Women's Sports

The Fever received a warning from the WNBA for “not reporting” G Caitlin Clark’s back injury sooner after disclosing Clark’s injury less than two hours before tipoff on Wednesday, according to Doug Feinberg of the AP. Clark missed Wednesday’s 90-73 victory over Portland. She had not been listed on t...

UEFA Head of Women’s Football Nadine Kessler has said that rules prohibiting clubs with the same owner from playing together in the Women’s Champions League “will be strictly enforced, dealing a blow to investors such as Michele Kang,” according to Tom Garry of the London GUARDIAN. Kang owns OL Lyon...

One of the perks of investing nearly $150 million in Canada’s first WNBA team is that it grants you a private tour of the century-old Coca-Cola Coliseum, an 8,000-plus seat arena in downtown Toronto originally built for agriculture fairs that has since morphed into a charming hockey barn for the AHL...

Portland is allowed to call itself weird, but you can’t. Spring is headed to summer, which means they’re all mostly outdoors now — tree-hugging, bike-riding, downward-dogging, having vegan picnics in the park, racing to Powell’s Books to buy “How to Survive in the Woods.” Except for the night the Po...

The pursuit of a WNBA franchise has been a multi-decade quest for Toronto Tempo owner Larry Tanenbaum. In 2002, he and Richard Peddie, then the CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, examined the prospect of bringing a WNBA team to Toronto, but their research at the time suggested the market ...

The PWHL’s expansion plans for 2026-27 season were about “finding the correct ingredients,” but the league did “not operate the PWHL Takeover Tour for expansion purposes," according to Ian Kennedy of THE HOCKEY NEWS. The Takeover Tour “grows the league’s fan base, sells more tickets than average gam...

League One Volleyball is bringing an expansion franchise to Miami for the 2027 season, growing the league to 10 teams and introducing an Eastern and Western Conference format.

The Montreal Victoire “finally captured its first Walter Cup,” winning the PWHL title Wednesday night with a 4-0 win over the Ottawa Charge in Game 4, marking the first time a Canadian team won the league’s championship. Though the win was not on home ice, Victoire captain and F Marie-Philip Poulin ...

THE ATHLETIC’s Dan Pompei profiled former NFLer and sports agent TOM CONDON, who is dealing with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, a disorder that causes “excess spinal fluid to build up in the skull, putting pressure on the brain.” A shunt implant has “helped drain excess fluid” from Condon’s head but...

The Bay Area has “gone from zero to three top-flight women’s pro teams in a flash” -- Bay FC of the NWSL (2024), the Valkyries of the WNBA (2025) and now PWHL San Jose, which arrives later this year, according to Dieter Kurtenbach of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. San Jose is now the only city in the U....

NWSL CMO Rachel Epstein said the 2026 World Cup will be “a huge opportunity” for the league, noting it will aim to “embed NWSL into that momentum” and bring fans into the league. Epstein, appearing on the “Marketer’s Brief” podcast, added, the NWSL has a strategy called “Summer of Summer,” in which ...

In just two years, president Jess Smith has built the Valkyries into the first $1B franchise in women’s sports. From Golden State’s iconic purple colors and unique merch to its gameday environment in Ballhalla, the Valkyries have built a brand using tech and data insights to do it.

Fashion start-up 9 Commons dropped a collection with the Fever on Friday aiming to “merge sport and style,” according to Jean Palmieri of WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY. Founded last year by former Gucci GM of Northern Europe & Associate VP/Retail for Europe Maria McClay, 9 Commons is “dedicated exclusively...

The PWHL is “set to announce” Tuesday that San Jose will “enter the league for the 2026-27 season.” The expansion franchise is “expected to play its home games” at SAP Center and train and practice at Sharks Ice in San Jose. The league needed to “work with the Sharks,” the NHL team that plays at the...

Univ. of South Carolina women’s basketball coach DAWN STALEY used a conversation at Columbia’s Black Expo on Saturday to talk about the themes in her book, titled “UNCOMMON FAVOR”. Staley said that the book “centers on ’13 life lessons’ taught by what she called three pillars: basketball, her upbrin...

This feels like the season that Fever G Caitlin Clark “has to show that she can play not just at a high level, but an MVP level,” according to Matt Calkins of the SEATTLE TIMES. It is Clark’s “time to show that she cannot just be the best player on a playoff team, but the top dawg on a championship ...

Nick Barfoot took his seat for the Toronto Sceptres home opener to find another fan, there by herself, checking the app he had created. Barfoot, a Toronto-based app developer, has evolved PWHL Fan throughout the league’s three seasons, combining his love of hockey and the pro women’s league with a n...

The Detroit PWHL team “has star power in its first general manager,” hiring former hockey player Manon Rheaume, the first woman to try out for an NHL team. Rheaume, in 1992, became the first woman to appear in an NHL exhibition game. She joins the team after four years with the L.A. Kings in hockey ...

MMA fighter Ronda Rousey said that her fight with Gina Carano “will set a new purse record for female fighters” when they meet Saturday at Intuit Dome, with the bout set to be streamed on Netflix. Rousey “championed her bout with Carano as a landscape-shifting moment for the sport” and also “took ai...

The Women’s Lacrosse League will begin its inaugural season Saturday, and despite previous women’s professional lacrosse leagues having “struggled to find a foothold in the North American sports landscape,” the WLL’s founders are “optimistic they’ve figured out the formula this time,” according to E...