First Look: How do you build a new pro sports franchise?
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Here's a short clip from our interview with Teresa Resch, president of the WNBA's Toronto Tempo. The team begins play in 2026. In this preview clip, Resch discusses where her expansion team as far as hiring and ticket sale approaches. The full interview will be out Dec. 2. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 1:08.7 | sports media podcast. I'm your host Richard Dutch. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. |
| 1:11.7 | This is a first look where we give you a short preview clip from an interview that we did. |
| 1:17.8 | The guest on this podcast is Teresa Resch, the president of the WMBA's Toronto Tempo. |
| 1:23.8 | That team begins play in 2026 with the presumption that the CBA gets signed. |
| 1:30.1 | An absolutely fascinating interview just in terms of how to build a WMBA franchise, |
| 1:36.7 | how they went about conducting their coaching search, |
| 1:40.5 | and they landed on Sandy Rondello, who is a two-time WMDA champion coach and |
| 1:45.9 | will be in the Basketball Hall of Fame one day. So in this preview clip, Teresa Rush |
| 1:51.6 | discusses how they went about thinking in terms of how many hires they had to have prior to their tip off in 2026. |
| 2:03.5 | And we also get a little bit into how they think about ticket sales. |
| 2:07.8 | The full interview with Teresa Rush of the Toronto Temple will be out next week. |
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