by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Late last year, the founder and longtime sponsor of the National Women’s Soccer League walked out the door. After starting the league in 2013, U.S. Soccer handed the office keys to executives hired to run the league — most notably a new commissioner, Lisa Baird,...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The “Vote for the GOAT” platform was part of the WNBA’s celebration of its landmark 25th season. Taurasi was announced as the greatest player in WNBA history today prior to Game 1 of the WNBA Finals 2021 presented by YouTube TV at Footprint Center in...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tennis star Iga Swiatek says she will be donating $50,000 of her prize money in support of World Mental Health Day, after progressing to the last 16 of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells on Sunday. The world No. 4 took less than an hour to breeze through her...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
WNBA star Brittney Griner [she/her], 30, was the number 1 overall pick at the 2013 WNBA Draft, and publicly discussed being gay soon afterwards. She plays for the Phoenix Mercury, who picked her at the Draft after a stellar career at Baylor, and is a seven-time WNBA...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
USWNT and Orlando Pride forward Alex Morgan has said women have been pulled away from playing soccer because of “failures” in how the system is set up for them but added that things are changing as players stand up to their employers. Morgan was speaking...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, dynasties get fans talking. They get us invested in our sports. The 1990s Chicago Bulls were so transcendent that they spurred a 10-part ESPN documentary more than two decades after their last championship. In the early 2000s, UConn women’s...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Diana Taurasi made it back home in time to see her wife Penny Taylor give birth to a baby girl — the couple’s second child. Taurasi flew back to Phoenix from Las Vegas immediately after helping the Mercury beat the Las Vegas Aces in Game 5 of their...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Conventional wisdom in the world of high-stakes professional tennis is that to win a title in one of the four major events, a player needs to have talent, of course, but also experience. It’s hard to be a Grand Slam champion until your mettle has been tested and...
by admin | Oct 10, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the NWSL players who linked arms 6 minutes into their games this week to stand up against sexual misconduct in the league. #NoMoreSilence ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to USA Fencing, where three...
by admin | Oct 8, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney was just a teenager in 2015, when she was interviewed by the FBI about allegations that then-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually abused her. “I thought I was going to die that night because there was no way he was going to let...
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