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USA Women's Basketball Wins 7th Straight Gold Medal

Sue Bird Ends Team USA Career
With 5th Straight Gold

Aug 8, 2021 5:45 AM CDT

Sue Bird Ends Team USA Career With 5th Straight Gold

Team beat Japan 90-75 to cap basketball legend's 17-year Olympic career

(Newser) - US women have won their seventh straight gold medal in basketball , beating Japan 90-75 to cap Sue Bird's 17-year Olympic career. Per the AP , Bird and Diana Taurasi walked off the basketball court together, arm-in-arm, one last time at the Tokyo Games. They started their journey together five Olympics...

Megan Rapinoe Puts Ring
on Sue Bird's Finger

Oct 31, 2020 6:00 AM CDT

Megan Rapinoe Puts Ring on Sue Bird's Finger

Soccer and basketball stars are engaged

(Newser) - It's been a gloomy year, but a sports power couple just brought a little light to it. Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe and WNBA player Sue Bird are engaged, as revealed in a photo on Bird's Instagram , reports People . The Friday pic, which was posted captionless, shows the 40-year-old...

What It's Like When the President Disses Your Girlfriend

Megan Rapinoe's
Girlfriend Has
Some Things
to Say

OPINION

Jul 2, 2019 10:15 AM CDT

Megan Rapinoe's Girlfriend Has Some Things to Say

WNBA's Sue Bird defends Rapinoe and sings her praises amid feud with Trump

(Newser) - Megan Rapinoe isn't just leading the US women's soccer team to victories in the World Cup, she also happens to be publicly sparring with the president of the United States. Now, in a wildly entertaining op-ed in the Players' Tribune , Rapinoe's partner, WNBA player Sue Bird, weighs...

Russian Investing in
... WNBA Stars?

Mar 26, 2008 12:45 PM CDT

Russian Investing in ... WNBA Stars?

'Crazy people to do some crazy things,' billionaire says of his lavish hoop jones

(Newser) - Basketball-crazy Russian billionaire Shabtai von Kalmanovic is pouring money into women's hoops—flying WNBA players to Russia in the off-season and paying them 10 times what they make in the US. Players like Diana Taurasi are put up in luxury digs and chauffeured around. "They should be treated like...

Group of Seattle Women Buy WNBA's Storm

Jan 9, 2008 10:29 AM CST

Group of Seattle Women Buy WNBA's Storm

Former deputy mayor, Microsoft execs pay $10 million for franchise

(Newser) - Though the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics could be on the way to Oklahoma City, the WNBA's Storm appears set to remain in the Emerald City thanks to a deal by four local women to buy the women's basketball franchise. The foursome, which includes a pair of Microsoft executives, will pay Sonics...