By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — For the first time in its 42-year history, more people watched the women’s NCAA basketball final than the men’s. The total number of viewers for Sunday’s women’s national championship game between South Carolina and Iowa was 18.9 million, peaking at 24.1 million in the game’s final 15
When it comes to NCAA ratings for 2024, it's a whole new game. Sunday's 2024 NCAA women's championship between Iowa and South Carolina, a 3 p.m. ET tipoff airing on ABC and ESPN, scored an average of 18.9 million viewers, blowing by the men's championship game on Monday, which had 14.8 million (live+same-day) across TBS, TNT and TruTV, according to Nielsen. This is the first time the women's championship beat the men's in ratings, and advertisers who got in early are scoring big. "This...
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Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty The Men’s U.S. Basketball team for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is being rounded out. Some of your favorite NBA superstars will be partaking in the event this summer while others will remain in America to cheer on their professional peers from the comfort of their own homes. According to ESPN, Team USA will be featuring some of today’s icons and legends on the roster as the likes of LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant...
The Women’s Champions League semi-finals begin this weekend as Barcelona host Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain travel to Lyon. Barcelona, Lyon and Chelsea have won their domestic leagues in each of the past four seasons — with the exception of PSG taking the 2020-21 French title — but all three are looking at a summer of change. Advertisement Chelsea and Barcelona have both confirmed that their managers are moving on. in June, while . Lyon’s manager, . With all the forthcoming changes this...
Baseball The baseball team played a four-game series against Case Western Reserve University at its home field in Staten Island this weekend. The Violets started out strong with a 13-10 win Friday, with a memorable play by graduate student Nick Argenziano resulting in three runs, by sophomore Harrison Blueweiss, graduate student Dakota Barbet and sophomore This story Men’s volleyball advances to Final Four for the first time, tennis sweeps on Senior Day and other news appeared first on...
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Marcel Hug crushed his own Boston Marathon record Monday en route to winning the men’s wheelchair race for a seventh time. Hug recorded an unofficial race time of 1:15:33, more than a minute faster than his race-record time of 1:17:06, which he set last year. His finish in 2023 broke a course record he previously set in 2017. Advertisement On Monday, the Switzerland native beat his record despite crashing into a barrier about 18 miles into the race. “I just had too much pressure on the...
Alexander Mutiso Munyao delivered another win for Kenya on a day the London Marathon remembered last year's champion Kelvin Kiptum.
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
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By Oliver Salt Published: 08:22 EDT, April 15, 2024 | Updated: 11:52 EDT, April 15, 2024 Lemma storms homeEthiopian star Sisay Lemma has claimed victory in the elite men's race after crossing the finish line in just over two hours and six minutes, about 40 seconds ahead of his compatriot Mohamed Esa in second place.In operationThe 128th Boston...