Pulling the thread on overlooked women’s sports stories and stitching together their place in the conversation

SafeSport shelves probe of former NWSL coach, sparking outcry

Once a dominant figure in girls’ and women’s soccer, Rory Dames in recent years has become a symbol of an abusive culture and dysfunctional regulatory system within both pro and youth sports. Articles in The Washington Post detailed former athletes’ allegations of...

A reporter keeps asking about Caitlin Clark. Players want her banned.

One day last week, with her team, the Connecticut Sun, in a first-round playoff series against WNBA star Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever, guard DiJonai Carrington was surrounded by a group of reporters. Carrington had swatted Clark in the face while reaching for the...