
Emma Baccellieri
Staff Writer at Sports Illustrated
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1 week ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
The Athletes Unlimited Softball League will begin play in June with something that none of its predecessor leagues ever had. It will have the financial support of MLB. The professional softball landscape has historically been fragmented and shaky. But as the sport has grown on the youth and college levels over the last few years—against the backdrop of a larger swell in women’s sports—MLB became increasingly interested in growing its involvement here.
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2 weeks ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
The International Federation of American Football quickly found a problem when it tried getting its sport into the Olympics about a decade ago. Forget any other reasons you might be skeptical about football catching on in the Games. Just look at the math: The participation field for each Summer Olympics is capped at 10,500 athletes, which means that without serious changes to the rest of the program, there would be no way to introduce traditional football and its 50-plus-man rosters.
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2 weeks ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
It can be hard to decide whether Natasha Howard’s journey to Indianapolis is better described as a 360 or a 180. On the one hand, she finally returned this winter to the Fever, the franchise where she began her professional career, reuniting with a familiar coach and with the executive who originally drafted her. But on the other, none of those entities are the same as they were the first time around. And neither is Howard. “It feels good to be back,” she says.
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3 weeks ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
Hace tres años, Kelsey Mitchell sintió que el Indiana Fever jugaba todos los partidos en gira. Su calendario tenía muchos partidos en casa. Pero ese concepto no significó mucho para ellos en 2022. La franquicia estuvo cinco temporadas en una sequía de playoffs, un tramo en el que nunca había coqueteado con un récord ganador. Las renovaciones de la arena significaron que el Fever pasó ese verano rebotando en diferentes lugares.
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3 weeks ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
Three years ago, Kelsey Mitchell felt like the Fever played every game on the road. Their schedule had plenty of games at home. But that concept did not mean very much to them in 2022. The franchise was five seasons into a playoff drought, a stretch in which it had never so much as flirted with a winning record. Arena renovations meant the Fever spent that summer bouncing across different venues.
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