Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are splitting up. The sports power couple announced on Friday that they’re ending their 10-year relationship and phasing out their popular podcast, A Touch More. They dropped the news together on the podcast, per the AP. “I hope you all know we put a lot of thought and care into this,” said Rapinoe, who rose to fame as a member of the women’s World Cup team in 2011, 2015, and 2019. “It’s a decision that we made together. We’re still going to be there for all of you and for each other. It’s just going to look and feel a little bit different.”
Bird is considered one of the greatest women’s basketball players in history. She won four WNBA championships and was a 13-time All-Star over a 20-year career. “We have shared so much of our life, so much of our relationship with you, so that’s why we wanted to come on here and share this, too,” Bird said. “These 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’ve done together.”
Rapinoe is planning to start her own podcast, and Bird is committed to a second season of her own venture, Bird’s Eye View. Bird said they’ll host six more special episodes of A Touch More as a “farewell to you all and to this space.” “We 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,” Rapinoe said.
