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November 17, 2022
Pro Volleyball Federation to launch inaugural U.S. women’s season in 2024
The Pro Volleyball Federation announced its presence Thursday and said it will begin play in February 2024, calling itself “real pro volleyball and the premier women’s professional volleyball league in North America.” The organizers, while making their announcement, revealed that Columbus, Ohio, and Dallas-Fort Worth will be two of what...
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November 15, 2022
Women’s Volleyball Continues to Draw Major Media Interest
ESPN has enjoyed multiple years of increased ratings for its women’s college volleyball coverage — and as a result has expressed interest in renewing its deal in the future. In the meantime, however, ESPN is investing in a professional version of the game. FOS
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November 14, 2022
Tour of Britain and Women’s Tour organizer signs four-year deal with Welsh government
The Welsh government has partnered up with the Tour of Britain and Women’s Tour organizer, SweetSpot, to host key stages of the two races. The 2024 Women’s Tour will set off from Wales for the first time in the race’s history. The deal will conclude in 2026 with the Women’s Tour...
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November 10, 2022
WNBA to allow coaches challenge next season
The WNBA will allow coaches to challenge one play a game next season, and the league is also heightening the penalty for transition take fouls. The league announced the changes on Thursday. The league’s competition committee recommended the rules changes and the WNBA Board of Governors approved them. Both rules,...
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November 6, 2022
This Is What It’s Like Surfing While Pregnant
Surfing is a difficult sport under any circumstances. But surfing while pregnant is an entirely different beast. While many women, respectively, decide to opt out of surfing during their pregnancy, there is another group that won’t let anything stand between them and riding waves. We caught up with eight ordinary...
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October 27, 2022
Second Women’s Tour De France Takes On Tourmalet Climb
The second edition of the women's Tour de France will start from Clermont-Ferrand on July 23 next year, race director Marion Rousse announced on Thursday. The centrepiece of the 2023 route is the Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees and the route climbs to over 2,100 metres while the eight...
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October 17, 2022
espnW Announces Full Agenda and Speakers for the Annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit, presented by Toyota
Taking place November 1-3 at Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, CA, the Summit brings together leaders across sports, business, and entertainment for a curated program of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, and presentations, all focused on advancing women in sports. Programming from this year’s Summit will also be live streamed across select...
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October 17, 2022
Women’s Sports Surge Continues As NWSL Sets Attendance Records
The Kansas City Current ousted the Houston Dash in Sunday’s NWSL playoffs quarterfinal in front of the biggest crowd in the league’s postseason history. While the afternoon match drew 21,284 fans to Houston’s PNC Stadium, the evening’s quarterfinal game at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium — in which the Wave beat...
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October 5, 2022
Tour de France Femmes set for Massif Central start in 2023
There is no Paris start on the cards for this year's Tour de France Femmes, which is instead set to depart from Clermont-Ferrand in the Massif Central. The race takes place over eight stages from Sat 23 to Sat 30 July next year, once again beginning the same day the...
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September 28, 2022
UCI to host road championships for Afghan women next month in Switzerland
Afghan women racers who were evacuated last year in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover will be racing next month for the 2022 Afghanistan Women’s National Championships. The UCI confirmed the date set for October 23 near the UCI’s headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland. Velo News
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September 26, 2022
Arsenal Set Women’s Super League Attendance Record
A total of 47,367 fans watched Arsenal’s 4-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Emirates Stadium on Saturday — almost 10,000 more than the previous record. In total, the team sold more than 53,000 tickets. The record comes just a month-and-a-half after the Women’s Euro 2022 final set a record on its...
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September 21, 2022
Tour de France Femmes: A lasting impact?
For most of its 120 years of existence, the Tour de France was misogynistic. Pro men’s teams had no female staff members; the presence of women in official race vehicles was not allowed; and a woman journalist in the press room was a rare sight. Matters began to change in...
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September 14, 2022
London Marathon follows Boston in adding non-binary category
Five of the six largest marathons in the world will soon allow runners to compete without registering as men or women. The London Marathon changed its policy on Wednesday. Inside The Games
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September 13, 2022
WNBA Finals Draws 550K Viewers Opposite First NFL Sunday
Game 1 of the WNBA Finals had to go up against the first Sunday of the NFL regular season, but still drew an impressive audience. The Las Vegas Aces’ 67-64 victory over the Connecticut Sun broadcast on ABC averaged 550,000 viewers, the network announced ahead of Tuesday’s Game 2. Sunday’s...
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September 12, 2022
Record Broken: One of the Hardest FKTs in the US
After 2 years, Sabrina Stanley’s women’s supported FKT on Nolan’s 14 is no more. Andrea Sansone began a record attempt — running south to north — in the early hours of the morning on Sept. 10 and finished less than 2 days later, on the morning of Monday, Sept. 12....
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September 7, 2022
U.K. Doubles Women’s Sports Viewership From 2021
In the U.K., 36.1 million people watched women’s sports between January and July of this year — more than double the 17.5 million people that watched during the same period in 2021, according to the Women’s Sport Trust. Not only were more people watching, but each individual’s average viewing time...
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September 6, 2022
Serena’s Swan Song – ESPN’s Most-Watched Tennis Telecast on Record
Friday’s US Open Third Round match on ESPN – apparently the last in the remarkable career of Serena Williams, as she lost to Ajla Tomljanovich of Australia 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 – is the most-watched tennis telecast on record in ESPN’s 43-year history. An average of 4.6 million viewers (P2+) tuned...
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September 1, 2022
Serena Williams’ Last Dance Continues To Spark Big TV Numbers
Serena Williams’ last dance at the U.S. Open produced monster TV numbers for ESPN. The retiring Williams’ second-round victory over Anett Kontaveit Wednesday night averaged 2.3 million viewers in the “PrimeTime at the US Open” window from 7 pm to 12:13 am ET. That was up 289% from ESPN’s comparable primetime...
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August 31, 2022
Women’s Euro 2022 Is Most-Watched Ever
A month after its Wembley Stadium finale, the Women’s Euro 2022 tournament keeps setting records. UEFA revealed on Wednesday that across TV, out-of-home viewing, and streaming, the 16-team tournament had a projected global cumulative live viewership of 365 million — the most-watched women’s Euro ever. The figure is more than double 2017’s viewership of 178 million...
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August 31, 2022
Serena Williams’ U.S. Open Match Averages 2.7M Viewers
Serena Williams’ farewell tour during the U.S. Open is generating big TV ratings for ESPN. The Worldwide Leader’s coverage of Williams’ straight-sets victory over Danka Kovinic on Monday night averaged 2.7 million viewers — nearly four times the viewership ESPN earned in the comparable primetime window in 2021. FOS
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August 29, 2022
Leah Kirchmann announces retirement following road world championships
After a 12-year career, the Canadian rider will make her last appearance in Team DSM colors at the Simac Ladies Tour this week before competing at the world championships in Australia next month. VeloNews
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August 29, 2022
Mountain biker Haley Batten reaches World Championship podium twice in Les Gets
Haley Batten was aiming for a world championship podium finish this week in Les Gets, France. She captured two. Four days after helping the U.S. to a third-place finish in the cross-country team relay at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Batten finished third Sunday in the elite women’s cross-country...
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August 26, 2022
The NCAA Plans to Fund and Host a Women’s NIT
The NCAA’s Division I women’s basketball committee is planning to host a tournament similar to the men’s National Invitational Tournament (NIT) — a secondary event to March Madness, according to minutes of an August NCAA meeting that Front Office Sports reviewed. The minutes confirm an Athlon Sports/D1 Ticker report. FOS
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August 23, 2022
San Diego Wave to break NWSL single-game attendance record, Alex Morgan reveals
The San Diego Wave has sold in excess of 27,000 tickets for its Sept. 17 match against Angel City FC, enough to break the National Women's Soccer League's all-time attendance record for a standalone game. The Wave and U.S. international forward Alex Morgan revealed the attendance numbers in an exclusive...
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August 22, 2022
Tickets to see Serena Williams in her last U.S. Open are selling fast
Tickets for the opening night and the two following nights virtually sold old, and resale prices are surging, The tennis superstar, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, announced earlier this month her intention to retire at age 41 after losing in the first round of the tournament this year to Harmony Tan, the...
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