Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
SOCASTEE, S.C. (WBTW) -- Dawn Staley and South Carolina completed their perfect season, ending Caitlin Clark’s historic college career with an 87-75 win over Iowa in the NCAA championship game Sunday. With Staley directing a relentless attack from the sideline, the Gamecocks (38-0) became the 10th Division I team to go through a season without []
/PRNewswire/ -- Higher credit costs are expected to serve as a modest headwind to U.S. bank earnings this year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence's
Blockchain firm Ripple said it’s launching a U.S. dollar stablecoin, marking an entry into the $150 billion stablecoin market.
Lawmakers, Congressional aids and reporters stepped outside the U.S. Capitol to catch a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse Monday. Many applauded as the moon moved into position in front of the sun. Specialized eclipse glasses lined the faces of onlookers across the Capitol. Despite Congress being on recess for the last two weeks, their work, apparently, could wait a little longer
With an announced attendance of 50,644, Atlanta set a new record for tickets sold and distributed for a U.S. women’s soccer friendly match in Saturday’s SheBelieves Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Critics slammed the women's speed suit as sexist and needlessly revealing, while others pointed out that athletes can choose from a number of different uniforms, including shorts.
Brooke Henderson has started the LPGA Tour season on a wave, one she hopes
The first episode of Friday Night SmackDown following WrestleMania 40 saw WWE go about finding top contenders to both its top singles titles. On the women’s side, Bayley, who defeated Iyo Sky at the “Showcase of the Immortals” to become the new women’s champion, was ready to hand Naomi a shot at the title when Tiffany Stratton got in the way. So a match was hastily put together between the two, with the winner promised the first shot at Bayley. And the end result was the same as what Bayley had...
By David Goldman, CNN New York (CNN) — For the first time in its 42-year history, more people watched the women’s NCAA basketball final than the men’s. The total number of viewers for Sunday’s women’s national championship game between South Carolina and Iowa was 18.9 million, peaking at 24.1 million in the game’s final 15
When it comes to NCAA ratings for 2024, it's a whole new game. Sunday's 2024 NCAA women's championship between Iowa and South Carolina, a 3 p.m. ET tipoff airing on ABC and ESPN, scored an average of 18.9 million viewers, blowing by the men's championship game on Monday, which had 14.8 million (live+same-day) across TBS, TNT and TruTV, according to Nielsen. This is the first time the women's championship beat the men's in ratings, and advertisers who got in early are scoring big. "This...
By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Basketball and bobsledding may not appear to have much in common, but they do in Alabama—for Bessemer’s Jace Johnson. Johnson made a smooth-as-ice transition from the hardwood floor to the frozen track, landing a spot on the U.S. World Cup Bobsled Team. Shifting from basketball to bobsledding was […]