by admin | Oct 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Melbourne has introduced a vaccine mandate for professional athletes and this is set to impact a number of players on tour, who are yet to be jabbed. Back in August, freelance tennis reporter, Ben Rothenberg said that roughly 50 percent roughly of the men and women...
by admin | Oct 3, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the WNBA and the efforts they’ve made to get and educate about the covid vaccine. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Coach Paul Riley, who has been accused of sexual coercion spanning multiple...
by admin | Oct 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
There were no histrionics. No spread of misinformation dressed up as high-minded debates about science. No shirking of an opportunity to do a public good. When it came to getting vaccinated against COVID-19, the WNBA did what it’s always done: Led. Back in June, the...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Amanda Clifton has only seen her wife cry a handful of times since the two met. Unfortunately, most of those instances came in the past two years. The 2020 calendar year was supposed to be one of celebration for Elena Delle Donne after she was named 2019 WNBA Most...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Right now – as a result of COVID-19 protocols – WNBA teams are going without male practice players for a second straight season. In their absence, coaches are rethinking how to structure practices so as to not wear down their players. “[Practice players] allow us to...
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 10, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tokyo is under a state of emergency amid a surge in cases, 10 weeks from the start of the rescheduled Games on 23 July. Japanese world number two Osaka would be making her Olympic debut in Tokyo. “I’m an athlete, and of course my immediate thought is that...
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
This week is the first time since November 2019 that the LPGA will be holding a tournament in Asia. The HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore kicks off a two-event/three-week stretch (originally scheduled for three in three) that marks the tour’s return after...
by admin | Apr 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For the most humble of champions, Ash Barty has made a loud and defiant statement in the past month. She shushed doubts over her world No.1 ranking, frozen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, by winning the Miami Open. Then she buried them with victory in Stuttgart, her 11th...
by admin | Apr 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With an unknown number of months of the COVID-19 pandemic still looming and an active 3-year-old at home, Serena Williams and husband Alexis Ohanian had a question familiar to many parents last fall: How are we going to keep our kid entertained? Read More
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