, what angel reese was doing there and that instagram live while she was bringing up a point that is incredibly intelligent, smart, and wise to do, and that is to bring this issue back to the forefront. it came up actually in april after the draft when caitlin clark salary, of course, came out and there was saying, how is this possible? now, the point i think you've made, it has been made as of course, she's angel reese has plenty of endorsements, well over 1 million. caitlin clark as well, over probably $30 of but it does shine a light on >> proceeds to play to a place like russia, which frankly was probably not hurt. her first choice. >> right? exactly exactly. >> alex. yeah. >> brittany greiner, and so many of these players who go overseas in the off-season of the wnba, which of course is now for many of them as the playoffs are finishing up over the next, either today or to sunday, the fund i know it's for the wnba, britney greiner wasn't going to russia for the weather or the ambiance or vladimir putin's hospitality, of course not. she was going to supplement her income. she

another rookie, angel reese made her mark too. >> she the best offensive rebounder in the league. >> reporter: but the real breakthrough star of this wnba season is the w itself. building off a college season in which unimaginable just a few years ago the women's championship game outdrew the men's. w games can draw more eyeballs than nba games do. league-wide, attendance is up 48%. in minnesota, napheesa collier is this season's defensive player of the year. >> target practice! >> reporter: she just dropped 80 points in the first two play-off games. collier was drafted in 2019 and bridges two eras of the wnba. we asked her about the difference this year. home and way, you look into the crowds. what are you seeing? >> people, which is what we want. it makes the game so, so fun. it's like you're six man when you're at home. and when you're away you can't wait to silence the crowd, and that's the best feeling ever. >> reporter: you figured out a way to benefit from a full crowd even when it's rooting against you. >> it's almost more fun when you're in a packed arena with the other team

thanks in large part to rookie sensations caitlin clark and angel reese.s down on this brooklyn basketball court, dozens of women start shooting. nobody is keeping score. this is hoop-york city. a community all about love of the game and women's rightful place in it. what's the feeling, the culture you are trying to create? >> the culture i'm trying to create is just a space where women can come and feel comfortable to be themselves and to make friends and just feel a little bit lighter. you know? a place where women are prioritized. when we step out of this space, things change for us all. this is truly a safe haven. >> reporter: just as caitlin clark and angel reese have helped fuel an increase in wnba viewership this season. women's basketball participation across the country is up nearly 44% over the past five years. the league has exploded, too. why do you think we are seeing women's basketball break through in this way right now? >> it's been a long time coming. this game has been this way. it has been here for years. since 1996. people are just now

it's your vehicle to angel reese has a podcast. it's her vehicle to be a podcaster, right?doing, it's the vehicle to get you to that point. so you always want to make sure that part doesn't fall off. >> well, and, of course, sports is a business as well. last year deloitte forecasted that 2024 would be the first year that revenue for women's elite sports would surpass $1 billion. but where do you put it in the arc of what you need to accomplish and what more needs to be done in. >> megan and i talk about this all of the time. a lot of times we're not looked at based on our potential, right? whether it's a young athlete, someone who has already accomplished a lot and it's never, like, oh, let me invest in this and look five to ten years because i see something. it's always, okay, what have you done? and do you deserve to be paid now based on what you did do? but never looking to the future. i would challenge corporate sponsorships, companies, businesses, tv networks, to start looking at us based on our potential, not what they think is going to happen and not relates wait an

. >> and i think about other stars like caitlin clark, angel reese.st at the top of their game. i wonder what you would say to them, what you have said to them about how to both be focused on your sports and your craft, but also manage all of that pressure which is a lot. >> yeah. it's really fun, rewarding and also interesting to watch these younger athletes step into their professional careers obviously caitlin and angel, some of this has to do with nil in college. so much earlier these athletes are thinking about themselves as businesses and as brands and it's amazing because they're carrying that with them to the wnba and so everything is just bigger. they just seem so much more self-aware in that way, in a business sense than i ever was at this age, and i would say that you ever were because that just wasn't our world, right? but now they're in that world. my only advice is to make sure they keep basketball the main thing because at the end of the day that is your vehicle. it's your vehicle to angel reese has a podcast. it's her vehicle to be a p

the angel reeses of the world, caitlin clarks, their fan base followed them to the wnba. crossover we are seeing happening, in all sports. players have podcasts and they are their own media platforms they have millions of followers, and they are watching the wnba and the players and finding out about more players. i think it was a volcano ready to erupt, and the last class made it explode. >>> don't go away. a second hour of morning joe: weekend on this sunday morning, coming up right after the break. coming up right after th brea k. gum problems the star omino effect parodontax active gum repair breath freshener clinically proven to help reverse the 4 signs of early gum disease a toothpaste from parodontax, the gum experts. dexcom g7 is one of the easiest ways to take better control of your diabetes. this small wearable replaces fingersticks, lowers a1c, and it's covered by medicare. not managing your diabetes really affects your health for the future. the older you get, the more complications you're gonna see. i knew i couldn't ignore my diabetes anymore because it was

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her rival chicago sky forward angel reese received the other vote. >>> in a new video posted to x, former putting herself directly in center of one of the biggest issues of this election cycle while expressing support of abortion rights. >> joining us now is garrett haake who covers the trump campaign and traveling with mr. trump today. garrett, first off, what did we hear from the former first lady. >> reporter: this is really striking because melaina has been a nonfactor, nonpresence on the campaign trail during this election. today, as she said, she inserted herself on one of the most explosive reports. her unqualified support for abortion rights. listen to some of what she had to say on the social media platform. >> without a doubt there's no room for compromise when it comes to the essential right -- that all women possess from birth, individual freedom, what does my body, my choice really mean? >> reporter: in an excerpt from her book reported by the website guardian, she goes further talking about this being a position she's held all her life. >> garrett, let me ask this delicately

angel reese of the chicago sky received the single remaining vote.over 19 points and more than eight assists per game this season. she also set rookie records for points and three-pointers, while leading her team to the playoffs for the first time since 2016. still to come on the “news hour,” a jury convicts police officers for their role in the fatal beating of tyre nichols. the alarming rise in autism diagnoses among somali-american children. and a documentary film spotlights the highly-competitive world of high school mariachi. >> this is the pbs “news hour” from the david m. rubenstein studio at weta in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite schl of journalism at arizona state university. amna: now to the widening conflict in the middle east. israel tonight says it targeted a hamas commander in the west bank killing at least 14 people. airstrikes are rarely used by israel and the west bank. israeli forces also kept up their punishing attacks across southern lebanon and in the capital city of beirut, where tonight they targeted the h

angel reese got the other one.ged 19 points, along with a league best eight assists per game and took a fever team that was not very good a year ago and led them to the playoffs. hey, if you're a giants fan looking for some positivity, this is from the pre pre pre pre farhan era. today is the 73rd anniversary of one of the most famous home runs in giants history. bobby thompson. shot heard round the world to win the 1951 pennant at the polo grounds in new york against the dodgers off ralph branca. the giants win the pennant. the giants win the pennant. man on deck for the giants, at that time, a 20 year old kid, a rookie named willie mays. espn's college gameday will visit cal for the first time this weekend. the guest speaker will be none other than legendary oakland native marshawn lynch of course, nfl great everybody is hoping he pulls up in a golf cart like this back in 2006. if he doesn't show up in a golf cart, i'm going to be very unhappy. the show starts at 6 a.m. saturday morning again, 6 a.m. live from th

the other vote went to the chicago sky's angel reese.rk set records for the most points and three pointers by a rookie in league history, and her 334 assists were the most by any player ever in a single season. >> she has started off strong, longtime san francisco firefighter is showing a different side of himself. he's in a group of men carrying on an early 20th century mexican tradition. he responded to fire calls with the san francisco fire department for 30 years. but now, though, he goes by the name chicano flame and sets fire to the ring as one of the bay area's legendary lucha libre wrestlers, they visited with us earlier today to show us the athleticism, style, and art of lucha libre. chicano flame keeps his identity a secret because luchador masks are considered sacred. >> i don't know how that became, but i kind of followed that tradition myself through. i try, i try to stay hidden under the mask. the most is i most as i can. when i go to shows or when i go out somewhere in the public. i don't try to reveal who i am. it's an im

certainly during the following of caitlin clark and this this much heralded rookie class, along with angel reese, that a matter of weeks after they finished up their ncaa run, they were playing their first wnba game. shortly after you only have a couple of weeks after the wnba draft that they are playing real basketball. it's so accelerated. but now we are starting to see that there is marketability behind it, and they're starting to spread things out and they're given more landscape and runway for us to grow. this great game that continues to produce on the court. but also off of the court. so i'm looking forward to expansion. and we've seen it even with this current playoff run about to launch, the wnba finals game, that there is interest in seeing more wnba basketball. so i'm excited for that expansion. >> yeah. and you know, before we let you go, professor, i mean, you know, you touched on it here. the ownership they have obviously very high expectations for coach nakase. you talked about the fact that joe lacob came in there and said, look, i expect we're going to win a title in the next fi

now you know, angel reese is good point. >> charlemagne, and i'm going to flip it a little bit i thinkt her saying that she thinks that she believes trump is a fascist got a lot of headlines because it was first time and she said it, she has been going on for days saying mark milley said he's a fascist. this person said this, you raised the question of authenticity in your interview with her and that wasn't authentic moment where she says, yeah, i do think he's a fascist and i think that's why it for any for whatever you think about them, if you like, if you hate him, he is certainly who he he's shown us who he is every single day, which is a fascist and it's crazy because you still don't have news networks having that conversation like when somebody says, when somebody questions kamala harris is blackness or is he a dei hire, you all will have roundtable discussions about that, asking that question, how can we not having roundtable discussion is asking is donald trump a fascist actually not even asking, it's stating it. i mean, when you look at the things that he's talking about doing

we have a video of the moment she got the call almost unanimous one vote went to chicago sky's angel reese clark had the wnba single-season assists record of 337 and score the most three-pointers by a rookie, 122 please while no real time grandfather. >> his daughter, hailie jade, is pregnant with her first baby, eminem revealed the news and using video for his song, temporary hailie jade gives him a detroit lions jersey with grandpa written on the back end. if it wasn't obvious enough already, she also handed up a sonogram. the baby is due next year. grandpa shady it was say you're old without saying you're old is that video right there is me feeling quite old anyway, back to this also this morning is conflict in the middle east has escalated the oil market has been relatively in remained relatively calm, but there are new fears that could change what experts now fear could send oil prices through the roof. >> cnn's matt egan is tracking all of this and that would be what well, listen, kate, this is a very serious situation that's happening in the most critical region on the planet for en

. >> one person voting for angel reese of the chicago sky, the clarke said in the league single game and single they'll season assists records also became the first rookie in league history to poster triple, double pulling off that feet twice. so well-deserved, the wnba playoffs continue tonight with the two time defending champs the aces on the brink of elimination against the liberty game three set to tip off at 9:30 eastern. that is after the links and the sun square off at 7:30. it was such a good night of sports kasie, it was one of those nights where i just could not go to sleep. i knew i had to wake up early, but all these games it was coming down to the wire. i was like these so full disclosure, i will say i was asleep, but i woke up to my husband is a mets fan. i woke up to a play-by-play the end of that game, i was really excited to see the highlights. so he texts me and you'll have to fact check me. that one of the statistics they put out there, the mets are going to face the phillies. they have played each over each other over 1,100 times, but never in the postseason i ha

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