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What to Make of the WNBA’s After-Hours Dribble of News Regarding Sun Sale to Houston

Apr 1, 2026

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert stripped New England of its only team despite the Connecticut Sun's two decades of success. The WNBA Board of Governors should not approve any deal that excludes an entire geographic region and removing a successful franchise should be disallowed. In Part I of our series "Stripping New England of Its Only WNBA Team Doesn't Grow the League," we examine the motives and optics of the league's after-hours news dribble.

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2: S1E2: Because Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech Tells Me So

Atlanta Dream co-owner and U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler opposes the WNBA's and the Atlanta Dream's support for Black Lives Matter. Players and the WNBPA have called for her to sell her ownership stake in the team. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has stated that she will not force Loeffler out as owner, yet maintains support for the players' desire and decision to use the 2020 season as a platform for social justice advocacy. The Hard Screen digs into the founding principles of the Atlanta...

Kelly Loeffler: An Affront to the Dream

Kelly Loeffler is an affront to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Dream,' everything John Lewis stood for, and the ethos on which the Atlanta WNBA franchise was built.

Erasure: A Methodical and Exacting Choice

Mainstream media has institutionalized the erasure of the WNBA and other Black women athletes competing in team sports. But inclusion is easy, rendering the omissions a choice. What will it take to eradicate the scourge of discriminatory racist, homophobic treatment?

Why America Doesn’t Deserve Sports Right Now

Fans, pundits, media organization, leagues, and teams have pushed the idea that sports (entertainment, fun, pastime) should be separate from society (the system in which we collectively live) -- an idea which falsely implies that these entities have ever been anything but inextricably linked.

Welcome to The Hard Screen!

Welcome to The Hard Screen: a podcast about women’s hoops -- a brick wall between the sport you love and the misogynistic nonsense that surrounds it. With a storytelling bent, The Hard Screen marries current events with historical context, emotion with fact, and drills down deep into issues of race, gender and sexuality that impact the place of women’s hoops -- therefore, women’s sports more broadly and, alas, women -- in society. At 20 to 30 minutes per episode, we won’t waste your time, but...

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