Can South Carolina repeat? Who are the challengers for the Gamecocks? A look at these and other storylines for the women’s college basketball season.
Author: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY
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The Aces won Game 4, 78-71, to prevail three games to one in the best-of-five series, handing a title to Becky Hammon in her first season as coach.
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As women athletes compete later into their lives, family planning and fertility take center stage
While previous generations of athletes were encouraged to wait until retirement to start a family, a new wave of women is eschewing that thinking.
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It was Sue Bird Sunday during the Seattle Storm’s loss to the Las Vegas Aces in front of a team-record crowd at Climate Pledge Arena.
‘Invest in women’: Female athletes changing landscape on ownership in professional sports
Ownership in professional sports teams is starting to shift as current and former female athletes invest in the next generation of women’s sports.
800 runners Athing Mu and Brandon Miller bring #couplegoals to world track championships
If ever there were two people who epitomized the term #couplegoals, it would be 800 runners and track stars Athing Mu and Brandon Miller.