The WNBA has earned top marks for racial and gender hiring with A-pluses across the board — racial, gender and overall — says The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES).
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‘Socially conscious’ WNBA players recognized with Leadership Award
Washington’s Natasha Cloud is this season’s Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award recipient, the WNBA recently announced.
As basketball goes small, there will always be a place for the bigs
Minnesota’s 6’-6” Sylvia Fowles and Phoenix’s 6’-8” Brittany Griner are throwbacks to legendary NBA big men like Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bob Lanier, and others of their size.
Keep talking W
Talking WNBA all year round, in-season as well as off-season, has historically been a dilemma for the majority-male mainstream sports media.
WNBA, players negotiations: points of contention are as old as league itself
Unlike any previous time in WNBA history, the players are becoming more vocal, more demanding. This generation isn’t just happy that there’s finally a U.S. pro women’s hoops league.
WNBA players’ low pay still a sore point
This is a critical time for the WNBA, a crossroads of sorts. The league’s first commissioner says this, and so do its players.
The WNBA at the half
Two-weeks’ worth of games remaining gives not only the Lynx but all 12 WNBA clubs a unique optimism going into the second-half of the season.
The W All-Star Game chronicles — 14 years and counting
Las Vegas this weekend hosts the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game (WASG) and the ancillary activities leading up to it.
From high school to the pros, Augustus was destined for greatness
Seimone Augustus was among five athletes, three coaches, two administrators, one contributor and an official recently inducted as the 37th National High School Hall of Fame class.
The WNBA and social media: blessing or curse?
Perhaps more than any other pro league, the WNBA has fully embraced social media.