Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to take 2-1 series lead in WNBA Finals

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Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries 97-71 to take 2-1 series lead in WNBA Finals

Oct 21, 11 PM ET to Oct 23, 5 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
10 minof TV captions
3 of 5parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 21, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 22, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 22, 5 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 21, 11 PM to Oct 23, 5 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune, NBC News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “disgraceful”

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Angel Reese has 30 points, 16 rebounds as Dream beat Valkyries 79-65 to even WNBA Finals at 1-1” → “Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 for a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals”
Chicago Tribune (2 wordings): “WNBA Finals: Angel Reese is determined to lead something special for the Atlanta Dream” → “WNBA Finals: Atlanta Dream beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 in Game 3 for a 2-1 lead”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries skip national anthem for third straight WNBA Finals game” → “Dream, Valkyries skip anthem for third straight Finals game as WNBA stays silent”
New York Post (5 wordings): “Back Angel Reese to dominate again in WNBA Finals Game 3” → “Atlanta forward Angel Reese was fired up in the Dream’s 97-71 win over the Valkyries to take a 2-1 series lead in Wednesday’s Game 3 of the WNBA Finals.”
USA Today (7 wordings): “WNBA Finals: Dream and Valkyries fight for series lead in…” → “Angel Reese, Atlanta Dream defeat Golden State Valkyries…”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating