During September’s U.S. Open tennis tournament, ESPN cut away from a marquee match between two-time champion Naomi Osaka and the 2023 title-holder Coco Gauff to air an ad for other sports coverage on ...

From billion-dollar team owners to top investors and media power players, these 25 women are reshaping the global sports economy and changing who controls the game. his year, women’s sports reached an ...

On October 22, Forbes named the top 25 most powerful women in sports. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Caitlin Clark cracked the list. Clark, the No. 1 pick from the 2024 WNBA Draft, has been the ...

Forbes magazine recently unveiled its 2025 "America's Most Powerful Women in Sports" list, and former Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark was one of the 25 owners, executives and athletes to ...

Maybe it will be Coco Gauff, the last American woman to win a Grand Slam title. That was in June, when she won the French Open. But Gauff has been shaky all summer, so shaky that she’s hired a ...

Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Scott Eklund / Getty, Found Image Holdings / Getty, Kelley Cox / Getty What makes a great women’s sports city? The easy, oft-cited answer comes down to a ...

An unexpected side effect followed for the next nearly five decades. As Indiana Sports Corp. hired women for top roles, ...

Laura Youngson didn’t expect to focus so much on soccer cleats when she organized a group of women to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and play a high-altitude match. Here’s why everyone’s talking about a ...

Sport is part of life for South African women. Whether it’s netball games on a dusty court or shouting for Banyana Banyana with family around the TV, the passion runs deep. Some sports already draw ...