by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka was brought to tears by a heckler Saturday on the way to a 6-0, 6-4 loss to Veronika Kudermetova in the Indian Wells WTA hardcourt tournament. Japan’s Osaka, ranked 78th in the world after her third-round exit at the...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Athletes Unlimited launched its inaugural basketball league in January, a major selling point of the league was the opportunity for players to compete professionally in the United States as an alternative to playing overseas. As outlined in an official statement,...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two-time WNBA champion Candace Parker remembers seeing the weight-room disparities between the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments last year and thinking, ‘‘It’s a picture and video we’ve all seen a thousand times.’’ Images of the men’s rows and rows of benches, squat...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On Friday at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, alpine skier Sheyne“Sheina” Vaspi became Israel’s first ever winter Paralympian. The 20-year-old Vaspi competed in the women’s giant slalom competition wearing a skirt over her racing suit. “It’s also a part of my religion and...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
U.S. statistics show women are still being paid less than men. Legendary Olympian Allyson Felix told CBS News that she wants the gender pay gap to change “completely.” Women earn 83 cents for every dollar men make, according to the 2021 numbers from...
by admin | Mar 11, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Texas Southern women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke’s list of accomplishments should have qualified her for any job in the basketball world. She’s won a championship in high school, two collegiately, four in the WNBA and two Olympic medals. Individually, she’s...
by admin | Mar 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The strange case of Brittney Griner raises all sorts of perplexing questions. Is one of the best women basketball players in the world a political pawn in the standoff between two antagonistic superpowers? Is she being treated like anyone else who allegedly violated...
by admin | Mar 10, 2022 | Representation
The town celebrated both teams. Celebratory sirens whoop-whooped the heroes down Farmville’s Main Street as residents clutched blue-and-white balloons and waved homemade signs: “SO PROUD!” “WELCOME HOME CHAMPS!” “Go Lancers!” Longwood University made college sports...
by admin | Mar 10, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
U.S. Bank has become the latest company to agree to a multiyear relationship with the WNBA as one of its Changemakers, the league announced Thursday. As part of the deal, U.S. Bank will become the official bank of the WNBA and of the league’s major events, such...
by admin | Mar 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. congressman Colin Allred (D-Texas) is reportedly working with the State Department to secure the release of Brittney Griner from Russian authorities, according to ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel. Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after the Russian Federal...
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