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It has been more than three days since Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini posted a video targeting NWHL fans, reporters, and staff members who expressed that they did not want Barstool or Nardini to be involved with the NWHL. And it has been two days
Sports organizations have continued to announce schedules and hype their upcoming games and seasons on social media as if these are normal times – but of course they aren't, and every organized sporting event is burdened now by very serious public health questions as they attempt
2020 will probably long be remembered as a year of reckoning in North American professional sports, but it will leave behind a question of what that reckoning was actually about, or if anything came of it. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the true cost of
Sports leagues in the United States are continuing to resume operations despite the fact that it is clearly unsafe, but this is just one small locus of the horror that is being wrought across our society by libertarian capitalism. This is not a conspiracy theory,
The Victory Press spoke to several former NWHL players about the working conditions they experienced during their time in the league. Their combined experiences paint a picture of a league that struggled to meet its workers' basic needs.
The PWHPA is playing hockey this season. Good hockey, even. But the gameplay itself and the postgame scrums make it very clear that these are not just regular hockey games. Each game is competitive, full of skill and physicality, but obviously there is some tension