By Cat Ariail When advertising its inaugural 1997 season, the WNBA announced, “We Got Next.” The slogan represented a clever adaptation of the playground basketball expression. Unintentionally but appropriately, it also captured the perpetual liminality of the league. For much of its twenty-two year history, insecurity has characterized the league, with professional women basketball forever…
By Jorge Iber Early in 2017, Gabe Salgado of NBC News posted an article entitled “The Top Ten Latino Sports Moments of 2016.” Among the significant instances noted were some truly remarkable athletes in sports not “normally” associated with Latinos/as by the public. For example, Salgado noted the arrival of Auston Matthews (whose mother is…
By Russ Crawford “Its been a defining year for women’s sport.” The headline on a site known as The Mixed Zone, which claims to be “bringing the best women’s sports stories online,” caught my eye when I saw the tweet from The Women’s Sport Trust on December 15. There had been several significant events in…
By Roberto José Andrade Franco During the last 2 decades since Mike Tyson was a household name—even if infamous—any talk of boxing comes with what seems like a pre-required statement of its death. Granted, boxing, at least in this country, is not among the top sports it was a century ago. But neither is…
By Andrew McGregor Historians will remember 2016. While many won’t forget the sadness it brought us, stemming from a seemingly never-ending onslaught of celebrity deaths, 2016 also brought us great joy, especially for long-suffering sports fans. Although we lost Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, and Pat Summitt, the City of Cleveland as well as the Chicago Cubs…
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