Facing the uncertainty of playing sports in a pandemic, which can mean risking one’s health or being sealed off in a bubble away from home and family, every pro athlete has had to make a difficult choice: return to the game or opt to sit out part or all of a season? Among the pro […]
The Connecticut Sun, last season’s WNBA Finals runners-up, were a fairly fast team in 2019. They played at a pace of 78.7 possessions per 40 minutes, good for fourth in the league. This year, they’re even faster. They entered Tuesday night’s game playing at a pace of 83.2 possessions per 40 minutes. That rate would […]
Washington Mystics forward Emma Meesseman says she sees life “as a big adventure.” That’s part of why the Belgian native decided to play in the 2020 WNBA season in Bradenton, Florida. “I just want to do as much different stuff as possible in my career, and this is one of them.” This adventure for Meesseman […]
Normally, the WNBA has an offseason with two distinct parts. There’s Part 1: free agency, which begins in February. And there’s Part 2: the draft, held in April. This being 2020, of course, all the typical calendars have gone out the window, with tipoff moved from the originally scheduled date in May to July 25 […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in places across the U.S. that weren’t hit hard initially. Some areas that had reopened are shutting down bars and reducing capacity in restaurants. People are throwing tantrums in grocery stores when asked to put on masks. And in the middle of all of that […]