Abby Wambach told a crowd of 3,500 at City Hall Plaza. It was the first-ever ticker-tape parade in New York for a women’s sports team – a fact not lost on the crowd. When the parade got underway at 11 a.m., the crowd was as much as 10 deep along the route. A 4th floor …
We played against ‘multi-racial’ teams and went to hospitals, townships and schools but now I realise it was very stage-managed. Politics came when I went with Ireland the following year – I lost my job as a graduate trainee at Guinness. The isolation that came afterwards must have had an impact on speeding up the …
Yet, if she hadn’t taken a soccer scholarship at the University of South Florida aged 19, having left Sunderland Ladies, the 2016 Women’s Super League winner says she may not have realised her international ambitions. The top team in the regular season will earn the right to host the WPS Championship presented by Citi as …
Currently, media rights for Major League Baseball are worth $1.5bn per season – double the figure for soccer, but that will narrow significantly next year as new deals are struck. At the time of the last World Cup, the game was fractured in the US but now everyone is working together and new teams are …
Business participants who went along were charged $2,895 each. It’s not just a win for them, it’s a win for all female athletes,’ said Tori Klevan, 18, who came from Philadelphia with her fellow soccer players wearing red, white and blue hats and waving a cutout of the champion team midfielder Megan Rapinoe. “We as …
But while Morgan has defended their bronze medal finish, the team’s loss to Canada was celebrated by American conservatives – including former President Donald Trump, who insisted on Thursday that the squad would have claimed gold, if not for their ‘woke’, ‘leftist’ ideologies. Morgan, 32, vehemently defended herself and her fellow Team USA players against …
Gabriel Slonina stopped four shots in the season opener, but also made a statement by wearing a NO WAR IN UKRAINE shirt under his jersey. It wasn’t an easy season with her Sky Blue FC team in New Jersey. She was then taken in the first round of a dispersal draft that saw her signed …
To me if you want to do that song you need to stretch it out and make it sexy, it was just like one giant blues scale the whole time. Red Bulls lost their unbeaten start to the season at the weekend yet , after a summer of serious upheaval which saw popular manager Mike …
Former Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tweeted that ‘Most people will remember Kobe as the magnificent athlete who inspired a whole generation of basketball players. Nets star Kyrie Irving didn’t play, leaving the arena after hearing of Bryant’s death. Hawks All-Star guard Trae Young, who usually wears No. 11, wore Bryant’s other number Sunday night, No. …