Via NBC News, a report on the London Marathon's recent decision to give the same prize money to wheelchair athletes:
In a global first for equality in sports, wheelchair athletes and non-disabled runners [...]
Via USA Today, a look at why this WNBA draft is a landmark moment (not just because of Caitlin Clark):
Before Caitlin Clark captivated the nation this year in women’s basketball, Purdue University professor [...]
April
14,
2024
Tomorrow marks the 128th running of the prestigious and historic Boston Marathon, but it wasn’t until 1972 — 75 years after the inaugural race — that women were officially allowed to enter. Women were “not physiologically [...]
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look at the exponential growth of women's basketball:
For years, television ratings were taken as a proxy of the popularity of college basketball, and the numbers for women’s [...]
April
7,
2024
Courtesy of the Washington Post, commentary on the breakthrough currently being experienced by women's college basketball:
Women’s college basketball has become a cultural phenomenon. Arenas are selling out. [...]
Via Black Wall Street, commentary on how navigating the tightrope of Black womanhood in a world that demands many to move in silence:
In a world that often demands our silence, Angel Reese stood as a beacon of truth, her [...]