🗞️ Story file #389
WNBA Finals games 3 and 4 moved to State Farm arena in Atlanta
Oct 12, 6 PM ET to Oct 14, 10 PM ET
- 11outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 0 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 2.2 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 10people retold it online
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 12, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Los Angeles Times
- Oct 13, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
- Oct 13, 5 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Oct 14, 4 AM ETretold online by 10 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- ABC News (2 wordings): “WNBA Finals moved to larger arena in Atlanta amid fan demand” → “WNBA Finals moved to larger arena in Atlanta”
- Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Atlanta Dream will host at least two WNBA Finals games. But exactly where is yet TBD” → “Atlanta Dream will host WNBA Finals Games 3 and 4 at State Farm Arena, with some scheduling changes”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Atlanta scrambling to find WNBA finals venue amid scheduling conflicts” → “WNBA moves finals schedule to allow Dream to play at larger arena”
Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Atlanta scrambling to find WNBA finals venue amid scheduling conflicts Oct 12, 1 AM ET
ABC News
WNBA Finals moved to larger arena in Atlanta amid fan demand Oct 13, 2 PM ET
AP
WNBA Finals Games 3 and 4 move to State Farm Arena in Atlanta to accommodate more fans Oct 13, 5 PM ET
CNN
Sports Atlanta Dream to host Finals Games 3 and 4 in much larger arena after days-long drama Oct 13, 2026 Oct 13, 2 PM ET
Los Angeles Times
Atlanta Dream will host at least two WNBA Finals games. But exactly where is yet TBD Oct 12, 6 PM ET
NBC News
Atlanta Dream to host WNBA Finals home games at larger arena after scheduling swap Oct 13, 4 PM ET
The Independent
WNBA Finals set to be held in tiny gym because Atlanta Dream’s preferred arena is already booked Oct 12, 1 PM ET
The Epoch Times
Atlanta Dream Get a Bigger Venue for Finals Games 3 and 4, With an Assist From the Hawks Oct 13, 11 PM ET
The Washington Times
Atlanta venue for WNBA Finals still in doubt for Dream, Valkyries Oct 12, 11 AM ET
Fox News
Angel Reese's first WNBA Finals home games may be played at smaller venue due to multiple conflicts Oct 12, 8 AM ET
New York Post
Angel Reese, Dream forced to play WNBA Finals in 3,500-capacity venue Oct 12, 1 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Fertility support grows across women’s sport BBC News, 4 min
- SCHEDULE CHANGE ALLOWS ATLANTA DREAM TO PLAY IN BIGGER ARENA CNN, 2 min
- VANCE VISITS ATLANTA AS EARLY VOTING IN GEORGIA GETS ROLLING CNN, 53 s
- DREAM FIND LARGER HOME VENUE FOR WNBA FINALS CNN, 13 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- The WNBA adjusted the Finals schedule and moved Games 3 and 4 to State Farm Arena to resolve scheduling conflicts. Oct 14: told by 10 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky
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On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Angel Reese Atlanta Dream WNBA Atlanta
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Valkyries vs Dream Finals
WNBA Finals games 3 and 4 moved to State Farm arena in Atlanta (this story)
Oct 12, 6 PM ET
Golden State Valkyries defeat Atlanta Dream in WNBA Finals opener
Oct 17, 9 PM ET