{"id":421959,"date":"2026-01-22T02:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:05:19","slug":"tempo-set-to-make-wnba-debut-on-may-8-at-home-against-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421959\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo set to make WNBA debut on May 8 at home against Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A ball is displayed with the name of new Toronto Tempo general manager Monica Wright Rogers last year. The Tempo and the WNBA revealed its 2026 schedule on Wednesday, despite ongoing CBA negotiations that threaten to disrupt the coming season.Cole Burston\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The Toronto Tempo are scheduled to make their debut when the 2026 WNBA season kicks off on May 8.<\/p>\n

The Tempo are set to host the Washington Mystics at Coca-Cola Coliseum in one of three season-opening games as part of its 44-game schedule released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Get ready to join the WNBA’s growing fan base with the Toronto Tempo<\/a><\/p>\n

The WNBA\u2019s players and the league are currently negotiating on a new collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n

Should an agreement be reached, Toronto will play the majority of its home games at Coca-Cola Coliseum, but will host three games at Scotiabank Arena, home of the NBA\u2019s Raptors and the NHL\u2019s Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix Mercury will visit Scotiabank Arena on June 27, followed by the Minnesota Lynx on July 30, and Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n

The Tempo will also play two games at the Bell Centre in Montreal \u2013 against Dallas on July 10 and New York on July 12 \u2013 and two at Rogers Arena in Vancouver \u2013 against fellow expansion team Portland on Aug. 21 and defending champion Las Vegas on Aug. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A ball is displayed with the name of new Toronto Tempo general manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2428,2416,2429,4,2408,2430,103,2407,2422,2423,2418,2409,2406,101,526,192,2421,2414,2441,2410,2411,2420,2417,149,983,2431,2413,2436,2437,2439,2434,2438,2432,2435,2412,2425,2426,111,2424,2433,99,2415,74,2427,2419,194,434,965,2440],"class_list":["post-421959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-wnba","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}