by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW
I think it’s time media companies took WNBA coverage seriously. Before you protest, “Of course she is saying that, she’s an WNBA writer,” I’ll tell you what I ALSO am—a NBA writer. Everyday, I see every network, newspaper and media outlet employ people on a full-time...
by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Tobin Heath spent her Monday at the White House, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act. The Act helped to make equal pay laws more enforceable, and Heath was present at the White House on Monday to talk about the U.S. women’s national...
by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Golden State Warriors have plucked Jess Smith, the head of revenue for the Angel City Football Club, to be the president of their new WNBA franchise. It’s the first move by the team since the league announced it was expanding to the Bay Area back in July. Smith,...
by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Lara Gut-Behrami won a World Cup giant slalom by a large margin on Tuesday and trimmed Mikaela Shiffrin’s lead in the overall standings to 95 points with the American out injured. Gut-Behrami beat Alice Robinson of New Zealand and Olympic champion Sara Hector,...
by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner’s No. 42 jersey will be retired by Baylor when the Bears host Texas Tech on Feb. 18 at the recently opened Foster Pavilion in Waco, Texas. The Phoenix Mercury star, the No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA draft, twice led Baylor to the Final Four during...
by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has granted requests by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union to suspend Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for four years dating from before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, following her positive test for a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Bakari Sellers is joined by multimedia journalist Arielle Chambers to discuss founding Bleacher Report’s women’s platform, HighlightHER (4:58), check in on the WNBA offseason (6:47), and talk about how NIL and the transfer portal has impacted women’s sports (10:44)....
by admin | Jan 31, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Whether the choices are serious or of a more trivial nature, Eileen Gu refuses to be hemmed in. Two years after exploding onto the world stage at the Beijing Winter Games, the 20-year-old Olympic champion, straight-A student and fashion model remains as comfortable on...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami is halfway to Lindsey Vonn’s Cortina record after claiming a World Cup super-G on Sunday for her sixth career victory on the Olympia delle Tofane course — which again was the site of multiple crashes. But Gut-Behrami, 32,...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | Representation, SEW
American Kaysha Love earned her second World Cup monobob win on Saturday in her first season as a driver on the circuit. Love, a brakewoman at the 2022 Olympics, prevailed by 42 hundredths of a second combining times from two runs in Lillehammer, Norway. Read...
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