NEW YORK (AP) — It didn’t take long for the WNBA’s new security app to be put to the test. Within a week of its debut, a deadly shooting occurred on New Year’s Eve at an Istanbul nightclub. A handful of WNBA players were in the area that night celebrating, and the LiveSafe app allowed […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Liberty guard Brittany Boyd sat on the bench with her head bowed in prayer during the national anthem before a WNBA playoff game. Hours earlier, college football players for Michigan and Michigan State, along with a group of students at North Carolina, raised their fists during the playing of “The Star-Spangled […]
MIAMI (AP) — NBA players are being urged to reach out to league and union officials to try and come up with ways to create “positive change” in communities around the country, a move that comes in response to protests in other sports about racial oppression and other social matters. Players received a memo from […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 12:40 p.m. The U.S. men’s and women’s basketball teams arrived in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday to compete at the Olympic games. The men’s team was taken to the Port of Rio, where the players boarded a cruise […]
NEW YORK (AP) — WNBA President Lisa Borders says she hopes that rescinding the fines the league imposed over black warmup shirts worn in solidarity for shooting victims will lead to a fresh start on social activism for the players and their union. “I would tell you in reflection, recognizing that we were at an […]
The league also stressed that will spend the Olympic Games break improving how they will address societal issues down the road.
NEW YORK (AP) — Social activism is coming at a cost for WNBA players. The WNBA has fined the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever and their players for wearing black warm up shirts in the wake of recent shootings by and against police officers. All three teams were fined $5,000 and each […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Minnesota Lynx players did not wear T-shirts supporting the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of Tuesday’s game in San Antonio after four off-duty police officers walked away from security jobs at a Lynx game over the weekend because of the garb. The shirts worn before Saturday’s game in Minneapolis against the […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Allen Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Izzo, Sheryl Swoopes, Yao Ming and Jerry Reinsdorf have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. The announcement was made in Houston in advance of Monday night’s NCAA Tournament championship game between Villanova and North Carolina. Iverson was an 11-time NBA All-Star who was named rookie […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two basketball coaches who are the parents of a popular WNBA player are finding themselves in the middle of a firestorm over race and accusations of unsportsmanlike conduct after they were fired from a New Mexico high school. Cecilee Moses and Rick Schimmel, the parents of Atlanta Dream guard Shoni Schimmel, […]
The WNBA has new president in the form of former Atlanta vice mayor Lisa Borders. According go to Jet, news of Borders’ WNBA status was announced by the league on Wednesday. The publication adds that Borders is set to start her new job as WNBA president on March 21. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver touted Borders’ […]
Brittney Griner isn’t willing to pay a dime in child support for her estranged wife’s twin girls until DNA tests prove the babies were conceived at a fertility clinic and not by Glory Johnson’s ex-boyfriend. TMZ reports that Griner admits she and Glory agreed to have a child with the help of a fertility clinic. […]
