Alex Morgan moved into the top 10 assists leaders in USWNT history during the 2023 SheBelieves Cup. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images) Alex Morgan moved into the top 10 in U.S. women’s national team history in assists with her helper on Mallory Swanson’s goal against Japan at the 2023 SheBelieves Cup. The star striker is helping to lead the USWNT as it prepares for the World Cup this summer in Australia and New Zealand. Here’s where she sits on the all-time leaderboard. 15. Lauren Holiday — 37 The 2015 World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist will be inducted to the National So ..read more

Teenage star Alyssa Thompson earned her first caps with the U.S. senior national team in 2022. (Erin Chang/ISI Photos/Getty Images) Alyssa Thompson scored a pair of goals to lead the U-23 U.S. women’s youth national team in its two-match series against France this weekend. The 18-year-old earned her first caps with the senior national team in 2022. While Thompson has been left off the USWNT roster for its New Zealand trip in January and the SheBelieves Cup this week, she has shined for the youth squad during its European trip. In the first match against France, a 2-0 win on Friday, Thompson o ..read more

(Steven Freeman/NBAE via Getty Images) Sabrina Ionescu continues to fly high, even in the WNBA offseason. A special edition of the New York Liberty guard’s rookie card sold for a record price Sunday night. The 2020 Panini Prizm WNBA Black Gold card went for $10,800 at auction, making it the most expensive WNBA card ever, per sales broker PWCC. No WNBA card has sold for a five-figure price at auction, PWCC representatives told TMZ Sports. Just five copies of the Ionescu were made, which helped drive demand for the card. This Sabrina Ionescu rookie card became the most expensive WNBA card EVER ..read more

Stanford forward Cameron Brink is congratulated by guard Haley Jones during Monday's win against UCLA. (John Hefti/USA TODAY Sports) Stanford’s “Funky Four” seniors are gearing up for one last postseason run. They kept their momentum going Monday with a 71-66 win against Pac-12 rival UCLA. The senior quartet has won a national championship and made two Final Four appearances in their first three seasons with the Cardinal. Their only year without a deep tournament run came in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the postseason. They’ve won 116 games with the Cardinal, including Monday’s ..read more

Breanna Stewart and Brittney Griner are among the players who have taken salary cuts to help their teams in 2023. (Michael Gonzales/NBAE via Getty Images) WNBA players are taking pay cuts for the 2023 season to help their teams. When top stars agree to deals well below the league maximum, their teams can bolster their rosters through other signings. The latest example came Saturday in Brittney Griner, who made close to the maximum in the last three seasons but signed at a steep discount for the upcoming season, Her Hoop Stats reported. These deals highlight the limits the WNBA salary cap plac ..read more

Alex Morgan makes her way out to the field for the USWNT's SheBelieves Cup game against Japan. (Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images) Alex Morgan thinks that Nashville would be a great place for a future NWSL expansion team. The city played host to the second round of SheBelieves Cup games on Sunday, with a crowd of 25,471 turning out in support of the U.S. women’s national team. “We’ve been here [in Nashville] a couple of times and obviously playing in a soccer-specific stadium is the best-case scenario, having 25,000 [fans] like this where the crowd is energetic and it’s fun,” Morgan said. “T ..read more

(Omar Vega/Getty Images) The U.S. women’s national team got off to a rough start Sunday, as the squad struggled against Japan’s high press. In the end, though, Mallory Swanson once again played hero, scoring the game’s only goal right before the half. “Obviously we knew it’s gonna be different. We knew that we’re gonna see different challenges and there were moments in the game that we got exposed and we were forced inside,” coach Vlatko Andonovski said. “But we made some changes and adjust[ed] our system a little bit. The players had to adjust on the fly and I think that was a very good lear ..read more

(Photo by James Williamson - AMA/Getty Images) The U.S. women’s national team remains unbeaten in 2023 and in the SheBelieves Cup with a 1-0 win Sunday against Japan in Nashville. The match presented a different challenge from Thursday’s 2-0 win against an exhausted Canada side. Japan came out with its foot on the gas, putting the USWNT defense to work. But despite controlling much of the game in the first half, Japan couldn’t find the back of the net. Then, right before halftime, Mallory Swanson struck once again, scoring her sixth goal in four games and her third of the SheBelieves Cup. MA ..read more

Crystal Dunn. (Ion Alcoba/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images) Crystal Dunn could compete for any position she chooses on the USWNT, according to Vlatko Andonovski. On Friday, an interview with GQ was published in which Dunn discussed the emotional toll it takes on her to step into the USWNT and play as a defender. “I think it’s hard because I’m the only one who has to do it,” she said. “I step into camp, and I feel like I lose a part of myself. I no longer get to be Crystal who scores goals, assists, is this attacking player. “I step into an environment where I have to be world-class in a posi ..read more

(David Butler II/USA TODAY Sports) UConn took down Villanova and Maddie Siegrist 60-51 on Saturday, despite still being down players. Currently with just nine available players, even some of them aren’t completely healthy. Caroline Ducharme is still recovering from her concussion while Dorka Juhász played just 35.5 minutes during the game after spraining her ankle on Friday during practice. Even still, their defense kept Villanova to a season-low 25 rebounds. “We’re Connecticut, so the expectations are such that we have to win every game and we have to win the Big East championship every sing ..read more