How Kim Ng, Major League Baseball’s First Female GM, Finally Got the Top Job

6 years ago

After nearly two decades in baseball front offices, Ng had become accustomed to the condescending glances, outright hostility and attempts…

Mark Giangreco is in limbo at ABC-7 after the sportscaster’s on-air line about casting anchor Cheryl Burton as a ‘ditzy, combative’ reality TV character

6 years ago

ABC-7 sportscaster Mark Giangreco, a Chicago TV fixture for nearly 40 years, has been off the air since joking on…

Women’s hockey league gains new fans on Twitch

6 years ago

Despite the 2021 National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) season ending early because of a COVID-19 outbreak, broadcasters like Alexis Pearson…

With eyes on Tokyo, Katie Ledecky returns to find out what a difference a year makes

6 years ago

She returns to competition this week at the TYR Pro Swim Series event in San Antonio, offering a first glimpse…

After settling claims from cheerleaders, Washington to create co-ed dance team

6 years ago

Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other…

Annual NFL women’s forum enhancing career opportunities

6 years ago

When Sam Rapoport envisioned conducting virtually the NFL's fifth annual Women's Career in Football Forum, she shuddered.

The Real Threat to Women’s Sports Isn’t Trans Athletes. It’s Sexually Predatory Coaches.

6 years ago

While legislators on the House floor were pontificating about the demise of women’s sports, another story was unfolding.

‘Worst-kept secret’: What the Indians, MLB really knew about Mickey Callaway’s behavior

6 years ago

When Cleveland Indians team president Chris Antonetti addressed the media on Feb. 4, he opened his virtual news conference by…

C. Vivian Stringer Is the Thread Between the W.N.B.A.’s Emerging Stars

6 years ago

The Liberty’s Betnijah Laney and Erica Wheeler of the Los Angeles Sparks are coming into their own after winding paths…

An ‘Old Men’s Club’ Dominates Japan. The Young Just Put Them on Notice.

6 years ago

For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women. In a country…