black female player endorsing when they will listen to Caitlin Clark.

#4 Clark matched up against LSU Tigers star Angel Reese who now play for the Chicago Sky. There were discussions that the treatment for Clark a white woman and from the “Heartland of America” compared to Reese and other black players. Michael during that Final Four between Iowa and LSU talk about the differences that you’ve pointed out that was going on at the time between Reese and Clark?

#5 Clark got a deal from Nike for $28 million in endorsements for over eight years it is the largest endorsement contract in women’s basketball. Victoria Jackson a sports historian at Arizona State University said the reason for Clark’s huge contract is a break off into a completely different stratosphere. That anything involving Clark is being questioned.

Michael Roberson covers Stanford Cardinal basketball for http://www.sportsradioservice.com and is a writer for the African American Athlete.