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Want to watch the Final Four with a great audience? Come out to Title 9 Sports Grill in Phoenix. On Her Mark will be tabling throughout the Final Four!

Go big or go home! For the first time, the women's bracket can be seen from space! Kidding. But it is huge!

Come by on Friday, April 3 to Title 9 Sports Grill! On Her Mark will be vending select items!

Title 9 Sports Grill Games This week Parties of 7 or more Please email us Our brand vision & Mission At Title 9 Sports Grill, we aspire to inspire a cultural shift that celebrates and enhances the presence of women in sports, both within the Phoenix community and beyond. We hope to foster greater awareness and appreciat...

Great story behind the WNBA player contract.

When women basketball players in the WNBA union came to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract, they had a powerful ally: the Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin.

Goldin, 79, is a Harvard economist who has spent decades studying women’s labor-market participation and outcomes. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize in economics for her groundbreaking research, making her the first woman to win the economics prize solo.

And like most Nobel winners, Goldin was inundated with media requests and people asking for her expertise. She accepted only three, according to the Wall Street Journal. Advising the WNBA union was one of them — and Goldin insisted on doing it for free.

The new contract includes a nearly 400-percent pay raise for players, which Goldin said is not only historic for the league but also believed to be the single largest pay increase a union has negotiated.

“It’s astounding,” she told the Journal.

Women’s professional basketball has exploded in popularity in recent years, but players have long said their salaries, benefits and working conditions haven’t kept pace.

After months of high-stakes negotiations, the new WNBA union contract includes increases to base pay and bonuses, a major TV rights deal and more protections and resources for parents and pregnant players.

Terri Carmichael Jackson, the executive director of the WNBA union, said Goldin’s laser focus on the numbers and the data helped keep union members motivated through the negotiations.

“Each time we were just fighting and resisting and so upset with the league’s response or lack of response, and she’d say, ‘It’s just math,’” she told the Journal.

✍️: Grace Panetta, reporter
📸: Clément Morin/Nobel Prize Outreach

Here's one of the items that will be available March 27-29. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DBLxQyrRT/

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We are so excited to be part of the Tucson Sculpture Festival! This is a free event featuring sculptors from around the world. Come out and see us! Sculpture meets women's sports!

SCULPTURE FESTIVAL | Sculpture Tucson Sculpture Tucson's Annual Sculpture Festival Show & Sale is the largest outdoor juried sculpture festival in Arizona, featuring a wide variety of sculptures in different media. The event attracts over 5,000 attendees over three days. Held at Brandi Fenton Memorial Park in Tucson, Arizona, the 2026 F...

We're getting ready for Sunday Off Central! Hope to see you there!

Very sad to hear of Kara’s passing.

Ex-Phoenix Mercury forward died in a car accident More details have been shared about Ex-Mercury player Kara Braxton's death on Feb. 21.

So excited for the women's U.S. ice hockey team. A world class performance on both sides. This game was great for women's hockey. /

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We have lost a great historian. Ann Hall was an author of many books that focused on women's sports histories in Canada. From the North American Society of Sports Historian's notice...

"It is with great sorrow that NASSH has learned of the sudden December 2nd death of Ann Hall, a giant in the field of sport sociology/history. An inspiration to a legion of senior and junior socio-cultural scholars of sport, the loss of her presence among us will be keenly felt. Our discipline has been greatly privileged by her dedication to sport in general throughout her life, especially the cause of women in what history tells us was largely a patriarchal world. Ann was born in Toronto on 9 March 1942. A devotee of sport participation in her teenage years, she envisioned a career in teaching physical education, a quest that led her to enroll at Queen’s University in Kingston, from which she graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Physical Education. A brief stint of high school teaching followed, commensurate with an era in which singular attention began to rise in academic circles for attention to the scientific examination of sport philosophy, sociology, and history. Inspired by these phenomena, Ann sought a Master’s Degree at the University of Alberta, at the time, a pioneer institution in the study of sport in a sociocultural context. Ann obtained that Master’s Degree in 1968. Pursuing further education, she was accepted into the PhD program at Great Britain’s distinguished University of Birmingham, graduating in 1974.

Coincident with the conferring of her doctoral degree, Ann accepted a faculty position at the University of Alberta, commencing an active university teaching/research career of 23 years until her retirement in 1997. Her focus was on the sociological dimensions of sport, particularly on the subject of gender relations. Author of 9 books, 25 book chapters, 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 23 reviews of scholarly books on sport history/sociology themes, and a massive record of conference papers delivered nationally and internationally during a professional career of some 57 years, most of it as a faculty member and professor emerita at the University of Alberta, her impact on the examination of women in sport ranks her in the “front row-centre” of her discipline’s most notable scholar figures. In her 28 years of retirement Ann continued a dedication towards research and publication, resulting in one of her best-known works: The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada (2002).

Ann is survived by Jane Hazlett, her longtime dressage pal and cherished life partner of 42 years standing. An occasional attendee at NASSH conferences, Ann Hall was an esteemed inspiration to many a NASSH member, young and old, a lady who appreciated and studied sport history, as much of her work demonstrates. We will not forget her; honor to her name and to our memory of her."

Ann became my mentor in the writing of a book I've been working on. She provided gentle guidance in giving me feedback and sharing her sage wisdom about research, writing and publishing. She was a kind spirit and always giving of her time. She will be greatly missed.

https://mannhall.com

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