Get ESPN MBB News
Get ESPN Women's College Basketball News
Value
Returns a tibble of news articles.
| col_name | types | description |
| id | character | Id. |
| type | character | Record type / category. |
| headline | character | News headline. |
| description | character | Long-form description text. |
| published | character | Publication timestamp (ISO 8601). |
| premium | logical | |
| byline | character | News article byline / author. |
| link_web | character | Web link / URL. |
| league_id | character | League identifier ('10' = WNBA). |
Details
Retrieve ESPN women's college basketball news. Uses
getOption("hoopR.proxy") or http_proxy/https_proxy environment
variables for proxy configuration (per-call proxy override is not
supported for ESPN wrappers).
See also
Other ESPN MBB Functions:
espn_mbb_athlete_awards(),
espn_mbb_athlete_career_stats(),
espn_mbb_athlete_eventlog(),
espn_mbb_athlete_eventlog_v2(),
espn_mbb_athlete_gamelog(),
espn_mbb_athlete_info(),
espn_mbb_athlete_overview(),
espn_mbb_athlete_seasons(),
espn_mbb_athlete_splits(),
espn_mbb_athlete_statisticslog(),
espn_mbb_athlete_stats(),
espn_mbb_athletes_index(),
espn_mbb_award(),
espn_mbb_betting(),
espn_mbb_calendar(),
espn_mbb_coach(),
espn_mbb_coach_season(),
espn_mbb_coaches(),
espn_mbb_conferences(),
espn_mbb_event_broadcasts(),
espn_mbb_event_odds(),
espn_mbb_event_officials(),
espn_mbb_event_powerindex(),
espn_mbb_event_predictor(),
espn_mbb_event_probabilities(),
espn_mbb_event_propbets(),
espn_mbb_event_situation(),
espn_mbb_franchise(),
espn_mbb_franchises(),
espn_mbb_futures(),
espn_mbb_game_all(),
espn_mbb_game_rosters(),
espn_mbb_injuries(),
espn_mbb_leaders(),
espn_mbb_pbp(),
espn_mbb_player_box(),
espn_mbb_player_stats(),
espn_mbb_powerindex(),
espn_mbb_rankings(),
espn_mbb_scoreboard(),
espn_mbb_season_awards(),
espn_mbb_season_group(),
espn_mbb_season_group_children(),
espn_mbb_season_group_teams(),
espn_mbb_season_groups(),
espn_mbb_season_info(),
espn_mbb_season_leaders(),
espn_mbb_season_ranking(),
espn_mbb_season_rankings(),
espn_mbb_season_type(),
espn_mbb_season_types(),
espn_mbb_season_week(),
espn_mbb_season_weeks(),
espn_mbb_seasons(),
espn_mbb_standings(),
espn_mbb_team(),
espn_mbb_team_box(),
espn_mbb_team_current_roster(),
espn_mbb_team_injuries(),
espn_mbb_team_leaders(),
espn_mbb_team_news(),
espn_mbb_team_odds_records(),
espn_mbb_team_record(),
espn_mbb_team_roster(),
espn_mbb_team_schedule(),
espn_mbb_team_season_profile(),
espn_mbb_team_season_roster(),
espn_mbb_team_stats(),
espn_mbb_teams(),
espn_mbb_tournament(),
espn_mbb_tournament_seasons(),
espn_mbb_tournaments(),
espn_mbb_venues(),
espn_mbb_week_ranking(),
espn_mbb_week_rankings(),
espn_mbb_wp()
Examples
# \donttest{
espn_mbb_news(limit = 5)
#> ── ESPN MENS-COLLEGE-BASKETBALL News from ESPN.com ────────────── hoopR 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-05-19 01:33:12 UTC
#> # A tibble: 5 × 9
#> id type headline description published premium byline link_web league_id
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 4.88e7 Head… Ex-Abil… A former A… 2026-05-… FALSE NA https:/… 41
#> 2 4.88e7 Head… Underwo… Illinois a… 2026-05-… FALSE NA https:/… 41
#> 3 4.88e7 Head… Purdue … Top-10 jun… 2026-05-… FALSE Jeff … https:/… 41
#> 4 4.88e7 Story 2026 NB… ESPN's NBA… 2026-05-… FALSE Jeff … https:/… 46
#> 5 4.88e7 Head… Okorie,… Stanford's… 2026-05-… FALSE Jeff … https:/… 41
# }