For years, television ratings were taken as a proxy of the popularity of college basketball, and the numbers for women’s games weren’t very good. In 2019, to pick a typical year, about four million people watched Baylor beat Notre Dame for the women’s championship title, whereas nearly twenty million watched the University of Virginia’s men’s … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the world of professional sports, few athletes successfully transition into the world of entrepreneurship. However, Shawne Merriman, a former NFL player turned entrepreneur, has defied the odds and carved out a remarkable career beyond the football field. In a recent podcast interview with Jeff Fenster, Merriman … Read more
Los Angeles rarely unites around a collective obsession; the city is too large and diffuse for conversation to center on a single topic. But there are occasional exceptions, such as 1) if it’s raining and 2) Shohei Ohtani. On Thursday afternoon, the day of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ home opener at Dodger Stadium, it was … Read more
Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former pro ice hockey player and boyfriend of tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, has died at the age of 42, Russian club Salavat Yulaev said in a statement on Tuesday. Forward Koltsov played for the Belarus national team in the 2002 and 2010 Olympics and spent parts of three seasons with the … Read more
Coming into the game between the University of Iowa and the University of Michigan, on Thursday night, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark needed eight points to break the women’s N.C.A.A. scoring record. It took her all of two minutes and twelve seconds to do that. She got the ball off the opening tip and drove to the … Read more
Power tennis is an assault on time. It robs an opponent of the time to react, to reach the ball, to get her spacing just right, to set her feet in place properly, to step into the ball, to swing unhurriedly, to think what’s next. Hard court, the slicker the better, is where power tennis … Read more
A Calgary Olympic canoeist who broke gender barriers in her sport is speaking out about the importance of fighting for what you believe in. Haley Daniels was speaking at the 2024 Female in Sport Summit on Saturday in Calgary. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and made history. Women’s canoe/kayak events had … Read more
Even now, a month later, it has the quality of a dream. In the second game of a doubleheader, the pitcher from the day’s first game stands in the batter’s box. He is a right-handed hurler, perhaps the most unhittable pitcher in baseball. And he is a left-handed slugger, the league leader in home runs. … Read more
God Shammgod is a hoops legend from Harlem whose devilish, distinctive crossover move bears his name. (Kobe Bryant’s father famously asked Shammgod to teach “the Shammgod” to Kobe.) He is a man of serious reputation. And yet there he was, a few weeks ago, at a Dallas Mavericks practice—Shammgod is now a player-development coach for … Read more
