by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sisters Serena Williams and Venus Williams said Wednesday that they will not play in the upcoming U.S. Open tennis tournament because of injuries. They join standouts Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in their withdrawals, marking the first major tournament since 1997...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On a Sunday afternoon in June, Sophia Gorriarian celebrated her 16th birthday in a state 3,000 miles from where she lives in Rhode Island. The youngest athlete running in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, Gorriaran was just four days away from one of the...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Breanna Stewart helped lead the U.S. women’s basketball team to gold at the Tokyo Olympics. Then, she had a life-changing flight to catch. Two days after the victory, she welcomed her first baby with wife Marta Xargay Casademont. Ruby Mae Stewart Xargay was born...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Anniversaries are often a time of reflection, both a remembrance and celebration of just how far we have come. For the New York Liberty, an original WNBA team, this look back at 25 years evokes even more emotion. In this commemorative year, the culmination of the...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Buzzer, the new mobile platform for personalization and discovery of live sports, has announced a new agreement with the WNBA to distribute live game content, making the WNBA the first women’s professional sports league to be offered on the platform. Beginning August...
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 | 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...
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