"This whole time has been if I can do it, if I'm good enough to do it," Fuller said after the game. "It wasn't if I was a girl or not. So that's something I've really appreciated. At the end of the day, they treated me like an athlete and that's the best I could ask for.''

When Nancy Faust started as organist for the Chicago White Sox in 1970, many die-hard fans didn't think a woman should be employed at the ballpark at all. But over the next 41 years, Faust would shape the sound of baseball. She was the first to use the organ to react to the game itself. For example, she is the reason fans sing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" when a pitcher is pulled from a game, and invented the concept of walk-up music for batters.

"Now, it's time for me to show you guys and show people that women are just as knowledgeable as men to coach the game," said Moore.

“Basketball is a genderless sport. The ball has no difference whether a man’s holding it or a woman’s holding it." — Becky Hammon

"I hope when fans watch this game, they see it as any other game," said NBC producer Kaitlin Urka. "And I want people to think, this is something that they're going to see all the time, eventually. I want to get to the point where we don't need to make this a big deal. We don't need people writing stories about it and we don't need press releases and it's just normalized."

Redskins coach Ron Rivera hired King as a wide receivers coaching intern for the Carolina Panthers the past two summers. "Part of it, it's all about the fan base," Rivera told ESPN at the time. "It's also knowing the moms out there that understand the game. It's important because they really do control as to whether their kids are going to play. This is something that has to be developed."

"What I've just done tonight, I hope it just proves that women -- we can beat the men, we can play well against the men."

Clubs in the National Women's Soccer League will be allowed to boost salaries and pay premiums to top-end players to help them to attract the world's best talent. The nine clubs will each get an extra $300,000 in allocation money next season to pay top players more than the maximum permitted salary if they meet certain criteria.

On Sunday. Tiger Woods tied Sam Snead's 82 career PGA Tour wins. But there has been one important thing missing in most of the news coverage about Woods' recent milestone win -- and that is how he still has some work to do to tie or surpass the LPGA's Kathy Whitworth, who recorded 88 career wins during her Hall of Fame career.

A combined 1.12bn viewers watched the official broadcast coverage of the World Cup, which took place in France between June 7 and July 7, across all platforms -- a record audience for the competition, with the US team competing in three of the five most-watched games.