by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Days before Sky coach and general manager James Wade trimmed his roster to 11 players ahead of the 2021 WNBA season, he put forward Gabby Williams on the full-season suspended list. Three days later, Williams was traded to the Los Angeles Sparks for rookie Stephanie...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Though there are arguments that would back this point of view over recent years, the emergence of two new forces on the WTA should surely put an end to this. When 23-year-old Aryna Sabalenka and 25-year-old Ashleigh Barty met in the Madrid Open final over the weekend,...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Billie Jean King has been a trailblazer in sports and public life for five decades. But the five-time Wimbledon singles champ and winner of 12 single Grand Slams has no plans to let up. Just a few weeks ahead of 2021’s installment of the French Open, a...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Lindsay Gottlieb has been hired as the women’s head coach at USC, the school announced Monday. Sources told ESPN that Gottlieb agreed to a six-year deal. “It is an honor and a thrill to become the women’s...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A little more than three years ago, we first heard that some cheerleaders for the Washington Football Team were subjected to inappropriate parading for the private pleasure of the club’s highest-spending ticket holders, all men, at a Costa Rican resort. The team’s...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
A year ago, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it wasn’t certain the WNBA would have a season. But the league completed it with a bubble scenario in Bradenton, Florida. Despite some high-profile opt-outs, the basketball was top-notch. The Seattle Storm, led...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In late December 2019, Eb Jones was in her Sydney hotel room when her cellphone started buzzing incessantly. Jones, then the WNBA’s head of content and influencer strategy, was on vacation. She thought someone in her family had died. But more than 7,000 miles...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In 1984, the year after her Women’s American Basketball Association championship victory with the Dallas Diamonds, Nancy Lieberman was a reigning champion in a league that folded almost as quickly as it started. In the midst of deliberating her next plan of action to...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tokyo is under a state of emergency amid a surge in cases, 10 weeks from the start of the rescheduled Games on 23 July. Japanese world number two Osaka would be making her Olympic debut in Tokyo. “I’m an athlete, and of course my immediate thought is that...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The 39-year-old hasn’t played since the Australian Open, having undergone oral surgery. Now, as she fights to be fit for major tournaments going forward, Williams is choosing to manage her schedule more carefully. This week in Rome will be her first clay-court...
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