Angered over a.m. WNBA Finals tip-off, Chicago bar owner opens early to fans anyway, to "cause a ruckus"

Babe's Sports Bar, a Chicago bar that shows only women's sports, is calling the WNBA's 11:30 a.m. weekday tip-off for Game 6 of the Finals "disrespectful and out of touch," and it's opening early Thursday to host fans anyway.The bar, in Logan Square, will open at 9 a.m. as "Babe's Caf " for the game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries. The bar shows only women's teams. It called the start time a surprise, one that makes a weekday morning game tough on working fans and local small businesses, and said the game could be the championship game."Moving a championship game to mid-morning on a weekday is a disservice to the fans and the momentum of women's sports," Nora McConnell-Johnson, the bar's owner, said.She said fans can sip a drink at the bar while "talking with other fans about how they would never do this to a professional men's league."The bar's Instagram post announcing the change was even blunter. Being able to pivot "doesn't mean we're happy about it," the bar w