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Tennessee’s 16-game conference schedule will feature home games against Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma and South Carolina. The Southeastern Conference has announced all of Tennessee Women’s Basketball’s conference matchups for the 2024-2025 season. Tennessee will play a 16-game league slate, including one home-and-away against an opponent that rotates each year. This year, the Lady Vols will play a home-and-away against LSU.
Angel Reese is not playing in the Olympics for Team USA, but she’s travelled to Paris anyway – without her luggage. Is Angel Reese going to the Olympics? Star rookie lands in Paris where Team USA is gunning for gold… but reveals airline lost her bags
Chicago Sky forward (and former LSU women’s basketball star) Angel Reese is joining a new women’s professional league. Unrivaled Basketball, which was co-founded by WNBA players Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx and Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty, is a 3-on-3 basketball league made up of 30 professional players. Reese is the 10th and most recent addition to the league, as announced in a joint Instagram post by Reese and Unrivaled on Wednesday. “THE BARBIE IS UNRIVALED,” reads the post, referencing Reese’s nickname. (She was nicknamed “Bayou Barbie” at LSU.) The post also included a drawing of Reese…
South Carolina gave fans an unforgettable ending against Tennessee in the semifinals of the SEC tournament on Saturday. It looked like the No. 1 Gamecocks were headed for their first loss of the season until 6-foot-7 center Kamilla Cardoso banked in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer for a thrilling 74-73 win. The kicker: It was the first made 3 of her career. The SEC Defensive Player of the Year hadn’t even attempted a shot from beyond arc since the 2020-21 season, when she played for Syracuse. Saturday marked the senior’s 114th appearance since then. That’s why the No. 5 Tennessee Vols…
Santiago Espinal extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a two-run homer in the second inning, and the Cincinnati Reds managed to win 6-3 against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. This victory helped the Reds in their series against the Cubs, both of whom are trying to stay in the playoff race. TJ Friedl drove in two runs with a hit in the first inning, Tyler Stephenson also added an RBI during a three-run second inning, and Spencer Steer contributed with a double in the eighth to drive in another run. Tony Santillan took the mound for the…
Speculation as to whether the Chicago Cubs will be big-time buyers or big-time sellers at this season’s MLB trade deadline will have to go on at least another day after Saturday’s move to acquire Nate Pearson to add a power arm to the Cubs arsenal. Pearson is brought in from the Toronto Blue Jays, who like the Cubs, find themselves under .500 in years they should be competing, but unlike them do not have a strong farm system. In the deal the Toronto Blue Jays acquired OF Yohendrick Pinango and IF Josh Rivera. Both players were with the Cubs AA…
In a move that surprised fans and baseball analysts alike, the New York Yankees reached an agreement with the Chicago Cubs to acquire reliever Mark Leiter Jr. This trade, reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, involves two promising prospects, Ben Cowles and Jack Neely, and has Yankee fans excited about the impact Leiter can have on their team’s bullpen. Mark Leiter Jr., 33, was a key player for the Chicago Cubs during the 2024 season, posting a 2-4 record and a 4.21 ERA in 39 appearances. While his earned run average may not appear impressive at first glance, more advanced metrics…
Kamilla Cardoso is no stranger to playing big roles on high-level teams. Cardoso was instrumental in helping the South Carolina women’s basketball team go undefeated and win a national championship during the 2023-24 season. Cardoso now finds herself deep against elite WNBA competition as a Chicago Sky rookie. Yet, head coach Teresa Weatherspoon noted Cardoso’s impact with a crucial description. When Weatherspoon was asked what she had seen from Cardoso after the first half of the WNBA season, the head coach gave this one-word response: “Presence,” Weatherspoon said after the Sky’s 93-85 July 16 win over the Las Vegas Aces.…
WNBA All-Star Angel Reese will be keeping busy during the off season by playing in the Unrivaled three-on-three women’s basketball league. WNBA pros Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart co-founded the league. Reese announced her participation officially on Instagram with a post dubbed “305 Barbie,” as the tip-off will occur in Miami in January 2025. The league has promised “historic contract opportunities, offering the highest average salary in women’s professional sports history.” With the support of other women’s sports leaders like soccer greats Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, Stewart says the new league will prioritize the needs of their stars. “For…
Dawn Staley — coach of NCAA women’s basketball champion South Carolina and a Team USA’s Olympic selection committee member — said rookie WNBA star Caitlin Clark would be in “high consideration” for the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team if the roster was selected “all over again.” Clark’s exclusion from the Olympic rosterwas widely considered one of the biggest snubs in USA basketball history. NBC host Mike Tirico prompted Staley on the topic earlier this week, asking her to “give me your read on that now that there’s been some time.” Staley replied, “As a committee member, you’re charged with putting…