ESPN Announces Additional Programming to Commemorate 40th Anniversary of Title IX

http://sportsmediajournal.com/ ESPN has announced that it will provide over 11 hours of programming on June 23rd, the 40th Anniversary of the enactment of Title IX. Coverage on that Saturday begins at 12:30 p.m. ET with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky at defending champion Minnesota Lynx, the first of two WNBA games on ESPN that day. Another highlight that day will be the historic Battle of the Sexes: 1973 Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs Match at 9 p.m. on ESPN Classic. The event was last aired in 2003. Here is the complete ESPN Power of IX schedule for June 23rd: Time (ET) Show Network 8 a.m. 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Semifinal: Connecticut vs. Notre Dame (reair) ESPNU Her Story: Ten Times Over ESPN Classic 8:30 a.m. SportsCentury: Nancy Lopez ESPN Classic 9 a.m. SportsCentury: Babe Didrikson Zaharias ESPN Classic 9:30 a.m. Basketball: Tennessee vs. Texas (2002-03) LHN 10 a.m. 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Semifinal: Stanford vs. Baylor (reair) ESPNU Schaap One on One: Jackie Joyner-Kersee ESPN Classic AAU Girls’ National Volleyball Championship ESPN3 10:30 a.m. SportsCentury: Florence Griffith-Joyner ESPN Classic 11 a.m. SportsCentury: Zina Garrison ESPN Classic 11:30 a.m. SportsCentury: Steffi Graf ESPN Classic Basketball: Purdue vs. Texas (2006-07) LHN Noon Sporting Chance presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPN2 12:30 p.m. WNBA Game: Chicago Sky at Minnesota Lynx ESPN / ESPN3 SportsCentury: Mia Hamm ESPN Classic 1 p.m. E:60 Women’s Special ESPN2 Sporting Chance presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPNU National Pro Fastpitch: Florida at Carolina (Charlotte) ESPN3 Basketball: Oklahoma vs. Texas (2006-07) LHN 1:30 p.m. Heart of the Game ESPN Classic AAU Girls’ National Volleyball Championship ESPN3 2 p.m. SEC Storied: Lolo Jones ESPNU 3 p.m. NASCAR Countdown ESPN Honda Sports Award (ESPN’s Los Angeles Production Center) ESPNU / ESPN3 Softball: Oklahoma vs. Texas (2003) LHN 3:30 p.m. NASCAR Nationwide: Road America 200 (Elkhart Lake, Wis.) ESPN SportsCentury: Chris Evert ESPN Classic AAU Girls’ National Volleyball Championship ESPN3 4 p.m. SEC Storied: Lolo Jones ABC NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship: UCLA vs. Illinois (reair) ESPNU National Pro Fastpitch: Florida at Carolina (Charlotte) ESPN3 30 for 30: Unmatched ESPN Classic 5 p.m. Sports Saturday: Week in Review ABC USA Soccer: Leveling The Field ESPN2 SportsCentury: Martina Navratilova ESPN Classic Softball: Texas vs. Texas A&M (2006) LHN 5:30 p.m. 2012 Women’s College World Series Finals: Clinching Game (reair) ESPNU 5:45 p.m. AAU Girls’ National Volleyball Championship ESPN3 6 p.m. Schaap One on One: Billie Jean King ESPN Classic 6:30 p.m. USA Soccer: Leveling The Field ESPN Classic 7 p.m. USA National Softball vs. Canada (Oklahoma City) ESPN / ESPN3 SEC Storied: Lolo Jones ESPNU E:60 Women’s Special ESPN Classic Basketball: Georgia vs. Texas (2003-04) LHN 8 p.m. Sporting Chance presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPNU On the Basis of Sex: The Battle of Title IX ESPN Classic AAU Girls’ National Volleyball Championship ESPN3 8:30 p.m. Softball: Texas vs. Oklahoma (2006) LHN 9 p.m. WNBA Game: Los Angeles Sparks at Phoenix Mercury ESPN / ESPN3 2012 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship Game: Notre Dame vs. Baylor (reair) ESPNU Battle of the Sexes: 1973 Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs Match ESPN Classic 10:30 p.m. Sporting Chance presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPN Classic Basketball: Tennessee vs. Texas (2002-03) LHN 11 p.m. SEC Storied: Lolo Jones ESPNU 11:30 p.m. Her Story: Ten Times Over ESPN Classic Midnight On the Basis of Sex: The Battle of Title IX ESPN Classic 2012 Women’s College World Series Finals: Game 1 (reair) ESPNU 1 a.m. Sporting Chance presented by Northwestern Mutual ESPN Classic