South Carolina coach Dawn Staley channels Oprah in postgame remarks
"I think Oprah was passing out turnovers on our team … 'You get a turnover, you get a turnover, you get a turnover.'"
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Dawn Staley on women’s basketball TV rights: ‘We need other networks to show ESPN our worth’
"You're not going to throw hundreds of millions of dollars into our sport if nobody's competing for us in that space."
Iowa vs. South Carolina was ESPN’s most watched CBB game in 15 years
No basketball game on the network has drawn more viewers since Duke-North Carolina in 2008.
Dawn Staley pushes back on media narratives, criticisms for South Carolina’s playing style
"We're not bar fighters. We're not thugs. We're not monkeys. We're not street fighters."
Until NCAA sells women’s tournament as solo TV deal, changes mostly seen as window dressing
“I think really the bottom line is it’s a television package and it’s a unit structure. When that happens, then we’ll know it’s serious.”
March’s best sportswriting: Wright Thompson on Ichiro, Geno Auriemma highlights month’s top stories
The month of March featured loads of good writing, on March Madness, Major League Baseball, the NBA and more.