Napheesa Collier talks Unrivaled and WNBA’s future on this week’s ‘The Athletic Show’
Napheesa Collier was well-known to WNBA fans before last season, but her exit interview following the 2025 campaign made headlines across the sports world. Her pointed criticism of league leadership and player compensation brought wide-ranging attention to the labor battle gripping the WBNA, as well as to Collier’s proposed solution: establishing an alternative league to address the problem. In 2023, she and fellow women’s hoops star Breanna Stewart founded Unrivaled, a 3-on-3 league featuring t
Read more …
What we learnt from England’s first steps on the road to the 2027 World Cup
The 2027 Women’s World Cup is 473 days away. That may seem like a long time, but England head coach Sarina Wiegman will only see her players seven more times in camp before the tournament in Brazil starts on June 24 next year. The World Cup is the one title that has eluded the Dutchwoman during her time in charge of the Netherlands and now England, with those nations suffering defeat under her in the 2019 and 2023 finals. The reigning and back-to-back European champions have their eyes set on li
Read more …
Men’s basketball: Gophers edge Northwestern 67-66 on senior night
For senior night festivities, Gophers guard Langston Reynolds was joined on the Williams Arena court pregame Saturday by his mother, Shaunta Reynolds, his diminutive “auntie,” his kid brother, older brother and his brother’s fiancé. “It’s going to be a very emotional moment,” Reynolds told the Pioneer Press on Friday. Reynolds, a one-year transfer from Northern Colorado, channeled those ...
Read more …