On the hope and renewed community the Lynx, in their title push, offer Minnesotans after a brutal winter.

Jalen Duren’s weight clause and ongoing contract negotiations, and how everyone, even superstar athletes, wants to feel seen.

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

Ashtyn Butuso lost her best friend and support system but a year later, the loss has made her lean harder into big, sometimes frivolous feelings. Joni forever.

Ashtyn Butuso lost her best friend and support system but a year later, the loss has made her lean harder into big, sometimes frivolous feelings. Joni forever.

Arch Manning laughs about assault, Steve Sarkisian walks off on Holly Rowe, and the expectations on women to rise above it all.

On the hope and renewed community the Lynx, in their title push, offer Minnesotans after a brutal winter.

Reconciling life with basketball. Ft. long-form essays examining the sport's off-court intersections, guest writers, and a podcast. Click to read BASKETBALL FEELINGS, by Katie Heindl, a Substack publi...

On the hope and renewed community the Lynx, in their title push, offer Minnesotans after a brutal winter.

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Katie Heindl is an award-winning writer and credentialed member of NBA/WNBA media whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, SLAM, Rolling Stone, The Athletic, The Ringer, The Toron...

Dolly Parton, Yayoi Kusama, the way both artists fought through their work, and the cudgel of desperate power — as with Enes Kanter and his ilk vs. the WNBA.

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The slippery-by-design rhetoric of Sophie Cunningham and the anti-trans interlopers leeching to the WNBA.

Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler

The slippery-by-design rhetoric of Sophie Cunningham and the anti-trans interlopers leeching to the WNBA.