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  • 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

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NPR

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