by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA has long been at the forefront of social justice campaigns, but the efforts in Washington are often at another level. In the past 12 months, the Mystics led efforts that culminated in three league games being postponed after Jacob Blake was shot seven times...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
C.C. Sabathia has often joked that once he announced his retirement from the Yankees, he stepped aside and let his wife, Amber, get to work. Throughout his career, she had: Running their family of four children, guiding him through the highs (an American League Cy...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At 7:08 a.m. on April 15, Poda Collier tweeted a picture of a younger version of her daughter fast asleep in the back seat of a car. Her head rested on—what else?—a basketball. Approximately 12 hours later, Collier’s daughter Charli, now 21, became the 25th...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Before the WNBA had even formed, Sheryl Swoopes was a basketball legend. She’d already won an NCAA championship and was rocking her own Nike signature shoe, the Air Swoopes, during Team USA’s gold medal run at the 1996 Olympics, but she wasn’t done...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s a rainy, overcast Friday morning in Houston in mid-April. Heavy clouds are mixed with H-Town’s famously sticky humidity. It’s downright dreary outside. But inside the H&PE Arena on the campus of Texas Southern University—a historically Black school that...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Days before Sky coach and general manager James Wade trimmed his roster to 11 players ahead of the 2021 WNBA season, he put forward Gabby Williams on the full-season suspended list. Three days later, Williams was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks for rookie Stephanie...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Though there are arguments that would back this point of view over recent years, the emergence of two new forces on the WTA should surely put an end to this. When 23-year-old Aryna Sabalenka and 25-year-old Ashleigh Barty met in the Madrid Open final over the weekend,...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Billie Jean King has been a trailblazer in sports and public life for five decades. But the five-time Wimbledon singles champ and winner of 12 single Grand Slams has no plans to let up. Just a few weeks ahead of 2021’s installment of the French Open, a...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Lindsay Gottlieb has been hired as the women’s head coach at USC, the school announced Monday. Sources told ESPN that Gottlieb agreed to a six-year deal. “It is an honor and a thrill to become the women’s...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A little more than three years ago, we first heard that some cheerleaders for the Washington Football Team were subjected to inappropriate parading for the private pleasure of the club’s highest-spending ticket holders, all men, at a Costa Rican resort. The team’s...
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