BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Brittney Griner left an indelible mark on women's college basketball. Now she's ready to take on the pros. The ...

NEW ORLEANS — Breanna Stewart had all the answers to help UConn finally vanquish Notre Dame. The stellar freshman scored a career-high 29 point...

NEW ORLEANS -- Connecticut beat Louisville comfortably back in January and didn't even have star Breanna Stewart on the floor at the time. That doesn...

When that buzzer sounded the other day, I knew a moment had passed. As important as basketball is for me, it no longer has the same hold on my daughter.

NEWARK, Del. -- Elena Delle Donne scored 33 points in her final home game, and Delaware rallied past foul-plagued North Carolina 78-69 on Tuesday nigh...

NetScouts Basketball has issued our Women's All-American teams for the 2012-13 season. They are as follows.

During last weekend's Big East Women's Basketball Championship held at the XL Center in Hartford, visitors got an additional bonus: a viewing of materials related to the All American Red Heads(1936-1986), the female equivalent of the all-male Harlem Globetrotters.

WACO, Texas — Brittney Griner finally gave Baylor fans what they have been waiting so long to see again at home: a slam dunk. Along with anothe...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- C. Vivian Stringer fought back tears as her Rutgers women's basketball players celebrated their coach's entrance to the exclusive ...

When I think about what sports have done for me , it makes me truly realize how important they are for our youth today. That is why I will be celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day today, with a promising outlook for our next generations of female leaders.

As a child, I was clueless to the level of poverty we were living in. Mom raised us to work as hard as possible at whatever task was before us, be willing to help others in need and be grateful for what we are given... all lessons that made the foundation of who I am today.

HONOLULU -- Brittney Griner and Baylor were rarely challenged during a 42-game winning streak that included a national title and a quick start to this...

LONDON — Tina Charles scored 14 points and Angel McCoughtry added 13 to lead the U.S. women's basketball team to a sloppy 81-56 victory over Cro...

Any sport a young woman wants to play, there's an opportunity somewhere for her to play it. Our players with the Dream would think I was from Venus if I started telling them about how it was at the very beginning, because they don't know. They've always grown up with the opportunities.

There are many of us who are celebrating 40th birthdays this year along with the amendment, including Mia Hamm and Summer Sanders. Together we're of a generation of female athletes who kept our heads down, focusing on the sport itself, while Title IX blazed a trail in front of us.

A young Arab Muslim woman living in the Gulf can get amped up by a sick layup off the transition, and it actually has nothing to do with her being an Arab Muslim woman. It does, however, have everything to do with her being an athlete.

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who works as an NBA security official has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit saying she was removed from an assignme...

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As professional athletes, we can easily take for granted what just a little bit of giving back can do in this world.

Pat Summitt, who won more games than anyone in NCAA college basketball history, stepped down Wednesday as coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols, less than ...

I wish all the ladies in the Draft this year much success. Keep getting better, good is never enough. I challenge them to know their history, for it is difficult to know where you are headed if you do not know from where you came.