April 14, 2021 

She Got Next, Episode 23: Val Ackerman, first president of the WNBA

Current Big East commissioner talks WNBA history and what's next in women's sports

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Pepper Persley and Val Ackerman. (photo courtesy of Christopher Persley)

Written by Howard Megdal

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