After long-time NBA executive Rick Welts announced his decision last week to step down as president and chief operating officer of the Golden State Warriors, the career retrospectives poured in. It's too bad, however, that the normalized erasure of the WNBA runs so deep that the league, now in its 25th season -- and Welts' award-winning contributions to it -- were erased from the myriad articles detailing his career.
sports and society
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.
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