Pulling the thread on overlooked women’s sports stories and stitching together their place in the conversation

Opinion: The risky and lonely path for women in sports

Sports historian Amy Bass looks at situations ranging from Brittney Griner’s plight to the sickening report of abuses in the National Women’s Soccer League and asks: If these elite athletes — the owners of these bodies who fly and soar, slam and hit, climb and jump, who work in a world filled with rules and judges and spectators — are not safe, then what can the rest of us mere mortals expect?