Whoopi Goldberg is launching a sports platform for women.
During a taping of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” she announced the launch of All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN), which has already broken ground in Asia, the Middle East, and India with the help of partners CommonSpirit and Jungo TV.
“Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to play sports. My brother could play … he played everything,” she explained. “So, for years, I’ve been talking to people and saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could go around the world, start getting young athletes in high school so that we can grow with them and grow up with them?’”
She added, “I feel like that will help us show that athletics — when they’re done brilliantly — it doesn’t matter who’s doing it. We don’t really have that relationship to women’s sports. So I said ‘I would like to do this.’ And somebody after 16 years maybe said, ‘My, what a good idea.'”
AWSN is already available in 65 countries, reaching more than 2 billion people, its website states. It features leagues such as the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL).
It will be making its way to the United States the week of Nov. 11.