The WNBA begins its 28th season tonight with more buzz and interest in the game from casual hoops fans than the league has enjoyed since its launch year in 1997.
WNBA insiders and boosters know this is an opportunity to make the most of, especially for the tip-off tonight with a double-header of games that getting an unusually wide platformby airing on ESPN 2 and Disney+.
“The WNBA is certainly ready for this,” said Rebecca Lobo, a women’s basketball analyst for ESPN and a former player for the WNBA’s New York Liberty.
The spark for the brighter spotlight and bigger all-around platform that the WNBA this year came from Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso and other college women’s players who commanded international attention during a thrilling NCAA March Madness tournament earlier this year.
NBA insiders and boosters are fervently hoping that the heat around the NCAA finals...
WNBA insiders and boosters know this is an opportunity to make the most of, especially for the tip-off tonight with a double-header of games that getting an unusually wide platformby airing on ESPN 2 and Disney+.
“The WNBA is certainly ready for this,” said Rebecca Lobo, a women’s basketball analyst for ESPN and a former player for the WNBA’s New York Liberty.
The spark for the brighter spotlight and bigger all-around platform that the WNBA this year came from Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso and other college women’s players who commanded international attention during a thrilling NCAA March Madness tournament earlier this year.
NBA insiders and boosters are fervently hoping that the heat around the NCAA finals...
- 5/14/2024
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
The name on everybody’s lips on Monday night in Brooklyn will be Caitlin Clark as the 2024 WNBA Draft takes place on April 15. The Indiana Fever have the top pick and are almost certainly going to select the former Iowa Hawkeye guard No. 1. But beyond Clark, the draft will be filled with incredible talent coming from the college ranks, and you can see each and every pick on ESPN starting at 7:30 p.m. Et. The Streamable’s recommendation to stream the WNBA Draft and the WNBA season is Sling TV. With the streamer’s limited-time deal, you can get 50% off your first month of service of each and every Sling TV plan.
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- 4/15/2024
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
The road to NCAA Women’s Basketball supremacy begins now. The 2024 Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Tournament tips off this week, with 11 games starting Wednesday, March 6 to Sunday, March 10, live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in the entertainment capital of the world: Las Vegas, Nevada. The ten games that run from Wednesday to Friday will air on the Pac-12 Network, while the Championship Game on Sunday, March 10 at 5 p.m. Et will broadcast on ESPN. Catch all the action all week long with a Subscription to Sling TV (50% Off).
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For the 17th time in team history, the Stanford Cardinal come into the Pac-12 tournament as the No. 1 seed after going 26-4 over the regular season,...
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For the 17th time in team history, the Stanford Cardinal come into the Pac-12 tournament as the No. 1 seed after going 26-4 over the regular season,...
- 3/6/2024
- by Thomas Waschenfelder
- The Streamable
There comes a moment in many sports documentaries when viewers find themselves wondering whether they’ve drunk the Gatorade. All the fast cuts and swelling music, the bodily injuries and emotional agony, the triumphant moments and podium tears have a way of pushing our buttons.
In director Sarah Dowland’s “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” that objectivity-questioning pause comes when the WNBA legend’s agent appears for an on-camera interview (she happens to be one of its executive producers as well). No arguing that agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas knows a great deal about Bird and even more about the changes in marketing strategies that women athletes have faced over the years. She also knows that optics matter, and it’s hard not to be a little frustrated that such an obviously biased cheerleader should appear as a source. (Another red flag: NBA Entertainment had a role in producing the doc.
In director Sarah Dowland’s “Sue Bird: In the Clutch,” that objectivity-questioning pause comes when the WNBA legend’s agent appears for an on-camera interview (she happens to be one of its executive producers as well). No arguing that agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas knows a great deal about Bird and even more about the changes in marketing strategies that women athletes have faced over the years. She also knows that optics matter, and it’s hard not to be a little frustrated that such an obviously biased cheerleader should appear as a source. (Another red flag: NBA Entertainment had a role in producing the doc.
- 2/9/2024
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
The top two teams in the WNBA collide in the 27th WNBA Finals best-of-five-game championship series. The defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces are making their third Finals appearance in four seasons and look to become the first team since the 2001-02 Los Angeles Sparks to repeat as champions. The Aces are led by two-time league Mvp A’ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young. The New York Liberty are seeking their first WNBA championship in franchise history. The Liberty are 0-4 in the Finals, and are making their first appearance since 2002. 2023 WNBA Mvp Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Betnijah Laney lead the Liberty. All WNBA Finals games air on ABC or ESPN. Veteran play-by-play announcer Ryan Ruocco calls the game with Basketball Hall of Famers Rebecca Lobo and Holly Rowe providing analysis. Andraya Carter reports from the sidelines. 2023 WNBA Finals TV Schedule on ESPN Networks All Times Eastern/Central. Sunday,...
- 10/6/2023
- TV Insider
The 27th WNBA season tips off with a weekend full of the very best the league has to offer airing on ESPN and ABC. We begin with the Phoenix Mercury heading to L.A. to take on the Sparks, marking the return of Brittney Griner to a WNBA court. On Saturday, we’re treated to a double-header of the Atlanta Dream facing the Dallas Wings, then the defending champion Las Vegas Aces take on the Seattle Storm. WNBA Tip-Off weekend kicks off on Friday, May 19 at 11 p.m. Et. You can watch all the action with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream.
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- 5/19/2023
- by Jeff Kotuby
- The Streamable
It may be another year before Lsu sensation Angel Reese or Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark enter the WNBA, but the league is set to get an infusion of young talent on Monday, April 10 at 7 p.m. Et when the WNBA Draft airs on ESPN. The draft order is set, big boards are done, and all that’s left to do is submit the cards and call the names. The players selected are embarking on the next phase of their careers, and you can watch it from the beginning. You can watch ESPN with a subscription to Sling TV. You can also watch with Directv Stream, Hulu Live TV, Fubo, or YouTube TV.
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From the arrival of the draft prospects on...
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- 4/10/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Sixty-six games of the 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament are in the books, and there’s just one left to play. That’s the national championship game, which will be played Sunday, April 2 at 3:30 p.m. Et on ABC, the ESPN family of channels, and ESPN+. Iowa will face Virginia Tech for the right to call themselves national champions, but who will take home the glory, and who will fall just short? You can find out with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream.
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The 2023 national championship game will feature signature MegaCast presentations across multiple platforms,...
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- 4/2/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
The 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is finally ready to tip off. The First Four games begin the tourney on Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. Et. Then, the first and second rounds of the Big Dance begin in earnest, where 64 teams will whittle down to this season’s champion. You can watch the 2023 NCAA Women’s College Basketball Tournament beginning on Wednesday, March 15 on the ESPN family of networks with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream.
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For the 28th year, ESPN returns as the exclusive home to the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship,...
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- 3/15/2023
- by Jeff Kotuby
- The Streamable
One test of a strong documentary is whether the subject matter could interest everyone or simply aficionados. It’s tough to imagine anybody watching “Unfinished Business” without immediately buying tickets to the next available WNBA game.
Director Alison Klayman (“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”) blends two approaches, offering us an introduction to the league itself as well as a closer look at the New York Liberty team. The truth is that both halves of this film deserve their own movie, but since each is equally compelling, Klayman never once loses our attention.
It certainly helps that she’s got such an extraordinary cast of participants. Wonderful interviews with legendary players like Teresa Weatherspoon, Rebecca Lobo, Crystal Robinson and Sue Wicks set the stage for a time — 1995 to be exact — when the idea of a professional women’s league was barely even a dream.
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Director Alison Klayman (“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”) blends two approaches, offering us an introduction to the league itself as well as a closer look at the New York Liberty team. The truth is that both halves of this film deserve their own movie, but since each is equally compelling, Klayman never once loses our attention.
It certainly helps that she’s got such an extraordinary cast of participants. Wonderful interviews with legendary players like Teresa Weatherspoon, Rebecca Lobo, Crystal Robinson and Sue Wicks set the stage for a time — 1995 to be exact — when the idea of a professional women’s league was barely even a dream.
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- 6/19/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The Women’s Dream Team, the 1996 USA Women’s basketball team, dominated the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 going undefeated to win the gold medal.
The story of how they got there is now to be the subject of a feature doc for ESPN’s 30 for 30 strand.
The film will tell the story of the grueling 15-month road trip that led up to those ’96 Games. It’s the story of the 12 women who were tasked with auditioning the idea of women’s professional basketball in the United States. They absolutely held the very future of the sport in their hands.
After having suffered defeat at the ’92 games and the ’94 World Championship, USA Basketball undertook a revolutionary approach to training its Olympic team by structuring a long-term National Team program comprised of 52 games to turn them into a cohesive unit for 10-months ahead of Atlanta.
Kristen Lappas, who directed...
The story of how they got there is now to be the subject of a feature doc for ESPN’s 30 for 30 strand.
The film will tell the story of the grueling 15-month road trip that led up to those ’96 Games. It’s the story of the 12 women who were tasked with auditioning the idea of women’s professional basketball in the United States. They absolutely held the very future of the sport in their hands.
After having suffered defeat at the ’92 games and the ’94 World Championship, USA Basketball undertook a revolutionary approach to training its Olympic team by structuring a long-term National Team program comprised of 52 games to turn them into a cohesive unit for 10-months ahead of Atlanta.
Kristen Lappas, who directed...
- 5/4/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
ESPN Films’ 20-hour, six-week documentary “Basketball: A Love Story” more resembles a modern rom-com than your typical documentary. Rather than a chronological history lesson, it’s an episodic collection of anecdotes and stories that in some ways have more in common with “Love, Actually” than Ken Burns’ completist “Baseball.”
The film weaves through the heartbreaking story of paralyzed player Maurice Stokes and his dedicated teammate Jack Twyman to the bitter women’s basketball rivalry of Tennessee’s Pat Summit and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma to tales of UCLA’s rise, the Dream Team, the Magic/Bird rivalry, the Aba and the emergence of international stars in the NBA with plenty of stops in-between.
“My film is not a history of basketball, because 20 hours is not even close to long enough,” says director Dan Klores. “But it’s historical so there is a lot of stuff that is not obvious. I...
The film weaves through the heartbreaking story of paralyzed player Maurice Stokes and his dedicated teammate Jack Twyman to the bitter women’s basketball rivalry of Tennessee’s Pat Summit and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma to tales of UCLA’s rise, the Dream Team, the Magic/Bird rivalry, the Aba and the emergence of international stars in the NBA with plenty of stops in-between.
“My film is not a history of basketball, because 20 hours is not even close to long enough,” says director Dan Klores. “But it’s historical so there is a lot of stuff that is not obvious. I...
- 10/9/2018
- by Chris Parker
- Variety Film + TV
President Barack Obama appeared on Espn Thursday to fill out his bracket for the Ncaa Women’s Basketball Tournament a day after doing the same for the men’s field, the first round of which begins today. Obama, a basketball player himself, shared his picks with former Wnba and Uconn star Rebecca Lobo. Her Huskies are the prohibitive favorites to win their third consecutive national title, and the President wasn’t feeling lucky. When Lobo noted that Obama has been more successful at picking the women’s champion than the men’s in recent years, the President replied, “Because I’ve picked Uconn a lot.
- 3/19/2015
- by Joe Otterson and Jordan Burchette
- The Wrap
Ncaa Women’s Final Four dates, times and TV channel for the Louisville vs. California and Connecticut vs. Notre Dame Ncaa Women’s Basketball Tournament national semifinal games. Related: Espn analysts Doris Burke, Kara Lawson, Rebecca Lobo and Carolyn Peck weigh in on the Final Four teams. From Espn’s press release: Espn’s Ncaa Women’s Final Four Coverage from New Orleans Arena, New Orleans National Semifinals – Sunday, April 7: No. 5 Louisville vs. No. 2 California at 6:30 p.m. Et; No. 1 Connecticut vs. No. 1 Notre Dame at 8:30 p.m. National Championship – Tuesday, April 9: Winner of Semifinal Games at [...]...
- 4/5/2013
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
'It's an opportunity to have a performance that will be talked about forever,' band says of taking the Movie Awards stage on June 3.
By James Montgomery
Nate Ruess of fun.
Photo: Getty Images
Given that Fun. are the first musical act announced for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, you'd think they'd be privy to all sorts of insider info on the big show, like potential hosts, nominees, etc. But, you'd be wrong. Turns out, they're just as much in the dark as the rest of us.
"We haven't heard anything. Who's going to be there?" frontman Andrew Ruess laughed. "Jackie Chan? Jon Bon Jovi? They better be there, for sure."
Sadly, we can't vouch for either gentleman's availability on June 3, when the Movie Awards air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. But we can tell you that the guys in Fun. are planning on making the most of their time on stage,...
By James Montgomery
Nate Ruess of fun.
Photo: Getty Images
Given that Fun. are the first musical act announced for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, you'd think they'd be privy to all sorts of insider info on the big show, like potential hosts, nominees, etc. But, you'd be wrong. Turns out, they're just as much in the dark as the rest of us.
"We haven't heard anything. Who's going to be there?" frontman Andrew Ruess laughed. "Jackie Chan? Jon Bon Jovi? They better be there, for sure."
Sadly, we can't vouch for either gentleman's availability on June 3, when the Movie Awards air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. But we can tell you that the guys in Fun. are planning on making the most of their time on stage,...
- 4/29/2012
- MTV Movie News
'It's an opportunity to have a performance that will be talked about forever,' band says of taking the Movie Awards stage on June 3.
By James Montgomery
Nate Ruess of fun.
Photo: Getty Images
Given that Fun. are the first musical act announced for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, you'd think they'd be privy to all sorts of insider info on the big show, like potential hosts, nominees, etc. But, you'd be wrong. Turns out, they're just as much in the dark as the rest of us.
"We haven't heard anything. Who's going to be there?" frontman Andrew Ruess laughed. "Jackie Chan? Jon Bon Jovi? They better be there, for sure."
Sadly, we can't vouch for either gentleman's availability on June 3, when the Movie Awards air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. But we can tell you that the guys in Fun. are planning on making the most of their time on stage,...
By James Montgomery
Nate Ruess of fun.
Photo: Getty Images
Given that Fun. are the first musical act announced for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, you'd think they'd be privy to all sorts of insider info on the big show, like potential hosts, nominees, etc. But, you'd be wrong. Turns out, they're just as much in the dark as the rest of us.
"We haven't heard anything. Who's going to be there?" frontman Andrew Ruess laughed. "Jackie Chan? Jon Bon Jovi? They better be there, for sure."
Sadly, we can't vouch for either gentleman's availability on June 3, when the Movie Awards air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. But we can tell you that the guys in Fun. are planning on making the most of their time on stage,...
- 4/29/2012
- MTV Music News
Kermit the Frog and Walter also begin write-in campaign for 'Muppet Show' faves Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Vote now!
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Josh Wigler
Walter and Kermit
Photo: MTV News
The Muppets might not strike you as a particularly hoops-savvy bunch, until you realize they've hung out with everyone from Dr. J to Rebecca Lobo and just did a movie with Jason Segel, who is, like, 7 feet tall and can definitely dunk.
So obviously, when Kermit the Frog and his pal Walter stopped by the MTV Newsroom earlier this week, we had to get their take on our ongoing Musical March Madness tournament, which pits the 64 biggest bands against one another in a bracket battle for ultimate superiority ... just like the actual Ncaa basketball tournament, only with more Coheed and Cambria.
Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the...
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Josh Wigler
Walter and Kermit
Photo: MTV News
The Muppets might not strike you as a particularly hoops-savvy bunch, until you realize they've hung out with everyone from Dr. J to Rebecca Lobo and just did a movie with Jason Segel, who is, like, 7 feet tall and can definitely dunk.
So obviously, when Kermit the Frog and his pal Walter stopped by the MTV Newsroom earlier this week, we had to get their take on our ongoing Musical March Madness tournament, which pits the 64 biggest bands against one another in a bracket battle for ultimate superiority ... just like the actual Ncaa basketball tournament, only with more Coheed and Cambria.
Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the...
- 3/14/2012
- MTV Music News
The women's college basketball season isn't even a month old, but it already feels like March Madness. Several top teams have faced off in early games and another big match-up looms when the past two Ncaa champions — No. 8 Texas A&M at No. 2 Connecticut — face off at the Jimmy V Classic tonight (part of a cancer-research initiative honoring late North Carolina State coach Jimmy Valvano). The winner of that game won't be moving up to the top of the rankings heap. (At least not yet.) That spot is being tenaciously held by Baylor, which has already defeated No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 7 Tennessee. "They are a pretty intimidating team," says Espn's Rebecca Lobo. "They've got Brittney Griner back, the most dominant player in women's college basketball."
A 6-foot-8 All-American, Griner led the Lady Bears to Big 12 regular season and tournament titles last spring. She was also the only collegian to.
A 6-foot-8 All-American, Griner led the Lady Bears to Big 12 regular season and tournament titles last spring. She was also the only collegian to.
- 12/6/2011
- by Rich Sands
- TVGuide - Breaking News
In last week’s battle round, The Voice paired unlikely opponents — too unlikely, if you ask me. Tuesday’s duels made much more sense: Blake Shelton selected his sweetest dames, Christina Aguilera matched up two satisfied Jessica McClintock customers, Adam Levine pitted his freak-flag color guard members against one other, and Cee Lo threw together all the pageant hair left on his squad. So who prevailed? Who took a tumble in the oversize boxing ring of improbable dreams? Let’s rank the four duet winners from “likeliest to win the show” to “likeliest to win a ham sandwich at a state fair.
- 5/25/2011
- by Louis Virtel
- TVLine.com
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