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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 22h

Since the A’ja Wilson incident and Kelsey Mitchell’s exit interview, the always-tense racial discourse in the WNBA is intensifying. I want to share what the great Dr. Harry Edwards said to me in an interview for On Her Game more than two years ago:

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 23h

Kelsey Mitchell last year, in the paperback edition of On Her Game: “You bring in Caitlin who changed the world, changed the dynamic of basketball. As a friend, as a player, you better appreciate her because certain doors have opened because she’s come to the Fever.”

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No matter how critical I’ve been of Cathy Engelbert’s repeated & erroneous attempts to favorably compare Angel Reese to Caitlin Clark’s drawing power, this is a surprise: Curtains up because only 9,745 came to NY-ATL playoff. But two Clark regular-season games? 17,044 both times.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Muhammad Ali, Janet Evans and one of the most magical moments in Olympic history — taking over the Sports Section in the USA Today weekend print edition. @usatodaysports

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is big news for the WNBA. I can confirm that the NBA has hired the executive search arm of Caitlin Clark’s agency to find the next WNBA commissioner. Perhaps the ridiculous minimization of Clark’s impact, led by Cathy Engelbert, is coming to an end.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There’s joy among anti-CC WNBA fans but no joy among TV execs and sponsors. Sad reality hits the W with Fever now out: based on three seasons of viewership data, when Caitlin Clark leaves, half of W’s TV audience leaves as well. Maybe this month is different? From my book, On Her Game:

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ridiculous blunder … great for women’s sports.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As LA28 announces a 50-state torch relay, I revisit one of the most breathtaking and surprising moments in Olympic history — Muhammad Ali lighting the cauldron in Atlanta in 1996 — with Janet Evans and Lonnie Ali. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Muhammad Ali was the Olympics' best-kept secret. 30 years later, the women who knew remember the gasp

Olympic swimming legend Janet Evans and Muhammad Ali’s widow, Lonnie Ali, reunite and remember that Olympic moment as if it happened only a few hours ago.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The impact of Caitlin Clark in our culture…

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

O’Hare this morning: the Chicago skyline at sunrise and @barbarasbookstore.bsky.social ready for the WNBA playoffs.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A beautiful day in DC; a terrible tragedy remembered — the midair collision at DCA January 2025. Scenes from a press conference today highlighting the airline safety work of the families of Flight 5342, which included 28 members of the U.S. figure skating community.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Remembering Jeremy Glick, one of the heroes of United 93:

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While there is another transgender controversy, this time at a women’s sports bar, The Sports Bra, in Portland, every player at the FIBA Women’s World Cup is playing under an “only biological females” policy, and no one is complaining. My column. (No paywall.) www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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WNBA's transgender-athlete battle goes silent at FIBA World Cup | Opinion

The greatest women’s basketball players in the world are in Berlin for the FIBA Women’s World Cup, an event played under policies that do not allow transgender women, columnist Christine Brennan write...

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

About that game last night…🏈⏰

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alysa Liu is such an interesting athlete.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m pleased to announce Scribner has gone back to press for a fourth printing of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports, my NYT bestseller. Bookstores and online sellers will have plenty of copies as you follow Clark and the WNBA. Thanks for the support!

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Something to consider in the WNBA transgender controversy: the IOC, USOPC, FIBA and USA Basketball all now have policies not allowing transgender women to play. Twelve great WNBA players will go to the World Cup next month and play under those rules. I’ve asked the players’ union for comment.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Breaking: There’s no snub this time. Caitlin Clark has been named to the US FIBA Women’s World Cup team. Five players on the 2024 US Olympic team are not on this team: Brittney Griner, Sabrina Ionescu, Jewell Loyd, Alyssa Thomas and Diana Taurasi, who is retired.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

When you give your latest book to your classmates at your high school reunion and an impromptu signing breaks out.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Childhood sports heroes! www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Honored to be a part of this CNN series…

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Threw out the first pitch with George Solomon, celebrating the good old days in the Washington Post sports department. @GoBigTrain @sportsgeorge

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our NPR conversation this morning on the USMNT, FIFA, Trump and Balogun: www.npr.org/2026/07/07/n...

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Slippery slope…can of worms…this controversy has it all. A portion of our CNN Situation Room conversation today:

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve covered a lot of controversies in the international sports world over the years. So far, there are more questions than answers in this one.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A little bit of everything at the Lincoln Memorial, 7/3/26.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Turn right out of the CNN garage, drive a couple of blocks and this is the view.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Saw the terrific “Suffs” the other day at National Theatre here in DC. What’s especially great is that the theater is located right next to Pennsylvania Avenue — the same street the suffragists marched down on March 3, 1913. That moment is featured in the musical of course.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A fist to the throat. A suspension that is way too lenient. My USA Today column on what Alyssa Thomas and other WNBA players have done to Caitlin Clark, the most famous, marketable and important women’s pro team sport athlete in history. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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Caitlin Clark made the WNBA bigger. It’s still playing small | Opinion

The league’s paltry one-game suspension of Alyssa Thomas after her fist to Caitlin Clark's throat barely begins to address the problem.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today is the 54th anniversary of the law that changed the playing fields of America — and America itself. To think for generations we were telling 50% of our nation it couldn’t learn about teamwork, leadership, sportsmanship and winning/losing at a young age? Thanks, Title IX!

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“On Her Game” is in very good company at the Indianapolis Airport. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’ve driven by the German Embassy dozens of times. Today I went in. I was honored to moderate a conversation on soccer, women’s sports and the upcoming men’s World Cup. Thanks, Women’s Foreign Policy Group.

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A couple of Northwestern classmates at the Women’s Lacrosse Final Four in Evanston. @medillschool.bsky.social

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Christine Brennan @cbrennansports.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thank you, Billie Jean King, for your leadership, mentorship and friendship for so many years. (And for beating Bobby Riggs, of course!) You haven’t just changed women’s sports, you’ve changed America. And thanks for your great perspective in On Her Game.

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