by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
During a meeting of women’s basketball coaches with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday, Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner issued a plea. Instead of treating her sport like a cost to minimize, the NCAA should see it the way so many others increasingly do: as an...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world now knows Paige Bueckers and Jalen Suggs as freshman phenoms, the outrageously talented point guards leading the top-ranked collegiate teams in the country — the Connecticut women and the Gonzaga men — to their respective Final Fours this weekend. The close...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
SAN ANTONIO — Every player who goes to UConn is special. She has to be, playing for a team that’s won a record 11 national championships and knowing she is an heiress apparent to the likes of Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart....
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
The Rose Ladies Series has announced an expanded 2021 schedule, with 11 one-day events taking place across the UK over the coming months. Justin Rose and his wife, Kate, put their name and money towards a set of women’s events last year to give playing...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Now 31, a wife and a mother, Wie obviously is in a different place in her life, though in a comeback-bid postpartum it is a familiar place that has the potential to jumpstart it. The former U.S. Women’s Open champion shot a two-under-par 70 in the first round of the...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chicago Sky star Candace Parker narrated a video essay celebrating the achievements of female athletes to bring Women’s History Month to a close. The video also represented a call to action to continue supporting and lifting up women’s...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
IN SOME WAYS, STILES WISHES her memories of that 2000-01 season could freeze at that airport homecoming. Before an 81-64 national semifinal loss to Purdue in which the Lady Bears scored 40 points fewer than they had four days earlier in winning the regional title...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Get ready for a brand-new Carli Lloyd. After 17 years on the United States Women’s National Team, Lloyd is in the home stretch heading toward her fourth Olympic Games. On Oct. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden, she is expected to become the third soccer player, man or...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
While recovering from shoulder surgery over the summer, Dennis meditated on the Black Lives Matter movement, and it has become increasingly important to her to put her Blackness front and center in an arena that has historically only celebrated Eurocentric standards....
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