College women’s volleyball drawing record interest. Chicago fans are …

When Tarah Dickerson, a longtime volleyball referee from Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, goes to watch college women’s volleyball at a bar, she is used to having to request the match be shown on one of the restaurant’s numerous screens.

Sometimes the bar doesn’t even have the network the sport is showing on. Even if it does, servers tend to show the match on the smallest television, meaning Dickerson and her friends have to cram into the corner of the establishment.

That was not the case Thursday night as Dickerson and four of her friends gathered at The Globe Pub in North Center, where the NCAA Final Four women’s volleyball matches were the main televised sport playing on TV and over the bar’s speakers. Dickerson and her group whooped and clapped as Nebraska took a strong early lead en route to defeating Pittsburgh.

“We like it here, having the space and ability to watch our favorite sport and hang out,” Dickerson said.

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