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A record investment into women's soccer just went down for the Bay Area, California

A record investment for US$125 million was made into women’s soccer team in the Bay Area

Women's sports leagues are seeing some big investment action.
Joey Fung Apr 7, 2023
WNBA players

WNBA players can’t outsource their pay as easily anymore – but should they need to?

Professional basketball in the US has a pay equity problem. The median pay for a man in the NBA is more than US$4.3 million for an eight-month season; women in the WNBA have a season that’s half as long, but their average pay is between US$130,
Jake Shropshire Sep 29, 2022
Brittney Griner

Biden gets involved in freeing WNBA star from a Russian jail. Here’s what you need to know

As tensions were escalating between Russia and Ukraine in February, a WNBA basketball player named Brittney Griner was arrested in a Russian airport for charges of carrying vape cartridges containing hash oil – something illegal there. But the US State Department, which has been trying to get her freed from jail
Jake Shropshire Jul 7, 2022

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