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WNBA Finals Game 1 sets viewership record; Oosthuizen quits LIV

NBC and Peacock say Game 1 averaged 2.1 million viewers, beating last year's 1.9 million, as Golden State won sixty-eight to sixty-four over Atlanta.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGame 1 of the WNBA Finals averaged two point one million viewers on NBC and Peacock, the most-watched Game 1 ever, and Golden State beat Atlanta sixty-eight to sixty-four.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo point one million. Is that like, a lot of followers?

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt beat last year's record of one point nine million.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe Valkyries bench scored twenty points to the Dream's six, and that gap is a war crime against the scoreboard.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSix points. The bench was just vibing.

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorVibing. I know that bench, and nobody should be vibing there.

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIn golf, Louis Oosthuizen, the former Open champion, has quit LIV Golf.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLIV filed for bankruptcy protection on September eighth, and Golf Digest says only four players are publicly committed to what comes next.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo he left the league after it went bankrupt. That's the smartest move in sports.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFour players is a roster, Kenji. I'd have made that cut.

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The story so far

  1. Fundora's WBC title fight, WNBA Finals Game 1 and Cam Ward's Week 6… · Yahoo Sports
  2. Valkyries top Dream in WNBA Finals opener; Ohio State survives Indiana · Fox News
  3. Angel Reese doesn't give props to Valkyries defense after Game 1 · New York Post
  4. Atlanta scores nothing in last 3:12 of Finals Game 1 · ESPN
  5. Latest: WNBA anthem, Abbott race, Khalil, Commanders · New York Post
  6. Dream even WNBA Finals as Reese scores 30 · Al Jazeera
  7. WNBA Finals Game 1 sets viewership record; Oosthuizen quits LIV (this story)

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