This month's issue of Elle contains a profile of WNBA player Brittney Griner made me fall in love with her a little bit. And it will probably make you fall a little in love with her, too.
22-year-old Brittney Griner, the number one pick in the WNBA draft this year, new Phoenix Mercury player and someone you will instantly like after seeing this picture, has become the first out-and-proud athlete to be signed to an endorsement deal by Nike.
Brittney Griner, the former basketball standout at Baylor who on Tuesday saw her amazing basketball skills validated when the Chicago Sky chose her first overall in the WNBA draft, sat down with Sports Illustrated’s Maggie Gray recently to discuss, among things like becoming super-famous and making armfuls of…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused a bit of a stir on Tuesday night when he said that he had "no problem whatsoever" with allowing Baylor University centre and women's college basketball's all-time leading shot-blocker Brittney Griner a chance to try out for a spot on Dallas' summer league team.
The idea that girls are "bad at sports"—or, at least, fundamentally less skilled than boys—is an enduring one, and just one of the billion ways that we set girls up to fail before they've even begun to try. Well, men are just stronger. Men are just better. More coordinated. It's a mantra that's drilled into kids' heads…
Here's the heartwarming story of how Minnesota Lynx's Seimone Augustus met her partner, care of The Advocate:
Apparently, just because you can do, it doesn't mean you can teach. Even in sports like hockey, where women have played with men at the professional level, female coaches are as rare as Kardashians who don't make millions marrying basketball players on television. In fact, it wasn't until 2009 that Nancy Lieberman, a…
ESPN The Magazine has revealed three of the six cover athletes planned for its second annual "Body Issue." And just like last year
[Atlanta, September 16: Seattle Storm forward Camille Little (20) and Atlanta Dream forward Sancho Lyttle vie for a loose ball in the first quarter of Game 3 of the WNBA basketball finals. Image via AP.]
Despite claims that the WNBA is gaining popularity, Slate's Josh Levin argues that the league is in big trouble. His solution: quit trying to court male fans.
[Indianapolis, October 7. Image via Getty]
[Washington, D.C., July 27. Image via Getty]
Candace Parker, star of WNBA's L.A. Sparks, is currently on maternity leave, but promised her bosses that she'll continue to promote the team. Like many moms, she's tugged by her duties to her newborn and her commitment to her job.
Rutgers basketball star Epiphanny Prince will be one of the first women to skip her senior season and play professionally in Europe before entering the WNBA draft — but is it a good idea? [NYT]
Hmm, maybe we're seeing something that isn't there (or reacting to expectations regarding women and decorum that we experienced when playing team sports) but the cluck-clucking on the part of the commentators following last night's WNBA dustup seemed disapproving in way that we don't often hear when male hoopsters get…
The hottie to the left is Candace Parker, the Tennessee
Boxer Esther Phiri is a role model to Zambian girls. Not because she's lithe and blonde and poses in a bikini and shills for Lycos, but because Esther (the slugger on the left) actually kicks major ass. She's a former street vendor with almost zero education who is currently the Global Boxing Union super featherweight…
This week, daytime TV was stricken with a nasty case of the reruns. Even after I lauded The View for keeping it fresh all summer
