The Money Game (2024) s01e06 Episode Script
Love of the Game
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[crowd chanting]
One more year! One more year!
One more year
[Garth Brooks: "Callin' Baton Rouge"]
[announcer] Fans, welcome to the
Pete Maravich Assembly Center
for today's matchup between the Kentucky
Wildcats and your Fighting Tigers!
I spent last night
in the arms of a girl ♪
- In Louisiana ♪
- [crowd] Louisiana!
And though I'm out on the highway,
my thoughts are still with her ♪
Such a strange combination
of a woman and a child ♪
Such a strange situation
stoppin' every hundred miles ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] This afternoon
it is the regular season finale.
We will have Senior Night to honor
Hailey Van Lith and Angel Reese.
[announcer 2] It's a great opportunity
to honor these players
for what they have not only given
to LSU women's basketball,
but to the country.
[Reese] Fan base here, I mean,
old, young, white, Black
everybody comes out.
[announcer] Yeah, she stopped
in the lane, had it knocked away.
Johnson got it, two on one,
behind her back,
Van Lith layup is good.
It makes you want to be here
as long as you can
and love this place as long as you can,
'cause they love on you really well.
[announcer] To Morrow, right elbow,
dumps it down nicely to Reese
and lays it in.
Is she going into the draft this year?
[Shaq] Yeah, she a senior.
[man] She got that NIL money now.
That easy money.
You gotta earn that shit in the WNBA.
So she gonna stay then.
No way she's coming out.
She's making more money here.
[Dellenger]
If Angel Reese played ten years ago,
would she be known nationally?
I'm not so sure.
[announcer] Stay in your seats
for a special senior tribute.
[Dellenger] I think the name, image,
and likeness era
has pushed athletes who normally
would not have
as much attention to the forefront.
NIL has been groundbreaking
and is gonna lead, I think,
to more changes
that are even bigger down the line.
[Reese] I'm so happy to be a senior.
It's been a long four years.
- But, baby, I'm graduating.
- [player] Baby, we're out!
Should I stay, should I go? ♪
I don't know ♪
[crowd chanting] One more year!
One more year! One more year!
[mellow electronic music plays]
- [woman] Name, image, and likeness.
- [man] Name, image, and likeness.
NIL.
This ruling could, quite literally,
change everything.
Let's go!
[tiger roar]
[reporter] Quick developing story.
The NCAA and Tennessee athletics
are squaring off because of NIL.
[reporter 2] Breaking right now,
a federal judge blocked the NCAA's
NIL's recruiting policy
after a lawsuit
by the states of Tennessee and Virginia.
Effective immediately,
the NCAA must stop
enforcing its interim NIL policy.
[man] What this will do
is allow the schools
to do what they're already doing,
but now they can do it in the open.
It also may allow them
to get rid of the middlemen.
You may not necessarily
need collectives anymore.
If we're just admitting
that this is the schools
giving players money to come play sports,
why can't the schools
just do it themselves?
[reporter 3] It's possible other states
could follow
Tennessee and Virginia's lawsuit,
especially states
where collegiate athletics
are a big part of the state's identity.
If we amend this, it will become
a new Senate bill, right?
[woman] Yeah.
[Jacobs] Now that this Tennessee
and Virginia injunction has come out,
it's created this frustration for us,
because Tennessee and Virginia
technically have an advantage
because their collectives
can be meeting with recruits.
Financial workshops
so we're changing that
- Yeah.
- and adding the services language.
And our coaches are frustrated.
They're hearing that said school
paid X amount of money
and why don't why can't we do that?
Marie Claire and I are sitting
in a corner rewriting the state law.
Freaking A!
[Dellenger] For so long,
universities couldn't attract talent
with direct pay in money,
as it was illegal.
And now we're about to take a big stride
into the next step.
[Jacobs] All right,
so let's go ahead and go into state law.
So this document right here,
I took the existing Senate bill 250,
and as we were going through it,
I tried to strike things
that we wanted to strike and change.
It's very confusing.
I think our coaches are frustrated.
Tennessee and Virginia
now has a recruiting advantage,
which ultimately then
can become a competitive advantage.
You got the likelihood that 48 states
are now going to come forward
and say the injunction that passed
in Tennessee, in Virginia
we want the same thing.
What does it look like
if we do have to pay athletes?
What are these things going to look like?
Do you want legal in on this meeting,
or just do us and the AG's office?
[Zinn] When necessary, they can
come to the table on that with us.
I think it's going to change
a lot about college athletics.
[Marie Claire] I'll get you
the updated version end of day.
[dramatic music throughout]
[woman] Instagram feed, or are you
looking to sell product right from that?
- Isn't this interview in seven minutes?
- Mm-hmm.
All right, can we run through
the answers real quick?
All right. Ready?
- Sure.
- Did you look through it?
I mean, I have, like,
if they're not trick questions, but
No. Uh, these are the topics.
Reflections on your collegiate career
as a senior.
I haven't really done much reflecting yet
because
we still have some unfinished business.
But
I can't wait what to see
I can't wait to see what
the rest of the senior year holds.
And after we win, then I'll reflect.
- [snickers]
- You're ready.
- Wanna see what you look like?
- Yes.
Oh, throw an Accelerator on this.
- Mom, what?
- That's what Jason asked.
- [chuckling]
- A little product placement.
It can't go down?
That's like, awkward.
This isn't working.
- What isn't working?
- I'd have to hold it.
Well, you could hold it for a minute
and then put it down.
It's okay.
Good?
Yeah.
Hello, Olivia, it's David Lloyd here
in Bristol, Connecticut.
- How are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
I'm good. What do you got there?
You drinking a
Is this a sponsor product here
already Olivia?
- There's product placement?
- Hey, it's part of my morning routine.
- [laughs]
- Okay. [laughing]
Okay, well, I think we're getting close
to being ready if you are.
Awesome.
To gymnastics now.
Olivia Dunne and LSU in a showdown
tomorrow night.
You can catch this one
on ESPN2 at 5:00 Eastern.
L stand by two in the country.
Livvy Dunne, the number one most followed
student athlete on social media
helping to shine a light on her team
and her sport.
And we are very happy
to be joined now by Livvy Dunne.
Livvy, so you're a senior now.
We're coming down the stretch
in your career.
LSU has never won
an NCAA gymnastics title.
You guys very much in contention
this year.
What would it mean
to deliver a championship
to Baton Rouge in April?
It would mean the world to this team
and this university.
It's an unprecedented area for LSU Gym
to win a national championship,
and I just think it would be
so special for Tiger Nation.
[Lloyd] Yeah, things are building
in that respect,
and we'll see how it plays out
over the next couple of months.
But I know balance
is a huge component of gymnastics
and you've had to balance
quite a busy schedule in your life,
millions of followers across social media.
Your popularity has spawned
legions of fans
let's say rabid can we say
is rabid a good word
for some of the male fans that follow you?
You know what?
They're they're passionate.
[Lloyd] All right. Passionate.
That's a better word.
There was that scene in Utah, I know,
where these guys were so intense
and sort of almost overshadowed the meet.
You're looking at some video here.
- [men shouting]
- Livvy!
[Lloyd] Is there a downside
to all this for you, Livvy?
[men continue yelling on video]
I mean yes and no.
I'm so blessed to have
these supporters in my life.
And this video, I feel like,
doesn't really capture
everyone that supports me.
I mean, there's really amazing girl fans
also that support me
and love me for who I am
and my gymnastics.
And yeah.
[Lloyd] Livvy, great stuff.
I'm looking forward to you guys
tomorrow on ESPN2
Top-10 Showdown in the SEC.
We thank you so much
for joining us today, Livvy.
Thank you so much.
[off chime sounds]
Good job.
I just feel like a little bit
thank you, first of all
but I feel like a little bit
on the Utah question
You were fine. It was fine.
You didn't slam your fans.
- [Olivia] No, no.
- So I just think it's like
- I feel like that video doesn't
- I understand
- completely capture
- I know what you were trying to say.
People like to try to make that
into, like, a bigger security
not that it wasn't
a little out of hand, but
Yeah, well
All right.
Next order of business.
The Purina deal.
One of the most important parts
is a media day in New York City
on June 26.
One Instagram feed post,
two Instagram stories.
One TikTok.
Those would be your deliverables.
You also
have that that girl's just gonna
interview you real quick at like 7:00ish.
Okay.
[mom] Okay, so that's something
to take into consideration.
The deal that for you
[continues indistinctly
under soft piano music]
[background chatter]
[soft piano music continues]
Aah!
[Olivia] Being here is only four years
of your life.
I've been blessed
to have these opportunities
that come along with NIL.
It's huge to be able to capitalize on it
while you're here in college.
I am eligible for a fifth year
because of my freshman year.
That was a COVID year.
So we do get another year.
I have no clue if I'm gonna do it.
I love gymnastics,
but I also would love
my body being in one piece.
I have two torn labrums, torn bicep.
I have the worst shin splints ever.
But if I can fix some of these things
and let my body rest during off season
Yeah, I don't know. [laughs]
[dynamic music plays]
[crowd chanting] SEC! SEC!
SEC! SEC!
[announcer] The question gets asked a lot:
Is this LSU's year?
This is a team that feels
they have unfinished business,
and that starts with the SEC championship.
[man] Go, Tigers!
You made a decision
on what you wanted to be this year.
I expect you to go in there
and make tonight
a celebration
of everything that you have done.
It's about us,
just Tigers versus Tigers tonight.
So go in there.
Let it fly.
No distractions, no regrets.
You're the best team out there.
Go act like it,
and have a good time doing it.
Go Tigers.
[team claps]
[announcer] Welcome to New Orleans,
where tonight
we will crown the SEC champions
in the toughest conference
in women's college gymnastics
against the four highest ranked teams
here in the SEC.
[Clark] When you're in this conference,
in our session, all four teams
were in the top seven in the nation,
so very, very strong competition,
and in many ways
it's harder to win this championship
than it is even the national championship.
[announcer] Here we go on vault,
one of the best in the country
Haleigh Bryant!
[announcer 2]
Can't do it any better than that.
And it could be a perfect 10 here.
[Clark] For our sport, there is no NBA.
There is no NFL.
There is no opportunity for these kids,
after they complete
their collegiate career,
to go on and to do it professionally.
I think they all realize
there's a shelf life to their notoriety.
[announcer] Wow. LSU and Alabama
tied after one rotation.
Holy cow.
We said it was going to be close,
and it is after one
Now over to bars. Olivia Dunne.
[echoing] Third spot.
[Clark] This is the one opportunity
they have to take advantage of
and profit from the work
that they've put in
since they were three, four,
five years old.
[tense music plays]
[woman] You got it, Liv. Come on.
[cheering]
[cheering]
Yeah!
Let's go!
[announcer] A very good routine
from Olivia Dunne9.8.
[announcer 2]
These athletes are in the zone tonight.
Can they carry it forward
through the rest of the meet?
The fire is lit.
Keep throwing gasoline on it.
Great job. Great job.
[announcer] So we got a tie
between LSU and Kentucky.
We said it'd be exciting, Sam,
and I love it when we're right.
LSU though, their competition
gets started in this rotation.
They go to the balance beam.
If you can't hear, they're chantingLSU!
It's a home-away meet for the Tigers.
Konnor McClain, already one of the best,
in my opinion, collegiately on this event.
[cheering]
But that, right there, is textbook
perfection in women's gymnastics.
[announcer 2] And that's gonna be
a huge number for LSU.
[announcer 1] It's a 10 on beam
for Konnor McClainwell deserved.
This place is pandemonium.
If you didn't think it was
electric before, you can't deny it now.
The LSU Tigers
just won their fifth SEC Championship
in school history.
Yeah! Yeah!
[announcer] The greatest team to never
have won a national championship.
Can they win the NCAAs?
[Olivia] That was our first
little taste of success as a team.
But I still have some unfinished business.
I want the national championship.
That would be the cherry on top.
[man] When we go to the Combine
and we start asking all those guys
from the SEC
who's the toughest opponent you've faced,
and it's Jayden Daniels,
Jayden Daniels, Jayden Daniels.
So that's an important trait
as the draft season approaches
just four weeks from today.
[man 2] He has meetings
with the New England Patriots,
the Washington Commanders,
New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings,
Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders.
[man 3] I can't wait to watch
his rookie year
and going forward
with whatever team he goes to.
[Jayden] It has been pretty wild.
I'm excited to go back home
for a little bit,
see friends, see family.
I mean, it's just kind of where
everything started right here.
There's just so many memories coming back.
My best years of my life were high school,
so I be missing it sometimes.
[cheerleaders chanting echoes]
We are
Cajon!
[mellow hip-hop plays]
[reporter] A true homecoming
for a local football star.
It's a big day of festivities
to celebrate one of our own,
the Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels,
the former quarterback
at Cajon High School.
What's up?
- [man] Man, keep going.
- 'Preciate it.
Yeah! That's my boy!
Congratulations Dan!
[announcer] This Cajon High
football star
[crowd whooping and cheering]
[man] Hello, hello.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for showing up
to honor our hometown hero Jayden Daniels.
It is with immense pride and joy
that we, as your mayor,
and the city council,
to present Jayden Daniels
with the key to our city.
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] It does mean a lot
to come back out here and be recognized,
and see people that knew me
ever since I was little.
Without them and their support,
I probably wouldn't be
in a position like this today.
[man] We want to show how proud we are
and how honored we are.
And so Mr. Daniels
will be with us, forever and ever,
as we name the stadium
after Jayden Daniels.
[cheers and applause]
I mean, I don't even know what to say.
I'm just blessed.
Honestly, I'm blessed, and my family,
everybody supporting me,
friends, family.
My boys are over in the corner.
Appreciate y'all for life.
Everybody came out here, since I was a
kid, that watched me grow up,
you know,
just to have a stadium named after me,
that's something I never dreamt about,
and I really love y'all.
I love everybody from San Bernardino.
I'm proud to be from San Bernardino.
- That's all I gotta say. Thank you.
- [man] Thank you, Jayden!
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] It's a great feeling,
'cause I know that my grandfather's name
will forever be cemented in legacy.
What my grandfather'd probably say
is he just proud of me.
He'd call his friends,
probably walk up and down the street,
you know, talk to the neighbors,
and, you know, start bragging about me
and how good his grandson is doing.
And now we're here.
Getting ready to go to the NFL.
[interviewer] Now that Jayden is
getting ready to take this next big step,
what concerns you the most?
Girls.
Them girls.
Some girl out here,
she's got a Jayden Daniels wall.
And her mama said, "Hey, honey,
you're gonna be the one
who's gonna go get him."
And I know that sounds crazy,
but I guarantee there's someone out there
who's trying to get their hooks
into Jayden Daniels.
So thank God he got a mama like me,
'cause it ain't happening.
Yeah, I bet she did say something
like that.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
- [woman] So I sent the warm-up card
- Okay.
and whatever your max velocity is,
make sure we get it out there
so when we go out to the track
we're ready to go.
All right? So today's the day.
Let's show our talent.
[punchy music plays]
[Alia] My mindset this year is that
winning nationals is a must.
Literally a must.
Oh, dang it.
Nothing can get in my way whatsoever.
[trainer] Feel that?
It's a little painful. I mean
Well, it's a stretch.
- I would say uncomfortable.
- [trainer] Okay.
Okay. Sounds good.
[trainer] Get loose. See how it feels.
So I know if we need to do something,
we got time.
- Okay.
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[women] We ready ♪
We ready ♪
For y'all ♪
Doo doo doo doo ♪
Mm mm, uh-uh, uh-uh ♪
Mm mm mm ♪
Come on, Li Li, let's go.
Hey. Hey.
[Alia] For y'all ♪
[laughter]
Okay.
- I can't see nothing with these lashes.
- I know.
- I gotta hold my eyebrows up.
- Yeah.
Okay. We're getting there.
I'm so excited to have
my [singing] rhinestones on.
Oh, that's cute.
The little [pewing noise]
It's still curving, right?
[laughter]
That's bomb.
Look at Mama, baby. That's so cool!
- You see the vision?
- [laughs] I see your vision.
Oh, that's so pretty, Alia.
Father God, we just thank you
in the name of Jesus
for this opportunity, Lord.
But right now, Father God,
I just ask you in the name of Jesus
to take away any type of insecurities
when it come to Alia.
Lord, we ask for your healing
on this quad, Father God,
and whatever else you see
that's gonna be in the way,
Father God, remove it.
In the name of Jesus,
no weapon formed against Alia
shall prosper.
- Amen.
- [voices] Amen.
[dramatic upbeat music playing]
Too much on my mind.
Just be here right now.
[clapper snaps]
I'm ready.
[announcer] Right away,
the women's 60-meter hurdles.
And there's Grace Stark.
In the prelims, she beat Alia Armstrong,
and that makes two races back to back
that Grace Stark
has bettered Alia Armstrong.
There's Alia Armstrong,
2022 NCAA outdoor champion,
who owns three of the six fastest times
in the country this season.
Look at that look of determination.
- Let's go, Li Li!
- Let's go, Li Li!
On your marks.
[announcer] It's Armstrong at three,
Stark at four,
Jones at the five.
[starter] Set
Go! Go! Go, Alia!
Come on!
[announcer] Armstrong out well.
Let's go!
[announcer] So is Jones.
[mom] Let's go!
[dramatic music plays]
[announcer] It's Jones, Stark, Armstrong.
Those are your top three.
[loud clapping]
Come on.
- Way to finish your senior year!
- Yeah, baby!
[announcer] It's interesting.
Alia Armstrong has run some fast times,
but it just didn't
look like she had great pop.
Like something
was just missing a little bit.
Like she was playing it
just a little bit safe.
[Alia] Seeing everything unfold tonight
has made me realize that
I'm a little too comfortable.
And you came out here,
you ran off heart today.
That was all heart.
[Alia] Um, I'm not satisfied
with what I've shown the world this year.
I feel like there's so much more to offer,
you know?
[water running]
[groaning]
[reporter] Right now,
March Madness excitement is underway.
[crowd cheering]
LSU, they're the reigning
national champions.
They're coming in with that,
"Hey, we've done this already."
They're coming in with that energy.
[announcer] Angel Reese
and this LSU program
with a massive following
around the nation.
[announcer 2] The first rounds
are in the books,
and they gave us
no shortage of talking points.
[announcer] Boldyreva
has fouled out of the game.
Trying to slow down Angel Reese.
That is a tough assignment.
[man] All year, LSU women's basketball
felt like public enemy number one.
[announcer] This LSU team, they thrive
with that chip on their shoulder.
[announcer 2] It's very clear
who the villain and who the hero is
going in the women's
basketball tournament.
And the L.A. Times is facing backlash
against an op-ed
about the LSU women's basketball team
ahead of its game
against UCLA this weekend.
[man] And you say dirty debutantes,
and then you say the other's
our milk and cookies?
[announcer 2] I mean,
that takes it to another level.
[announcer 3] I don't know
what you hope to gain
talking about 18-to-21-year-old
young ladies in this capacity.
How dare people attack kids like that.
We're out there to kick your rear end,
and that's how they play.
[Reese] When I get between those lines,
we're not friends.
I'm gonna talk trashto you, I'm gonna do
whatever it takes to get in your head.
I'll take the villain role.
I'll take the hit for it.
But I know we're growing women's
basketball, and you like it or you don't.
[woman] I just really feel like LSU,
they have something to prove.
People either love them and tune in
to see them have success
or they can't stand them
and tune in to see if they will fail.
Either way, everybody's tuning in.
[announcer] Reese putting it on the deck,
gets denied by Betts.
Another chance here for LSU.
Shot clock at five.
Johnson lays it in!
[buzzer sounds]
The defending champs are not done yet.
LSU is headed to the Elite Eight.
[reporter] Flau'jae, how have you become
a primetime player?
I know people gonna discredit me
'cause I rap and I hoop.
So I gotta go extra hard.
So that's what I do. I be in the gym.
She does rap.
Her new single is "It Ain't My Fault."
- But today this win was your fault.
- It's our fault. It is our fault.
Get out your feelings. Get a bag!
[Flau'jae] It ain't my fault
they getting mad ♪
It ain't my fault,
get out your feelings ♪
Get a bag, it ain't my fault ♪
Ran up a million, I got cash,
it ain't my fault ♪
[announcer] This is one of
the biggest nights
in the history of
women's college basketball.
I don't care what anybody says.
[announcer 2]
The game we've been waiting for,
LSU and Iowa back at it again,
but this time in the Elite Eight.
All for one and one for all!
One, two, three.
And it ain't my fault ♪
[announcer] So much attention
around this rematch
after the emotion of last season.
A trip to the Final Four at stake.
This a game where we gotta care
about our defense
a little bit more than our offense.
We know we can score. We gotta defend.
Defense turn to offense.
This ain't no fucking "Angel vs," okay?
I need y'all motherfuckers.
We gonna have to win this shit
with everybody.
Let's go.
[Reese] Let's bust they ass.
LSU vs Iowa, let's go. BTA on three.
Three.
[all] Beat their ass!
[announcer] The trip
to the Final Four on the line,
the rematch is underway.
Reese comes up with a steal.
Reese all the way in to give LSU the lead.
Angel Reese having
a tremendous opening quarter.
Clark Oh, my from Schenectady.
Ediger gets denied.
Clark shakes Van Lith, into the lane,
gets fouled by Reese,
And then Angel Reese
takes a tumble afterwards.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh, my goodness.
And you just hope
that this is not going to affect
Angel Reese and LSU tonight.
Clark, catch fire
that's in!
Crowd starting to sense it here for Iowa.
Clark
again!
Here's ReeseReese leans in,
and that's a charge.
And number five on Angel Reese.
That is a tough fifth foul
on Angel Reese who walks off
for perhaps the final time
in her collegiate career.
[reporter] Angel, you had mentioned
what a wild ride
this team has been on for the last year.
Can you kind of describe
what it's meant to you,
what it's been like for you?
Yeah, we-we-we've seen
everything this year.
We have been through so much adversity,
and we never folded.
And just being able to come out tonight
and give our all for 40 minutes
we came up short,
but we-we have to keep our heads high.
[reporter 2] Congratulations
for the season you guys have had.
Flau'jae, if I could hear you on Angel
and the type of leadership
that she's provided.
Bro, let me tell you something.
Everybody can have their opinion
on Angel Reese.
But y'all don't know her.
Like y'all don't know Angel Reese.
I know Angel Reese.
I know the real Angel Reese.
And the person I see every day
is a strong person,
is a caring, loving person,
but the crown she wear is heavy, bro.
She's the type of teammate
that's gon' make you believe in yourself.
And, you know, just to see how the media
ridicule her.
Went through our problems,
but, like, this my sister right here,
and I'm so proud of her, like
The media, y'all, how they like to twist
and call it a villain and all that.
Y'all don't know, Angel, bro.
And I'm just happy
that I get to play with her.
[man] Right here. Go ahead.
[Dan] Dan Zaksheske, outkick.com.
Angel, do you have any thoughts
on your future plans in basketball?
I'll make a decision when I'm ready.
[sniffling]
[Worsham] Sport is a story.
Sport is that primal story distilled into
one beautiful act
where we see what we're capable of,
what's possible.
Forever, college sports has been about
the passion and the institution.
But I think more and more,
the student athlete is becoming
the focal point
and the center of the story.
[announcer] The greatest team to have
never won a national title is no longer.
They will get it.
[announcer] This is a moment
they are going to remember
for the rest of their lives,
and it is so well-deserved.
[Olivia] I'm a national champion.
I remember saying that if we won
that I wanted to be done, but
winning is addicting, let me tell ya.
Alright, here we go. I'm here to say
I'm not Dunne yet.
[interviewer] Does NIL play a part
in your decision to stay?
I mean, brands do like
that I'm a student athleteI won't lie.
This smile is gonna sell these shirts.
Now people come to college like
let me stay, stack up my chips, like,
you know what I'm saying?
Student athletes, they deserve more.
I think NIL is the beginning of it.
It's a money game, but
you also have to love the game as well.
[Roger Goodell] With the second pick
in the 2024 NFL draft,
the Washington Commanders select
Jayden Daniels.
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] I think you deserve
all the money that you need,
but if you let it become a distraction,
that's your main focus,
then you're just taking away
from what you came here for.
[cheers and applause]
[announcer] This was not someone who just
jumped on the scene in college football.
He earned his way. He got better.
He changed schools.
And now he's the second pick in the draft.
Let's have a good one.
Realistically,
I don't see the NBA in my future.
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
If I didn't make another dime
from any NIL,
but like the content that I made
helped people,
like, I'm good.
That's the most important thing for me.
But the G-wagon is nice, though.
One, two, three.
Nice.
[Reese] I think at some point
it's gonna be all about the money.
But I think the women's side
is super helpful for a lot of us.
Hey, Vogue, it's Angel Reese here,
and I am on set today for
a huge announcement with the Bayou Barbie.
Today we're going to be announcing
that I'll be entering the WNBA draft.
Good morning.
This is the moment you want to be in.
Only 144 people get to play in the WNBA.
[announcer] The Chicago Sky Select
Angel Reese.
[cheers and applause]
[announcer] As we gather here tonight,
it's clear that women's sports
are more than a moment.
[reporter] Quick developing story.
In an historic first, the NCAA
and nation's Power Five conferences
have reached a deal to pay their athletes.
[reporter 2] $2.8 billion settlement
that will allow
some players to be paid
directly by their schools
for playing sports.
Student athletes
kind of has a funny ring to it now.
[Dellenger] The House settlement
is the most significant moment
in the history of college athletics.
Direct pay to athletes is on its way.
The fear is that in the future
the relationship will be only about money.
[Gordon] It is changing quickly.
I just saw the other day
where a basketball team
voted to unionize, right?
So you have 50 states
and different things.
I hope and pray that doesn't change
the fabric of college athletics
in relationship to how the fan supports it
and is involved with it.
[Worsham] The system was skewed one way
unfavorably toward student athletes.
But if we go so hard the other way
and it's a purely financial decision,
we're going to lose so much connection,
so many memories
that I think are vital to American sport.
[Jacobs] A year or two ago,
things were so chaotic
because NIL was chaotic.
Now we're looking at the chaos
of a revenue share.
This is at another level.
History is going to change
in the next year.
But the love of the game
and the money game,
I do believe they can coexist.
I'm gonna leave my Stitch here.
This feels like a dream.
Hold on, it's gonna be the it's soon.
Oh, come on.
Oh, my God!
[laughing] What?
Look at me.
Who's that? The Rhinestone Queen.
Queen, queen.
Queen, queen, queen.
Whoo.
Wow.
Oh, man.
Yay, Evan!
[Evan] You did it. You did that.
- I have a billboard.
- You did it.
[Alia] Instagram, get ready.
Like, really personal
I was really struggling, like
I would have $100 in my account
as one of the star athletes at LSU.
And I was confused why.
I would still be in the same position
if we couldn't do stuff like this.
Um, let's see. Oh, my god.
I just hit 47 K.
Yay!
Whatever happens,
whether I'm at the Olympics,
I'm just really excited
to just start my next life.
- [chime]
- Oh, Angel just said "Go, Queen," period.
I love her. [giggles]
[Garth Brooks: "Callin' Baton Rouge"]
I spent last night
In the arms of a girl in Louisiana ♪
Though I'm out on the highway
My thoughts are still with her ♪
Such a strange combination
Of a woman and a child ♪
Such a strange situation
Stoppin' every hundred miles ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
A replay of last night's events
Roll through my mind ♪
Except a scene or two
Erased by sweet red wine ♪
And I see a truck stop sign ahead
So I change lanes ♪
I need a cup of coffee
And a couple dollars change ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
Operator, won't you put me on through? ♪
Gotta send my love down to Baton Rouge ♪
Hurry up
Won't you put her on the line? ♪
Gotta talk to the girl
Just one more time ♪
[crowd chanting]
One more year! One more year!
One more year
[Garth Brooks: "Callin' Baton Rouge"]
[announcer] Fans, welcome to the
Pete Maravich Assembly Center
for today's matchup between the Kentucky
Wildcats and your Fighting Tigers!
I spent last night
in the arms of a girl ♪
- In Louisiana ♪
- [crowd] Louisiana!
And though I'm out on the highway,
my thoughts are still with her ♪
Such a strange combination
of a woman and a child ♪
Such a strange situation
stoppin' every hundred miles ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
[crowd cheering]
[announcer] This afternoon
it is the regular season finale.
We will have Senior Night to honor
Hailey Van Lith and Angel Reese.
[announcer 2] It's a great opportunity
to honor these players
for what they have not only given
to LSU women's basketball,
but to the country.
[Reese] Fan base here, I mean,
old, young, white, Black
everybody comes out.
[announcer] Yeah, she stopped
in the lane, had it knocked away.
Johnson got it, two on one,
behind her back,
Van Lith layup is good.
It makes you want to be here
as long as you can
and love this place as long as you can,
'cause they love on you really well.
[announcer] To Morrow, right elbow,
dumps it down nicely to Reese
and lays it in.
Is she going into the draft this year?
[Shaq] Yeah, she a senior.
[man] She got that NIL money now.
That easy money.
You gotta earn that shit in the WNBA.
So she gonna stay then.
No way she's coming out.
She's making more money here.
[Dellenger]
If Angel Reese played ten years ago,
would she be known nationally?
I'm not so sure.
[announcer] Stay in your seats
for a special senior tribute.
[Dellenger] I think the name, image,
and likeness era
has pushed athletes who normally
would not have
as much attention to the forefront.
NIL has been groundbreaking
and is gonna lead, I think,
to more changes
that are even bigger down the line.
[Reese] I'm so happy to be a senior.
It's been a long four years.
- But, baby, I'm graduating.
- [player] Baby, we're out!
Should I stay, should I go? ♪
I don't know ♪
[crowd chanting] One more year!
One more year! One more year!
[mellow electronic music plays]
- [woman] Name, image, and likeness.
- [man] Name, image, and likeness.
NIL.
This ruling could, quite literally,
change everything.
Let's go!
[tiger roar]
[reporter] Quick developing story.
The NCAA and Tennessee athletics
are squaring off because of NIL.
[reporter 2] Breaking right now,
a federal judge blocked the NCAA's
NIL's recruiting policy
after a lawsuit
by the states of Tennessee and Virginia.
Effective immediately,
the NCAA must stop
enforcing its interim NIL policy.
[man] What this will do
is allow the schools
to do what they're already doing,
but now they can do it in the open.
It also may allow them
to get rid of the middlemen.
You may not necessarily
need collectives anymore.
If we're just admitting
that this is the schools
giving players money to come play sports,
why can't the schools
just do it themselves?
[reporter 3] It's possible other states
could follow
Tennessee and Virginia's lawsuit,
especially states
where collegiate athletics
are a big part of the state's identity.
If we amend this, it will become
a new Senate bill, right?
[woman] Yeah.
[Jacobs] Now that this Tennessee
and Virginia injunction has come out,
it's created this frustration for us,
because Tennessee and Virginia
technically have an advantage
because their collectives
can be meeting with recruits.
Financial workshops
so we're changing that
- Yeah.
- and adding the services language.
And our coaches are frustrated.
They're hearing that said school
paid X amount of money
and why don't why can't we do that?
Marie Claire and I are sitting
in a corner rewriting the state law.
Freaking A!
[Dellenger] For so long,
universities couldn't attract talent
with direct pay in money,
as it was illegal.
And now we're about to take a big stride
into the next step.
[Jacobs] All right,
so let's go ahead and go into state law.
So this document right here,
I took the existing Senate bill 250,
and as we were going through it,
I tried to strike things
that we wanted to strike and change.
It's very confusing.
I think our coaches are frustrated.
Tennessee and Virginia
now has a recruiting advantage,
which ultimately then
can become a competitive advantage.
You got the likelihood that 48 states
are now going to come forward
and say the injunction that passed
in Tennessee, in Virginia
we want the same thing.
What does it look like
if we do have to pay athletes?
What are these things going to look like?
Do you want legal in on this meeting,
or just do us and the AG's office?
[Zinn] When necessary, they can
come to the table on that with us.
I think it's going to change
a lot about college athletics.
[Marie Claire] I'll get you
the updated version end of day.
[dramatic music throughout]
[woman] Instagram feed, or are you
looking to sell product right from that?
- Isn't this interview in seven minutes?
- Mm-hmm.
All right, can we run through
the answers real quick?
All right. Ready?
- Sure.
- Did you look through it?
I mean, I have, like,
if they're not trick questions, but
No. Uh, these are the topics.
Reflections on your collegiate career
as a senior.
I haven't really done much reflecting yet
because
we still have some unfinished business.
But
I can't wait what to see
I can't wait to see what
the rest of the senior year holds.
And after we win, then I'll reflect.
- [snickers]
- You're ready.
- Wanna see what you look like?
- Yes.
Oh, throw an Accelerator on this.
- Mom, what?
- That's what Jason asked.
- [chuckling]
- A little product placement.
It can't go down?
That's like, awkward.
This isn't working.
- What isn't working?
- I'd have to hold it.
Well, you could hold it for a minute
and then put it down.
It's okay.
Good?
Yeah.
Hello, Olivia, it's David Lloyd here
in Bristol, Connecticut.
- How are you?
- I'm good. How are you?
I'm good. What do you got there?
You drinking a
Is this a sponsor product here
already Olivia?
- There's product placement?
- Hey, it's part of my morning routine.
- [laughs]
- Okay. [laughing]
Okay, well, I think we're getting close
to being ready if you are.
Awesome.
To gymnastics now.
Olivia Dunne and LSU in a showdown
tomorrow night.
You can catch this one
on ESPN2 at 5:00 Eastern.
L stand by two in the country.
Livvy Dunne, the number one most followed
student athlete on social media
helping to shine a light on her team
and her sport.
And we are very happy
to be joined now by Livvy Dunne.
Livvy, so you're a senior now.
We're coming down the stretch
in your career.
LSU has never won
an NCAA gymnastics title.
You guys very much in contention
this year.
What would it mean
to deliver a championship
to Baton Rouge in April?
It would mean the world to this team
and this university.
It's an unprecedented area for LSU Gym
to win a national championship,
and I just think it would be
so special for Tiger Nation.
[Lloyd] Yeah, things are building
in that respect,
and we'll see how it plays out
over the next couple of months.
But I know balance
is a huge component of gymnastics
and you've had to balance
quite a busy schedule in your life,
millions of followers across social media.
Your popularity has spawned
legions of fans
let's say rabid can we say
is rabid a good word
for some of the male fans that follow you?
You know what?
They're they're passionate.
[Lloyd] All right. Passionate.
That's a better word.
There was that scene in Utah, I know,
where these guys were so intense
and sort of almost overshadowed the meet.
You're looking at some video here.
- [men shouting]
- Livvy!
[Lloyd] Is there a downside
to all this for you, Livvy?
[men continue yelling on video]
I mean yes and no.
I'm so blessed to have
these supporters in my life.
And this video, I feel like,
doesn't really capture
everyone that supports me.
I mean, there's really amazing girl fans
also that support me
and love me for who I am
and my gymnastics.
And yeah.
[Lloyd] Livvy, great stuff.
I'm looking forward to you guys
tomorrow on ESPN2
Top-10 Showdown in the SEC.
We thank you so much
for joining us today, Livvy.
Thank you so much.
[off chime sounds]
Good job.
I just feel like a little bit
thank you, first of all
but I feel like a little bit
on the Utah question
You were fine. It was fine.
You didn't slam your fans.
- [Olivia] No, no.
- So I just think it's like
- I feel like that video doesn't
- I understand
- completely capture
- I know what you were trying to say.
People like to try to make that
into, like, a bigger security
not that it wasn't
a little out of hand, but
Yeah, well
All right.
Next order of business.
The Purina deal.
One of the most important parts
is a media day in New York City
on June 26.
One Instagram feed post,
two Instagram stories.
One TikTok.
Those would be your deliverables.
You also
have that that girl's just gonna
interview you real quick at like 7:00ish.
Okay.
[mom] Okay, so that's something
to take into consideration.
The deal that for you
[continues indistinctly
under soft piano music]
[background chatter]
[soft piano music continues]
Aah!
[Olivia] Being here is only four years
of your life.
I've been blessed
to have these opportunities
that come along with NIL.
It's huge to be able to capitalize on it
while you're here in college.
I am eligible for a fifth year
because of my freshman year.
That was a COVID year.
So we do get another year.
I have no clue if I'm gonna do it.
I love gymnastics,
but I also would love
my body being in one piece.
I have two torn labrums, torn bicep.
I have the worst shin splints ever.
But if I can fix some of these things
and let my body rest during off season
Yeah, I don't know. [laughs]
[dynamic music plays]
[crowd chanting] SEC! SEC!
SEC! SEC!
[announcer] The question gets asked a lot:
Is this LSU's year?
This is a team that feels
they have unfinished business,
and that starts with the SEC championship.
[man] Go, Tigers!
You made a decision
on what you wanted to be this year.
I expect you to go in there
and make tonight
a celebration
of everything that you have done.
It's about us,
just Tigers versus Tigers tonight.
So go in there.
Let it fly.
No distractions, no regrets.
You're the best team out there.
Go act like it,
and have a good time doing it.
Go Tigers.
[team claps]
[announcer] Welcome to New Orleans,
where tonight
we will crown the SEC champions
in the toughest conference
in women's college gymnastics
against the four highest ranked teams
here in the SEC.
[Clark] When you're in this conference,
in our session, all four teams
were in the top seven in the nation,
so very, very strong competition,
and in many ways
it's harder to win this championship
than it is even the national championship.
[announcer] Here we go on vault,
one of the best in the country
Haleigh Bryant!
[announcer 2]
Can't do it any better than that.
And it could be a perfect 10 here.
[Clark] For our sport, there is no NBA.
There is no NFL.
There is no opportunity for these kids,
after they complete
their collegiate career,
to go on and to do it professionally.
I think they all realize
there's a shelf life to their notoriety.
[announcer] Wow. LSU and Alabama
tied after one rotation.
Holy cow.
We said it was going to be close,
and it is after one
Now over to bars. Olivia Dunne.
[echoing] Third spot.
[Clark] This is the one opportunity
they have to take advantage of
and profit from the work
that they've put in
since they were three, four,
five years old.
[tense music plays]
[woman] You got it, Liv. Come on.
[cheering]
[cheering]
Yeah!
Let's go!
[announcer] A very good routine
from Olivia Dunne9.8.
[announcer 2]
These athletes are in the zone tonight.
Can they carry it forward
through the rest of the meet?
The fire is lit.
Keep throwing gasoline on it.
Great job. Great job.
[announcer] So we got a tie
between LSU and Kentucky.
We said it'd be exciting, Sam,
and I love it when we're right.
LSU though, their competition
gets started in this rotation.
They go to the balance beam.
If you can't hear, they're chantingLSU!
It's a home-away meet for the Tigers.
Konnor McClain, already one of the best,
in my opinion, collegiately on this event.
[cheering]
But that, right there, is textbook
perfection in women's gymnastics.
[announcer 2] And that's gonna be
a huge number for LSU.
[announcer 1] It's a 10 on beam
for Konnor McClainwell deserved.
This place is pandemonium.
If you didn't think it was
electric before, you can't deny it now.
The LSU Tigers
just won their fifth SEC Championship
in school history.
Yeah! Yeah!
[announcer] The greatest team to never
have won a national championship.
Can they win the NCAAs?
[Olivia] That was our first
little taste of success as a team.
But I still have some unfinished business.
I want the national championship.
That would be the cherry on top.
[man] When we go to the Combine
and we start asking all those guys
from the SEC
who's the toughest opponent you've faced,
and it's Jayden Daniels,
Jayden Daniels, Jayden Daniels.
So that's an important trait
as the draft season approaches
just four weeks from today.
[man 2] He has meetings
with the New England Patriots,
the Washington Commanders,
New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings,
Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders.
[man 3] I can't wait to watch
his rookie year
and going forward
with whatever team he goes to.
[Jayden] It has been pretty wild.
I'm excited to go back home
for a little bit,
see friends, see family.
I mean, it's just kind of where
everything started right here.
There's just so many memories coming back.
My best years of my life were high school,
so I be missing it sometimes.
[cheerleaders chanting echoes]
We are
Cajon!
[mellow hip-hop plays]
[reporter] A true homecoming
for a local football star.
It's a big day of festivities
to celebrate one of our own,
the Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels,
the former quarterback
at Cajon High School.
What's up?
- [man] Man, keep going.
- 'Preciate it.
Yeah! That's my boy!
Congratulations Dan!
[announcer] This Cajon High
football star
[crowd whooping and cheering]
[man] Hello, hello.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for showing up
to honor our hometown hero Jayden Daniels.
It is with immense pride and joy
that we, as your mayor,
and the city council,
to present Jayden Daniels
with the key to our city.
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] It does mean a lot
to come back out here and be recognized,
and see people that knew me
ever since I was little.
Without them and their support,
I probably wouldn't be
in a position like this today.
[man] We want to show how proud we are
and how honored we are.
And so Mr. Daniels
will be with us, forever and ever,
as we name the stadium
after Jayden Daniels.
[cheers and applause]
I mean, I don't even know what to say.
I'm just blessed.
Honestly, I'm blessed, and my family,
everybody supporting me,
friends, family.
My boys are over in the corner.
Appreciate y'all for life.
Everybody came out here, since I was a
kid, that watched me grow up,
you know,
just to have a stadium named after me,
that's something I never dreamt about,
and I really love y'all.
I love everybody from San Bernardino.
I'm proud to be from San Bernardino.
- That's all I gotta say. Thank you.
- [man] Thank you, Jayden!
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] It's a great feeling,
'cause I know that my grandfather's name
will forever be cemented in legacy.
What my grandfather'd probably say
is he just proud of me.
He'd call his friends,
probably walk up and down the street,
you know, talk to the neighbors,
and, you know, start bragging about me
and how good his grandson is doing.
And now we're here.
Getting ready to go to the NFL.
[interviewer] Now that Jayden is
getting ready to take this next big step,
what concerns you the most?
Girls.
Them girls.
Some girl out here,
she's got a Jayden Daniels wall.
And her mama said, "Hey, honey,
you're gonna be the one
who's gonna go get him."
And I know that sounds crazy,
but I guarantee there's someone out there
who's trying to get their hooks
into Jayden Daniels.
So thank God he got a mama like me,
'cause it ain't happening.
Yeah, I bet she did say something
like that.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
- [woman] So I sent the warm-up card
- Okay.
and whatever your max velocity is,
make sure we get it out there
so when we go out to the track
we're ready to go.
All right? So today's the day.
Let's show our talent.
[punchy music plays]
[Alia] My mindset this year is that
winning nationals is a must.
Literally a must.
Oh, dang it.
Nothing can get in my way whatsoever.
[trainer] Feel that?
It's a little painful. I mean
Well, it's a stretch.
- I would say uncomfortable.
- [trainer] Okay.
Okay. Sounds good.
[trainer] Get loose. See how it feels.
So I know if we need to do something,
we got time.
- Okay.
- Cool.
- Yeah.
- All right.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
[women] We ready ♪
We ready ♪
For y'all ♪
Doo doo doo doo ♪
Mm mm, uh-uh, uh-uh ♪
Mm mm mm ♪
Come on, Li Li, let's go.
Hey. Hey.
[Alia] For y'all ♪
[laughter]
Okay.
- I can't see nothing with these lashes.
- I know.
- I gotta hold my eyebrows up.
- Yeah.
Okay. We're getting there.
I'm so excited to have
my [singing] rhinestones on.
Oh, that's cute.
The little [pewing noise]
It's still curving, right?
[laughter]
That's bomb.
Look at Mama, baby. That's so cool!
- You see the vision?
- [laughs] I see your vision.
Oh, that's so pretty, Alia.
Father God, we just thank you
in the name of Jesus
for this opportunity, Lord.
But right now, Father God,
I just ask you in the name of Jesus
to take away any type of insecurities
when it come to Alia.
Lord, we ask for your healing
on this quad, Father God,
and whatever else you see
that's gonna be in the way,
Father God, remove it.
In the name of Jesus,
no weapon formed against Alia
shall prosper.
- Amen.
- [voices] Amen.
[dramatic upbeat music playing]
Too much on my mind.
Just be here right now.
[clapper snaps]
I'm ready.
[announcer] Right away,
the women's 60-meter hurdles.
And there's Grace Stark.
In the prelims, she beat Alia Armstrong,
and that makes two races back to back
that Grace Stark
has bettered Alia Armstrong.
There's Alia Armstrong,
2022 NCAA outdoor champion,
who owns three of the six fastest times
in the country this season.
Look at that look of determination.
- Let's go, Li Li!
- Let's go, Li Li!
On your marks.
[announcer] It's Armstrong at three,
Stark at four,
Jones at the five.
[starter] Set
Go! Go! Go, Alia!
Come on!
[announcer] Armstrong out well.
Let's go!
[announcer] So is Jones.
[mom] Let's go!
[dramatic music plays]
[announcer] It's Jones, Stark, Armstrong.
Those are your top three.
[loud clapping]
Come on.
- Way to finish your senior year!
- Yeah, baby!
[announcer] It's interesting.
Alia Armstrong has run some fast times,
but it just didn't
look like she had great pop.
Like something
was just missing a little bit.
Like she was playing it
just a little bit safe.
[Alia] Seeing everything unfold tonight
has made me realize that
I'm a little too comfortable.
And you came out here,
you ran off heart today.
That was all heart.
[Alia] Um, I'm not satisfied
with what I've shown the world this year.
I feel like there's so much more to offer,
you know?
[water running]
[groaning]
[reporter] Right now,
March Madness excitement is underway.
[crowd cheering]
LSU, they're the reigning
national champions.
They're coming in with that,
"Hey, we've done this already."
They're coming in with that energy.
[announcer] Angel Reese
and this LSU program
with a massive following
around the nation.
[announcer 2] The first rounds
are in the books,
and they gave us
no shortage of talking points.
[announcer] Boldyreva
has fouled out of the game.
Trying to slow down Angel Reese.
That is a tough assignment.
[man] All year, LSU women's basketball
felt like public enemy number one.
[announcer] This LSU team, they thrive
with that chip on their shoulder.
[announcer 2] It's very clear
who the villain and who the hero is
going in the women's
basketball tournament.
And the L.A. Times is facing backlash
against an op-ed
about the LSU women's basketball team
ahead of its game
against UCLA this weekend.
[man] And you say dirty debutantes,
and then you say the other's
our milk and cookies?
[announcer 2] I mean,
that takes it to another level.
[announcer 3] I don't know
what you hope to gain
talking about 18-to-21-year-old
young ladies in this capacity.
How dare people attack kids like that.
We're out there to kick your rear end,
and that's how they play.
[Reese] When I get between those lines,
we're not friends.
I'm gonna talk trashto you, I'm gonna do
whatever it takes to get in your head.
I'll take the villain role.
I'll take the hit for it.
But I know we're growing women's
basketball, and you like it or you don't.
[woman] I just really feel like LSU,
they have something to prove.
People either love them and tune in
to see them have success
or they can't stand them
and tune in to see if they will fail.
Either way, everybody's tuning in.
[announcer] Reese putting it on the deck,
gets denied by Betts.
Another chance here for LSU.
Shot clock at five.
Johnson lays it in!
[buzzer sounds]
The defending champs are not done yet.
LSU is headed to the Elite Eight.
[reporter] Flau'jae, how have you become
a primetime player?
I know people gonna discredit me
'cause I rap and I hoop.
So I gotta go extra hard.
So that's what I do. I be in the gym.
She does rap.
Her new single is "It Ain't My Fault."
- But today this win was your fault.
- It's our fault. It is our fault.
Get out your feelings. Get a bag!
[Flau'jae] It ain't my fault
they getting mad ♪
It ain't my fault,
get out your feelings ♪
Get a bag, it ain't my fault ♪
Ran up a million, I got cash,
it ain't my fault ♪
[announcer] This is one of
the biggest nights
in the history of
women's college basketball.
I don't care what anybody says.
[announcer 2]
The game we've been waiting for,
LSU and Iowa back at it again,
but this time in the Elite Eight.
All for one and one for all!
One, two, three.
And it ain't my fault ♪
[announcer] So much attention
around this rematch
after the emotion of last season.
A trip to the Final Four at stake.
This a game where we gotta care
about our defense
a little bit more than our offense.
We know we can score. We gotta defend.
Defense turn to offense.
This ain't no fucking "Angel vs," okay?
I need y'all motherfuckers.
We gonna have to win this shit
with everybody.
Let's go.
[Reese] Let's bust they ass.
LSU vs Iowa, let's go. BTA on three.
Three.
[all] Beat their ass!
[announcer] The trip
to the Final Four on the line,
the rematch is underway.
Reese comes up with a steal.
Reese all the way in to give LSU the lead.
Angel Reese having
a tremendous opening quarter.
Clark Oh, my from Schenectady.
Ediger gets denied.
Clark shakes Van Lith, into the lane,
gets fouled by Reese,
And then Angel Reese
takes a tumble afterwards.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh, my goodness.
And you just hope
that this is not going to affect
Angel Reese and LSU tonight.
Clark, catch fire
that's in!
Crowd starting to sense it here for Iowa.
Clark
again!
Here's ReeseReese leans in,
and that's a charge.
And number five on Angel Reese.
That is a tough fifth foul
on Angel Reese who walks off
for perhaps the final time
in her collegiate career.
[reporter] Angel, you had mentioned
what a wild ride
this team has been on for the last year.
Can you kind of describe
what it's meant to you,
what it's been like for you?
Yeah, we-we-we've seen
everything this year.
We have been through so much adversity,
and we never folded.
And just being able to come out tonight
and give our all for 40 minutes
we came up short,
but we-we have to keep our heads high.
[reporter 2] Congratulations
for the season you guys have had.
Flau'jae, if I could hear you on Angel
and the type of leadership
that she's provided.
Bro, let me tell you something.
Everybody can have their opinion
on Angel Reese.
But y'all don't know her.
Like y'all don't know Angel Reese.
I know Angel Reese.
I know the real Angel Reese.
And the person I see every day
is a strong person,
is a caring, loving person,
but the crown she wear is heavy, bro.
She's the type of teammate
that's gon' make you believe in yourself.
And, you know, just to see how the media
ridicule her.
Went through our problems,
but, like, this my sister right here,
and I'm so proud of her, like
The media, y'all, how they like to twist
and call it a villain and all that.
Y'all don't know, Angel, bro.
And I'm just happy
that I get to play with her.
[man] Right here. Go ahead.
[Dan] Dan Zaksheske, outkick.com.
Angel, do you have any thoughts
on your future plans in basketball?
I'll make a decision when I'm ready.
[sniffling]
[Worsham] Sport is a story.
Sport is that primal story distilled into
one beautiful act
where we see what we're capable of,
what's possible.
Forever, college sports has been about
the passion and the institution.
But I think more and more,
the student athlete is becoming
the focal point
and the center of the story.
[announcer] The greatest team to have
never won a national title is no longer.
They will get it.
[announcer] This is a moment
they are going to remember
for the rest of their lives,
and it is so well-deserved.
[Olivia] I'm a national champion.
I remember saying that if we won
that I wanted to be done, but
winning is addicting, let me tell ya.
Alright, here we go. I'm here to say
I'm not Dunne yet.
[interviewer] Does NIL play a part
in your decision to stay?
I mean, brands do like
that I'm a student athleteI won't lie.
This smile is gonna sell these shirts.
Now people come to college like
let me stay, stack up my chips, like,
you know what I'm saying?
Student athletes, they deserve more.
I think NIL is the beginning of it.
It's a money game, but
you also have to love the game as well.
[Roger Goodell] With the second pick
in the 2024 NFL draft,
the Washington Commanders select
Jayden Daniels.
[cheers and applause]
[Jayden] I think you deserve
all the money that you need,
but if you let it become a distraction,
that's your main focus,
then you're just taking away
from what you came here for.
[cheers and applause]
[announcer] This was not someone who just
jumped on the scene in college football.
He earned his way. He got better.
He changed schools.
And now he's the second pick in the draft.
Let's have a good one.
Realistically,
I don't see the NBA in my future.
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
If I didn't make another dime
from any NIL,
but like the content that I made
helped people,
like, I'm good.
That's the most important thing for me.
But the G-wagon is nice, though.
One, two, three.
Nice.
[Reese] I think at some point
it's gonna be all about the money.
But I think the women's side
is super helpful for a lot of us.
Hey, Vogue, it's Angel Reese here,
and I am on set today for
a huge announcement with the Bayou Barbie.
Today we're going to be announcing
that I'll be entering the WNBA draft.
Good morning.
This is the moment you want to be in.
Only 144 people get to play in the WNBA.
[announcer] The Chicago Sky Select
Angel Reese.
[cheers and applause]
[announcer] As we gather here tonight,
it's clear that women's sports
are more than a moment.
[reporter] Quick developing story.
In an historic first, the NCAA
and nation's Power Five conferences
have reached a deal to pay their athletes.
[reporter 2] $2.8 billion settlement
that will allow
some players to be paid
directly by their schools
for playing sports.
Student athletes
kind of has a funny ring to it now.
[Dellenger] The House settlement
is the most significant moment
in the history of college athletics.
Direct pay to athletes is on its way.
The fear is that in the future
the relationship will be only about money.
[Gordon] It is changing quickly.
I just saw the other day
where a basketball team
voted to unionize, right?
So you have 50 states
and different things.
I hope and pray that doesn't change
the fabric of college athletics
in relationship to how the fan supports it
and is involved with it.
[Worsham] The system was skewed one way
unfavorably toward student athletes.
But if we go so hard the other way
and it's a purely financial decision,
we're going to lose so much connection,
so many memories
that I think are vital to American sport.
[Jacobs] A year or two ago,
things were so chaotic
because NIL was chaotic.
Now we're looking at the chaos
of a revenue share.
This is at another level.
History is going to change
in the next year.
But the love of the game
and the money game,
I do believe they can coexist.
I'm gonna leave my Stitch here.
This feels like a dream.
Hold on, it's gonna be the it's soon.
Oh, come on.
Oh, my God!
[laughing] What?
Look at me.
Who's that? The Rhinestone Queen.
Queen, queen.
Queen, queen, queen.
Whoo.
Wow.
Oh, man.
Yay, Evan!
[Evan] You did it. You did that.
- I have a billboard.
- You did it.
[Alia] Instagram, get ready.
Like, really personal
I was really struggling, like
I would have $100 in my account
as one of the star athletes at LSU.
And I was confused why.
I would still be in the same position
if we couldn't do stuff like this.
Um, let's see. Oh, my god.
I just hit 47 K.
Yay!
Whatever happens,
whether I'm at the Olympics,
I'm just really excited
to just start my next life.
- [chime]
- Oh, Angel just said "Go, Queen," period.
I love her. [giggles]
[Garth Brooks: "Callin' Baton Rouge"]
I spent last night
In the arms of a girl in Louisiana ♪
Though I'm out on the highway
My thoughts are still with her ♪
Such a strange combination
Of a woman and a child ♪
Such a strange situation
Stoppin' every hundred miles ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
A replay of last night's events
Roll through my mind ♪
Except a scene or two
Erased by sweet red wine ♪
And I see a truck stop sign ahead
So I change lanes ♪
I need a cup of coffee
And a couple dollars change ♪
Callin' Baton Rouge ♪
Operator, won't you put me on through? ♪
Gotta send my love down to Baton Rouge ♪
Hurry up
Won't you put her on the line? ♪
Gotta talk to the girl
Just one more time ♪