It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things.

You know, we're using the station's 100th anniversary

to explore the century-long arc of history for 100 different things for people that matter to

our lives today. We're up to thing number 76. It's 100 years of organized women's sports.

Think what you will about the recent political slogan, save women's

sports. Many people with that slogan on their lips may never have cared about women's sports

before, right? It's been hard enough to launch women's sports, which for many have become a cause

only because trans people are seen as a blight. But there's a century and more of history that has gradually built

something that people can even debate how to save through college athletics that began in the

19th century, through Title IX in the 1970s, through the popularity of individual stars like

Serena Williams, Megan Rapino, Caitlin Clark. Let's talk about it.

With us for this is Jane McManus, sports journalist, an adjunct professor at NYU at the Preston

Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport, and author a brand new book called The Fast Track, Inside

the Surging Business of Women's Sports.

Jane, always great to have you.

And now in our 100 Years of 100 Think Series, welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks.

I'm so happy to be here and talk about this.

And your book is mostly about the last 50 years, beginning with Billy Jean King and

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