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Sarah Strong made program history when she scored her 1,000th point in the No. 1 UConn Huskies’ matchup against the No. 23 Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Monday night. Strong is going through the second season of her collegiate career with the Huskies. She has shined as the leading star for the program, helping them […]

Ohio State women’s basketball showed its ability to handle pressure and respond late in a tightly contested matchup Monday, a trait head coach Kevin McGuff said defines the Buckeyes after their comeback win over TCU. “We have a style that can come from behind,” McGuff said, as reported by Brianna Mac Kay of The Columbus […]

The heart of January is where women’s college basketball reveals its truth. By this stage of the season, teams can no longer rely on reputation, early momentum, or theoretical upside. Conference play strips away insulation quickly, familiar opponents expose habits, travel tests focus, and physical games challenge both depth and resolve. January basketball is rarely […]

TCU women’s basketball secured a 78-62 win over Arizona on Saturday, but coach Mark Campbell made clear afterward that turnovers remain a concern despite the result. The No. 10 Horned Frogs finished with 17 turnovers in the win, continuing a recent trend. TCU is averaging 14.6 turnovers per game, third best in the Big 12, […]

Venus Williams’ return to the Australian Open ended in a first-round loss Sunday, but the seven-time major champion left Melbourne Park focused on progress rather than the result after making history in the women’s singles draw. Ranked No. 576 and competing on a wild-card entry, Williams became the oldest woman to play a singles main-draw […]

No. 2 South Carolina women’s basketball enters Wednesday night’s matchup against No. 4 Texas women’s basketball fully aware of the stakes, but coach Dawn Staley said her team remains focused on the task immediately in front of it. “I did mention it. I mentioned it after our last game. Just the ramifications of wins and […]

A first-round loss by Venus Williams’ Tuesday in Australia carried noteworthiness beyond its outcome, as the match set a WTA age record. Williams, 45, fell 6-4, 6-3 to Germany’s Tatjana Maria, 38, in the first round of the Hobart International, a leadup event to the Australian Open. With a combined age of 84 years and one […]

Texas women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer didn’t hold back in voicing his frustration with the SEC scheduling format following the Longhorns’ 70-65 loss to LSU Tigers women’s basketball on Jan. 11, calling the setup unfair after Texas faced consecutive road games against conference heavyweights. “They obviously have a vendetta against Texas because not only have […]

LSU women’s basketball senior guard Flau’jae Johnson has embraced the weight of leadership as the Tigers navigate the remaining months of SEC play, acknowledging that her role extends well beyond scoring as the only remaining player from the program’s 2022–23 national championship team. “Leadership is all intentional,” Johnson said, as reported by Meghan L. Hall […]

The USWNT (US Women’s National Team) has announced its 26-player roster for its annual January Camp, revealing that one notable name is making a return to the squad. Trinity Rodman will officially rejoin the national team in California this month when the camp begins. Recurring back injuries that limited Rodman’s playing time with the USWNT […]

Coco Gauff is gearing up for the Australian Open by leading the defending champion United States team past the United Cup quarterfinals in Perth, Australia. After winning her singles match against Maria Sakkari, Gauff partnered with Christian Harrison in mixed-doubles play against Greece’s team to keep the US’s bid for a third title in four […]

Players who qualify for this year’s Australian Open will have the chance to take home a larger prize purse than any previous competitor in the tournament’s history. Tennis Australia announced Monday that the prize pool has been raised to a record-setting amount of A$111.5 million, or $US 74.9 million. With 2025’s purse sitting at $A96.5 […]

Sabrina Ionescu rarely turns down an opportunity to show up and support her alma mater Oregon whenever she can. A few months ago, Ionescu helped welcome ESPN’s “College Gameday” at a home football game, and this time, the New York Liberty star turned up to offer some advice to her former women’s basketball team. Ionescu […]

With Unrivaled’s second season officially underway, all eyes are on the star WNBA players who have joined the 3-on-3 offseason league for 2026. After the first day of play, which featured all eight clubs in action, some have already managed to stand out from the pack. Let’s take a look at who made a notable […]

UConn women’s basketball star Sarah Strong has earned yet another accolade to add to her career achievements. The young phenom was named USA Basketball’s 2025 3×3 Female Athlete of the Year on Wednesday, thanks to her standout performances with Team USA at the 2025 FIBA 3×3 World Cup last summer. Despite still being a teenager, […]

The first week of January is always a reckoning point in women’s college basketball. Nonconference resumes collide with the realities of league play, reputations are stress-tested, and assumptions built in November either harden into truth or dissolve under pressure. In the first week of the new year, women’s college basketball finds itself in one of […]

Unrivaled entered its second season with confidence, clarity, and a clear message about where it fits in the women’s basketball landscape. The player-backed 3-on-3 league continues to position itself as an offseason option for elite talent, not a rival to the WNBA. Speaking as the new season tipped off, Unrivaled president Alex Bazzell told ESPN […]

Venus Williams said the pressure she faces at this stage of her career is largely self-imposed after opening her 2026 singles season with a three-set loss at the WTA Tour event in Auckland, New Zealand. Williams fell 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to fifth-seeded Magda Linette in a match that lasted more than two hours. Speaking afterward, […]

Mikaela Shiffrin had been riding a hot streak that she’d hoped to take into next month’s Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, but she unfortunately fell short of another win during the World Cup in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. She crossed the finish line just 0.14 seconds behind Switzerland’s Camille Rast on Sunday, bringing Shiffrin’s slalom event win […]

The dominance LSU showed early in the NCAA season has seemed to fizzle out to start 2026. After losing its first game of the campaign on New Year’s Day at home to Kentucky, then-No. 5 LSU women’s basketball has been upset once again, this time falling to then-No. 12 Vanderbilt 65-61 on Sunday. The Tigers […]

Star junior Audi Crooks has been able to lead Iowa State to victory in every game of the 2025-26 NCAA season so far, but the Cyclones’ luck ran out on Sunday. Then-No. 22 Baylor’s Taliah Scott hit the game-winning shot over Crooks with 2.9 seconds remaining to lift the final score to 72-70, upsetting then-No. […]

Cleveland Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett has been showered with praise since breaking the NFL’s single-season sack record in Week 18. The likes of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, his alma mater in Texas A&M, and previous record co-holder Michael Strahan all gave Garrett his flowers for achieving the feat on Sunday, but none may be […]

TCU women’s basketball coach Mark Campbell gave a blunt assessment after No. 8 TCU suffered its first loss of the season, an 87-77 overtime defeat to the Utah women’s basketball on Saturday night at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City. “We had a chance to steal this game. We didn’t deserve this game,” Campbell […]

USC women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb did not mince words after her team’s loss to UCLA on Saturday night, calling the performance “embarrassing” following an 80-46 defeat at Pauley Pavilion. “Obviously, this is not where our team wants to be in a game like this,” Gottlieb said, as reported by Charlotte Gibson of ESPN. “I think […]

Geno Auriemma knows that if UConn is going to repeat as women’s basketball national champions, it needs to lean on Sarah Strong. The sophomore recently rediscovered her groove after a brief lull, and Auriemma does not want to see her take her foot off the gas. Strong led UConn with 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting […]

Senior center Lauren Betts keeps making a case for why she should be a top-ranked 2026 WNBA draft pick. In UCLA’s latest outing, a 97-61 rout of Penn State on Wednesday, the young phenom scored a season-high 25 points in just 25 minutes to pass the 1,500-career-point mark. Betts opened up scoring for the Bruins […]

Audi Crooks has been dominating all season offensively for No. 10 Iowa State and shows no sign of slowing down. The star junior put up 35 points and 13 rebounds against Houston en route to the Cyclones’ 80-62 win on Wednesday. Crooks went 17-of-21 from the field as she topped 30 points for the fifth […]

Venus Williams is bringing her 2025 comeback to professional tennis with her into 2026. The seven-time Grand Slam champion has accepted a wild-card berth to the Australian Open, which the tournament announced on its social media account on Thursday. The 45-year-old, who first played at Melbourne Park in 1998, hasn’t made a pro appearance there […]

No. 8 TCU may have committed 15 turnovers against BYU, but that didn’t stop the team from earning a 72-48 blowout win. The Horned Frogs largely have transfer star Olivia Miles to thank for the victory after her 12-point, 12-rebound, 10-assist triple-double performance helped carry the team to its 12th straight win over a Big […]

The LSU women’s basketball team ended the 2025 half of its season undefeated, but it wasn’t able to bring that win streak into the new year when it faced off against Kentucky on Thursday night. The No.5-ranked team started the new year in gut-wrenching fashion as Tonie Morgan hit a 3-pointer with just 0.5 seconds […]

With the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games fast approaching, the rosters for hockey competition have been finalized and were finally unveiled on Friday. There’s been a major shakeup compared to the last time the US women’s national team took the ice in the 2022 Beijing Games, with a notable shift towards youth. But one thing remains […]

New LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin continues to settle into life in Baton Rouge. On the same night that his former team, the Ole Miss Rebels, was playing a huge game in the quarterfinal round of the College Football Playoff in New Orleans, Louisiana, against the Georgia Bulldogs, Kiffin was in a different part […]

UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close didn’t mince words following her team’s statement road victory over Ohio State, and the conversation only intensified in the days that followed. After the No. 4 Bruins defeated the No. 19 Buckeyes 82-75 on Dec. 28, Close used her postgame availability to highlight what she viewed as a […]

As the season moved through its final days of December, the broader competitive picture began to sharpen. Early experimentation faded, rotations solidified, and identity emerged for both contenders and challengers alike. Holiday schedules often create uneven rhythms, but this particular stretch revealed which programs were built to maintain focus regardless of opponent or atmosphere. Dominance […]

The South Carolina women’s basketball team has been on a hot streak to start the year as its new-look roster adapts well to playing together. However, the Gamecocks might be facing their biggest test so far after star guard Ta’Niya Latson went down with a lower left leg injury during their 96-55 win over Providence […]

Mikaela Shiffrin is making a dominant statement ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, coming from behind to win her sixth straight World Cup slalom race. The Alpine skiing legend finished her second run in 53.58 seconds, which gave her a total time of 1:48.82 and put her ahead of Switzerland’s Camille Rast by just 0.09 […]

The NWSL’s plan to implement a “High Impact Player Rule,” which would allow teams to offer certain athletes contracts that exceed the salary cap, was met with controversy, but the league has decided to push forward with the mechanism despite the protests. The NWSLPA voiced that it disagrees with the choice after suggesting its own […]

Boston Legacy FC has added another valuable piece to its growing roster as the club prepares to make its NWSL debut in 2026. The team announced Monday that forward Ella Stevens signed a deal to leave Gotham FC, joining the expansion franchise for at least two years with a mutual option to renew. Stevens will […]

After coming out of retirement over a year ago with the goal of returning to the Olympics, Lindsey Vonn has achieved the impressive feat of qualifying for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy. The 41-year-old turned to social media to announce she would be representing the United States once again in ski […]