The new collective bargaining agreement helped to create a historic player movement, empowering many notable players to switch teams.
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Dynamic Gopher duo now thriving in WNBA
Former Gopher standouts, Amanda Zahui B. and Rachel Banham, are now flourishing in the WNBA.
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WNBA’s new league pact may be a landmark agreement
The new WNBA collective bargaining agreement could potentially be a landmark in women’s pro sports. Black women were on the front line of the negotiations.
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Still too hard to find women’s sports coverage
Why can’t the WNBA promote itself year-round as other leagues endlessly do?
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WNBA sets the bar high for racial, gender hiring
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The WNBA and social media: blessing or curse?
Perhaps more than any other pro league, the WNBA has fully embraced social media.
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New Lynx shooter grateful for green light
Lexie Brown recently became the 13th player in Minnesota Lynx history to make five three-pointers in a game and the third WNBA player to do so.
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Things are looking up for Lynx guard Odyssey Sims
Odyssey Sims, one of nine new faces on the 2019 Lynx, is hopeful about her future success.
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WNBA’s first commissioner could’ve been Black — but she isn’t
Former WNBA President Lisa Borders resigned last fall, and the announcement of her successor caught most of us by surprise with the new title: WNBA commissioner.
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MN Lynx begin their 21st season this weekend
The Minnesota Lynx, the W’s second dynasty, also ruled the league since 2011 with six Finals appearances and tied Houston with four championships earned.
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Lynx player hopes new WNBA, CBS TV deal leads to bigger checks
The WNBA and CBS recently announced it would broadcast 40 WNBA games in prime-time and on weekends as part of a brand new multiyear deal between the league and the sports. It all kicks off on May 25.
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2019 W Draft Day Musings
Mock drafts aside, the 2019 WNBA Draft, scheduled for today at 6 pm CST, is still an important day for 36 young women hoopsters.