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For Bustle, I wrote a dispatch from Game 1 of the WNBA Finals at Drawdown Brewing, a women’s sports bar in Boston. You can read it here.
why are women's leagues credentialing outkick?
As the attention towards women’s sports continues to increase, more media resources are being dedicated to covering it. The problem, however, is that much of that media either doesn’t know how to appropriately cover the topic, or they’re engaging in bad faith from the beginning and are only covering these sports as a way to drive discourse.
Outkick, Fox News’ sports vertical, falls under the latter category. The outlet is increasingly showing up at high-profile women’s sports events—like the WNBA Finals, the NCAA Final Four, or NWSL games—and the resulting “reporting” is nothing but ragebait.
Here is a brief roundup of what they’ve done with their media credentials over the last several years:
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