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The apocalyptic chaos of the first women's basketball world championships

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The apocalyptic chaos of the first women's basketball world championships

#FromtheArchives: In Chile in 1953, Team USA battled rain, fire, power outages, and rock throwing on the way to their first world championship win.

Lindsay Gibbs
Sep 30, 2022
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Hi, friends! What a week. I hope that all of you are doing well, particularly those of you in Hurricane Ian’s path of destruction.

Right now, the FIBA Women’s World Cup is finishing up in Australia — the United States faces China for the gold at 2:00 a.m. ET Saturday morning and Canada faces Australia for the bronze medal at 11:00 p.m. ET on Friday nig…

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