💸 Feeling brand NewCo
NewCo lands $25.2M loan from the English Premier League
England’s newly-formed NewCo, which consists of the top two flights of English women’s football — the Women’s Super League (WSL) and Women’s Championship (WC) — just landed a $25.2M interest-free loan from the English Premier League (EPL) several months after the WSL requested money to revamp UK women’s soccer.
February 12, 2024
📺 A raw deal
Major media TV rights package creating unease across industry
Last Tuesday, ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced their intention to create a unified live sports streaming app. It would offer content from all three platforms, a prospect that has already spooked smaller streamers, Wall Street investors, and sports leagues.
February 12, 2024
🏀 The history
Legends of the Game: Pat Summitt
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Since we’re spending today celebrating women, there’s no better place to start than with the late, great Pat Summitt — a winner in every sense of the word, a champion, a role model, and an inspiration to everyone who had the honor of crossing paths with her.
February 12, 2024
🤸 Lucky number 13
No. 3 LSU senior Haleigh Bryant records the NCAA's 14th-ever gym slam
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No. 3 LSU senior Haleigh Bryant earned her 13th career perfect score and her first on beam, becoming the 14th NCAA women’s gymnast ever to achieve perfection in all four events (aka a gym slam).
February 11, 2024
Super Bowl preview: Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers
Super Bowl preview: Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers
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In honor of the big event, today’s Scroll has everything you need to know before the defending champ Kansas City Chiefs face the San Francisco 49ers tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET with the winner hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
February 11, 2024
🏀 It’s (court) storming in Nebraska
No. 2 Iowa’s Caitlin Clark falls short of the NCAA women’s scoring record in a weekend full of upsets
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Even in a season of nonstop women’s and men’s basketball upsets, this weekend stood out.
February 11, 2024
🥍 Sit back, re-lax
Everything you need to know about the 2024 NCAA women’s lacrosse season
Who can stop No. 1 Northwestern's quest for a second straight national women's lacrosse championship?
February 09, 2024
🏀 Did not see that one coming
Elena Delle Donne will take a break from basketball & NBA trade deadline updates
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While the defending champ Las Vegas Aces are running it back after re-signing Candace Parker to a one-year deal on Wednesday, the rest of the pro hoops scene is about to look pretty different amid stunning WNBA and NBA news.
February 09, 2024
💸 Payday someday
Women athletes still rank far behind men in earnings
Sportico released its list of top 100 highest-paid athletes — and none of them are women. In fact, women don’t even make the top 200. Last year’s highest-earning female athlete, Coco Gauff, raked in $22.7M, light years away from overall No. 1 earner Cristiano Ronaldo’s $275M.
February 09, 2024
🏐 Setting the tone
LOVB enters unique multiyear partnership with smart gym company Tonal
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League One Volleyball (LOVB) and home gym system Tonal have partnered to offer volleyball-centric workout programs and a unique family-focused program. The pro women’s volleyball league won’t launch until November, but it secured Tonal’s first league partnership.
February 09, 2024
🎓 Like a pro
NCAA athletes win several key legal battles in ongoing fight for labor rights
College athletes keep winning major battles in the fight to be recognized as employees, a distinction that would allow them to earn income and experience labor protections. From Dartmouth to USC, the NCAA’s amateurism model is giving way to a new, labor-protected college landscape.
February 07, 2024