by admin | Jan 4, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Karen Bryant, former longtime executive for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, has been named chief administrative officer and general manager of the Los Angeles Sparks, the team announced Tuesday. Bryant was with the Storm for 15 years, including championship seasons in...
by admin | Jan 4, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin took another step towards matching Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82 World Cup wins when she nailed the fastest time on the first run of Wednesday’s slalom in Zagreb. The 27-year-old American, who won all three events at last...
by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu overcame wind and rain in a match which stretched over almost four hours to beat Linda Fruhvirtova 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 Tuesday in her first singles match of 2023 at the ASB Classic. The match twice was interrupted by rain and the second...
by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin‘s first heartwarming experience of the season occurred far from TV cameras on an Austrian slope in November. It wasn’t the last. After the first giant slalom was canceled due to weather, Shiffrin trained slalom in the Tyrolean village of Pitztal. One...
by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
For Joanna Rodriguez, a recent rule change by the Cuban authorities to finally allow women to compete in boxing couldn’t come soon enough. Already in her 30s, time was fast running out for her shot at an Olympic or world boxing title. Working as a bouncer at a...
by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Martina Navratilova, the tennis legend who dominated the sport in the 1970s and 1980s and won 59 major titles during her historic career, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. Navratilova, 66, will start treatment later this month, she announced Monday....
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Venus Williams left tennis fans stunned after kick-starting her new year with her first singles win since 2021. The seven-time Grand Slam champion marked her 29th year on the WTA Tour with a victory over Katie Volynets at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand....
by admin | Jan 2, 2023 | Representation, SEW
On December 8, grainy footage showed WNBA star Brittney Griner landing in San Antonio after being released from 294 days in Russian detention. Griner wore a beanie over her hair that had been chopped off to avoid freezing conditions at the remote Russian penal colony...
by admin | Jan 1, 2023 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Mikaela Shiffrin who became the first skier of any gender with 50 World Cup wins in a single discipline. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down to WNBA pay which was the reason Brittney. Griner was playing overseas during the offseason...
by admin | Dec 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin made ski racing history once again on Thursday night. This time, however, she wasn’t the only American skier doing so. Shiffrin led teammate Paula Moltzan for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom since...
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