Today in sports history: July 17 – Independent Record

A USA Today writer posted an op-ed on Thursday stating that “the Black players who built women’s hoops…haven’t been acknowledged,” and “it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.” In the piece, with a headline, “Women’s basketball needs faces of future to be Black,” Lindsay Schnell, an enterprise […]

Gabby Thomas helped get the U.S. back into the gold medal lead over China at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. She stunned in the women’s 200-meter final, finishing first with a 21.83, defeating St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred and U.S. teammate Brittany Brown.  After crossing the finish line and realizing she had won her first ever […]