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Last summer, Risa F. Isard, a research fellow with the Laboratory of Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, was scrolling through Twitter when a thread by WNBA fan Michael McManus (@getdisdance) caught her eye. The thread was about the media’s centering of 2020 No. 1 overall draft pick Sabrina Ionescu (SI)…

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In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate ESPN’s new 10-part documentary doesn’t ask Big Questions. But it does go big on a team whose personalities and feats warrant just this sort of excess.  Michael Jordan’s brilliance on the court rendered him impervious to overstatement. The new 10-part ESPN documentary “The Last…

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