March 24, 2022 | ESPN.com THE BALL CLANGS off the back of the rim as the buzzer sounds, and Aliyah Boston‘s hands fly to her head in disbelief. She’s hit this shot 1,000 times — a little putback just over the front of the rim. But when she wanted to hit it most, in the last moments … Continue reading A second shot for Aliyah Boston
February 18, 2022 | ESPN.com DAWN STALEY STARTS the game against Stanford on the bench. Clad in a Burberry hoodie, the South Carolina women’s basketball coach claps and encourages the Gamecocks from her seated position, occasionally getting up to relay instructions or give a referee an earful. You know, as she does. It’s a brisk December night in Columbia, just … Continue reading The style and substance of Dawn Staley
June 24, 2021 | ESPN.com Layshia Clarendon wrapped their hand around the back of the fussy newborn looking up at them in the maternity recovery room at a Bay Area hospital. A nurse had just shown Layshia how to cradle the baby in a football hold, and Layshia rested the soft skin of the baby’s … Continue reading The Power of Layshia Clarendon
February 25, 2021 on ESPN.com The only thing Azzi Fudd can bring herself to look at is the falling snow. She can’t look at her mother, Katie, who’s sitting in the passenger seat, too distraught to drive. And she won’t look at her knee, which no longer looks like her knee anyway. Her grandmother, Karen, … Continue reading Azzi Fudd is unbreakable
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