More people watched the Lionesses’ victory over the Republic of Ireland on ITV1 than the combined audience for Arsenal and Manchester City’s Champions League games last night.

England’s game watched by an average of 1,479,000 viewers while Arsenal’s was 617,000 and City 685,000.

Zendaya says breaking away from high school roles is 'refreshing,' but admits 'I wish I went to school' in real life.

“I have complicated feelings about kids and fame...I was thrust into a very adult position [as a teen star]: I was becoming the breadwinner of my family very…

For the first time in history, the NCAA women's basketball title game drew more viewers than the men's.

Not many sports stories are big enough for The Wall Street Journal to send as a news alert to subscribers.

This one is:

The WaPo is one of the few places that does invest in women’s basketball coverage year-round. Kareem Copeland is on the beats for Washington Mystics and Maryland Women’s Basketball and travels with both. Before him it was Ava Wallace and before her Gene Wang.

BREAKING: The NAIA is banning transgender athletes from women's sports competitions

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All the emotions ❤️ dawnstaley

#NationalChampionship x 🎥 ABC / South Carolina Women's Basketball

“Caitlin Clark, if you’re out there, you are one of the GOATs of our game” - dawnstaley

This is the No. 1 equity improvement the NCAA could make, according to basically every high-profile women's coach. Baker is finally giving a timeline for the implementation of a units system after saying that NCAA will be rich enough to consider it given the new media deal.

Iowa-UConn WBB is ESPN’s most-viewed basketball game … ever. And it’s ESPN’s second-biggest audience for a non-football game … ever.

Full Dawn Staley quote on trans athletes in sports: “I’m on the opinion of, if you’re a woman you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play, that’s my opinion”

Pushed on a yes or no she simply says, “yes”

Three The Washington Post journalists are on the ground in Cleveland for the #WFinalFour

Make sure to read their latest ahead of tonight’s games, and follow them for more live coverage 🧵🏀

When discussing the HVL/Caitlin Clark shrug

“I’m not gonna lie I would just foul out” - Kelsey Plum

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“Speaking of fouling out Cam is back” - Diana Taurasi 😭😭😭

Incredibly, BuzzFeed is adding new trash links to our stories revealing the detention camps in Xinjiang. Our work on the camps' capacity now has links out to clickbait (the original links to research/other reporting that Megha Rajagopalan and I put in are still there).

Caitlin Clark gives a GLOWING review of her first time being in Cleveland

“You could stay in there for a week and still have more things to do”

Six of our seven most read sports stories yesterday were about NCAA women's basketball dang

In case you thought the viewers weren't there before:

In 1995, 7.4 million people watched UConn beat Tennessee in the final on CBS. ESPN took over the rights. It took 28 years for the championship to get back on network television. More from Lindsay Gibbs
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Iowa-LSU's average 12.3 million viewers are more than:

• Every women's college basketball game ever
• Every ESPN college basketball game ever
• Every MLB game last season
• Every NHL game last season
• Every MLS game last season
• Every NBA game last season except one
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