{"id":489737,"date":"2026-02-21T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489737\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:37:16","slug":"is-espn-actually-ditching-mlb-for-the-wnba-and-nwsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489737\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ESPN Actually Ditching MLB For The WNBA And NWSL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!xDgj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30f5957a-f1c3-47e6-b643-d28e42762c96_1748x1240.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/30f5957a-f1c3-47e6-b643-d28e42762c96_1748.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"1033\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/30f5957a-f1c3-47e6-b643-d28e42762c96_1748x1240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1033,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2390245,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/huddleup.substack.com\/i\/188615288?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F30f5957a-f1c3-47e6-b643-d28e42762c96_1748x1240.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>(Caitlin Clark via Michael Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>ESPN announced a major programming shakeup yesterday. Rather than hosting MLB\u2019s Sunday Night Baseball throughout the spring and summer, as it has for the last 35+ years, ESPN will now show WNBA and NWSL games during that time slot.<\/p>\n<p>As part of what ESPN is calling \u201cWomen\u2019s Sports Sundays,\u201d the network will look to build on the growth of women\u2019s sports by surrounding primetime WNBA and NWSL matchups with dedicated studio programming for several hours on Sunday nights.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement has caused a lot of controversy\u2026to say the least. I wasn\u2019t even planning to write about it today, but I ended up having no choice. There is just too much disinformation out there about what is really happening and how it will work.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s exactly what you need to know:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Caitlin Clark via Michael Hickey\/Getty Images) ESPN announced a major programming shakeup yesterday. Rather than hosting MLB\u2019s Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-489737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}