by admin | May 18, 2023 | Representation, SEW
With the 2023 Women’s World Cup looming, a new soccer league in the United States is on its way for the 2024-25 season. The USL Super League will begin play in ’24 with teams in eight markets, it officially announced Tuesday morning. It will include teams in the...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The women’s locker room is supposed to be a safe space. And yet its feeble record for warding off unwanted attention is underscored time and again in TV tropes and class-action lawsuits. It goes a long way to explaining why, despite the abundance of fly-on-the-wall...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Over the course of its 27 year history, the WNBA has come to be defined by dynastic superteams and fierce rivalries. It dates back to the league’s humble beginnings in the late 1990s, when the now-defunct Houston Comets won the first four WNBA finals, defeating the...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Eleven players account for 20 triple-doubles in WNBA history, with Sheryl Swoopes — who recorded the first — Candace Parker, Courtney Vandersloot, Sabrina Ionescu and Alyssa Thomas repeating the feat more than once. Last summer, Thomas compiled a...
by admin | May 17, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After a three-months-plus investigation involving more than 30 people, the WNBA said Tuesday it is suspending Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon for two games and taking away the Aces’ 2025 first-round draft pick because the franchise violated league rules...
by admin | May 16, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Ahead of the 2023 WNBA season, Aces coach Becky Hammon addressed the prospect of one day becoming an NBA coach in the aftermath of a report linking her to the Raptors’ vacant head coaching job. Toronto–just two weeks after firing coach Nick Nurse–reportedly received...
by admin | May 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Toronto nailed its WNBA expansion audition. As the Chicago Sky took down the Minnesota Lynx 82-74 in preseason action Saturday, the sold-out crowd of nearly 20,000 fans in Scotiabank Arena cheered them on with an “almost ear-splitting” din, Sportsnet reported. Read...
by admin | May 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner is officially back on the court. The WNBA player — who missed all of last season while she was imprisoned in Russia for 10 months — played in her first preseason game since her return to the U.S., scoring 10 points and making three rebounds in her...
by admin | May 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Instead of coasting through the finish line, Richardson threw her arms up in exuberant celebration at the Kip Keino Classic. Sha’Carri Richardson celebrated her 200-Meter win with 40 Meters to Go and Still Sets Meet Record with 22.07 seconds. Richardson had...
by admin | May 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Breanna Stewart is going to keep pushing for more charter flights from the WNBA. The league has come under fire in recent seasons for not allowing teams to charter private flights; instead, players are required to take commercial flights to road games. Read...
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