Inside the WNBA’s inaugural game between Liberty, Sparks in 1997
Michael VoepelJun 19, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior author who covers the WNBA, girls’s school basketball and different school sports activities. Voepel started overlaying girls’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Multiple Authors As the solar rose on the longest day of 1997, Val Ackerman felt…
