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What Each Team Needs In The WNBA Draft

Just a week after women’s college basketball crowned South Carolina its champion, the WNBA draft is here. You can watch tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, and it’s nothing less than magical: Every few minutes, a young woman who has been working at her craft for many years will see her professional dreams come […]

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The Free Agency Moves That Could Change The WNBA Title Race

Well, as we promised, it’s been an epic WNBA offseason.  We already covered the massive shift that took place in Los Angeles, with Liz Cambage, Chennedy Carter, Katie Lou Samuelson and Jordin Canada reshaping the look of the near-miss playoff team from 2021. But there was plenty of movement among the other WNBA contenders, too […]

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The WNBA Free Agents Who Might Be On The Move

You might have thought that the 2021 WNBA postseason, complete with Candace Parker returning to the top with her Chicago Sky and Diana Taurasi slamming (and breaking) doors, was as dramatic as the WNBA could get. Buckle up: The offseason is here, the movement is about to begin and things are going to get frenetic. […]

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Sports In 2021 Were Mostly Back To Normal … Except Who Won

When we looked back last December at the state of the sports world in 2020, we could only marvel at a bizarre juxtaposition: While the COVID-19 pandemic created the strangest year of sports in anybody’s memory, the winners of the major sports were about as predictable as could be. Across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, […]

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