Here are the star-studded, well-funded investors trying to land a WNBA expansion dubbed Tennessee Summitt in Nashville, named after icon Pat Summitt.

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The chairman of the NHL’s Nashville Predators and his wife want to bring the WNBA to Music City and have teamed up with a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

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The chairman of the NHL’s Nashville Predators and his wife want to bring the WNBA to Music City and have teamed up with a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

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Nashville's bid to join the WNBA features a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The team would be named in honor of the late Pat Summitt.

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Peyton Manning has joined a bid for a WNBA expansion team to be called the Tennessee Summitt in honor of former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt.

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Expansion in the WNBA may not be slowing down anytime soon. 
Former state governor of Tennessee and Nashville Predators chairman Bill Haslam announced on Thursday that he and his wife Crissy are leading a group of investors in submitting an expansion bid for a WNBA team. 
Should the bid be successful, the Tennessee franchise would begin play in the summer of 2028 and play out of Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, also home to the NHL’s Predators. 
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The chairman of the NHL's Nashville Predators and his wife want to bring the WNBA to Music City and have teamed up with a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.The group led by Bill Haslam, a former Tennessee governor, submitted its bid to the WNBA on Thursday for a franchise that would start playing in 2028. The team…

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Candace Parker is part of Nashville's bid for WNBA expansion franchise

Bill Haslam, Candace Parker, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have bid for a WNBA franchise. Here's why they want to bring women's basketball to Nashville.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The chairman of the NHL's Nashville Predators and his wife want to bring the WNBA to Music City and have teamed up with a star-filled investor group including Candace Parker, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and entertainers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The group led by Bill Haslam, a former Tennessee governor, submitted its bid to the WNBA on Thursday for a franchise that would start playing in 2028. Th…

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A group of investors, including former governor of Tennessee Bill Haslam, made a bid Thursday to bring a WNBA team to Nashville. If the bid is successful, the team will be named after the queen of Tennessee basketball herself, Pat Summitt.Haslam, who will also take over as majority owner of the Nashville Predators in July, and his wife Crissy are heading up the ownership team, which also includes a group of celebrity investors. Candace Parker, P…

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Tennessee Summitt: Meet 6 people spearheading WNBA expansion bid named for Pat Summitt

Tennessee Summitt: Meet 6 people spearheading WNBA expansion bid named for Pat Summitt

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