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Here's a Secret—Serena Williams and Swin Cash Know They’re Not the First to Make History, and They Don’t Want to be the Last
March 3 marks International Women’s Day and Secret Deodorant is celebrating remarkable women in the sports industry like tennis icon Serena Williams and Olympic Gold Medalist and NBA New Orleans Pelicans executive Swin Cash in its latest short film titled, “Not the First.” Speaking of “firsts,” Secret is the first antiperspirant brand designed specifically for…
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WNBA Star Maya Moore Will Sit This Season Out to Advocate for Prisoner
Minnesota Lynx star and four-time WNBA champion Maya Moore is widely considered one of the most elite players in the game. Which makes her decision to sit out for a second season all the more noteworthy. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Moore will continue her sabbatical from the sport to focus on…
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The 3 WNBA Players Kobe Bryant Thinks Could Play in the NBA Right Now
If there is anyone who would know the sport of basketball, it is one Kobe Bean Bryant. The 41-year-old retired NBA All-Star won five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team he played for his entire professional career. He went straight from prep basketball to the big leagues, opting to skip college and declare…
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The WNBA's New 'Groundbreaking' Collective Bargaining Agreement Includes Higher Salaries, Quality of Life Improvements
Since its inception in 1997, the WNBA has provided a master class on how gender inequality manifests in the workplace. Players like A’ja Wilson and Kayla McBride have openly critiqued their paltry wages; four-time All-Star Skylar Diggins-Smith confessed to playing an entire season pregnant after receiving “no support” from her organization, and in 2018, the…
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WNBA Star Skylar Diggins, Fed Up With Lack of Support, Reveals She Played Entire 2018 Season While Pregnant
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Dallas Wings star Skylar Diggins-Smith disclosed frustration with the WNBA for a lack of institutional support as she dealt with postpartum depression following the birth of her son earlier this year. Diggins-Smith, who sat out the entirety of the 2019 season, also revealed she had played pregnant for…
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LA Sparks' GM Penny Toler Fired After Using the 'N-Word' in Locker Room Speech
Penny Toler’s long and storied career with the Los Angeles Sparks came to an abrupt end last Friday after reports that she had used the “n-word” in a post-game speech last month. Toler, who is black, was the team’s executive vice president and general manager, serving in the latter role for 20 seasons. The team…
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Expletive-Laced Locker Room ‘Pep Talk’ Has LA Sparks GM Penny Toler in WNBA’s Sights
The WNBA is looking into what was reportedly an expletive- and epithet-laden locker room “pep talk” given by Los Angeles Sparks general manager Penny Toler to her losing team during Game 2 of the WNBA playoffs. “We understand the heat of the moment and that the Sparks lost in the semifinals, but we don’t condone…
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Lisa Leslie to Become the 1st Female Athlete to Receive Statue Outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles
The Star Plaza outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles is about to get a little more crowded, as two-time WNBA champion Lisa Leslie is set to become the first female athlete to be honored with a statue outside of the arena. According to Bleacher Report, while a specific date has yet to be…
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WNBA Star Lindsey Harding Becomes Philadelphia 76ers' First Female Coach
Lindsey Harding is used to breaking records. During her time as a guard at Duke, she became only the sixth player in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference to record 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists and 250 steals. In 2007, she was named the Naismith College Player of the Year and won the…
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'Charge It to the Game': WNBA Star Skylar Diggins-Smith Addresses the Gender Pay Gap With Wealthsimple
“Don’t act like you don’t see the discrepancy,” Skylar Diggins-Smith says during a confessional new spot for millennially focused investment management service Wealthsimple. Featured on the company’s ongoing “Money Diaries” campaign, the Dallas Wings All-Star guard gets real about the inequities between men and women’s pay for the same work—even in professional sports. “I’ve experienced…