Women's Sports

The Chevron Championship -- the first LPGA major of the year -- “will now feature” a $9M purse, an increase of $1M from 2025 and an increase of $5.9M since Chevron took over title sponsorship in 2022. This year’s winner will receive $1.35M, while players “who miss the cut this week in Houston will r...

The NWSL has secured yet another record expansion fee, with a consortium led by Haslam Sports Group paying $205M to bring a team to Columbus. The fee is part of the more than $300M that the ownership group expects to invest in launching the team, which also includes physical infrastructure and staff...

The Fiesta Bowl Flag Football Classic was a “historic moment for the sport,” as the event at Arizona State over the weekend marked the first-ever D-I collegiate flag football tournament, according to Logan Stanley of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. The event was televised and streamed live by ESPN networks, w...

A federal judge has approved a “landmark settlement that will pay former female athletes at San Diego State a combined $300,000 in damages” after they sued the school and accused it of violating Title IX. U.S. District Judge Todd Robinson ordered that the $300,000 is “to be split among a class of 79...

A “split” Columbus City Council on Monday approved a $25M deal with the private investor group “bidding for a professional women’s soccer team,” which includes Crew majority owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam as well as Nationwide. The council voted 5-3 with one abstention to “approve an agreement with the...

Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman is retiring after 13 years in the role, “bringing the league back to its historic place in college athletics after nearly coming close to extinction,” according to Scooby Axson of USA TODAY. Ackerman, a member of SBJ’s 2011 class of Champions, will “leave the posit...

The NWSLPA said that a “majority of players are currently opposed to a potential switch of the league’s calendar to a fall-spring season,” according to Jeff Kassouf of ESPN.com. The union in a statement said, “We remain concerned, however, that the issue is being framed around the wrong question. Th...

The JM Eagle LA Championship becoming the LPGA’s “richest purse on the schedule outside of the major championships and season-ending CME Group Tour Championship” marks the “latest good news” for the tour amid a “years-long upswing,” according to Jessica Marksbury of GOLF. The LPGA continues to make ...

POYNTER’s Tom Jones writes on Friday, the Washington Post “posted an opening” for a position in sports with the job title “National Sports Reporter.” The job description includes in part: “This role is designed for a reporter who sees sports as a powerful lens into the forces shaping the country, in...

At the Ford Championship in March, Lydia Ko was 10-under par through 15 holes with a chance to become the second player in LPGA history to shoot a 59. History was happening, but the tour did not let anyone know about it.

While the ultimate goal for Formula 1’s F1 Academy is still a work in progress, the series feels like it’s making gains on and off the track and finding fresh commercial momentum a few months into its fourth campaign.

The purse for the JM Eagle LA Championship golf event has been increased by $1M to $4.25M, JM Eagle CEO Walter Wang announced. The event has the largest purse on the LPGA Tour other than the majors or the Tour championship. The winner’s share is $712,500. Sei Young Kim enters today’s final round wit...

Fever C Aliyah Boston became the first player in WNBA history to “sign an extension on the EPIC (exceptional players on initial contracts) clause” that was introduced in the new CBA. It allows players who have made All-WNBA teams to “renegotiate their fourth-year contracts up to the max, as long as ...

The PWHL on Friday is set to surpass 1 million fans in attendance in a single season for the first time in league history. The milestone comes in the league’s 109th game of its third season, a matchup between the Montréal Victoire and Boston Fleet. The milestone comes in 46 games fewer than the PWHL...

WNBA expansion team Toronto Tempo on Friday unveiled “plans to develop a high-performance training facility” in partnership with the city that is “scheduled to open in 2028.” The C$100M multi-use facility, which will be “fully funded by the Tempo,” is “expected to include two WNBA regulation courts ...

The Wings introduced G Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft, to the local media on Thursday, but a team rep “interjected before Fudd could answer” a question about her relationship with Wings G Paige Bueckers, according to Declan Walsh of the NEW HAVEN REGISTER. Bueckers, the top draft pick i...

The NWSL’s BOG is expected to “vote later this month on whether to flip the league’s calendar to a fall-to-spring season‚” according to the sources cited by ESPN.com. The NWSL season currently kicks off in March and ends in November, but a “change -- one that has been debated for years and previousl...

LOS ANGELES -- Angel City co-founder Julie Uhrman believes it’s time to stop talking about the “the moment” of women’s sports.

TIME magazine on Wednesday released its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2026, and a few athletes made the list, with the writeups on each athlete’s contribution to the culture. Below are some excerpts from their profiles:

Women’s basketball continued to show its growth Monday night, as ESPN saw the second-best WNBA Draft audience on record. The event, which saw the Wings select UConn G Azzi Fudd with the No. 1 overall pick, averaged 1.5 million viewers, which is second all-time behind only Fever G Caitlin Clark’s dra...