Take the W: Collier
Katie Heindl
Jun 21 2024
Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 There’s a sequence in Napheesa Collier’s recent thirty-point game against the LA Sparks that tidily highlights the sort of ...
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Take the W
Take the W
Katie Heindl
A weekly column about women's professional basketball for both longtime fans and the casual observer.
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Take the W: Bodies
Katie Heindl
Jun 13 2024
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. ...
Take the W: Business Moves
Katie Heindl
Jun 5 2024
Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0 For years the WNBA’s business plan, in ambition and practice, focused on increasing the league’s visibility. It ...
Take the W: Parker
Katie Heindl
May 30 2024
andace Parker retired in April, on the same day WNBA training camp began. On her Instagram, she shared a sepia-toned photo of herself as a kid, holding a basketball bigger ...
Take the W: Interpretations
Katie Heindl
May 24 2024
When she was named MVP of that game, the crowd of nearly twenty thousand people booed.
Take the W: Entry Points
Katie Heindl
May 17 2024
The games have pace, the rivalries have layers, the bravado is unmatched, and the conversations, refreshingly, do not reduce lives and bodies to their income value.
