The WNBA is booming. It’s part of a larger trend in women’s sports.
The WNBA’s new season is off to a meteoric start, in just one sign of the momentum women’s sports currently have.In the first five WNBA games that have aired on ESPN, average viewership topped 1 million people and surpassed last year’s average by 226 percent, reports the AP’s Doug Feinberg. In-person audiences are up 14 percent compared to last year as well, Feinberg adds. And the league’s app downloads have similarly skyrocketed, growing 146 percent.[...]... read more at vox.com