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Tag: WNBA

  • Kintsugi
  • October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Diana Taurasi Voted By Fans As WNBA’s Greatest Player of All Time

Official Release October 10, 2021 NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2021 – The WNBA announced today that Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi has been voted by fans as the league’s greatest of all ti

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

Connecticut Sun unveil new jerseys inspired by Mohegan Tribe and late elder and social justice advocate Gladys Tantaquidgeon

By SHAWN MCFARLAND HARTFORD COURANT  |APR 08, 2021 AT 10:03 AM It’s fitting that Gladys Tantaquidgeon — the late Mohegan elder and pioneer for social justice — will h

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

Kelly Loeffler Is Done in the Senate. But What About in the W.N.B.A.?

By Sopan Deb and Kevin Draper Jan. 6, 2021, 6:34 p.m. ET W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told CNN over the summer that she would not force Loeffler to sell her stake,

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

The One Name the W.N.B.A. Won’t Say

Players have united to depose a sitting senator in Georgia, who has clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement and is an owner of the Atlanta Dream and one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

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  • Prof Patty
  • September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Women Take the Lead – Again

In the wake of the shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wis., the Women’s National Basketball Association postponed scheduled games on Wednesday and then again on T

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NY Times

  • A Toothless Iran? Missile and Drone Strikes Show It Can Still Inflict Pain.
  • The Slum in Gangnam, the Richest Part of Seoul
  • No Kings Protests Held Across the U.S.: Photos and Videos
  • A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
  • Record Number of T.S.A. Employees Called Out on Friday

NPR

  • Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth
  • Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy
  • Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies
  • The oldest known recording of a whale song reveals how oceans have changed
  • This week's Short Wave news roundup

The Progressive

  • Music, Violence, and the Ritual That AI Cannot Replace
  • The World Cup Needs an ICE Truce
  • Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
  • Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
  • Our digital lives have hidden costs

FactCheck.org

  • Competing Claims on SAVE America Act Disenfranchising Voters
  • Q&A on the SAVE America Act
  • EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’
  • No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions
  • How Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz Affects the U.S.

Snopes.com

  • Did Ted Lieu claim Epstein paid Pam Bondi's college, law school tuition?
  • Did US Army raise maximum enlistment age to 42? Here's the full story
  • 16 rumors about mail-in ballots we've inspected
  • Did Iranian media release animated 'Lord of the Straits' video? We investigated
  • Video shows LA residents chasing away ICE agents?

Tradeoffs

  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom
  • ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
  • 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care

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