Rachel Bachman
Senior Sports Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Senior sports reporter, @WSJ. @SJI_Update alum.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Rachel Bachman
It had been nine years since the program with more titles than any other had lifted the national championship trophy, the longest dry spell since Geno Auriemma took over as coach in 1985. For other schools, nine seasons without a title would count as a minor inconvenience. For UConn, it counts as a full-blown crisis. Making matters worse, the Huskies were forced to watch another program take their place at the top of the sport.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Rachel Bachman
But as UCLA center Lauren Betts has discovered, it also comes with a specific problem: There’s almost no one who can match up with you in training. Back when Betts was a teenager, she settled on a solution. In addition to working out with the best women players she could find, she honed her game by practicing against a small and exclusive group of people who think a 6-foot-7 basketball player is nothing out of the ordinary. She trained with NBA players.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Rachel Bachman |Katie Deighton
With a one-minute introductory video, an upstart outfit in the National Women’s Soccer League was about to unveil the name that would sit alongside the Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins and Celtics as Boston’s newest home team. Around 9 a.m., a social-media manager named Siobhan Richards hit the button. The clip went live. Then all hell broke loose. One of the most disastrous brand launches in modern sports had begun. The video, titled “Too Many Balls,” featured a cameo by NFL great Tom Brady.
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4 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Rachel Bachman |Katie Deighton
When Boston’s new women’s soccer team unveiled its name, it sparked a ferocious backlash. Inside its effort to recover and relaunch. Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 01:04This article is in your queue. Boston The morning of Oct. 15 was supposed to be a banner day for Boston sports, the culmination of a year’s work to add a new pro team to the city’s illustrious roster.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Rachel Bachman
March 15, 2025 8:00 am ETIt might be the most precarious race in sports. To win the 60-meter hurdles, a runner has to start strong, clear five barriers taller than a kitchen counter and then outsprint everyone else—all in less than eight seconds. It’s the sort of unforgiving endeavor where even the smallest mistake or tiniest hesitation can prove fatal. Unless you’re Grant Holloway. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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This is exactly what @paulsen_smw said would happen: Viewership dropped in the post-Caitlin Clark era, but it's way higher than the year before she was in the final--despite a rout Sunday: 2022 UConn-South Carolina: 4.85M 2025 UConn-South Carolina: 8.5M
Despite a UConn rout, Sunday's NCAA women's basketball national championship averaged more than eight million viewers -- down big from last year's record-high, but trailing only the past two years as the most-watched in the Nielsen people-meter era: https://t.co/r1h3NUoIWM
