by admin | Aug 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With her 6,453rd point on Tuesday night, Washington center Tina Charles climbed up to seventh on the WNBA’s all-time points leaderboard list in the Mystics’ 93-83 loss to the Las Vegas Aces. .@tinacharles31 has passed @katiesmith30 for 7th on the #WNBA...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Nike confirmed Tuesday that it had renamed the Alberto Salazar Building on its Beaverton, Ore., campus, whose namesake was the famed distance running coach who has been barred from the sport for sexual and emotional misconduct. The change is a stunning and perhaps...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sun forward and center Jonquel Jones continued her stellar performance Tuesday as she eclipsed 2,000 career points in Connecticut’s 72–60 win against the Lynx. Jones entered the game against Minnesota needing 14 points to secure the milestone. The five-year...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
While the Olympics were under way in Tokyo, Patricia “Pat” Kelly was collecting her sports medals in Iowa. The 71-year-old sprinter hadn’t started running until she was 62. Yet, there she was at the USA Track & Field (USATF) national outdoor championships in Ames,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
ot long ago, Gabby Thomas thought that at age 24, she would be working for a nonprofit medical organization, or maybe as a hospital administrator, with a focus on eliminating racial disparities in health care. That was the plan – make the 2020 Olympics, maybe try a...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk has auctioned off her Tokyo 2020 silver medal to help fund heart surgery for an eight-month-old boy. Andrejczyk, who came fourth at Rio 2016, recovered from bone cancer following a diagnosis in 2018, and went on to claim silver...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Canada women’s national team goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe announced her engagement to fellow Olympian Georgia Simmerling in an Instagram post on Monday. Labbe, who was instrumental in securing gold with Canada at the Tokyo Olympics, posted that Simmerling, who has...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka, preparing to compete in her first tennis tournament since the Tokyo Olympics, briefly took a break during a pre-tournament news conference on Monday after she started crying. The Western & Southern Open news conference in Mason, Ohio, began with Osaka...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Donned in a loose-fitting gray tee, her hair in pigtails, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the athletic superstar otherwise known as “Pocket Rocket” (or “Mommy Rocket” since the birth of her son) welcomes me into her home, on the other side of a Zoom screen. At 9am, I could...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The tennis star Naomi Osaka has announced that she will donate prize earnings from her next tournament to support relief efforts in Haiti, where a 7.2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 1,297 people over the weekend and injured more than 5,700. Osaka, who is of...
Recent Comments