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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Connecticut Sun's final game is tonight. Connecticut and its fans bought into the WNBA at its low point, turning a profit when the NBA's owners saw the league as a moneypit, only to lose their team now that everyone sees big bucks in women's sports. Some thoughts on the setting of the Sun:

Surprisingly, moving the team to Connecticut worked. In 2010, the Sun became the first WNBA team to turn a profit — during a global recession, and during the league’s nadir of popularity. The casino in the middle of nowhere became a fortress. The Sun has won 64.5 percent of its home games. It developed a real fanbase and made four WNBA Finals.

The Connecticut Sun is not the first WNBA team to die. (Enjoy this haunting image of the mascots for the Sacramento Monarchs, Utah Starzz, Detroit Shock, and yes, the Houston Comets, hanging out, smiling, not realizing that death will soon come for them.)

But it’s the first WNBA team to die for this reason: Not because nobody cared, not because it couldn’t make money, not because it couldn’t find fans or win games, not because the league is shrinking … but actually because the league is growing. The Sun helped the WNBA survive, but the period of mere survival is over. The league is moving on to bigger markets and bigger money and leaving Connecticut behind.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

me, on a bicycle, trying to navigate montreal during the cycling championships 🤡

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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People need to stop listening to Carney's words and look at his actions instead. That's your proof of who he is. The man can spin a good speech, he's a master of rhetoric, but words are cheap. Everything he's doing is straight out of the Conservative playbook despite the way he sugar-coats it.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026

Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every time the Oilers do anything I am convinced that if someone were writing this plot for a fictional evil sports team, they'd have been told to rein in the cartoon villainry to keep it believable. And yet!

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

finding it hard to muster shock and concern about the layers of Mark Walter's web of fraud and corruption given my default stance that billionaires are fundamentally fraudulent and corrupt

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this was both confusing and disturbing until I realised it's not about *that* Dolly

A screenshot of a notification that reads "Breaking News: Dolly's remnants track toward Puerto Rico"

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

new Great Lakes mnemonic is SHAME

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

we are PROTECTING WOMEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS by having MEN show up to WOMEN'S SPORTS to YELL at the WOMEN PLAYING SPORTS

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

...have the people behind this ever seen a hare? what is with the floppy ears 😭

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I got IDed today and the person checking physically recoiled upon seeing my birth year 🥲

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🎃 Seasonal Creep 👻 @windingdot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abbey Murphy was there too, so much for giving her the benefit of the doubt lol

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Danièle Sauvageau has been named general manager of Canada’s National Women’s Program through the 2030 Olympic Winter Games. She'll maintain her role as GM of the PWHL's Montreal Victoire this season, then transition to full time with HC afterwards.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm pretty sure a semiviral tweet that I posted while half-asleep was a key catalyst in eventually getting U18 women's hockey worlds televised

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/07/2026

Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I can't believe TSN is going to make me defend Carli Lloyd

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

a weird feature of the AI age that I've noticed in recent months is it's no longer feasible to search in another language in order to obtain results in that language? you wind up with a weird and generally unhelpful assortment of AI-translated English content

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

truly the only good thing about this england-argentina game is that one of them will eventually lose

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Baseball GIFs @baseballgifs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

England's goal was a result of the ball hitting the camera cable

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jared is lying to you, he would have three nickels! Which is even cooler, though the coolest part might be that these latest records are so much bigger than the 2016 CWHL crowd that they feel like an entirely different historical category.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Montreal holding both the PWHL and WNBA all-time regular season attendance records (despite not having a WNBA team) is a cool fun thing!

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

do you think soccer players will ever learn that no matter how cool it looks when it works, trying to go top shelf in a pressure cooker moment is a bad idea

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

turned this game on just in time for THAT, incredible

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

all the other teams being like "so red card suspensions don't count anymore, right? ...RIGHT?" is very funny though, in the interim

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Has blown my mind how many Americans who rightly saw FIFA as a corrupt organization and Trump as such and a bully, have now gone, that if it works in their favor then it’s actually a kind of good. FIFA isn’t even saying the red card was wrong, they simply moved the suspension to satisfy the US.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

respectfully, it's fucking weird that so many of you are tripping over yourselves to justify the unjustifiable in order to feel better about cheering for a sports team

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

imagine if Canada could score off corners

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

co-hosting this tournament yet still can't evade the US propaganda

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am personally in favour of not breaking any further legs in this tournament, so

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Jesse Marsch's notebook just gonna say "whoever wins, just take them to PKs, any how, any way"

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Nitrofox is obsessed with pee @nitrofox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've never felt more represented

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

this ref has been in the way all game tbh I'm amazed this is the first time he's interfered

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Marie-Philip Poulin, who's been visibly emotional, will undergo surgery in July on her ACL & meniscus.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I half-joked when they took a timeout before their first round pick that they were calling Poulin's doctor to confirm whether they needed Nieminen before a defender, then they drafted Petra, alors bon...

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I keep meaning to cheer for Mexico at a home World Cup but getting distracted because Korea's kits are so pretty (I promise I do know soccer)

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

this game would be fun if everyone didn't (rightfully) look like they're enduring it while on the verge of a breakdown

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think sometimes it can be easy to lose sight of the way that the players, themselves, made this professional league possible. This draft class features several players who are making clear it's not forgotten.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I interviewed Ashley Messier in 2019, when she spoke about the PWHPA's advocacy for a pro league that felt so distant, she mentioned it as a dream for her own future grandchildren. Tonight, she was drafted to the Vancouver Goldeneyes of the Professional Women's Hockey League.

"As important as hockey is to me, and it definitely is my driving force for a lot of the things I do, I know that it's not going to be 'til the day I die," she acknowledges. Messier's been keeping an eye on the women's hockey landscape and would love to see a strong professional league in place by the time she graduates university. "I would really hope that it is, obviously, a reality," she says first and foremost, noting the frustrating state of affairs that post-collegiate players currently confront.

"I really hope that they push through, as they have been," she continues. "And when I get there, if it's not quite where it needs to be, I hope that I can do the same to try and make it better for the younger generations with hockey, because I think it's really important that women have a chance to compete at a high level like the men do. I know it's not reasonable to think of it as the NHL in the next five years. But I hope at some point in my lifetime, or my grandchildren's lifetime, that that is a reality, that they can play and get paid to play and make their life out of it."

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I've told everyone who would listen that Émilie Lavoie could be the steal of the draft. Great local selection for Montreal with the last pick of the night.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I profiled Neena Brick and Ashley Messier many, many years ago, and seeing players grow from teenagers to pros will never get old.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Come join us as I juggle 2847 open tabs ⌨️ We'll have instant analysis for every player as soon as they're drafted, plus quotes, trades, and whatever else may come!

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

TV networks have two hours blocked for the PWHL draft this evening, and they're only airing the first two rounds. Will be a long night... Fortunately, in a rare showing of foresight, I've baked myself a pie for sustenance.

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The PWHL's Expansion Roster Completion featured a twist: the selection of a player who, by the text of the rules, appeared ineligible. Updated with some thoughts the disparity between theory and practice, and the importance of strong policy drafting: victorypress.org/2026/06/13/p...

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PWHL Expansion Process: Phase 4 and Beyond

The 2026 PWHL Expansion Player Distribution Process is entering its final week, and the league will gradually transition into a much more standard off-season. Before that happens, Phase 4, a 27-hour w...

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

With a lot of talk about size and physicality going into tomorrow's PWHL draft, Casey O'Brien's reflections on her transition to the league are insightful

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Kirsten @kirbs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Boston has effectively bought back Ella Huber, who had been under contract with the Fleet but signed a one-year deal with Detroit yesterday during Phase 4 of the PWHL expansion process. Boston gets Huber and the 27th pick, Detroit receives picks 22 and 34.

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victorypress.bsky.social @victorypress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sorry for the long silence on this account since the end of the college season. But Nicole is going to be at the PWHL draft on Wednesday and Kirsten will be helping get everything posted So make sure you're following along for tons of coverage!

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