Basketball

9/11/2024 |  WNBPA calls out Cathy Engelbert for interview answer about social media attacks on players (CBS Sports) The Women's National Basketball Players Association, through Executive Director Terri Jackson, issued a statement on Tuesday regarding an answer commissioner Cathy Engelbert gave during an interview with CNBC's "Power Lunch" earlier in the day. 

9/11/2024 |  WNBPA, players condemn commissioner Cathy Engelbert over interview about race, Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry (Yahoo Sports) The Women's National Basketball Players Association and several players across the WNBA spoke out against commissioner Cathy Engelbert after her appearance on CNBC on Tuesday.
Engelbert was asked about the “darker” and “more menacing” tone that has been taken by some fans on social media this season, especially when it comes to star rookies Caitlin Clark, who is white, and Angel Reese, who is Black. According to the players’ union and several players, her answers fell short.

9/11/2024 |  Parity works for the NFL, will it work for Adam Silver’s NBA? (Yahoo Sports) NEW YORK — NBA commissioner Adam Silver couldn’t help himself, referencing the NFL’s success — or rather the illusion — of having every team walk into a season with a chance at prosperity if things break right.
“It's not necessarily artificial parity,” Silver said Tuesday afternoon in a news conference in Manhattan following the NBA’s Board of Governors meeting, “where we keep moving the chips around, saying you want to go in every season and make sure every team has an equal chance. It is parity of opportunity in that we want each team to be in a position where, if well managed, they're in a position to compete.”

9/11/2024 |  WNBA players and union speak out against commissioner after she failed to condemn fan racism (Associated Press (AP)) WNBA players and their union spoke out against Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s recent comments on a TV show that failed to condemn racist and bitter criticism from fans toward the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry.
Engelbert made an appearance on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Monday and was asked by anchor Tyler Mathisen about what he called the “darker” tone taken by fan bases on social media that brings race and sometimes sexuality into the conversation.

9/10/2024 |  How Caitlin Clark Made Scripps Sports Look Like Geniuses (Front Office Sports) When Brian Lawlor was hired as the president of the new Scripps Sports at the end of 2022, he had a problem. His company had a widely available over-the-air network, Ion, and no sports on it. As he embarked on setting a strategy, he saw that Scripps’s problem could be a solution for some sports leagues.
“Other than the NFL, most leagues have a reach problem,” he told Front Office Sports senior writer Michael McCarthy on Tuesday. “They struggle to reach the masses.”