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1 day ago · Todd Kelly. May 29, 2024 3:13 pm ET. The 2024 U.S. Women’s Open tees off Thursday at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It’ll be the 79th rendition of the longest running women’s professional golf championship. “When I was at media day here about a month ago, I used the number nine a lot,” said USGA CEO Mike Whan on ...
Jul 27, 2021 · Hosted by Lindsay Czarniak, MJ Acosta-Ruiz, and Lolo Jones, “On Her Turf at the Olympics” streams for free on Peacock on Monday-Saturday at 7pm ET and Sundays at 6pm ET.
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- Pitch, Fox
- A League of Their Own, Amazon Prime Video
- Spinning Out, Netflix
- Glow, Netflix
- Make It Or Break It, ABC Family
- Playing The Field, BBC One
- The Kicks, Amazon Prime Video
- All American: Homecoming, The CW
- Long Slow Exhale, Spectrum Originals/Bet
- Big Shot, Disney+
As you might’ve guessed from the title, Fox’s drama series Pitch takes place within the world of baseball; more specifically, in Major League Baseball. Pitch follows the story of Ginny Baker, a rookie but talented pitcher who is known for her screwball pitch. She rises to fame when she’s called up by the San Diego Padres and becomes the first woman...
80s babies might be familiar with this title, as the 1992 movie of the same name remains iconic and inspirational to female athletes to this day. A League of Their Ownis a television adaptation of said film, albeit with new characters and a new storyline as well! Set in 1943, the comedy-drama tells of the beginnings of the Rockford Peaches, the rea...
Competing professionally can be both a rewarding and taxing experience, and this is something viewers witness in Netflix’s Spinning Out. The show’s main character is Katarina Baker, a young figure skater who is on her way to the top when she suffers from a disastrous fall. She thought her career was over, but she has a chance to continue as a pairs...
Set in the 1980s, Netflix’s GLOWborrows from real-life events in the women’s wrestling world of that decade. More specifically, it showcases the (fictionalized version of) women and the gimmicks of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known as, of course, GLOW), a women’s professional wrestlingcircuit. Ruth Wilder is an aspiring actress who’s str...
Still keeping it on the track of making it to the Olympics is Make It or Break It, an ABC Family original. In the series, we meet a group of elite-level gymnasts who are training for the 2012 Summer Olympics: Kaylie, Lauren, Payson, and newcomer Emily. They’re immediately met with internal conflict as Emily struggles to fit in amongst the other gir...
We’re heading across the pond with BBC One’s Playing the Field, a British sports drama series that ran for 5 seasons. It was inspired by a novel from sports and history author Pete Davies entitled I Lost My Heart To The Belles, which speaks of the real-life football club, the Doncaster Belles. Instead, Playing the Fieldtells the story of the fictio...
In the real-life world of American soccer, Alex Morgan is a household name. Adding to her stellar soccer career is her work as an author and creator of The Kicks, a teen sitcom based on her series of books. The series follows twelve-year-old Devin Burke, star and soon-to-be captain of her soccer team in Connecticut. However, her family is forced to...
All American: Homecomingis the first show on our list that focuses on not just one sport, but two: tennis and baseball. However, in the interest of following the female athlete protagonist, we’re focusing on Simone Hicks’ storyline as it departs from the parent series, All American, which was all about American football. In Homecoming, Simon has le...
Long Slow Exhaleis one of the newer shows on the list but sadly, it was also just recently canceled after only one season. J.C. Abernathy is the head coach of a women’s championship basketballteam who becomes part of a controversial sexual abuse scandal that could end her career. In her pursuit for the truth, she uncovers many secrets that force he...
David E. Kelley already has a diverse portfolio of TV shows under his belt, and he recently added the sports drama Big Shotto the list. The series follows the adventure of Marvyn Korn, a basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin whose unpredictable temper eventually gets him fired. That leads to him relocating to California, where he becomes ...
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Oct 19, 2023 · October 19, 2023. Elyse Noonan, Lindsay Schanzer, Lyndsay Signor, Kathryn Tappen and Maria Taylor describe the critical roles that women play in NBC Sports’ launch of its landmark Big Ten agreement, what it means to break barriers in the male-dominated sports world, and why representation matters.
Nov 11, 2022 · NBC Sports will air its first ever women’s college basketball broadcast Saturday as #9-ranked Notre Dame will face Cal in the inaugural Shamrock Classic in St. Louis. In addition to being the first women’s college basketball broadcast for the network, it will also feature an all-women announcing crew.
May 21, 2024 · NBC Sports will surround the 79 th U.S. Women’s Open with roughly 16.5 hours of live studio coverage from Lancaster Country Club with its critically acclaimed Golf Central Live From the U.S. Women’s Open on GOLF Channel and Peacock. Pre-championship coverage begins on Wednesday, May 29, at 1 p.m. ET and continues through the conclusion of ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Thu, Mar 14, 2024 · 4 min read. In celebration of Women’s Empowerment Month, NBC Sports Boston, the Boston Celtics and Connecticut Sun are teaming up for an all-female broadcast of the...
