by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The push for equal gender pay in sports got a shot in the arm this week when the U.S. Soccer Federation announced that players for the men’s and women’s national teams would get equal compensation. Yet while the U.S. soccer teams have achieved parity,...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
She was an original in every way. She helped pave the way and in the end she had seen and done it all. WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes has an army of accolades that most can only dream of attaining. Beginning with her college days at Texas Tech in which she was a First...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Leadership, Representation
If she’s being honest — something Candace Parker makes a point of doing these days — there were plenty of moments after the Chicago Sky(at Washington Mystics, Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, ABC) won the WNBA Championship last fall when she considered retiring....
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On this episode of Bloomberg’s “How I Got Here with Chris Paul,” Phoenix Mercury point guard Skylar Diggins-Smith joins Chris Paul on a visit to a Boys & Girls Club to talk basketball, life as a working mom and how Jay-Z helped make her a superstar. Read...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Expectations for the New York Liberty entering the 2022 WNBA season were fairly high. They had brought in a championship coach in Sandy Brondello. Sabrina Ionescu was finally healthy. Natasha Howard, Betnijah Laney and Sami Whitcomb had returned for a second year,...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA star Skylar Diggins-Smith is getting candid about her motherhood journey. In an exclusive clip from the new Bloomberg Quicktake Show How I Got Here hosted by NBA All-Star Chris Paul, Diggins-Smith, 31, opens up about her experience playing basketball while...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Rebekah Gardner had been in the United States for just four days when she was inserted into the Sky’s starting lineup last Wednesday against the Liberty. The 6’1″ guard had recently wrapped up her overseas season with Uni Girona in Spain, missing all of...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two months ago, I wrote a piece about WNBA star Brittney Griner that garnered a lot of attention in a way that ended up making me uncomfortable. The article examined the circumstances of Griner’s arrest at the hands of Russian authorities, who claim to have found...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA season is only a couple of weeks old, but it has provided exceptional basketball. Much like their play on the court, the fashion choices by players off it have turned some heads. This week’s fashion across the association featured a variety of looks....
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kayla McBride said no matter how tired she was after flying into Los Angeles from Turkey, she was thrilled to be playing again in the WNBA. And the Minnesota Lynx were just as thrilled to have her. McBride scored a team-high 24 points, including the game-winning...
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