# @theoregonian on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Ey7MHM50z
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- **Posted:** 2024-04-22T19:15:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

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The Sports Bra, a now-iconic Portland destination that made history as the first women’s sports bar in the world, has announced plans to franchise and expand into other cities.

Investment from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — the husband of tennis legend Serena Williams — will fund the effort in partnership with Ohanian’s 776 Foundation. All returns from the investment will be invested back into girls’ and women’s sports via the foundation, the thesportsbrapdx wrote in a post on Instagram.

“You look at all these sports now, there is undeniable excellence coming from women,” Ohanian said in a video posted on his Instagram account. “I’m just looking for all the ways we can reinforce and build and do it in a way that makes sense with the community. Every bar I ever walked into was only showing exclusively men’s sports. Random people are just gonna stumble in. Y’all in two years have already done that here, and you think of how that starts to spread.”

Owner Jenny Nguyen opened The Sports Bra in Portland in 2022, and the business thrived in a city and state that has consistently showcased strong support for women’s sports. “The Bra” quickly received widespread national media coverage, and continued to fill its space (and others) for watch parties and events, drawing the attention of U.S. Senators and sports league commissioners along the way.

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#portland #thesportsbrapdx #womenssportsbars

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