WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert stripped New England of its only team despite its success and wouldn't allow the Mohegan Tribe to sell to Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca to keep the franchise in Boston. It's a betrayal that the city's fervent sports fans won't soon forget—or forgive.
Connecticut Sun
In 2003, the Mohegan Tribe saved a WNBA franchise from an imminent demise. The Tribe has never gotten enough credit for transforming the Orlando Miracle into the Connecticut Sun and operating it successfully for more than two decades. Amid the league's disrespectful treatment of the Mohegan Tribe, we extend some flowers.
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.
Choosing six frontcourt players and four backcourt players for the WNBA All-Star Game is never an easy task and casting a media ballot in 2024 feels almost daunting. To separate the cream from the very elite crop, we did not consider players who led the league in turnovers or personal fouls for games. Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever were early cuts.
NBC Sports Boston had a chance to showcase during its pregame coverage of the Celtics-76ers NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals just how easy it would be to equitably cover women's sports. They blew it.
Emerging as a force to be reckoned with against gender identity discrimination, Layshia Clarendon, the WNBA’s first openly trans and non-binary player, has been nominated for the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award. Yet, in the same breath that we celebrate the joy of gender euphoria for countless people challenging the gender binary, we must band together and fight the intentional harms caused to our transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming siblings. In short, we are at a time wh...
Jennifer Rizzotti is celebrated for her accomplishments at all levels of the game, from AP National Player of the Year for the UConn Huskies in 1996 to president of the WNBA's Connecticut Sun in 2021. But her professional journey with the Mohegan Tribe's Sun had chillier beginnings.
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