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☆ FIFA President Threatens Not to Broadcast Women’s World Cup in Europe
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
‘To be very clear, it is our moral and legal obligation not to undersell the FIFA Women’s World Cup,’ FIFA president Gianni Infantino said. Photo: fabrice coffrini/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesFor much of the 32-year existence of the Women’s World Cup, FIFA distributed the broadcast rights to the event like a “buy one, get one free” promotion: If broadcasters bought the rights for the men’s World Cup, they also got the rights to the Women’s World Cup. After the 2019 Women’s World Cup drew more than 1 billion global viewers, FIFA began a years-long transition to charging broadcasters a separate fee for the women’s tournament, in line with the event’s audiences.
☆ A German Soccer Team’s Radical Fix for Declining Attendance: Free Tickets
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Fortuna Düsseldorf in western Germany has had a wild ride over more than a century as the city’s top professional soccer club. It has savored the heights of the Bundesliga and sunk to the fourth division. In the early 2000s, it even took on as a sponsor the punk band Die Toten Hosen, which means “The Dead Pants.”Now playing in Germany’s second-tier Bundesliga 2, Fortuna Düsseldorf is heading toward its most radical move ever: giving away its match tickets for free.
☆ Analysts are getting even more bullish on Microsoft's A.I. prospects after latest earnings report
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Microsoft's big swings on artificial intelligence are paying off, and analysts are even more bullish on the tech giant. Rangan has a buy rating on Microsoft and a price target of $335, implying upside of 21.6%. "Azure growth was ahead of expectations with MSFT showing ability to protect margin/EPS in a tough backdrop," Turrin said, who rates the stock as overweight. He also hiked his price target to $345 from $320, pointing to a 25.2% potential gain. Keith Weiss of Morgan Stanley also reiterated an overweight rating on the stock, and hiked his price target to $335 per share from $307.
☆ Matt Fitzpatrick playing to win his brother a PGA Tour spot at Zurich Classic
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Don Riddell Jack Bantock | Don Riddell | Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
The triumphant pair on Sunday will also receive a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. The Fitzpatrick brothers will pair together at the Zurich Classic. The golf world is very different from when I started to when he’s playing now so he’s going to focus on the Challenge Tour probably, he’s excited for that. Yet Fitzpatrick – dubbed the hardest-working golfer on the PGA Tour – has no intention of accepting his place in the food chain. “I’m constantly looking at ways to improve and get better, and that’s what’s really important is to keep pushing myself and try and catch them up.”
☆ Women’s Tennis to Return to China Despite Unresolved Concerns About Peng Shuai
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Peng Shuai has been seen in public only in carefully orchestrated settings, including at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. The Women’s Tennis Association tour will return to China this year, despite the fact that Chinese officials haven’t met the WTA’s demands for a transparent investigation into a 2021 assault allegation of Chinese player Peng Shuai. The move ends a boycott, started in late 2021, when Peng disappeared from public view after a post to her social-media account alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by a senior Communist Party official. The WTA halted its events in China and said it would stay out of the country until the allegation was investigated and it could speak directly with Peng.
☆ U.S. Soccer Star Mallory Swanson Injures Knee in Possible Blow to World Cup Hopes
  + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Mallory Swanson signals to fans as she is taken off the field after an injury. Mallory Swanson, the hottest scorer this year for the world No. 1-ranked U.S. women’s soccer team, suffered a serious injury to her left knee in a friendly against Ireland on Saturday, a potentially devastating setback that comes a little more than three months ahead of this summer’s Women’s World Cup. Swanson suffered a torn patella tendon, the team announced Sunday. She returned to Chicago, where she plays for the National Women’s Soccer League’s Red Stars, for further evaluation.
☆ A Record 9.9 Million Tune In for NCAA Women’s Basketball Final
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LSU beat Iowa in the NCAA women’s basketball final on Sunday. Sunday’s NCAA women’s basketball championship game drew 9.9 million TV viewers, double last year’s audience and the most-viewed NCAA women’s basketball game on record, according to ESPN. Louisiana State’s 102-85 win over Iowa, in a title game shown on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, featured record scoring and the superstar shooting of Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark. Women’s title games in recent years—such as last year, when 4.85 million watched South Carolina beat UConn—have been shown on Disney’s ESPN, which is in fewer homes than broadcast stations.
☆ LSU Wins NCAA Women’s Basketball Title
  + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
LSU’s Jasmine Carson reacts after making a 3-pointer during the Tigers’ win over Iowa. DALLAS—The electricity surrounding the Women’s Final Four this weekend centered almost entirely on Iowa’s superstar sharpshooter Caitlin Clark. But one important group of dissenters wasn’t having any of it: the Louisiana State Tigers. LSU drove its parade float through the Hawkeyes’ party on Sunday, outshooting Clark and the Hawkeyes to win its first-ever NCAA women’s basketball title, 102-85.
☆ South Carolina Women’s Basketball Is the Team That Never Gets Tired
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Before the NCAA women’s basketball tournament began, oddsmakers said South Carolina had a 73.3% chance of winning. Not winning its first game or two, but the whole thing, meaning six in a row including the championship. Anyone who’s scratched out a bracket for the 68-team men’s or women’s tournaments—only to see it turn it to garden mulch by Day 3—knows that odds like those aren’t just rare. They’re downright preposterous.
☆ How Iowa’s Caitlin Clark Became College Basketball’s Must-See Star
  + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
As last Sunday’s NCAA Elite Eight game between the Iowa and Louisville women’s basketball teams unfolded, the court at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena seemed to become a Broadway stage with an invisible spotlight tracking one player: the Hawkeyes’ Caitlin Clark. When the curtain fell, Clark not only finished with a jaw-dropping 41 points in Iowa’s 97-83 win. She added 12 assists and 10 rebounds to produce the first official 40-point triple-double in an NCAA tournament game. (Assists didn’t become an official stat until 1984.)
☆ Olympics President Floats Plan for Russian Athletes’ Return—Excluding Supporters of the War
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach announced proposals to exclude competitors who have supported Russia’s war in Ukraine. Facing increasingly strong headwinds against his push to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back into international sports events, Olympics president Thomas Bach on Tuesday announced proposals to exclude competitors who have supported Russia’s war in Ukraine. The plan floated by the International Olympic Committee would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return to some international competitions without being identified as representatives of their countries—as long as those athletes haven’t shown support for the war, as judged by a new screening panel.
☆ UConn Women Lose, Ending Streak of 14 Final Fours
  + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ World Track and Field Bans Transgender Athletes From Women’s Events
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
World Athletics announced that it would bar any athlete who had gone through male puberty from female competition categories. Track and field’s international governing body will enact a ban on transgender female athletes competing in women’s events, becoming the most prominent sports federation yet to significantly tighten its eligibility criteria for elite competitors. World Athletics announced Thursday that it would bar any athlete who had gone through male puberty from female competition categories. The ban came as the federation also unveiled new restrictions for female competitors with differences in sex developments that will apply across all running distances and throwing events.
☆ Coach K Is So Last Year. It’s Time to Meet Coach Yo.
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When Yolett McPhee-McCuin saw the Mississippi women’s basketball coaching job was open in 2018, she didn’t wait for a call. She reached out to the school’s search firm and sold herself. “I’m hot,” she said. “And y’all could get me for cheap.”
☆ Stanford Women’s Epic Sweet 16 Streak Ended by Ole Miss
  + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Ole Miss forward Madison Scott celebrates during the 54-49 win over Stanford. The Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball team is usually a frequent flier to the Final Four. Not this year. 8-seed Mississippi slowed Stanford’s offense and badgered it into 21 turnovers Sunday night, stunning the No. 1 seed 54-49 in a second round NCAA tournament game.
☆ Indiana’s Top-Seeded Women’s Basketball Team Seizes the Spotlight in Hoosierland
  + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
One day in the early 1980s Indiana women’s basketball coach was sitting alone in the Hoosiers’ arena when Indiana men’s coach Bob Knight asked what was wrong. “I said, ‘Well, I’m trying to figure out how to raise money to get an assistant,’” the women’s coach at the time, Maryalyce Jeremiah, recalled. “He said, ‘How much do you need?’ I told him, and he got it for me.”
☆ The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Is South Carolina’s to Lose
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The downside of picking South Carolina to win the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, which starts in earnest on Friday, is that you’re unlikely to win much money. The upside: You’re very likely to be right.
☆ FIFA Triples Women’s World Cup Prize Money for 2023
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
U.S. women’s players celebrate after winning the 2019 Women’s World Cup. FIFA is increasing the prize money for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand to $110 million, more than triple what it was in 2019, and says it could award equal prize money with the Men’s World Cup by 2027 if broadcasters increase their bids for the women’s event. FIFA president Gianni Infantino , speaking at the organization’s Congress in Kigali, Rwanda, said the international soccer federation was “embarking on a historic journey for women’s football and for equality. And this will lead us to a path to equal pay.”
☆ Former Olympian Kara Goucher Alleges Assault by Banned Running Coach Alberto Salazar
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Kara Goucher won bronze medals at the 2009 Boston Marathon and 2008 New York City Marathon. She twice represented the U.S. at the Olympics. Kara Goucher, an Olympic runner who worked with famed coach Alberto Salazar at the prestigious Nike Oregon Project training group, alleged that he twice sexually assaulted her while giving her massages. Goucher made the allegations in a book on her experiences in running, published Tuesday, and in an interview with “Good Morning America.”
☆ Global Players’ Union Calls for Equal Conditions and Prize Money at Women’s World Cup
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Players from 25 national women’s soccer teams, backed by a global professional players’ union, are calling for equal conditions and prize money at the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Fifpro, an umbrella organization that represents 65,000 men’s and women’s soccer players and their unions worldwide, sent a letter last October to FIFA president Gianni Infantino outlining the players’ proposals. The letter, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, comes to light four months ahead of the Women’s World Cup that kicks off July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
☆ Mikaela Shiffrin Becomes Winningest Alpine Skier Ever, Male or Female
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ U.S. Women’s Soccer Turns to the World Cup With a Win and Some Questions
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The best thing about the U.S. women’s soccer team’s performance in winning the SheBelieves Cup was that Mallory Swanson scored four of the U.S.’s five goals. The worst thing was that Mallory Swanson scored four of the U.S.’s five goals.
☆ Powerful Nations, Including the U.S., Oppose Russian Athletes’ Return to Olympics
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
A substantial group of governments, organized by the U.K. and including the U.S., has pushed back against the IOC’s plans to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Games. Russian and Belarusian athletes should continue to be shut out of international sports events, including the Olympics, until there is a way to show they are competing independent of their governments, 34 powerful nations said in a statement signed by the U.K., the U.S. and France, the hosts of the 2024 Olympics. Russian and Belarusian athletes have been barred from major sporting events since the invasion of Ukraine, in an action taken by international sports federations at the behest of the International Olympic Committee a year ago. Russia had been banned from recent Olympics as a punishment over state-sponsored doping schemes that it denies, but its athletes were allowed to compete under banners such as “Russian Olympic Committee.”
☆ A Popular Player at LSU, Which Is Sponsored by Nike, Has Her Own Shoe Deal With Puma
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Flau’jae Johnson saunters into an empty LSU women’s basketball locker room, rapping to a music track, and pulls out a shoebox. The freshman guard slips on a pair of sneakers as a camera zooms in—recording a video she’ll later post to her nearly 800,000 Instagram followers. The shoes are Puma , the brand that pays Johnson six figures a year to promote it. And that’s where things get complicated.
☆ Seattle Storm Share Sale Values Team at WNBA Record $151 Million
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Seattle Storm have sold minority stakes in the team that value the Women’s National Basketball Association franchise at a record $151 million, the team’s owners said. The sale of stakes to 15 investors will help finance a $64 million, 50,000-square-foot practice facility and business office for the Storm, which is set to break ground this month, team owners Ginny Gilder and Lisa Brummel said.
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