Whoopi Goldberg Launched All Women’s Sports Network

During a recent appearance on NBC’s The Tonight Show, Goldberg revealed that the idea to launch the AWSN “came” to her 16 years ago, telling host Jimmy Fallon that she’s always been “pissed off” by girls being dismissed as athletes essentially since childhood. She said, “Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to play sports. My brother could play. He played baseball, he played softball, he played basketball, he played everything. And they would say, ‘Oh, hi little girl.’ It always pissed me off. 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?’”