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Rachel Bachman

@Bachscore

Senior sports reporter, @WSJ. @SJI_Update. Olympics / Women’s World Cup / college sports.

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It’s these kinds of intimate scenes that longtime fans of women’s basketball want to preserve as the game booms. This was after the 2022 NCAA title game at Target Center in Minneapolis. Parker was there in the crowd, like any other fan.

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The Short King Era of NFL quarterbacks is here.*

*kind of.

This very cool graphic by Andrew Beaton + Rosie Ettenheim will explain everything about how the outlines of the position have changed:
wsj.com/sports/footbal…

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“They definitely underestimated us. But then we showed them that we were just as good as them.”

Fun story by Claire Moses on Queens Park Ladies, an under-12 soccer team in Bournemouth, England, that won a boys' league:
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/wor…

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If this goes ahead, it would be a rare case of a women's pro sports team getting public funding:

Dallas officials nearing a deal to move the WNBA's Wings to a city arena. Would include $19M payment, v Devyani Chhetri + Everton Bailey Jr..
dallasnews.com/news/politics/…

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Thanks to Good Morning America for interviewing me about last Friday’s WSJ Sports scoop on Caitlin Clark’s 8-year, $28 million Nike deal:
goodmorningamerica.com/culture/video/…

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Some of the world’s biggest shoe brands made a run at the Iowa superstar. Nike prevailed by offering an Olympic-sized deal. on.wsj.com/3JsFa8u on.wsj.com/3JsFa8u

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The hottest player in golf?

Easy: She’s the one who’s won five in a row.

Behold Nelly Korda’s impressive run.
v/Andrew Beaton
wsj.com/sports/nelly-k…

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Nelly Korda is poised to become the first LPGA player to win five consecutive starts since Annika Sorenstam in 2005.

She would also take home the $1.2M winner's purse, doubling her season prize money.

On Peacock now, NBC at 3 ET.

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Early last season, shoe companies made their bids for Caitlin Clark contingent on her staying a fifth year at Iowa.

“She played herself into a position where it wasn’t even contingent on staying in college. People just wanted her.”
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NEW: Meetings at NBA All-Star weekend, Zoom calls, Olympic talk.

How Nike won the race to land Caitlin Clark.
wsj.com/sports/basketb…

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NEW: Meetings at NBA All-Star weekend, Zoom calls, Olympic talk.

How Nike won the race to land Caitlin Clark.
wsj.com/sports/basketb…

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