The WNBA announced that the following players from colleges and universities have formally filed for inclusion as candidates for the 2023 WNBA Draft scheduled for April 10. Eligibility notes from the league: Since the NCAA granted, in 2021, every winter sport student-athlete an additional year of NCAA eligibility as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic,
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The WNBA announced the following today: NBA League Pass, the WNBA’s live game streaming platform, will broaden its content offering by providing subscribers at no additional cost access to 25 of the 30 basketball games to be played this winter by Athletes Unlimited (AU), the network of professional women’s sports leagues that includes basketball, the
Fifteen athletes are set to participate in a USA Basketball Women’s National Team training camp Feb. 6-9 in Minneapolis. Cheryl Reeve (Minnesota Lynx) will lead the camp along with court coaches Curt Miller (Los Angeles Sparks), Mike Thibault (Washington Mystics), and James Wade (Chicago Sky). Participants: Ariel Atkins (Washington Mystics) Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx) Kahleah Copper (Chicago Sky) Elena Delle Donne (Washington Mystics) Allisha Gray (Atlanta
Image: AU. The women’s professional sports league network, Athletes Unlimited, announced that it raised $30 million in new funding to grow the league. Led by Schusterman Family Investments, the financial backers include Olympic hockey player Angela Ruggiero, NBA star Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s 35V, and film producer Sharon Harel-Cohen. Launched in 2020 with one
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Shawn Kemp played most of his N.B.A. career before the league began testing players for marijuana use in 1999. So after playing in the bruising, physical games typical of the N.B.A. in the 1990s, he would smoke.
The WNBA revealed the initial list of 88 players from colleges and universities who have formally filed for inclusion as candidates for the 2022 WNBA Draft set for April 11 in New York (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET). Guidelines from the league: In 2021, the NCAA granted every winter sport student-athlete an additional year of NCAA
Image: Courtesy of Adidas Sports apparel brand Adidas announced that it is launching the first ever name, image, and likeness network for college athletes. Calling the effort ” a wide-sweeping, equitable and inclusive Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) network for student-athletes,” the brand plans to include 50,000 participants in the campaign across 23 sports and over
FINRA cases are typically confidential, and documents are not publicly available. Aidikoff, citing pending litigation, declined to make his clients available for interviews to elaborate on their cases. Still, the fact that the athletes wanted to go public underscores their determination to “ensure it doesn’t happen to someone else,” Parsons said, and to encourage other
A lot happened in the sports world in between the last two Triple Threat Podcast episodes and on Sunday the Bonnet Gang covered NCAAW, Athletes Unlimited, WNBA, NBA, NFL AND MLB topics. For starters, they of course had to address Auburn’s shocking upset of No. 4 Tennessee. The Tigers already beat No. 14 Georgia Tech
Jantel Lavender, known for her mid-range game, has made just 22 threes in her 315 WNBA games, but she made a big one for Team Carrington in the Athletes Unlimited league on Saturday night. She hit a dagger from downtown that put them up nine with 45 seconds left and Essence Carson’s ensuing three with
Athletes Unlimited is kicking of its inaugural women’s basketball season next Wednesday and Girls Talk Sports TV with Khristina Williams will have you covered with a live watch party, as well as Instagram takeovers, weekly mailbags and articles on AUProSports.com throughout the first weekend of action. Williams is a 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30: Sports
Rodney Pryor, who played high school basketball at Notre Dame in Niles, warms up with the Stockton Kings of the NBA G League. (Photo courtesy Stockton Kings) Niles Notre Dame is in a position not many high schools in America can flaunt: they have three professional basketball players. Matt Mooney is currently with the New
After capturing their respective record-tying fifth and third gold medals, USA Basketball honored Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant and Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird as the 2021 USA Basketball Male and Female Athlete of the Year. For Life 🤞 @KDTrey5 🥇🥇🥇 pic.twitter.com/kJ6Sy14qPO — USA Basketball (@usabasketball) December 17, 2021 “It’s amazing to be honored in this way,” Durant said via