At Rough and Tumble in Ballard, female athletes on screens mean butts in seats.
For Jen Barnes, it was the OL Reign semifinal against the Washington Spirit in 2021. She figured a postseason game with a Seattle team would be easy to find at a local bar. She called around and found she was mistaken. Eventually she found a spot that intended to put on the Reign game, but only after an out-of-market football game ended.
Down in Portland, Jenny Nguyen and some friends went to a sports bar in 2018 to watch the NCAA women’s basketball final. “There’s 30-plus TVs in there and none of them
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