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Take the W: Bodies

A WEEKLY COLUMN ON WOMEN’S PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL FOR BOTH LONGTIME FANS AND THE CASUAL OBSERVER

Take the W: Bodies

Katie Heindl
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Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0.

The recent surge in the WNBA’s popularity has had a side effect I didn't anticipate: all this discussion about women’s bodies. It might seem a strange thing to be surprised by but, confusingly, in sports, athletes’ bodies often seem secondary to the actions they execute. 

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