Late last year, news broke that a first-of-its-kind sports bar dedicated to women’s sports was opening in Minnesota.
Owner Gillian Hiscock got the idea for the bar when she and a group of friends went out to a Minneapolis area sports bar to watch the University of Minnesota Gophers Softball team play in the national tournament. She noticed all the TVs featured men’s sports, even a cornhole tournament, but they had trouble watching the women’s softball game.
On Friday, March 1, her dream came true when she opened A Bar Of Their Own, an