by admin | May 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
As the WNBA season starts Friday, players not only have a championship at stake, but also a spot on the most exclusive team in the sport. For the first time since 2008, the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster has not been announced before the start of the WNBA...
by admin | May 14, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Let’s start here: my house, a couple of months ago, a good friend over for dinner and the conversation turning toward the article you’ve just started. This friend played sports at a high level, and he asked me, tentatively, whether he could explain why he...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
When the WNBA decided to operate in Bradenton, Florida, last July, it marked the start of a season like no other, one that interrogated the careers, identities and principles of every player inside the league’s campus-style bubble. It was an emotionally grueling...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Since 2010, the Minnesota Lynx have been one of the most successful teams in the WNBA. And there is one constant in their winning formula: head coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve. Reeve first arrived in Minnesota 11 years ago when she was hired as head coach...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On Sunday, just five days before the start of the 2021 WNBA season, the Los Angeles Sparks shook things up with a trade that will negligibly impact their upcoming season, but a deal they hope will serve them well for many seasons to come. The Sparks...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
In what could be described as a full-circle moment, Chicago Sky forward Azurá Stevens is now teammates with one of her childhood basketball heroes, Candace Parker. In a tweet posted Monday night, the team showed the two women standing next to each other all smiles...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
If Candace Parker were commissioner of the WNBA for a day, she’d make a few changes. During a Monday night appearance on The Daily Show, the Chicago Sky player, 35, was asked to think of three improvements that she’d make if she were in charge of the...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA has long been at the forefront of social justice campaigns, but the efforts in Washington are often at another level. In the past 12 months, the Mystics led efforts that culminated in three league games being postponed after Jacob Blake was shot seven times...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At 7:08 a.m. on April 15, Poda Collier tweeted a picture of a younger version of her daughter fast asleep in the back seat of a car. Her head rested on—what else?—a basketball. Approximately 12 hours later, Collier’s daughter Charli, now 21, became the 25th...
by admin | May 11, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s a rainy, overcast Friday morning in Houston in mid-April. Heavy clouds are mixed with H-Town’s famously sticky humidity. It’s downright dreary outside. But inside the H&PE Arena on the campus of Texas Southern University—a historically Black school that...
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