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Variety. The value of the deal is not yet known.“Brittney is an exceptional athlete whose hardship and resilience are nothing short of extraordinary,” Burke Magnus, the president of content at ESPN, said in a statement.

was arrested in February 2022 at a Moscow airport while traveling to Russia to play for a professional team there during the WNBA offseason. A cannabis vape cartridge was allegedly found in her luggage.

There’s a baby on the way! Candace Parker, 35, made a double announcement on her Instagram on Tuesday December 14. The Chicago Sky player wished her partner Anya Petrakova, 37, a happy anniversary and also announced the Russian basketball pro was pregnant with their first child together. Candace hadn’t made their marriage public prior to sharing the series of photos of themselves as a doting couple.

Nickelodeon broadcast of the NFL Saints-Bears playoff game back in January.“[Noah] is really awesome. He is funny, and I think we have great chemistry so far.

Nancy Darsch was a women’s basketball coach who helped take USA Basketball to gold at the 1984 and 1996 Olympics and was one of the original WNBA coaches.Darsch coached college basketball at the University of Tennessee before becoming head coach at Ohio State University in 1985. She took the Buckeyes to four Big Ten titles and seven NCAA tournament appearances, and her team had the first televised game for Buckeyes women’s basketball, shown on ESPN in 1990.

WNBA players made a strong statement in honor of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man who was shot by a Kenosha, WI police seven times. The Washington Mystics took the court in white shirts that spelled out Jacob’s name on the front, and had seven bullet holes on the back, representing the seven times he was shot.

By Their new collective bargaining agreement includes better pay, better training facilities, and new maternity and child care benefits.By The victim was 24-year-old Summer Taylor.By U.S. Soccer is now run by a woman.

.Moore met Irons through prison ministry in 2007, the NYT reports. A year later, Moore would go on to become a star player at the University of Connecticut before going pro with the Minnesota Lynx, winning four championships and being named MVP.

By Once in a generation, there’s an athlete whose game is so great, it literally changes their sport. Sabrina Ionescu, 22, is that athlete.

This summer was huge for the fight for equal pay—thanks largely to the very high-profile crusade of the leading up to and following their World Cup victory. But the battle for equal pay and playing conditions isn't just happening in soccer.