by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The reason Brittney Griner is the sports story of the year, isn’t solely because of her bravery while being “wrongfully detained” in Russia. It isn’t just that she became a symbol of strength that unified large swaths of the sports world and...
by admin | Dec 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
St. John’s earned its first ranking in seven years after matching the best start in school history, entering The Associated Press women’s basketball poll at No. 25 on Monday. The Red Storm (11-0) equaled the 2004-05 team that also won its first 11 games with Sunday’s...
by admin | Dec 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Becky Burke, the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Buffalo, interrupted practice on Monday to take care of something important: She proposed to her girlfriend, Savannah Lesesne. “Life update,” Burke tweeted on Monday, along with joyous shots of the...
by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A few months back, as Ecrin Mart was scanning Netflix for something to binge, she stumbled upon a series that spoke to her main passion. Ecrin is 14, and was born in Istanbul, Turkey, a few years after Michael Jordan retired from the NBA. Despite having never watched...
by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Billie Moore, the history-making women’s basketball coach that won national championships with two different schools, died Wednesday from cancer, UCLA announced. She was 79. The university reports that she passed away at her Fullerton, California, home...
by admin | Dec 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
From the moment she stepped on court as a Stanford freshman in 2020, Cameron Brink looked like a can’t-miss star. Two years, two Final Four appearances and one national championship later, that seems all the more certain — for the rest of her Cardinal...
by admin | Dec 13, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The WNBA is working on a way to keep players working in the U.S. Since before the league began in 1997, players have been going overseas, first to play and then to complement their salaries — the WNBA minimum is $62,285. “We’ve been chipping away at the economic model...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was held for months in Russian prisons on drug charges, was released Thursday in a one-for-one prisoner swap for international arms dealer Viktor Bout. “She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way...
by admin | Dec 8, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe have launched A Touch More, a production company that focuses on the “stories of revolutionaries who move culture forward.” The power couple announced the start of the venture created in partnership with TOGETHXR — the media and...
by admin | Dec 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
UConn sophomore Azzi Fudd is expected to miss three to six weeks with a right knee injury she suffered in the first quarter of the Huskies’ loss to Notre Dame on Sunday. The news, released Tuesday by UConn, felt like a nightmarish bout of déjà vu to Huskies...
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