{"id":3202,"date":"2021-03-22T02:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2021-03-22T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T06:10:09","slug":"five-women-dominating-the-sports-media-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/2021\/03\/22\/five-women-dominating-the-sports-media-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Women Dominating The Sports Media Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it is important to recognize and uplift women regardless of the time of year, in honor of Women&#8217;s History Month, here are five of my favorite women currently working in the sports media industry:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kendra Andrews, NBC Sports Bay Area<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prior to covering the Golden State Warriors for NBC Sports, Andrews was a Denver Nuggets beat writer for <em>The Athletic<\/em>. She did a tremendous job emphasizing the significance of Denver&#8217;s 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2070162\/2020\/09\/16\/put-it-in-the-history-books-nuggets-overcome-3-1-deficit-again-to-advance\/\">postseason run,<\/a> all while highlighting the players (and <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2030161\/2020\/09\/01\/michael-porter-jr-s-rookie-season-through-the-eyes-of-those-who-taught-him\/\">people<\/a>) that made it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, Andrews wrote one of my favorite feature stories about standout Stanford Cardinal basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1055898\/2019\/07\/02\/fran-belibi-could-change-womens-basketball-but-her-focus-remains-on-becoming-a-doctor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fran Belibi<\/a>, a dunking sensation who became the first woman (on record) to throw down an alley-oop in game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Regis Jesuit&#039;s Fran Belibi: First-ever high school girls&#039; basketball alley-oop\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXqIYammf74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kendra, and her sister Malika who covered the NBA Bubble for ESPN in 2020, are a familial duo taking the sports media landscape by storm.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Katy Winge, Altitude Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether it be color commentary, sideline reporting or in-studio coverage following a game, you can always expect expert Denver Nuggets&#8217; analysis from Katy Winge.<\/p>\n<p>Winge, who played Division I basketball at Illinois State, routinely provides her Twitter following with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katywinge\/status\/1373082911612698625?s=20\">&#8220;Keys to the Game&#8221;<\/a> prior to any Nuggets&#8217; matchup, team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katywinge\/status\/1364255542382784516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a> you won&#8217;t find anywhere else and occasional comedic relief:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Slightly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I9zWeo8KKu\">https:\/\/t.co\/I9zWeo8KKu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/05Xulsd12H\">pic.twitter.com\/05Xulsd12H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katy Winge (@katywinge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katywinge\/status\/1366928335318650881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best way for women to be successful in this field and to get those opportunities is to be prepared beyond belief for when those doors open,&#8221; Winge said for a Women&#8217;s History Month feature in 2020. And Winge was talking from experience because in 2019, on International Women&#8217;s Day (March 8), Winge served as a third broadcaster for the Nuggets\u2019 commentary team in a game against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so prepared and ready that I wanted to crush it to the point where they said &#8216;ok, she can do this let\u2019s give her some games on her own,'&#8221; Winge said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jordan Ligons and Haley O&#8217; Shaughnessy, Spinsters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This dynamic duo recently started their own podcast, <em>Spinsters<\/em>, which puts a &#8220;spin&#8221; on basketball conversations. They recently produced a feature story about Magic Johnson&#8217;s 1991 <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-nbas-first-global-health-crisis\/id1549716001?i=1000511541649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIV diagnosis<\/a> while drawing comparisons to the NBA&#8217;s current handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and another feature story about <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/why-dont-people-think-women-dunk\/id1549716001?i=1000513216967\">dunking<\/a> in women&#8217;s basketball (a great follow-up to Andrews&#8217; Belibi article).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">new pod!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natalieweiner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@natalieweiner<\/a> brings us a story about women and girls dunking and the misconceptions people have about physical ability. hint there are a lot of them<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oZINcVVG5h\">https:\/\/t.co\/oZINcVVG5h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; haley o&#39;shaughnessy (@HaleyOSomething) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaleyOSomething\/status\/1371837578702376960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ligons, who played Division II basketball at Point Loma Nazarene University and is an editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojo.sport\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOJO<\/a>, and O&#8217; Shaughnessy, who used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/authors\/haley-oshaughnessy\/archives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write<\/a> about the NBA for <em>The Ringer<\/em>, are two women providing basketball fans with exceptional original storytelling.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Jasmyn Wimbish, CBS Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Wimbish produces NBA content for CBS Sports, like this story about civil rights activist and former Chicago Bull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/craig-hodges-weighs-in-on-nba-protest-and-activism-they-shouldve-never-went-down-there-in-the-first-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craig Hodges<\/a>, Wimbish&#8217;s Twitter is the place to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">got my copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulieDiCaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JulieDiCaro<\/a>\u2019s new book in the mail today. can\u2019t wait to dig in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlATs6Fz76\">pic.twitter.com\/dlATs6Fz76<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jasmyn Wimbish (@JasmynWimbish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasmynWimbish\/status\/1372650225601556485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You will see a lot of Dallas Mavericks&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasmynWimbish\/status\/1372395842687107073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praise<\/a>, but also tweets referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasmynWimbish\/status\/1371287306947153921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pop culture<\/a> and current events all while never shying away from saying what is on her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasmynWimbish\/status\/1372548908585529347\">mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Women belong in sports. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually, let me rephrase that. Women <em>need<\/em> to be in sports. Without them, the entire sports landscape would be willfully ignorant to a whole range of necessary opinions and viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>That ignorance was recently on full display when former NBA star Shaquille O&#8217;Neal told WNBA legend Candace Parker lowering the rims in women&#8217;s basketball would increase the popularity of the sport:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Candace Parker wasn&#39;t into Shaq&#39;s suggestion that the WNBA should lower the rim so that players could dunk &quot;It&#39;s coming&#8230;My next child will be drop step dunking&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5tVkRJ3Nb4\">pic.twitter.com\/5tVkRJ3Nb4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; gifdsports (@gifdsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gifdsports\/status\/1372066565085073408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Until we get rid of the notion that manliness is the key to success in sports, we cannot progress. Until the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sedonaprince_\/status\/1372736231562342402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA<\/a> lives up to the standards promised in Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, we cannot move forward. And until we recognize that women are equally dedicated, if not more, to their craft as men are, sports will remain in a perpetual cycle of toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it is important to recognize and uplift women regardless of the time of year, in honor of Women&#8217;s History Month, here are five of my favorite women currently working in the sports media industry: Kendra Andrews, NBC Sports Bay Area Prior to covering the Golden State Warriors for NBC Sports, Andrews was a Denver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4985,"featured_media":3239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-women-in-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportsreporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}