#WNBA25: 2021 Season Preview! Back in Arenas … and a rivalry renewed in Finals?
At long last after another excruciatingly long offseason and doubt as to if the WNBA would return to another bubble-like environment for the 2021…
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NBA 2k21 expands its slate of WNBA-related content
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Where are they now? Former WNBA president Laurel Richie named to Hasbro’s Board of Directors
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#WVotes2020: Seattle Storm endorse Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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Candace Parker announced as investor in LA’s NWSL team
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1-On-1: Skylar Diggins-Smith of Phoenix Mercury
In addition to a new WNBA season on the horizon, we at Beyond The W also are debuting a new look! And we christen…
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IOC efforts to ban Black Lives Matter message from Tokyo Olympics will fail epically
Referring to many of the suits (and it is mostly a country club-style cluster of suits) who run the International Olympic Committee as visionaries…
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Nicki Collen leaves Atlanta Dream for Baylor Bears – how did we get here?
With 10 days to go prior to the tip off of the 2021 WNBA season, we were somewhat expecting that the only major news…
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WNBA at 25 has found an identity more ‘established’ leagues could only dream of
We are only 2 ½ weeks shy of the WNBA’s 25th season. If one has not circled its calendar to make sure your evening…
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What does LSU get in Kim Mulkey? Lots of wins and lots of baggage
In addition to being huge basketball aficionados, we are also huge fans of wrestling here at Beyond The W (shout outs to Black women…
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Social media – a key factor in expanding reach of women’s game
As we within the WNBA family know, its various social media accounts (including ours) that are dedicated to all things WNBA, women’s hoops and…
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What Chris Sienko’s departure means for Atlanta Dream
With the WNBA draft having concluded and the Atlanta Dream selecting Arizona Wildcats sensation Aari McDonald with the No. 3 overall pick, it looked…
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Takes and takeaways from an out of control 2021 WNBA draft
We may be midway through April, the but the calendars in the offices of WNBA general managers still say March, because the 2021 WNBA…
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WNBA 2021 schedule released! Notes and notables for this season
The waiting…and waiting…and waiting for the WNBA to release its 2021 schedule may have dragged out like a hit television series that reaches a…
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With the first pick: 2021 WNBA draft musings and takes
Thursday is the big day, WNBA family, as 36 names from the collegiate and/or international ranks will hear their names called by one of…
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5 thoughts on A-Rod’s reported plan to purchase Lynx and Timberwolves
While not as ballyhooed as the recent sale of the Atlanta Dream to the ownership group that includes Renee Montgomery and two New England-based…
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WNBA 25th anniversary jersey reveal – Reviewing updated threads of all 12 teams
At first, when we saw what the 25th anniversary jerseys were to look like for many of the WNBA’s teams, the collective response –…
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Stanford won a tournament, but every woman in it won March Madness
Every NCAA basketball tournament can only have one champion. Because of the you-know-what, we were deprived of that last season only to see women’s…
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Let’s translate NCAA tournament success to a springboard for WNBA’s 25th
Great. Outstanding. Unforgettable. Scintillating. Game-changing. Emotional. Raw. Real. Women. All words that can be connotations when describing this year’s NCAA tournament. Caitlin Clark’s early-round…
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5 Schedule Predictions for the 2021 WNBA season
Now, Ms. WNBA… I’ve asked you three times… Release the mother$%@&#+*^ schedule! We are a good two-plus weeks shy of the WNBA draft, about…
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Women’s sports stand strong, even in the face of misdirected flack
There are three lessons in life. You do not spit into the wind, you do not tug on Superman’s cape and you do not…
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Hey, Mark Emmert and NCAA – your time is UP!
We all hear that saying – adapt or perish. It is a common business maxim applied to companies in business that do one of…
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NCAA’s unapologetic sexism will only redouble efforts to back women’s sports
Being a women’s athlete – or even a backer of women’s sports as we are here at Beyond The W – can be a…
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Hits and misses from WNBA’s 25th anniversary announcements
In 1997, the first-ever WNBA game tipped off at the Great Western Forum. It featured two of the W’s original teams that are still…
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