What’s the Professional Women’s Hockey League, and how’s it different from the hockey you’ve seen before? The PWHL, founded in 2022, is the most popular professional sports league for women’s hockey. It shares a lot of its DNA with the NHL, home to the...
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The players have had enough. After enduring a season chock-full of injuries and toxic discourse, those who keep the WNBA’s engine running are mostly in agreement that they aren’t paid enough. Caitlin Clark, the league’s biggest superstar, made just $78,066...
They say that it’s better to have loved someone dearly, accepting the heartbreak of inevitably losing them, than to have never loved at all. Our close connections to each other and the world around us, no matter how much they’ll hurt in the future, make us...
The best sports fandoms have a dose of healthy superstition. If you ask a Mariners fan about the ten-game winning streak earlier in September, it’ll be explained a dozen different ways. Some will point you to the “Etsy Witch,” who was paid to cast a good luck...
“AND DRIVE, TWO, THREE! AND DRIVE, TWO, THREE!” cries out Mandy Sue, in the center of an intertangled, five-person formation. With their backs locked at 90 degrees and their arms intertwined, they’re in what’s called a “scrum.” They push their collective...
The Seattle Storm has decided to part ways with head coach Noelle Quinn, following a rocky 2025 season that saw the team struggle to stay in the playoffs despite a promising start. Insiders have reported that Quinn’s five-person coaching staff has also been...
Sue Bird, the retired point guard of the Seattle Storm and a four-time WNBA champion, has become the first-ever LGBTQIA+ athlete to be honored with a statue...
Seattle Pride is over, but celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community is a year-round affair. Reign FC will be embodying this mantra on August 1 with its upcoming Pride match against Los Angeles’s Angel City FC...
Now with a superstar to rally around, PWHL Seattle — the eighth and newest team in the Professional Women’s Hockey League — has added 11 new players to its roster, providing fans with their first glimpse into the team’s future on the ice.
“It sounds silly to say, but I think I was just literally looking at a baseball,” said Keri Zierler, the creative director of the Seattle Mariners, when asked what inspired the team’s new LGBTQ+ tradition.