by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
What can we say about the W? It is the oldest running professional women’s league in the country — that alone is huge. With women’s sports leagues struggling to last more than a few seasons in recent decades, the WNBA in many ways can serve as a North Star. Read...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Members of the Boston Celtics wore T-shirts with “WE ARE BG” written across them at practice Saturday ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals in support of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who remains detained in Russia. “The shirts were super important not...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Washington Mystics were already planning to have their Wear Orange game raising awareness of gun violence Friday night. The grocery store shooting in Buffalo on May 14 and the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 had already left vocal gun control advocate...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA hopes to expand by two teams before the 2024 season, commissioner Cathy Engelbert told The Athletic. A new expansion franchise would mark the WNBA’s first since the Atlanta Dream’s inaugural season in 2008. Read More
by admin | Jun 2, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
A’ja Wilson had 24 points and 14 rebounds, Jackie Young scored 21 points and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Connecticut Sun 89-81 on Tuesday night in a battle of the top teams in each WNBA conference. Under head coach Becky Hammon, Las Vegas (9-1) won its seventh...
by admin | Jun 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Since she was traded to the team in 2017, Elena Delle Donne has been the franchise centerpiece of the Washington Mystics, leading the team to deep playoff runs in every season she’s played in. She has missed some time this season due to rest and personal reasons, but...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Los Angeles Sparks center Liz Cambage pushed back Sunday against a report from an Australian newspaper that she directed a racial slur toward the Nigerian women’s basketball team during a pre-Olympic scrimmage last year in Las Vegas. “The incident that...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Washington Mystics’ and the Connecticut Sun’s social media accounts will spread awareness about gun violence during their game on Saturday following the Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. The teams both said they will share statements offering...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon is quickly showing that she’s the type of head coach she promised she’d be: a damn good one. In just a few weeks at the helm, the former San Antonio Spurs assistant has lifted the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces from a top contender to the team to...
by admin | May 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon can say “they caught us on a night, really” with that proud smile all she wants. Those nights appear to be more frequent in Vegas where the Aces are on pace for history one-fifth of the way into their 2022 WNBA schedule. The Las Vegas...
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