Rebekah Gardner Rebekah Gardner is a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. She played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins and took her career overseas, playing in Israel, Turkey, Romania and Spain. She joined the Sky this past February and was named to the WNBA’s All-Rookie Team for the 2022 season. We spoke to Rebekah for our Time-Out series, where we chat with folks in the sports world about their ... Read more
She Made a Crucial Error on the Court—Now Cheyenne Parker Is Proving How Champions Respond.BT
During senior forward Cheyenne Parker’s short career at Middle Tennessee, she has racked up multiple awards and record-breaking statistics. On Jan. 31, during a match against UAB, Parker became the first Blue Raider in MTSU women’s basketball history to record a triple-double. Along with her scoring and rebounding ability, Parker set the MTSU single-game and single-season block records. Entering what was eventually ... Read more
A’ja Wilson Finally Gets Her Nike Signature Shoe—But Why Did the Game Wait This Long to Catch Up to Her?.BT
The Best Player in the W.N.B.A. Now Has Her Own Shoe. It Took a Long Time. The marketability of A’ja Wilson offers a case study in race, fame and gender. A’ja Wilson, star center for the Las Vegas Aces.Credit...Josh Aronson for The New York Times A’ja Wilson, a center for the Las Vegas Aces, is widely acknowledged as the best player in the Women’s National Basketball Association. She is something like the league’s ... Read more
Seattle Storm Shocks the League by Reportedly Choosing Sonia Raman to Lead Their Next Era.bt
Raman worked for the Liberty under then-head coach Sandy Brondello for the 2025 season after spending 2020-2024 as an assistant with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. She was the first Indian American woman to be an NBA assistant and will make history as the first person person of Indian descent to be a head coach in the WNBA, something that informs her coaching. “Certainly the work ethic that my parents have shaped me with, as ... Read more
LA Sparks vs. Dallas Wings Showdown: Bold Predictions, Key Matchups and the Odds You Need to Know.BT
The LA Sparks visit the Dallas Wings on Sunday in a battle of struggling teams looking to catch a break and halt their ongoing slide. It will be the fourth and last encounter between the two Western Conference squads, with Los Angeles currently having the upper hand in their season series, 2-1. Entering the contest, the Sparks (6-23) have lost six straight, stemming from even before the WNBA took a break for the Olympics. ... Read more