by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tennis star Naomi Osaka is currently one of the top-ranked players in the world. In 2019, she became the first player from Asia to be named the No. 1 on the women’s world tennis ranking, (via Reuters). She earned the coveted top spot after winning her second...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On Sunday, just five days before the start of the 2021 WNBA season, the Los Angeles Sparks shook things up with a trade that will negligibly impact their upcoming season, but a deal they hope will serve them well for many seasons to come. The Sparks...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
In what could be described as a full-circle moment, Chicago Sky forward Azurá Stevens is now teammates with one of her childhood basketball heroes, Candace Parker. In a tweet posted Monday night, the team showed the two women standing next to each other all smiles...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
If Candace Parker were commissioner of the WNBA for a day, she’d make a few changes. During a Monday night appearance on The Daily Show, the Chicago Sky player, 35, was asked to think of three improvements that she’d make if she were in charge of the...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
A new collection of women’s apparel is coming to the NHL thanks to a multiyear agreement between the league and sports broadcaster Erin Andrews’ WEAR brand. Each of the NHL’s 32 teams (including the Seattle Kraken, the league’s 2021-22 expansion...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA has long been at the forefront of social justice campaigns, but the efforts in Washington are often at another level. In the past 12 months, the Mystics led efforts that culminated in three league games being postponed after Jacob Blake was shot seven times...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
C.C. Sabathia has often joked that once he announced his retirement from the Yankees, he stepped aside and let his wife, Amber, get to work. Throughout his career, she had: Running their family of four children, guiding him through the highs (an American League Cy...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At 7:08 a.m. on April 15, Poda Collier tweeted a picture of a younger version of her daughter fast asleep in the back seat of a car. Her head rested on—what else?—a basketball. Approximately 12 hours later, Collier’s daughter Charli, now 21, became the 25th...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Before the WNBA had even formed, Sheryl Swoopes was a basketball legend. She’d already won an NCAA championship and was rocking her own Nike signature shoe, the Air Swoopes, during Team USA’s gold medal run at the 1996 Olympics, but she wasn’t done...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s a rainy, overcast Friday morning in Houston in mid-April. Heavy clouds are mixed with H-Town’s famously sticky humidity. It’s downright dreary outside. But inside the H&PE Arena on the campus of Texas Southern University—a historically Black school that...
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