by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Opals star Liz Cambage has shared stunning details about the extent of her mental health battle after her shock withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics last month. The Aussie WNBA All-Star revealed how she had struggled with her mental health before the Opals’...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles is ready to cheer on Sunisa Lee as her former Olympics gymnastics teammate gets ready to compete in a completely different apparatus: Dancing with the Stars. Last week, Lee was confirmed as a contestant on the upcoming 30th season of the ABC dance...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tennis star Sloane Stephens is opening up about mental health ahead of the 2021 U.S. Open. Mental health for athletes at the top of their game has been brought to the forefront in 2021, largely due to athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles opening up on their own...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady has withdrawn from the US Open because of an injury. Brady, a semifinalist last year in Flushing Meadows, has not played competitively since being forced to retire from her second-round match against Jelena Ostapenko in...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A former Major League Baseball player has been accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, ESPN reported on Saturday. Juan Encarnación, a two-time World Series champion (2003 Marlins, 2006 St. Louis Cardinals), has been taken into custody, the attorney...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) president Cindy Parlow Cone announced on Saturday that she will run for re-election at the organization’s next Annual General Meeting in March. Parlow Cone made the announcement during a news conference that followed Friday’s...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have opened registration for the third annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, which will take place virtually on September 10-12, 2021. The conference will be highlighted by keynote speaker Dana Bookman,...
by admin | Aug 29, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Michelob Ultra, who invested in the future of women’s sports this week. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the MLB player, Trevor Bauer, who is accused of abusing a woman.
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The demand for women’s sports is growing, but women’s sports fans and consumers already knew that. The NWSL and WNBA were the only professional sports leagues in North America to experience increased TV ratings during 2020 amid the pandemic. Star athletes like Naomi...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
When King won her first Wimbledon in 1966, she received less than half of the prize money her male counterpart did. “I didn’t have any idea we were going to get different prize money,” she said on the 2013 PBS documentary “American...
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