The “Watch Me! Sports Bar” on PCH is California’s first bar to broadcast primarily women’s sports, and one of just a handful in the country like it, its owners say.
The crowd cheers as California’s first women’s sports bar opens in Long Beach on Friday, July 26, 2024. Watch Me Sports Bar will be a space mostly dedicated to women’s league games and “celebrate achievements by women who continuously break barriers in the sports world and beyond.” A circular bar centered around plenty of tables, ice-cold drinks and food specials, dozens of sports fans with their eyes glued to TV screens — this may be a familiar scene at sports bars.
The official ribbon cutting for California’s first women’s sports bar opens in Long Beach on Friday, July 26, 2024. Watch Me Sports Bar will be a space mostly dedicated to women’s league games and “celebrate achievements by women who continuously break barriers in the sports world and beyond.” L-R Mayor Rex Richardson, owners Jax Diener and Emma Eddy, along with WNBA first ever scorer, Penny Toler, attending California’s first women’s sports bar opens in Long Beach on Friday, July 26, 2024. Watch Me Sports Bar will be a space mostly dedicated to women’s league games and “celebrate achievements by women who continuously break barriers in the sports world and beyond.”
While the space aims to celebrate women, support fellow athletes, and generally be a place for “all things women’s sports,” all are welcome. The co-owners were inspired after seeing the success and inclusive communities within similar women-focused sports bars in“It was important to me to hurry up and be the first in California, because it felt so monumental,” Diener, 57, said. “I think that was really part of my driving force… some might think this would be a competitive thing, and it’s not.
“Women athletes are just now starting to get their dues, and starting to get the recognition that they deserve with all these media rights deals increasing and
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