Black W players received less than half the coverage of White players, even though they won 80% of the 2020 postseason awards.
WNBA Finals 2016
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WNBA Finals | The league’s best square off for championship glory
Nicole LaVoi, the University of Minnesota Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport’s co-director, was very relieved that her one-hour talk at the Tucker Center was scheduled for last night and not today. LaVoi, a loyal Minnesota Lynx fan, wouldn’t have missed Game 5 of this year’s WNBA finals for the world. “We are going […]
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Lynx keep dream alive
One of the greatest joys over my 38 years as a journalist who has weathered the test of time has been watching the growth of the WNBA and locally covering the Minnesota Lynx. I have a great appreciation for the business of sports, and believe me it’s a business in which you find out who […]
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WNBA Finals | Maya Moore powers Lynx to Game 5
The Los Angeles Sparks’ California dreams turned into a nightmare as the defending champs Minnesota Lynx powered through a thrilling, must-win Game 4 against in Los Angeles to bring the series back home. When recently asked if she was to start a WNBA team using only Minnesota and Los Angeles players, ESPN’s LaChina Robinson didn’t […]
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WNBA Finals | Lynx vs Sparks Game 3 Preview
The 2016 WNBA Finals, featuring the league’s two best teams — each with a win under their belt — now shifts to the West Coast. “It was probably one of our best games as far as energy in the Playoffs,” said Lynx forward Maya Moore after her team’s Game 2 win. Lynx Assistant Coach Jim […]
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Lynx players encourage and coach kids in North Mpls
The Minnesota Lynx starters — Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, Rebekkah Brunson, Sylvia Fowles and Lindsay Whalen — hosted nearly 50 local boys and girls from a North Minneapolis elementary school, and taught them game fundamentals and values on the day after their Game 1 buzzer-beater defeat. WNBA President Lisa Borders sat in her workout gear […]
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WNBA Finals Preview | Lynx vs Sparks — match up of league’s best
League officials realigned the post-season over the off-season so that the two best teams, regardless of conference, play for the WNBA championship. As a result, top-seeded Minnesota and second-seeded Los Angeles are meeting Sunday in Minneapolis for the best-of-five league championship, the first time in WNBA history that a Western Conference club is assured to […]