ESPN Tells 'Her Story' In March
Sports Giant Celebrates Women's History Months Across Multiple Platforms
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 3/1/2009 12:59:55 PM
This month, ESPN will tell Her Story.
To commemorate women's history month, the sports programmer in March will devote an array of its assets to tell tale of the inspirational side of distaff athletics, culminating with a one-hour special, Her Story, hosted by SportsCenter host Hannah Storm.
Throughout the month, ESPN.com will host a dedicated page home to original content, including stories, columns, video and links from all platforms, including Outside the Lines and ESPNRISE.com, as well as a community space where fans can engage in conversations, blogs and more. This page will also serve as the home to the my story link where fans can send in inspirational clips, with the winner being shown on televised Her Story special.
Beginning March 8, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic and ESPNU will begin airing a series of vignettes during studio shows, as well as during basketball programming. The first will feature Davidson basketball player Stephen Curry discussing his mother, Sonya Curry, a former volleyball standout for Virginia Tech. Some of the other shorts will focus on inspirational young women like Kim Bain-Moore, the first woman to qualify for the Bassmaster Classic, and Jessica Long, a double-amputee who won multiple gold medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games. There will also be "Then and Now" content, remembering historical moments in women's sports, involving auto racing's Janet Guthrie and Danica Patrick and tennis stars Althea Gibson and the Williams sisters.
That day, OTL will present an investigation by Peter Keating into how concussions are often underreported by girls and how they can impact the rest of their lives.
The investigation will also get in-depth play in the March 23 issue of ESPN The Magazine. The title's cover story will be on WNBA star Candace Parker.
For its part, broadband service ESPN360.com will offer a dedicated women's sports channel during the month that will feature a variety of live and taped events including the NCAA Women's basketball tournament; WNBA; Australian Open tennis; FIFA World Cup; ISU figure skating; X Games; and NCAA competitions, including volleyball, softball, soccer, swimming and diving and track and field.As for the Her Story special, Storm will highlight up-and-coming athletes, as well as the issues they face, notably teenage surfing phenom Bethany Hamilton, who returned to her sport after a shark attack took her left arm in 2003; interviews with Oklahoma basketball's Courtney and Ashley Paris, the daughters of former San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Bubba Paris; the resurgence of distaff roller derby leagues across the country; and a report from Shelly Smith about why Hispanic girls are participating less in sports than other ethnicities.
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Hope someday ESPN will do something on the first professional womens basketball team, the All American Red Heads.
This was a team that played from 1936 to 86, played 200 games a season across the country, only against men, by their rules and won 75% of the games.
A book is currently being written on them.
Www.allamericanredheads.com
John Molina - 3/1/2009 4:01:12 PM EST
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