by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
By the time the NWSL wrapped up its inaugural month-long Challenge Cup last year in Utah, it had secured record-setting sponsor support, much of which carried into the remainder of its 2020 campaign. As the 2021 season approaches, the league appears to be continuing...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has signed executive orders barring transgender athletes from women’s sports in the state. “Only girls should play girls’ sports,” Noem tweeted on Monday. “Given the legislature’s failure to accept my proposed revisions to...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin, the two-time Olympic Alpine champion, stopped competing 13 months ago, an absence tied to the accidental death of her father and later extended by the coronavirus pandemic and a back injury sustained in training. Shiffrin returned to the...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The Los Angeles Sparks, one of the WNBA’s original teams, is headed toward their 25th anniversary with a first-of-its-kind sponsorship deal. The Sparks announced on Monday via Forbes that they’ve signed an “all-encompassing beverage deal” with Molson...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sedona Prince’s impact on the NCAA women’s tournament will continue, even if she’s no longer playing in it. Prince and Oregon are headed home after being routed by second-seeded Louisville in the Sweet 16 on Sunday night. But the inequities between the men’s and...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
All the women’s sports did well this weekend, and the lone men’s team competing fell apart in Stillwater. What a weekend. And yes, apologies, we’re heavy on links from K-State Sports today.
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s one of the guiding principles of journalism, the reporter should never become the story. Every now and then though, you find a reporter’s story too good not to tell. In 2018, Dave Kindred received the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Sunday (28 March), Rapinoe, who is a lesbian, described how being able to play sports as a child “shaped my life’s path”. She said it taught her “so much more than is seen on the field and brought me so much...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn freshman guard Paige Bueckers and South Carolina sophomore forward Aliyah Boston, who will attempt to lead their No. 1-seeded teams into the Elite Eight this weekend, were among college basketball players named finalists Friday for the 2021 John R. Wooden Award....
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s been eight years since Amari Avery made her first “splash” — her word — in golf. A 2013 Netflix documentary on elite grade school golfers introduced an 8-year-old Avery cruising her Riverside, Calif., street on her bike, pink handlebar streamers blowing in the...
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