{"id":288989,"date":"2025-10-09T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:22:10","slug":"wnba-finals-cba-conversations-fight-for-tv-time-sporticast-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288989\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals, CBA Conversations Fight for TV Time: Sporticast Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Jacob Feldman are joined by Just Women\u2019s Sports founder and CEO Haley Rosen to discuss record-breaking ratings for the WNBA<\/a> Finals\u2014and the player vs. commissioner feud that has threatened to overshadow on-court proceedings. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe national conversation is not serving [WNBA] fans,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cFor me, it continues to prove that legacy media\u2014they have a slot for a token women\u2019s sports story, and that story right now is the CBA conversations. And again, that should be part of the national discussion, but there\u2019s a lot more there that fans are thinking about and talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WNBA and the Women\u2019s National Basketball Players Association are nearing a work stoppage that could begin at the end of the month as they negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. Amid those conversations, WNBPA VP Napheesa Collier said<\/a> that the league has \u201cthe worst leadership in the world.\u201d Those comments got the attention of talking heads including Stephen A. Smith, but have left fans interested in the ongoing Aces and Mercury matchup wanting more, Rosen said.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe pointed to MLB, which is nearing its own moment of labor strife but is still producing playoff-specific conversation for mainstream audiences at the same time. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s this groundswell of interest and fandom that is building and growing but we have to set up this infrastructure to take advantage of this opportunity and build this into the industry we all know it can and should be,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t(You can subscribe to Sporticast through Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, or wherever else you get your podcasts.)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Jacob Feldman are joined by Just Women\u2019s Sports founder…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[23136,5723,62,3581,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-288989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-cathy-engelbert","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-media","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115343716814797831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}