by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | Representation, SEW
From Paris to Park City, Olympic Champion Lindsey Vonn is paving the way for future athletes. Kristen Kenney chats one-on-one with the ski racing superstar on her local impact ahead of the 2034 Salt Lake Games. The Paris Olympics showcased the dominance of US Women...
by admin | Aug 15, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A month without basketball is over. Well, WNBA basketball that is. After a thrilling end to the Paris Olympic basketball tournament, the gold-medal winning Americans have again dispersed across the country to their respective WNBA teams. The New York Liberty entered...
by admin | Aug 15, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Older men were more likely than their younger counterparts to have watched more women’s events at the Paris Olympic Games, according to a new poll, with the same fact being true of older women. A YouGov survey of 1,567 U.S. adults found that watching more...
by admin | Aug 15, 2024 | Representation, SEW
When Jenny Nguyen invested her life-savings to open a bar that only shows women’s sports on its TVs, she wanted to prove that the idea was more than a novelty. Two years later, her Portland, Oregon-based bar The Sports Bra averages more than $1 million in annual...
by admin | Aug 15, 2024 | Representation, SEW
U.S. women’s basketball players have been saying for years that winning in the Olympics isn’t easy and France showed at the Paris Games that their comments are more than just rhetoric to keep fans interested. The rest of the world is catching up to the U.S.,...
by admin | Aug 15, 2024 | Representation, SEW
By any measure, women’s sports is where much of the sector’s growth will be found in the near term as sports and media are buffetted by the transition to digital streaming and on-demand platforms. The miracle season this year for women’s sports, spurred by the heat...
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Kendall Coyne Schofield doesn’t think of herself as particularly audacious; in fact, she says she is more of an introvert than extrovert. But after years of frustration and fruitless attempts at trying to make a viable living playing professional hockey, Coyne...
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Former world number one Naomi Osaka says she does not “feel like I’m in my body” following her return to tennis after a maternity break. Japan’s Osaka returned to the WTA Tour in January after the birth of her first child, daughter Shai, in...
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The rise of professional women’s sports is hard to ignore. Unless you’re a Fortune 500 company. New data shows the vast majority of the U.S.’s biggest companies are not spending their ad dollars on women’s pro sports. Only 33 companies in the Fortune 500 (6%) have...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Just off the Pacific Coast Highway, a line around the block heralded the presence of an exciting new spot in Long Beach—the state’s first sports bar dedicated to the women’s game. Watch Me is not only the first such location in the state, but just 1 of 5 in the whole...
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