#FromtheArchives: All the game changers who've come before

As we celebrate new women's basketball stars, let's not get carried away with superlatives.

Hi, friends.

So, a few weeks ago I published a piece that looked back at the history of women’s basketball (and women’s sports in general):

It's not capitalism holding women's sports back. It's male fragility.

That piece took months of research and sent me down many, many rabbit holes in the newspaper archives. In the piece, I focus on all of the success women’s basketball has had in the past, in terms of ratings and atten…