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Alan Page is 1 of 1.
Every year, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice plays his middle-school sousaphone to cheer on runners in the Twin Cities Marathon and honor his wife, who died of cancer in 2018.
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Megan Rapinoe responding to criticism that Alex Morgan’s tea-sipping celebration was distasteful: “Wah, wah, wah. It’s like, we’re at the World Cup. What do you want us to do?
“We work hard, we like to play hard.”
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What’s happening with the Indiana Fever is head-spinning.
As third-year player NaLyssa Smith said: “We used to play in a barn with six fans. Now we’re going to be playing in sold-out arenas.”
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Simone Biles is leaving Nike for Athleta, a smaller activewear brand focused on women.
“I feel like they also support me, not just as an athlete, but just as an individual outside of the gym.”
News from @louiseradnofsky
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Megan Rapinoe minced no words about Colin Kaepernick at Glamour's women of the year awards Monday: glamour.com/story/megan-rapi…
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Emma Hayes took over as USWNT coach just over two months ago. Tonight the London native coached her adopted nation to an Olympic gold medal.
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The New York Liberty just won the WNBA title, bringing Brooklyn its first major championship since the Dodgers in 1955.
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On the Michigan football sideline: the first female graduate assistant at a Power 5 program
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Caitlin Clark addresses several controversial issues at length in @seanmgregory's story in @Time -- and her perspectives might surprise you. A 🧵:
1) On not being selected for the Olympic team:
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Tonight is the fifth time this season that Caitlin Clark (41) has scored more points than the 2022 Iowa football team did in any of its games.
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One reason why South Carolina leads the nation in attendance: Dawn Staley gives local TV stations lots of access. They, in turn, cover the team intensely.
Here they are lined up in Albany, NY, to talk to her after the Gamecocks clinched the Final Four:
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US Soccer sponsor Coca-Cola statement to the @WSJ on the federation’s recent court filing in pay-discrimination case: wsj.com/articles/u-s-soccer-…
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Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 7, the White House announces.
It's the United States' highest civilian honor.
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The WNBA champion Lynx weren't invited to the White House. Today, they'll visit a low-income DC elementary school and donate shoes and socks to all students. Shoe distribution will include cleaning the children's feet: startribune.com/minnesota-ly…
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The great @des_linden, post-NYC Marathon, where she finished 6th
Reporter: Is it a bourbon or whiskey night?
Linden: Bourbon is whiskey, Larry.
🥃
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Here’s the @WSJ story Cena read, prompting him to make the mom’s promise to her son come true:
wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war…
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Spain leaving its Women’s World Cup base camp due to “boredom” is amazingly on-brand.
espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/3…
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In attendance at Caitlin Clark’s last game at Carver-Hawkeye: Lynette Woodard, the Kansas star whose pre-NCAA scoring total Clark just passed.
At left is Lark Birdsong, Iowa’s first women’s basketball coach.
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The NCAA women’s gymnastics championship was moved to an earlier window to accommodate ABC’s new Saturday afternoon NHL package.
Then it outdrew that NHL package by 29% in ratings and 15% in viewership (922K to 786K).
sportsmediawatch.com/2022/04…
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Five years ago, the NJ/NY soccer team trained at facilities that lacked running water, working toilets and showers.
Last year it finished last in the league.
Tonight, with new part-owners @s10bird + @elimanning watching, @GothamFC won its first NWSL title.
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In 2020, Oregon guard Sabrina Ionescu was the face of college basketball, on the hottest team in the nation.
Covid canceled the NCAA tournaments.
Tonight she got her title, helping lead the New York Liberty to its first WNBA championship.
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Fox announces the @USWNT opener was the second-most watched Women's World Cup group-stage broadcast ever on English-language TV.
It ranks just behind 2019 USA-Chile game's audience of 5.3 million.
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Looks like the NCAA changed its Final Four logos and social-media channels.
@FinalFour, which last spring called itself "the official" event feed, referring only to the men's tournament, no longer exists.
Today: @MFinalFour + @WFinalFour
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Hannah Gavios, a former competitive runner, was paralyzed in Thailand 3 years ago after falling 150 feet from a cliff as she tried to escape a sexual assault from a man she asked for directions.
On Sunday she'll run the NYC Marathon: wsj.com/articles/meet-the-ne…
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1 - There's been some inaccurate information bubbling around about how much $ the USWNT is getting from this men's World Cup under the new equal-pay agreement, and what it’s earned at past Women's World Cups. Here's a thread:
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NEW: U.S. Soccer Federation is receiving backlash, including from sponsor Coke, for arguing in court documents that a “higher level of skill” and “more responsibility” are required of members of the men’s team than the women’s team. wsj.com/articles/u-s-soccer-…
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The 2023 Women’s World Cup will generate $500 million and break even financially, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said at the opening news conference.
That’s significant for the women's tournament for a few reasons:
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South Carolina coach Dawn Staley is wearing a jersey from Cheyney, the nation's oldest HBCU, roughly 30 miles from her hometown of Philadelphia.
In 1982 its women's team became the first and only HBCU to reach the Final Four.
v @GreenvilleNews
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U.S. men's soccer team players association issues statement supporting U.S. women's "pursuit of fair compensation," and takes issue with US Soccer's accounting in its letter yesterday: wsj.com/articles/u-s-soccer-…
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“I don’t want to coach in the men’s game.”
— Dawn Staley, two-time NCAA champion coach of the South Carolina Women’s basketball team, on suggestions that she could coach the Temple men’s program
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NCAA women's volleyball championship drew 696K viewers on *ESPN2*.
Mets-Cubs drew 630K on ESPN last week — the most-watched MLB weekday game since Opening Day, via @paulsen_smw
The Wildcats make history! 🏆
@KentuckyVB captures its first ever Division I @NCAAVolleyball championship in program history!
on.ncaa.com/wqjz54 | #NCAAVB
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In an earnings call today, Nike said apparel revenue from the 2019 Women's World Cup was *four times* what it was in 2015.
h/t @lainehiggins17
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NEW: US Soccer says pay differences between its men’s and women’s teams are due partly to revenue differences. But in recent years the U.S. women brought in more game revenue than the men:
wsj.com/articles/u-s-womens-…
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New USWNT coach Emma Hayes, in a meeting with US media, says she's friends with South Carolina basketball coach Dawn Staley.
“Dawn and I are like two of a kind.”
Both are among the highest-paid and highest-achieving in their sport.
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⛹🏿💃🏽Kevin Garnett copied Beyoncé to train himself to talk while playing without getting winded: time.com/4680112/kevin-garne…
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Not many sports stories are big enough for The Wall Street Journal to send as a news alert to subscribers.
This one is:
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The UConn women’s basketball team generated more than twice as much ticket revenue as UConn’s football team in 2021-22, v @Sportico
$2.4 million compared w $1.1 million.
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🏐 Big Ten Network took an already popular women’s sport, volleyball, and strategically boosted it.
The results are striking:
wsj.com/articles/college-clu…
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NEW: When Trinity Rodman played youth soccer, opposing fans would yell that she was overrated. They thought she was wealthy and that having a famous father smoothed her path.
Neither was true.
Now she’s headed to the World Cup.
wsj.com/sports/soccer/trinit…
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"Covid Toe is a casual name for something medically known as pernio or chilblains, which is a condition that causes symptoms such as discoloration and lesions. It can be extremely painful and turn the toes purple."
v @andrewlbeaton
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NEW: Des Linden is running the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon trials.
AND
51 days later, she's running the Boston Marathon.
Linden on her audacious double:
wsj.com/articles/a-marathone…
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NEW: The National Women’s Soccer League is set to add teams in Utah, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, with the coastal teams agreeing to record $50 million expansion fees.
w/@jtoonkel: wsj.com/articles/national-wo…
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NEW: Ohio State football probe didn’t attempt to recover deleted texts; AD Gene Smith had practice of deleting texts, in possible violation of state law. wsj.com/articles/ohio-state-… via @WSJ
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The Redskins wanted to partner with a Chinese firm dubbed a national-security threat to provide WiFi in a stadium frequented by senior US government officials.
Then this amazing exchange happened: wsj.com/articles/huawei-had-… @andrewlbeaton @stuwoo
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A $300 apartment. No cable TV. Team-issued clothes. No car.
How a soon-to-be NFL draft pick skimped and saved more than $15,000 in college: wsj.com/articles/the-most-fr…
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Sophia Smith, one of the top young scorers on the USWNT, just said she’s never used a CD player.
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Yolett McPhee-McCuin, the women's basketball coach at Ole Miss, which just upset 1-seed Stanford, has an *amazing* story about how she got her job:
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Paige Bueckers, the anticipated No. 1 pick in tonight’s @WNBA Draft, in an ad in Times Square.
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Why are the Tokyo Olympics being held in the middle of Japan's typically sweltering summer, instead of in October, when the 1964 Tokyo Olympics were held?
Well....
wsj.com/articles/tokyo-olymp…
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NEW: Nike co-founder Phil Knight has been trying for a year to buy the Portland Trail Blazers franchise.
The Paul Allen estate, which owns it, is obligated to sell it.
But Allen’s heir, his sister, still says it isn't for sale.
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4) Caitlin Clark on the notion that DiJonai Carrington's defensive move that resulted in an eye-poke was intentional:
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"Staff is complaining bitterly because no one will make a decision about anything."
US Soccer is operating without a CEO and its men's team continues to struggle two years after failing to qualify for the World Cup: wsj.com/articles/u-s-soccer-…
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Texas overtakes Ohio State for nation’s most valuable college football program.
The Longhorns are worth $1.1 billion: wsj.com/articles/how-much-is…
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I'm a little surprised Jim Harbaugh is staying at a hotel. Based on Michigan fans' reaction, I expected a manger.
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She’s not far off on the barn comment. In 2022, the Fever played at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum, a state-fairgrounds arena opened in 1939 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (part of the New Deal).
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Megan Rapinoe says FIFA should feel “on notice” about the World Cup prize-money gap, now that the US women have reached an equal-pay settlement agreement.
“They should feel like they’re next.”
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NWSL is in its ninth season. For perspective, the decisive game of the ninth-season NBA finals drew a crowd of 6,697.
Thank you to all 10,360 here for the @NWSL Championship!
It's the largest crowd to see a women's soccer game at Lynn Family Stadium.
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After Megan Rapinoe knelt before games in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, US Soccer passed a rule requiring players to stand during the anthem.
Today US Soccer said it was wrong:
wsj.com/articles/u-s-soccer-…
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Just in: This game averaged 1.93 million viewers, the most-watched regular-season women’s college basketball game on any network since 2010.
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Women’s college basketball has always had stars.
It hasn’t always had: strong school funding, lots of televised regular-season games, social media, NIL deals to amplify star power, conference networks, every NCAA tournament game on national TV.
A record 12.3 million viewers for Monday's Iowa-LSU NCAA women's Elite Eight game, the largest NCAA women's basketball audience ever measured by Nielsen. Previous high was 11.8 million for Cheryl Miller's first title game in 1983. sportsmediawatch.com/2024/04…
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This is the best-informed, best-written story you’ll read on Tonya Harding: oregonlive.com/trending/2018…
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For those wondering why news isn’t free:
A @WSJ reporter in China mountain-biked to an old copper mine that’s home to the closest known virus to the one that causes Covid-19, and was detained + questioned for five hours by police.
wsj.com/articles/wuhan-lab-l…
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NEW: Volleyball is packing college arenas, setting TV records and drawing millions in investment for new pro leagues.
wsj.com/articles/college-clu…
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3) Caitlin Clark on the notion that jealous players targeted her for hard fouls (this is in reference to the Chennedy Carter hip-check resulting in flagrant foul):
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Saturday's @NWSL tournament kickoff, Portland v. North Carolina, is the first time professional women’s club soccer will be seen live on a national broadcast network in the U.S.
That's significant.
12:30 ET, CBS.
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US forward @sophsssmith paid tribute to Brazil legend Marta after her team was eliminated from the World Cup.
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NEW: Phil Knight is giving $400 million to rebuild the Black community in his hometown of Portland, Ore. The Nike co-founder said he wants the initiative to “give the whole city hope” in a time of crisis.
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How famous was Steve Prefontaine? He was a distance runner. On the cover of Sports Illustrated. As a college freshman.
Steve Prefontaine died in a car accident 50 years ago today. He was 24. In his brief career, Prefontaine gripped the public imagination like no U.S. distance runner before him -- and almost certainly like none will again.
by @KenGoe
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80% of all TVs turned on in the UK on Sunday were tuned in to England lifting the Women's Euros championship trophy.
A peak of 17.5 million watched in the UK.
17.9 million watched in Germany.
deadline.com/2022/08/uk-tv-r…
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NEW: Advertisers spent nearly $100 million on U.S. TV commercials in and around the 2019 Women’s World Cup, far higher than an earlier estimate.
With @alexbruell: wsj.com/articles/womens-worl…
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“After the Women’s World Cup ended, Nike initially made only about 1,000 jerseys available and they sold out immediately.”
1,000?
After the World Cup final drew 16 million viewers in the US alone?
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A few weeks ago, Seattle's @OLReign set the club's attendance record of 10,746.
So far, it's sold about 18,000 tickets for Sunday's @NWSL playoff semifinal v @thekccurrent.
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🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾Runners live about three years longer than non-runners, study says. nytimes.com/2017/04/12/well/…
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Some people say Nike has alienated millions of customers by partnering with Colin Kaepernick. But Nike sales + stock are up. Why? 80% of the sneaker industry’s biggest enthusiasts are under age 35. And they tend to stand with Kaep.
wsj.com/articles/when-it-com…
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This game had 1.19 million viewers, the most-viewed women’s college volleyball match ever on ESPN networks.
The game was on ESPN2.
It drew a higher rating than the recent MLS Cup final on ABC (1.14 million viewers).
THE BADGERS ARE BRINGING HOME THE 🏆‼️
(4) @BadgerVB battled all night long to defeat (10) Nebraska in an instant classic five set thriller (22-25, 31-29, 25-23, 23-25, 15-12) to win the program's first National Championship!
#NCAAVB
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Two years ago the NCAA didn’t let the women’s basketball tournament use the ‘March Madness’ logo.
On Sunday the women’s championship drew a record of nearly 10 million viewers, double last year’s audience.
wsj.com/articles/ncaa-womens…
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Five years ago, some NCAA women’s tournament games weren’t televised nationally and the Final Four was on ESPN2.
Today, the women’s tournament has two first-round games on ABC: UConn at 1 ET and Iowa at 3.
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Presidential campaign ad spending by sport, via @sbjsbd. The overlap between Trump + Biden is NFL, college football and soccer:
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