ESPN announces Women’s Sports Sundays to replace Sunday Night Baseball

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https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/esp...ll-1236666776/

In one of the biggest investments in women’s sports programming by a major sports-media provider, Women’s Sports Sundays will feature top match-ups from the WNBA and National Women’s Soccer Leagdue. “Sunday is a day of the week when we see a ton of our best women’s sports programming, and we will have events outside of our primetime window,” Susie Piotrkowski, vice president of women’s sports programming and espnW, tells Variety. ESPN plans to run nine weeks of Women’s Sports Sundays, she says, and expects to surround the games with bespoke studio programming that could rely on talent already assigned to coverage of either league. There are some hopes, she says, of running a similar destination during other times of the year when pivotal women’s sports events take place. ESPN also has an eight-year pact with the NCAA for many women’s sports, including basketball, and also has rights to the Little League Softball World Series and Athletes Unlimited Softball League.

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Not one person is gonna watch either one of those on a Sunday night.