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Natalie Weiner Jul 8, 2022. 4 minute read
What Makes A WNBA Star?
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. When it comes to the question of individual starpower, the…
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Natalie Weiner Jun 3, 2022. 3 minute read
The W.N.B.A. Is Finally Changing Its Tune On Expansion
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. For the first time in over a decade, the W.N.B.A. is making a…
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Natalie Weiner Mar 25, 2022. 3 minute read
The NCAA Should Budget For An Archive As It Expands Its Funding For Women’s Sports
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Last year, the unfair treatment that the NCAA had gotten…
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Natalie Weiner Mar 11, 2022. 2 minute read
Create a Women’s March Madness Pool, For Progress
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Five years ago, I started writing about sports professionally, which…
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Natalie Weiner Jan 21, 2022. 3 minute read
Lusia Harris-Stewart Shows Why We Must Rewrite History
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. “Harris may not be a household name,” cautions NPR’s obituary for legendary basketball…
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Natalie Weiner Nov 19, 2021. 2 minute read
Women’s Basketball Is Growing, And Its Leadership Is Finally Acknowledging That
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. This week, the two biggest women’s basketball organizations in the…
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Natalie Weiner Nov 5, 2021. 4 minute read
Sports Teams Are Ending Pandemic Precautions In The Middle Of A Pandemic
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. I just returned from a visit to my hometown, Seattle, and was compelled…
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Natalie Weiner Oct 22, 2021. 3 minute read
The WNBA Season May Have Ended, But Its Players’ Activism Hasn’t
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. The way professional and even amateur sports organizations view activism…
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Natalie Weiner Aug 6, 2021. 3 minute read
New Report Says The NCAA Doesn’t Value Women’s Sports
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. A new report released this week confirmed that fifty years…
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Danielle Riendeau Jul 14, 2021. 2 minute read
Candace Parker as the First Woman Cover Athlete for NBA 2K: A Review
Today, I finally saw a Twitter trending topic that didn’t make me want to barf. In fact, it made me smile a huge WNBA fan smile: Chicago Sky superstar Candace Parker was announced as a cover athlete for NBA 2K22, the first woman to have that honor. How good is…
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Danielle Riendeau Jun 14, 2021. 2 minute read
My First Live WNBA Game: A Review
Not too long ago, I had only a vague awareness of the WNBA. I played basketball as a kid and young teen, but didn’t stick with it much past my freshman year of high school (topping out around 5′ 5″ had something to do with it). So, in the late…
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Natalie Weiner Jun 11, 2021. 9 minute read
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Women’s Sports Marketing: A Q and A With Sociologist Rachel Allison
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Few topics are subject to more widespread consternation in the world of women’s…
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Danielle Riendeau May 20, 2021. 2 minute read
Warming Up Every Day with Cozy Grove and WNBA Games
I’ve talked about my morning routine on various podcasts, especially Channel F. Every work day, I get up, feed my pets, get breakfast and coffee ready, and sit down with my “warmup” game for the day, while I check email and slack and get my tasks sorted for the day…
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Natalie Weiner May 14, 2021. 3 minute read
The Thinking Fan’s Guide To The WNBA’s Growing Pains
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. If your inbox looks anything like mine (and here’s hoping it does not,…
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Natalie Weiner May 7, 2021. 5 minute read
The Instagramification of Women’s Sports, or How We Still Can’t Escape the Patriarchy
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. The 2001 WNBA All-Star Weekend had all the usual elements…
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Natalie Weiner Apr 23, 2021. 3 minute read
The Case for WNBA Expansion
The WNBA is celebrating its 25th season this year — a milestone plenty of naysayers never thought it would reach. When the league opened its first season in 1997 it had just eight teams. Today it has 12, for a maximum of 144 roster spots within the world’s premier women’s basketball league. Major…
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Natalie Weiner Jan 15, 2021. 4 minute read
The Cost of College Basketball in a Pandemic
“I don’t think we should be playing right now. That’s my opinion on it,” first year Duke head women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson said back in December, a few weeks before her team — at the behest of its players — cancelled the rest of its season due to concerns…
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Natalie Weiner Jan 8, 2021. 3 minute read
Kelly Loeffler’s WNBA Ownership Stake Undermines Everything The League Says It’s About
This year, the WNBA said all the right things. As the 2020 bubble season was being organized (an effort that preserved the league’s PR momentum through the COVID-19 pandemic but put workers’ lives at risk), Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd on video. In response, the WNBA’s players — who often…
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Natalie Weiner Dec 17, 2020. 3 minute read
This is What Happens When You Keep Playing
They kept playing. It’s eerie how Keyontae Johnson’s story mirrors the way the sports world as a whole has responded to COVID-19. They watched the absolute worst happen — in Johnson’s case, right in front of their eyes, as he spontaneously collapsed on Florida State University’s basketball court after throwing…
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Natalie Weiner Dec 11, 2020. 4 minute read
What Sports Have Taught Me
The first time I wrote about sports, I was terrified. If 16-year-old me — who reflexively, defensively believed that not liking sports was a sign of superior intellect, or something — knew 24-year-old me would be taking a red-eye bus to Virginia Beach to cover a Seahawks player’s charity basketball…
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