by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For the first time since her MVP season two years ago, Elena Delle Donne returned to the hardwood. The Washington Mystics forward made her season debut Sunday against the Seattle Storm, playing more than 22 minutes in her first game since October 2019 when she...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What David Stern did for the sport of basketball transcended any gender bias and opened a whole new world for women in the game. NBA commissioner from 1984 to 2014, Stern was the key figure in the formation and operation of the WNBA in 1997. That bold move paved the...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
There were a lot of seamy, disputable side questions in Trevor Bauer’s court hearing, such as whether that phrase his lawyers used, “wholly consensual,” comes with any limits as to what you’re allowed to do to somebody. But you don’t need to answer that charming legal...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just days after the Tokyo Olympics, a Polish javelin thrower auctioned off her silver medal to help pay for an infant’s heart surgery. Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk announced on Facebook last week that she would sell her medal and put the proceeds toward an operation for...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Pro soccer officially has a young superstar on its hands. Olivia Moultrie — a 15-year-old wunderkind who waged a legal battle against the National Women’s Soccer Leagueover her eligibility to play at the highest level in the United States — scored her first...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
To be a woman and a professional athlete is to be a walking protest. It’s a truth universally acknowledged by the female icons that populate every major sport right now. And yet, it’s something the stars of the WNBA embrace, unreservedly. The league made headlines in...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Hours after beating Team USA with a 18–14 double double in under 30 minutes of playing time in the 2021 WNBA All-Star Game, Sun star Jonquel Jones explained what her latest season in Russia had been like. It was unlike any of the previous three years she had spent in...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Kristi Toliver has a day job right now playing for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. When that gig ends for the winter, she will become an assistant coach on Jason Kidd’s Dallas Mavericks staff, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Read More
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A judge has ordered the U.S. government to seize money from the prison trust account of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who owes approximately $58,000 to the victims of his crimes according to a report by the Associated Press. Nassar, whose crimes included...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcome four-time Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes to discuss everything from mental health in gymnastics to the time Prince made her hot cocoa before a music video shoot (8:00). Plus, OnlyFans changes its policies (35:33), Jeopardy!’s...
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