by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lusia Harris, who won three national championships at Delta State and scored the first points in Olympic women’s basketball history in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 66, her family announced. A cause of death was not given. Harris was the first Black woman...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell, two-time WNBA champion Mercedes Russell of the Seattle Storm, and guard Lexie Brown, who played for the champion Chicago Sky last season, lead a group of 11 WNBA players who will compete in Athletes Unlimited Basketball, which...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA free agency has officially arrived. While no deals can be finalized until Feb. 1, teams were allowed to start talking to players on Jan. 15. And what a group of players this is. There are five former MVPs hitting the market this winter, and seven of the 10...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
For those of us who could give less than a shit about Novak Djokovic’s refusal to get vaccinated, and subsequent expulsion from the land of koalas and kangaroos, there are far more important things to discuss—like Naomi Osaka kicking ass and taking names at the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As Emma Raducanu lined up to compete in the Australian Open for the first time as a professional, reminders of her inexperience were ever present. Despite being a grand slam champion, the encounter with Sloane Stephens marked her first match against a grand slam...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka received over 32,000 abusive tweets in 2021, according to a new study. With online abuse rife in the sporting world, the Pickswise study analysed every tweet sent to professional tennis players to highlight what athletes are subjected...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Shim Suk-Hee, South Korea’s top short track speed skater, will reportedly miss the Beijing Winter Olympics after losing an appeal to lift a ban over reported text messages where she disparaged teammates. Last fall, the four-time Olympic medalist was removed from the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA.com women’s basketball Team of the Week, UCF, started the new year with four straight wins, including two last week over Houston and South Florida that propelled the Knights into sole possession of first place in the American Athletic Conference. UCF...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
We’ve become accustomed to seeing upsets in women’s tennis of late and the first round of the Australian Open has delivered on that front once again. While there were comfortable wins for defending champion Naomi Osaka and world number one Ashleigh Barty, some of the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The last few seconds are brutal. They are supposed to be. No matter how much or how hard Jessie Diggins trains, she never expects to feel good when she pushes toward her absolute limit at the end of a race. Sometimes she squeezes so much out of her body that her...
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