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The Economics of Everyday Things

12. Women’s Sports Bars

The Economics of Everyday Things

Freakonomics Network

Business

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Most sports bars rarely screen women's games. Zachary Crockett taps into the strategy of one woman who set out to change the channel. This episode was originally published on July 30th, 2023.

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0:00.0

We will see Notre Dame sit in this zone a lot, and they're going to have to contest shooters,

0:14.0

and they will look to bring a couple players to McCowan if they can, won the catch.

0:19.0

In April of 2018,

0:22.7

Jenny Wynn got together with some friends to watch the NCAA

0:24.9

Women's Basketball Championship

0:26.8

at a local sports bar.

0:29.0

And we will see Mississippi State

0:30.6

playing in the deny.

0:32.7

These two teams, each of the last

0:34.6

two years, defeated Connecticut

0:36.2

to get to the national championship game.

0:39.8

But when they got to the bar, the game was nowhere to be found.

0:46.1

We roll in there, and there's like 30 plus TVs.

0:50.1

The game's not on any TV.

0:52.1

On the projector, there's a regular season baseball game, and there's, like, one table of guys watching it.

0:58.9

She convinced a server to put the game on one of the smaller TVs and watched with her friends up until the dramatic end.

1:08.4

I think there was, like, 3.2 seconds left or something.

1:11.6

And Arike Agumboale gets the basketball at the three-point line on an in-bounds play, takes one dribble and launches it, and the buzzer goes off.

1:21.6

And the ball goes through the net.

1:23.6

And I swear to you, we lost our minds.

1:31.0

No one else knew why.

1:35.8

Everybody in the bar was staring at us because nobody was watching the same game we were.

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