by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
So much of the talk around this women’s college basketball season has revolved around upsets and parity. No one is undefeated. Unpredictability has reigned. The same is true of the 2021-22 midseason list of the top freshmen in the country, which includes a...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lusia Harris, who won three national championships at Delta State and scored the first points in Olympic women’s basketball history in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 66, her family announced. A cause of death was not given. Harris was the first Black woman...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell, two-time WNBA champion Mercedes Russell of the Seattle Storm, and guard Lexie Brown, who played for the champion Chicago Sky last season, lead a group of 11 WNBA players who will compete in Athletes Unlimited Basketball, which...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA free agency has officially arrived. While no deals can be finalized until Feb. 1, teams were allowed to start talking to players on Jan. 15. And what a group of players this is. There are five former MVPs hitting the market this winter, and seven of the 10...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA.com women’s basketball Team of the Week, UCF, started the new year with four straight wins, including two last week over Houston and South Florida that propelled the Knights into sole possession of first place in the American Athletic Conference. UCF...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Last year for Martin Luther King Jr Day, I interviewed a group of WNBA players along with Eric Garner’s daughter, Emerald. We spoke about their campaign to unseat Republican Kelly Loeffler, who had been part of the leadership group of the Atlanta Dream, from the US...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The last undefeated team in Division I men’s or women’s basketball fell Friday. The No. 22 Colorado women, who entered the night 13-0, lost to No. 2 Stanford 60-52 in Boulder, Colorado. The Cardinal, 12-3 overall and 3-0 in the Pac-12, were the first...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
It is early Thursday afternoon and the Memorial Gym court at Vanderbilt is full of orange. The Tennessee Lady Volunteers are going through their shoot-around for the game that night, and off to the side, their coach is trying to describe her world. This little tidbit...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Breanna Stewart signed an exclusive signature sneaker contract with Puma in 2020, the moment was seen as a win for the entire WNBA. Still, people around the league wondered why it took so long for one of the most exciting players in women’s basketball to be...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA’s 25th season was marked by celebrations, the launch of the Commissioner’s Cup and ‘‘The W25,’’ a collection of 25 of the greatest and most influential players in the league’s history. Fans voted Diana Taurasi as the GOAT, and that honor was announced before...
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