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Mercury's Kahleah Copper (knee) out 4-6 weeksThe Phoenix Mercury will be without guard/forward Kahleah Copper for four to six weeks to start the season.,The team announced Saturday that Copper underwent an arthroscopic procedure on her left knee. The Mercury also said forward/center Natasha Mack will miss two to three weeks with a lower back i...

Jenny Cavnar becomes first woman to get full-time MLB TV play-by-play gigFor the first time in MLB history, a woman will serve as the leading play-by-play announcer for a major league team. NBC Sports California announced Tuesday that Jenny Cavnar will serve as the primary play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics. ...

Sick, Sad World of Sports: Jumbo holiday editionThe holidays are a stressful time for everyone, including criminals, athletes moonlighting as criminals, and criminals moonlighting as athletes. ...

Sick, Sad World of Sports: The grim side of athletics

Hello, and welcome back to the Sick, Sad World of Sports, a reminder that sports figures are human, and as such, are no more or less prone to fallibility than the rest of us. Everyone makes mistakes, but often fans overlook a misdemeanor or even a felony, because sports are supposed to be an escape....

World Cup Day 9: England wins and loses at the same time

Doing the bare minimum to win seems to be England’s way in this World Cup. The Three Lionesses have a pair of 1-0 wins in the tournament, including the win over Denmark early Friday morning. Already without Leah Williamson, Beth Mead, and Fran Kirby for the global showcase, Keira Walsh was taken off...

World Cup Group D Preview: Can England complete the set?

The question in all sports has been that once you break through and win, does winning again become easier? Is the mental block gone? Or does the pressure simply build even more, as triumphs go from hoped for to expected? This is only one of the few things that England will be wrestling with at the W...

WNBA, NSWL TV rights are more valuable than ever as leagues seek new deals

Hours before the WNBA’s New York Liberty were set to take the court against the Connecticut Sky at 2 p.m. on Sunday, the crowd near the players’ entrance was already entrenched. Parents and their kids, couples, and groups of friends, many decked out in shirts and shoes with that distinctive Statue s...

The Women’s World Cup is already a battle of attrition

The World Cup is always a measure of health and a team’s ability to deal with it. It comes at the end of a long season — unless you’ve fisted it into a desert, totalitarian country that makes you have it in the middle of the season — and players have logged the most possible miles before they play i...