Restaurant Showing Only Women's Sports to Expand in US

2024-05-03

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  • There is a place in Portland, Oregon where people like to spend time enjoying food and drinks and watching sports on television.
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  • Places like it are called sports bars in America.
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  • This sports bar in Portland has an unusual name.
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  • It is called The Sports Bra, and it only shows women's sports events on television.
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  • A sports bra is a piece of under clothing that many women wear while exercising.
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  • The Portland sports bar is getting so popular that some well-known investors are getting interested.
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  • They include Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of social media service Reddit.
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  • They want to expand The Sports Bra restaurants all over the U.S. Ohanian is also the husband of one of the world's most famous female athletes - Serena Williams.
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  • He runs an investment fund that will help businesspeople open restaurants in their cities.
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  • Jenny Nguyen founded The Sports Bra. She said she only wanted to create a little restaurant.
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  • She is surprised by the interest in her business.
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  • "Things have happened at light speed," Nguyen said.
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  • The time appears to be right for bars like The Sports Bra because of the sudden interest in women's sports.
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  • There are other successful bars that only show women's sports, but have different names, in cities including Minneapolis, Minnesota and Seattle, Washington.
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  • The recent women's college basketball championship in the U.S. was the most-watched ever.
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  • Almost 19 million people watched the final game on April 7.
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  • For the first time, that was more than watched the men's final game.
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  • One week later, 2.45 million people watched the WNBA draft.
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  • The event is where professional teams choose college players to play for them.
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  • People wanted to see the Indiana Fever pick the University of Iowa's star player Caitlin Clark.
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  • Clark recently signed a $28 million contract to advertise for Nike shoes.
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  • Interest is increasing for other women's sports.
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  • Almost 2 million fans went to women's World Cup soccer games in Australia and New Zealand last year.
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  • A women's volleyball game played in a football stadium in Nebraska brought in 92,000 fans last August.
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  • It was the largest-ever crowd for a women's sports event.
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  • Lauren Anderson is director of the Warsaw Sports Business Center at the University of Oregon.
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  • She called the current time a "pinnacle moment," adding that women's sports seem to be "more than just a flash in the pan."
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  • Nguyen said sports bars were not always welcoming to women.
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  • A sports fan all her life, she said she would only go to sports bars with friends because she felt uncomfortable going alone.
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  • She remembered that people who worked at the bar would not always put women's sports on the televisions.
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  • She said she wanted to start The Sports Bra to "flip the status quo."
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  • And now that the restaurant has been in business for several years, she has a favorite memory.
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  • It came in 2022 when a large crowd came to watch Serena Williams' final match.
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  • People cheered loudly when Williams made a good shot, and the whole bar was quiet when the players were hitting the ball back and forth.
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  • Toward the end, she said, many people got emotional thinking that they would never see Williams play again.
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  • They started crying, and Nguyen passed out facial paper so people could wipe away their tears.
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  • Williams' final match was on television all over the world, but fans came to enjoy it together.
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  • Nguyen said people were watching through the windows because there was not enough space inside.
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  • But not every women's sport is easy to find.
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  • College and Olympic sports like water polo, volleyball, tennis, softball and others are rarely on big TV channels.
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  • It can be costly to purchase a special TV channel that only carries smaller sports events.
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  • A place like The Sports Bra offers those unusual games for people wanting to see them.
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  • But not everyone likes going to a place like a sports bar to watch games on television.
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  • Joanna is a fan who was walking into a recent professional baseball game in San Diego.
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  • "I don't think I would go. I don't really like going to watch sports at bars. I'm more of like a 'live, in-person' (fan)."
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  • She was with Alex, who said he probably would go:
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  • "It would be interesting. I mean, it depends on what sport I'm watching. I do watch the WNBA once in a while on the TV. And also, like, pickleball, those are the co-eds and the singles, women's, so I mean, I would watch it."
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  • One fan, Shreya, was standing outside of a sports bar watching the end of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball game on television.
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  • She said she would go to The Sports Bra but said she wants to be sure it is not just a scheme to get people into the bar.
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  • "I follow the WNBA. The local (San Diego) Wave (women's) soccer team. I have two girls. Assuming it has some sort of family-friendly vibe, like a restaurant and bar, it would be cool. The reason for the pause was because I don't feel like it should be segregated. I would want it to be at par with men's sports.'"
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  • One expert agrees. Tarlan Chahardovali is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina in the department of Sport and Entertainment Management.
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  • Chahardovali said there is still work to be done to make sure the media market does not undervalue women's sports.
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  • She said there needs to be investment to be sure the current popularity does not disappear.
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  • "Today's numbers are hard to ignore, and I think it's a very exciting time," she said.
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  • I'm Dan Friedell. And I'm Gena Bennett.