Signings, trades, injuries and results across the league.
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Friday, September 4, 2026, that she will step down at year-end after seven years leading the league. Her tenure saw two major labor nego
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Victory+, the sports streamer backed by the Dallas Stars with rights to NHL, MLB, NWSL, WNBA, and high school football, ceased operations after its parent company dissolved it, cit
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TMRW Sports' women's TGL has secured a multiyear media rights deal with ESPN/ABC and ION to broadcast 15 match days beginning November 8, 2026. The 15 match days are expected to sp
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The Chicago Sky have ended Skylar Diggins' season due to a right knee injury after she appeared in just 19 games in her first year with the franchise. Diggins, signed as a marquee
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Caitlin Clark is on the injury report as probable for Indiana's Friday game against Connecticut while managing a persistent back problem. The Fever face a weeks-long break after th
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Forbes WNBA contributor Roberta F. Rodrigues announced a temporary break from women's basketball coverage on August 27, citing harassment and a hostile environment. She previously
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Las Vegas Aces forward NaLyssa Smith will miss the remainder of the regular season after suffering a non-contact leg injury in the third quarter of Sunday's 88-78 win over Toronto
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DeWanna Bonner, a 17-year WNBA veteran and 39-year-old free agent, signed with the Atlanta Dream following a buyout from the Phoenix Mercury. She joins Angel Reese for the playoff
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The women's 3-on-3 basketball league Unrivaled secured more than $100 million in Series C funding, doubling its valuation in one year to $650 million. Players retain a 30% ownershi
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Chicago Sky-Indiana Fever game on NBC and Peacock drew 3.31 million viewers, highest regular-season audience for the league since opening weekend 1997. Incident involving fan Enes
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Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter banned Enes Kanter Freedom indefinitely from Wintrust Arena following the former NBA player's ejection during Sunday's game against the Fever, per Y
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Play was stopped during Chicago Sky versus Golden State Valkyries on Friday and Atlanta Dream versus Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday when objects were thrown from the stands. A male
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Marc Stad acquired controlling ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx in a transaction valuing both franchises at $4.5 billion, making it the fourth-largest NBA
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A jury in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama found The New York Times liable for defamation and false light invasion of privacy over a March 2023 article that
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Matt Calkins, a sports columnist at The Seattle Times for 11 years, announced his resignation Thursday after the paper declined to publish his column supporting Sophie Cunningham's
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Los Angeles Sparks star Nneka Ogwumike announced her retirement from the WNBA effective at the end of the 2026 season. An 11-time All-Star, one-time MVP, and decade-long union pres
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An overtime game between the Indiana Fever and Atlanta Dream on ESPN drew 2.6 million average viewers and peaked at 4 million, the most-watched WNBA game on cable in history. Caitl
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DiJonai Carrington responded to criticism of her social media post following her ejection from a Sky-Fever game, stating she never claimed the foul assessment itself was based on w
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham's statements opposing transgender women in sports have triggered national political attention and exposed ambiguity in the WNBA's eligibility
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said Wednesday she wants to move past the national controversy stemming from her July comments on transgender athletes in women's sports. Cunn
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The Dallas Wings announced they will play all home games at the American Airlines Center, the 20,000-seat downtown arena shared with the NBA Mavericks, for the 2027 season while co
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Olivia Miles scored 28 points in the Minnesota Lynx's 108-100 victory over the Indiana Fever but drew her third technical foul of the season, triggering a WNBA fine. The disciplina
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The Los Angeles Sparks traded five-time All-Star guard Kelsey Plum to the Phoenix Mercury on August 2, sending her to a team 13 games out of playoff position in exchange for Moniqu
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Victory+ board removed CEO Neil Gruninger and replaced him with Jon Spencer of TriWest Capital Partners after the streaming platform lost three major sports rights deals (Texas Ran
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The Toronto Tempo traded for Connecticut Sun forward Aneesah Morrow, sending back the rights to Maria Kliundikova and a 2028 second-round pick. Morrow, a 6-foot-1 former LSU stando
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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Saturday at the All-Star Game in Chicago that the league will launch a centralized replay center in 2027 using the NBA's Secaucus, New J
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert declined to directly answer whether she will remain commissioner into 2027, instead pivoting to statements about business growth. ESPN's reporting
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Jonquel Jones became the first WNBA player to simultaneously hold All-Star MVP, regular-season MVP, Finals MVP, and Commissioner's Cup MVP titles. The All-Star Game coincided with
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Five-time All-Star Napheesa Collier made her season debut Wednesday against Seattle after undergoing surgeries on both ankles in the offseason. Coach Cheryl Reeves placed her on a