{"id":591372,"date":"2026-04-18T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:18:12","slug":"sue-bird-and-megan-rapinoe-are-breaking-up-and-phasing-out-their-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591372\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are breaking up and phasing out their podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sue Bird<\/a> and Megan Rapinoe<\/a> are splitting up.<\/p>\n

The sports power couple announced Friday that they are ending their 10-year relationship and phasing out their popular podcast, \u201cA Touch More.\u201d They dropped the news<\/a> together on the podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you all know we put a lot of thought and care into this,\u201d said Rapinoe, who rose to fame as a member of the Women\u2019s World Cup team in 2011, 2015 and 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s a decision that we made together. We\u2019re still going to be there for all of you and for each other. It\u2019s just going to look and feel a little bit different.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe truly are evolving into something new to each other, to ourselves and to all of you, and we just wanted to say thank you for sharing this space with us and giving us this space for us to find ourselves in a different way through this podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bird is considered one of the greatest women\u2019s basketball players in history. She won four WNBA championships<\/a> and was a 13-time All-Star over a 20-year career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have shared so much of our life, so much of our relationship with you, so that\u2019s why we wanted to come on here and share this, too,\u201d Bird said. \u201cThese past 10 years have given us so much, and launching this podcast and sharing this space has been one of our favorite things that we\u2019ve done together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rapinoe is planning to start her own podcast, and Bird is committed to a second season of her own venture, \u201cBird\u2019s Eye View.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gonna look a little bit different moving forward,\u201d Rapinoe said. \u201cObviously, our relationship was such a huge part of this podcast for you guys, but also for us. \u2026 We are both really sad to be losing this space. It\u2019s been so meaningful to us, especially post-retirement, to be able to have this space to share, not just together, but with you as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bird said they will host six more special episodes of \u201cA Touch More\u201d as a \u201cfarewell to you all and to this space.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are splitting up. The sports power couple announced Friday that they are ending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[402,4,450,88,451,3,99,452,453],"class_list":["post-591372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-basketball","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-entertainment","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}