by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Night after night, a bright lantern dangles from a dogwood tree outside of a Pennington, New Jersey, home so that a tall, athletic teenage girl can see what she is doing. With a basketball in hand and a hoop in sight, she polishes her skills on the chance her immense...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon never played for the Las Vegas Aces. But the fact they are honoring her at halftime of Monday’s game by raising her No. 25 to the rafters in Las Vegas sends a good sign to her about the team and the WNBA as a whole. Hammon, who is entering her...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone on Friday sent an open letter asking the unions of the women’s and men’s national teams to agree to equalize FIFA’s World Cup prize money. She called for the men’s national team to allow the...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai prevail in three sets over Coco Gauff and Caty McNally to win the US Open women’s doubles title. Read More
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tennis superstar Venus Williams candidly shared her own mental health struggles as she praised athletes Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles for speaking out about their own battles. Williams, who was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in 2019, wrote in an op-ed for the New...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Emma Raducanu’s goal before her first-round qualifying match at the US Open three weeks ago was to win enough prize money to replace a pair of AirPods she had lost. After winning the entire tournament — and $2.5 million in prize money — the 18-year-old Brit can...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
NBA 2K22 is out, so if you are an enthusiastic gamer, I hope you are taking full advantage of it! Yesterday, I posted on the Washington Wizards’ ratings where they were a Tier 3 team (out of three tiers). Today, I will post on the Washington Mystics’ ratings since...
by admin | Sep 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Emma Raducanu didn’t need the experience of playing for years on the pro circuit or testing her game against the top women in the world. She didn’t even need a direct entry into the U.S. Open. As it turned out, all the 18-year old phenomenon from Great Britain needed...
by admin | Sep 12, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to female paralympians who brought home more medals for Team USA ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to commentator Matt Walsh, who continues to insult female sportscasters.
by admin | Sep 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nadia Nadim remembers the moment she fell in love with football. She was in Denmark when she saw some girls kicking a ball around on a field, uninhibited. “That’s the first time I got to see that girls actually did play football at the schools. And right...
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