Valkyries beat Dream 67-62 to even WNBA Finals at 2-2

🗞️ Story file #932

Valkyries beat Dream 67-62 to even WNBA Finals at 2-2

Oct 24, 9 PM ET to Oct 25, 8 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
23 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts
7people retold it online
4 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 24, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
Oct 25, 12 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 25, 1 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
Oct 25, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 26, 8 AM ETretold online by 7 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 24, 9 PM to Oct 25, 8 PM ET (peak 8), 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, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNN, NBC News)

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 67-62 to even the WNBA Finals at 2-2” → “Angel Reese blames herself after a dramatic falloff in Dream's Game 4 loss in the WNBA Finals”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Valkyries hold off Dream comeback to win Game 4 and level WNBA finals at 2-2” → “Valkyries hold off Dream comeback to win Game 4 and level finals at 2-2”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Valkyries hold off Dream comeback to win Game 4 and level WNBA finals at 2-2 Oct 24, 4 PM ET
AP Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 67-62 to even the WNBA Finals at 2-2 Oct 24, 6 PM ET
CNN Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream to even the WNBA Finals at 2-2 Oct 24, 5 PM ET
NBC News Golden State Valkyries beat Atlanta Dream 67-62 to even the WNBA Finals at 2-2 Oct 25, 1 AM ET
USA Today WNBA Finals tied after Valkyries' Game 4 win vs. Dream Oct 24, 5 PM ET
Reuters Valkyries shut down Dream in Game 4 to square WNBA Finals Oct 24, 9 PM ET
Fox News Angel Reese struggles after bold comments as Valkyries even WNBA Finals Oct 24, 6 PM ET
New York Post Not only did Valkyries win WNBA Finals Game 4, they rediscovered their identity Oct 24, 8 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News2 min

REGULAR ROUTINE? DREAM & VALKYRIES PLAYERS DENY ANTHEM PROTEST CLAIMS Fox News, 54 s
OFF-COURT CONTROVERSY. WNBA PLAYERS LEAVE COURT BEFORE NATIONAL ANTHEM AGAIN Fox News, 25 s
ANTHEM DISPUTE. PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS ON FANS TO BOYCOTT WNBA Fox News, 24 s
RATINGS SURGE. WNBA FINALS RATINGS SOAR AMID NATIONAL ANTHEM DRAMA Fox News, 19 s